Anybody else have an old original xbox?

[Hemps]

Currently using original XBOX with component out to LCD tv.
Considering how old it is - amazing piece of kit.
Installed a 750GB hard drive with CD; DVD; pictures
Cant even post all the features:
Installed Xbox media centre running Mediastream Skin, automatically downloads all fanart, cover cd's, dvd cover's, artist info when you connect to net.
SKIN http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/gallery.html
Has played every file I throw at it and looks stunning with interchangeable skins.

Some specs.
•Widescreen (16:9) and normal-TV (4:3) aspect ratio video output support
•HDTV (High-Definition) output resolutions (720p, 1080i, 1080p and higher) #14
•RCA, SCART, RF Coaxial, S-video, Component/RGB (adapter available)
•VGA-output is also possible via third-party adapters or VGA-hacked BIOS
•NTSC playback on PAL Xbox/TV and PAL playback on NTSC Xbox/TV
•HDTV support, multiple resolutions 480p/720p/1080i (Xbox cable-adapter required)
•LCD-display output support to view status and control XBMC with TV OFF #8
•Analog audio-out (stereo/mono) via phono-connection or scart-adapter
•Digital audio-out (stereo/mono/surround) SPDIF (adapter required)
Supported physical input media formats and devices:
•Play media-files directly from any built-in harddisk drive
•Streaming from a computer/server over a network via UPnP, SMB/Samba/CIFS, FTP, HTTP, or XBMSP
◦UPnP MediaServer compliant with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standard
◦Including all NAS (Network Attached Storage) that support UPnP or SMB/SAMBA/CIFS
•iTunes Music Shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes 6.x on Mac or Windows)
•Stream supported media-files from the internet (if the stream protocol-format is supported)
Supported file/container formats:
•SVCD and VCD (Video CD / CDXA) video, (SVCD/VCD menus are not supported yet)
•DVD-Video directly from Xbox DVD-ROM drive, Harddisk-drive or network
•MPEG, MPG, M2V formats (inc. VCD's .dat and .bin and DVD's .vob)
•MPEG-TS (TY/TS/DV) DVB transport stream format
•M2T/M2TS/MTS (Blu-ray and AVCHD video format) container #5
•M2TS (Blu-ray video format) container #5
•EVO (Enhanced VOB) HD DVD video format container #5
•MP4 (MPEG-4 video) container
•RIFF AVI (AVI 1.0) container
•OpenDML AVI (AVI 2.0) container
•BivX (AVI with several audio streams) container
•Microsoft ASF/ASX/WMV/WMA containers
•Microsoft DVR-MS (Windows Media Center) containers
•QuickTime QT/MOV containers
•FLV and SWF (Adobe/Macromedia Flash Video) containers
•NUT multimedia container
•AVS (Audio Video Standard) audio/video containers
•MPA, MP2, MP3 and WAV containers
•AAC, M4A, MP4 (MPEG-4 audio) audio containers
•RealMedia (Real Video/Audio) RM/RAM/RA/RV/RMVB containers #1
•OGG, OGA, OGM, and OGV containers
•Matroska (матрёшка) MKV containers
•VIVO (VIV) containers
•PVA containers
•NuppelVideo containers
•FLI and FLC containers
•Tracker Mods (18 formats supported) audio
•M3U, PLS, CUE, URL, and STRM audio/video playlist and bookmark support#1

