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by DivideByZer0
Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:12 pm
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Help and Support
Topic: MIDI support not working?
Replies: 6
Views: 4828

Re: MIDI support not working?

Thanks, I wasn't sure if there was any work being done on xbmc4xbox anymore, glad to hear that it's still active! I think that the DLL should be able to support playing files sequentially, if the code controlling it were set up to do that. It would just have to call FreeMID at the end of the song, a...
by DivideByZer0
Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Help and Support
Topic: MIDI support not working?
Replies: 6
Views: 4828

Re: MIDI support not working?

The issue appears to be due to simultaneous access to the sound font. A few seconds before the end of a song, it will attempt to create a player. This also will load the sound font from disk, which fails because it is still in use by the previous instance of the player, which is still playing. It al...
by DivideByZer0
Mon Feb 06, 2023 11:07 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Help and Support
Topic: MIDI support not working?
Replies: 6
Views: 4828

Re: MIDI support not working?

@DivideByZer0 The initialization code seems to be require at least one of them, which makes sense now with your findings too: https://redmine.exotica.org.uk/projects/xbmc4xbox/repository/xbmc4xbox/entry/trunk/xbmc/cores/paplayer/TimidityCodec.cpp#L115 static const char * DEFAULT_SOUNDFONT_FILE = &q...
by DivideByZer0
Fri Feb 03, 2023 2:46 pm
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Help and Support
Topic: MIDI support not working?
Replies: 6
Views: 4828

Re: MIDI support not working?

Alright, I figured it out! But there is one problem... there seems to be a memory leak in the current version of timidity.dll (used to play midi), and sound fonts didn't seem to be working with the old version. So, here is the old timidity.dll: https://mega.nz/file/SENSkIpa#G6DEWiKO1QSMpLSUw-w_Fk1PH...
by DivideByZer0
Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:26 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Help and Support
Topic: MIDI support not working?
Replies: 6
Views: 4828

MIDI support not working?

I was trying to play some MIDIs on XBMC, which according to the wiki should support it, but nothing would happen when I selected the file to play it. In the debugger, it appeared to be failing inside the timidity library. I saw mention on the forum of a version of XBMC that does support MIDI playbac...
by DivideByZer0
Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:15 am
Forum: Misc XBOX Discussion
Topic: Xbox .x files for boot logos
Replies: 10
Views: 26896

Re: Xbox .x files for boot logos

Here are a few packs of full boot skins for Ind-Bios that I found in some random corner of the Internet. Some of them also have xlogo.x and text.bmp. Some of the ind-bios color themes are reused. Out of the available .x files out there, the skull is a personal favorite of mine. (found in the f*** bo...
by DivideByZer0
Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:24 pm
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

I've now got about 10,000 music videos downloaded and I finally got all the *.264 and .VOB files converted into formats playable/watchable on the Xbox, taking up 688 GB total. (i used this method: https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=697&start=60#p38403) A lot of them are ....
by DivideByZer0
Fri Apr 28, 2017 7:39 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Is XVID HD worth it?
Replies: 69
Views: 72131

Re: DIVX Reply

i use (commandline ffmpeg) ffmpeg -i some_1080p_infile.mkv -scodec copy -acodec copy -vcodec mpeg4 -b:v 3000k -maxrate 5000k -bufsize 4096k -s 1280x720 -f matroska -y outfile.mkv single pass (as I transcode in realtime using mediatomb), but results look decent. Thanks a ton for that. I've been look...
by DivideByZer0
Wed Oct 19, 2016 10:48 pm
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

Yeah, his was a little more expensive so I ended up going with the Trusty board. It seems like N64 Freak's boards are well-reviewed overall though.

EDIT: Just got my Trusty board today, and it came with a speed switch and works fine.
by DivideByZer0
Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:49 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

Awesome, I always had trouble playing most 720p files though. I'll keep that in mind for encoding.

I have a Trusty 1.4GHz board board on the way but I'll try to post a guide for doing it on a stock xbox setup, once I figure out some way to organize these ~4000 music videos
by DivideByZer0
Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:50 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

That's kind of the direction I'm thinking in; I was considering using separate XBE applications that you can copy-paste, each with a config file, to be able to launch XBMC in different modes from a non-XBMC dash. I don't think that what you're saying about separate XBMC installs should be necessary....
by DivideByZer0
Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:00 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

Thanks, yeah it seems like people were complaining about not having it in Kodi at some point... Nice post... The xbox will still play HD video, you just have to use a non cpu intensive codec and container... pretty good quallity 720p AVI looks very good on the xbox, I did also look into transcoding ...
by DivideByZer0
Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:55 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

Like you OP, i use Xbox for Burnout 3 and Coinops. I have 250Gb on a SATA HDD (with sata-pata adapter). I use XBMC for music and video, toghether with a Raspberry Pi. Nice :) Yeah, it's one of the only games that I keep coming back to over the years. Even Paradise didn't really do it for me... :gee...
by DivideByZer0
Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:12 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Re: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

I've been doing some poking around as to what kinds of image media sets are out there to work with... - Wallpapers: There are a few siterips out there, and random wallpaper packs assembled by users. Downloading and combining a few packs (and running dupe detection) can make for a cool image library....
by DivideByZer0
Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:00 am
Forum: XBMC4XBOX General Discussion
Topic: Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?
Replies: 23
Views: 25739

Ideas for modern-day applications of XBMC4XBOX?

Back when you could get SD-quality video of anything, XBMC was amazing thing to have, almost a decade ahead of its time. Silly as it sounds, I have a ton of memories associated with XBMC, and it will always have a place in my heart. It's now 2016, and I still have my xbox hooked up to the component ...
by DivideByZer0
Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:55 pm
Forum: Python Plugin / Script Development
Topic: A fun autoexec.py streaming radio/screensaver startup hack
Replies: 2
Views: 10367

Re: A fun autoexec.py streaming radio/screensaver startup ha

Thanks, yours is much cleaner (and I learned a little bit from it too!) I had also posted a slightly earlier version of the script somehow and forgot to escape the quotes in "<slideshowpath pathversion="1">", it should have been "<slideshowpath pathversion=/"1/">&q...
by DivideByZer0
Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:49 am
Forum: Python Plugin / Script Development
Topic: A fun autoexec.py streaming radio/screensaver startup hack
Replies: 2
Views: 10367

A fun autoexec.py streaming radio/screensaver startup hack

What it does This script starts a randomly selected streaming radio station at startup (some examples are provided below.) It also sets the slideshow screensaver to use a large number of images, which I got from a wallpaper torrent, also listed below. It starts a random slideshow of the images a fe...