Or “Squeezing it where Microsoft wont put it.”

I have been running Xbox Media Centre (hereafter XBMC) on my chipped Xbox for over a year now. It’s a handy and cheap way to be able to play multimedia files and DVD’s through my TV and amplifier well away from where I keep my p.c. XBMC is a really nicely written peice of software, although it does rely on being compiled with tools that leave it in a legal grey area. For more info see http://www.xboxmediacenter.de/.

Currently much of my media is still stored on the p.c. and streamed over the network to the Xbox, but I will soon be upgrading the harddrive to turn it into the primary media store for the network and so will be streaming back to the p.c. in future. But before that happens, it’s time to make it all look a bit nicer. (more…)