Supported video codecs:•MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video
•MPEG-4 ASP (H.263): DivX (Pro), OpenDivX, XviD and Nero Digital ASP
•MPEG-4 AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264): Nero Digital AVC, x264, and DivX AVC video #1
•Microsoft's Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2, and v3)
•VC-1 (SMPTE 421M)
•RealVideo codecs: 1.0, 2.0 (RealPlayer G2), 3.0 (RealPlayer 8.x) and 4.0 (RealPlayer 9.x)
•QuickTime 5.0, 6.0, 6.3 video and audio codecs (QDMC / QDM2) #1
•3ivx D4 / 3vi1 MPEG-4 video (inc. MSZH/ZLIB Compressed-Header containers) #1
•Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video
•On2 Technologies VP3 (VP3.x), VP4 (VP4.x), VP5 (VP5.x), and VP6 (VP6.2)
•AVS (Audio Video Standard) video codec
•Intel Indeo 2 (Indeo2) and 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3) video decoder
•NuppelVideo (NUV)
•VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV)
•Fraps FPS1 video decoder
•Snow video decoder
•DV50 (DVCPRO50) video decoder, and DV100 (DVCPRO HD) video decoder
•ITU H.261 video
•Creative Labs YUV (CYUV) video
•Supermac Cinepak (CVID) video
•ASUS V1 (ASV1) and ASUS V2 (ASV2) video
•Smacker video decoder
•Motion Pixels video decoder
•BFI video decoder
•AMV video decoder
•Interplay C93 video decoder
•Zip Blocks Motion Video decoder
•Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
•Delphine Software .cin video decoder
•Bethsoft VID video decoder
•QPEG video decoder
•Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
•Winnov WNV1 video decoder
•LOCO video decoder
•TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
•IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
•Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) video decoder
•Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation
Supported audio codecs:
•CDDA (Audio-CD) playback
•WAV/WAVE (WAVEform) and PCM audio format
•AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) audio
•MPEG layer I, II, and III (inluding MP2 and MP3) audio #5
•OGG (Ogg Vorbis audio codec)
•WMA - Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1 / WMA2 / DivX Audio v1/v2) #5
•WMA - Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA9) #5
•WMA Pro Audio Codec (Windows Media Audio 9 Professional)#5
•RealNetworks RealAudio codecs: 1.0 (14.4), 2.0 (28.8), SIPRO, COOK, COOKER, DNET and ATRAC3
•AC3 2.0 or 5.1 and Dolby Digital EX 6.1 or 7.1 audio in video (AC3 digital cable S/PDIF pass-through)
•Dolby Digital AC3 and AC3-WAV/AC3-CDDA 2.0 and 5.1 audio in video software decoded to stereo analog-out
•Dolby Digital Plus (a.k.a. E-AC3), and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio software decoder
•Dolby Digital Plus (a.k.a. E-AC3), and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio in Blu-ray rips via digital cable S/PDIF pass-through
•DTS (Digital Theater System) 5.1 and DTS-ES 6.1 audio in DVD-Video (DTS digital cable S/PDIF pass-through)
•DTS (DTS and DTS-WAV/DTS-CDDA) audio in DVD-Video (software decoded)
•AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) profiles: Main, LC, HE, LTP, LD, ER, and aacPlus v1/v2 (AAC+ SBR/PS) audio #5
•M4A and MP4 (MPEG-4 Audio) (including Nero Digital MP4) #5
•PureVoice (QCELP) audio decoder
•AVS (Audio Video Standard) audio codec
•FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio
•WavPack lossless audio
•MPC (Musepack, a.k.a. Mpeg+) lossless audio #6
•APE (Monkey's Audio) lossless audio
•SHN (Shorten) lossless audio
•ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) lossless audio #6
•MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) / Packed PCM (PPCM) audio decoder
•AMV audio decoder
•Sonic audio decoder
•AIFF/AIFF-C audio dcoder
•Macromedia ADPCM decoder
•Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
•Nellymoser ASAO decoder
•True Audio (TTA) decoder
•TrueSpeech audio decoder
•Intel Music decoder
•QDM2 audio decoder
•Delphine Software .cin audio decoder
•8SVX audio decoder
•MIDI music using Timidity
•Tracker Mod's audio, see list below:
◦Adlib (AdLib and Sound Blaster OPL2/OPL3 and Dual OPL2/OPL3) FM audio
◦SID (Commodore 64 tunes) audio
◦YM (ATARI ST) audio
◦NSF (Nintendo NES Sound Format) audio
◦SPC (SPC700) audio
◦GYM (SEGA Genesis) audio
◦ADX/AST/ADP/DSP/YMF/HPS CRI MiddleWare and Gamecube ADPCM) audio
◦MOD/AMF/669/DMF/DSM/FAR/GDM/IMF/IT/M15/MED/OKT/S3M/STM/SFX/ULT/UNI/XM
•vgmstream playback of 51 more streamed audio formats used in video games:
◦aax, asd, asr, ass, bgw, bh2pcm, capdsp, ccc, dcs, de2, emff, fag, gbts, gca, gsb, idsp, idvi, isd, joe, kraw, mihb, msvp, mwv, omu, p2bt, pdt, rnd, rwar, rwav, sap, seg, smp, spd, spsd, spw, ss7, ssm, thp, vgs, vs, waa, wac, wad, wam, xa2, xmu, xsf, xvas, ydsp, ymf, zwdsp

