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Also, a lot of work has been done on the playback of network streams from SHOUTcast WebRadios, WebTVs or even RTP/RTSP streaming so that you should now be able to easily watch any kind of network or broadcasted stream from your GeeXboX media center. Development Sources If you wanna give it a try, you probably need to consider yourself a developer and install the mandatory build dependancies. The most noticeable thing probably is the support for DVD menus this feature that had been requested so many times by so many people and that was unfortunately missing from MPlayer is now part of GeeXboX. Miro PcTV's one or ATI Remote Wonder.Īfter more than 3 years of perpetual development, GeeXboX finally reaches its long awaited 1.0 release. Keyboard, Joystick or Remote Controller, using a Lirc-compatible IR (InfraRed) receiver (check to build yours), e.g. Motherboard which supports booting on CD-ROM (should be ok for everyone Pentium-Class CPU or above (P2-400 should be quite enough)
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GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on -) You're lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement.
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)Īudio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3. Proprietary codec packages that are supported by the Generator can be downloaded just by selecting them and then clicking on the Download button, and thats. GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting : GeeXboX is a free and Open Source Media-Center purposed Linux distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers. It's now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV !!Īt the time of the first development releases (Dec. You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. GeeXboX is a full operating system, livecd that can run on any machine and it is based on the excellent MPlayer. Why such a name ? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, we'll just prepended a "GeeX", cause that's for the geeks you all are. GeeXboX is not an application, it’s a full-featured OS, that one can boot as a LiveCD, from a USB key, an SD/MMC card or install on its regular HDD. The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. GeeXboX is a free lightweight and Open Source Media-Center purposed Linux distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers.