Features available for video playback:
•Full-screen playback display of all supported video formats/containers via a TV
•Auto PAL50/PAL60-switching support and auto 4:3/16:9-switching support
•Framerate Conversion (23.98<->25fps), another NTSC <-> PAL workaround solution
•VDPAU hardware accelerated video decoding under Linux on NVIDIA graphics
•SQL database with view by file/genre/actor/year/title, sort by year/name/rating and search functions
•Shift-key navigation in lists, (jump to starting letter by holding down shift)
•Selectable options from OSD (On Screen Display) Control Panel during playback
•FFWD (fast-forward) and RWD (rewind #1), and PAUSE in AVI/OGM/MKV/MPEG/MPG media
•MPlayer time-based (30sec/5min) or percent-based (2%/10%) seeking forward and backward
•Video-Autorun, auto-plays VCD/SVCD/DVD/CD's with video file(s) upon insert
•DVD-video playback with menus (from DVD, harddrive, network, as IFO/VOB or ISO/IMG DVD-images) #12
◦Region-free DVD-Video playback (with option to force region if and when needed)
•Play supported video files directly from ISO, BIN, IMG, NRG and BIN CD/DVD-images
•Subtitle support (embedded and external)
◦AQTitle/AQT, ASS/SSA, CC, JacoSub, MicroDVD, MPsub, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VobSub, VPlayer
◦JSS, MLP #11
•Play internet files/streams from HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol) #1/#11
•Play RealMedia internet steams of HTTP + RTSP/RDT (Real Data Transport Protocol) #1/#11
•Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) internet-streams (only if VP3+MP3), (Nullsoft TV a.k.a. NTV) #1/#11
•Streaming video from a MythTV backend PVR software over network
•Initial support for streaming from HTS Tvheadend server/relay on Linux
•Streaming video from a VDR (via VDR streamdev servers VTP streaming) PVR software over network
•Streaming video from a HDHomeRun DVR box over network
•Streaming video from Dreambox and DBox2 DVR boxes over network via built-in TuxBox Stream Client
•Streaming video from a ReplayTV (4500, 5000 or 5500 series) DVR box over network #1
•Streaming video from a TiVo DVR box over network (requires hacked TiVo running ccXStream) #1
•FanArt backdrop scraping for TV Shows from thetvdb.com (a site which you can contribute to)
•FanArt backdrop scraping for Movies from themoviedb.org (a site which you can contribute to)
•themoviedb.org meta data information lookup for movie-info and poster thumbnails

 

[Hemps]

If the xbox360 adopted the same path, being able to play games and use as a media everything

they would make a killing......

 

[enstuff]

I played around with XBMC and that was skin also awesome, but my computer was a bit slow....

Do you know where one could find an old xbox console?

 

[greg_SA]

I think the amazing part is actually the software - XBMC

The Xbox is basically just a simple HTPC

 

[enstuff]

Yip, true. XBMC is great,but if there is a an old xbox around that can take a big drive it will make a great mediacentre.....almost a portable one.

 

[Hemps]

Flashed my Xbox's bios - can take sata drive up 2gb now - ide to sata converter.
Mine's modded to hell - was a mission though doing it all yourself with some unlucky moments, guess thats how you learn.
Busy adding dts support through spdif connection - some soldering required, starting to sweat again - when will it end
when I switched from composite to component - like night and day!

 

[Hemps]

That skin is amazing though.
http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/gallery.html

Are others as well:

http://www.aeonproject.com/gallery.html
this one really looks cool

 

[Hemps]

Picked up my xbox a couple years back for 90 pounds in the UK, came with cables, two controllers, light gun and 40gb hdd.

Now selling on ebay for 13 pounds.

 

[Cosmic_Nomad]

Yea just about to get rid of mine ...chipped

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

I've never even seen an actual original xbox.

 

[Cosmic_Nomad]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xbox_1.jpg

 

[Quantum Theory]

I still have one too. Haven't used it for a while. Not as pimped as your one Hemps. Actually not even chipped. Those boxes are indestructible.

 

[Hemps]

Don't require a chip anymore, software does the trick - mine's softmodded.
All the xbmc , skin's etc are all free and updated with codecs every month.
Big following on the net.

 

[chris2.0]

Also got one in the UK - the crystal one... Paid like 90 Pounds for it with a extra controller and Halo2!

Borrowed it to a friend and sort of gave it to him for a b-day after he didn't return it!

 

[Quantum Theory]

Don't require a chip anymore, software does the trick - mine's softmodded.
All the xbmc , skin's etc are all free and updated with codecs every month.
Big following on the net.

Awesome... Will go get the box out the garage.

 

[Hemps]

Somelinks that might help you

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-softmod-your-xbox...for-FREE/

latest xbmc releases
http://217.118.215.116/

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=241773

 

[N1sh]

Sold mine for about a grand a few months ago. Looks like you could do some cool stuff with it.

 

[Cosmic_Nomad]

Somelinks that might help you

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-softmod-your-xbox...for-FREE/

latest xbmc releases
http://217.118.215.116/

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=241773

Shot will take a look!

 

[gregmcc]

XBMC rocks. Been running it for years. Stream all my media from my file servers wirelessly to my xbox running xbmc. I've yet to see something it can't handle (ok - apart from .mkv), but other wise it plays almost anything, even an avi which has been rar'd

And xbmc in library mode rocks even more!

 

[submoh]

doesany one knows if a ide 2 serial ata converter works with the xbox