XBMC for Windows a free and open source cross-platform media-player and entertainment hub.
XBMC for Windows
In simple words, XBMC Media Center (formerly named “XBox Media Center”) can be explained as a free and open source cross-platform media-player and entertainment hub. Its creation was originally take place for the first-generation Xbox game-console, but is now available for the Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, Apple TV), and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The “XBMC Live” is also available which is a bootable Live CD version.
XBMC is network-capable (internet and LAN shares) and it supports most common audio, video, and image formats, playlists, audio visalizations, slideshows, weather reporting, and third-party plugins.
XBMC has a plugin system which is based on Python. It is expandable via add-ons that include features such as television program guides, YouTube, Hulu, Veoh, online movie trailer support, and SHOUTcast/Podcast streaming. XBMC allow users to play mini-games which are developed with Python, on any operating system. The Xbox version of XBMC contains the ability to launch console games, and homebrew applications such as emulators.
The distribution of XBMC takes place under the GNU General Public License (with a few libraries used by XBMC licensed under the LGPL). And, it is not produced, endorsed, or supported by Microsoft,. This means that XBMC for Xbox requires a modchip or softmod exploit, or reflashing the Xbox onboard BIOS EEPROM chip with a modified BIOS.
If you want to know more about XBMC for windows then do check out the official website of XBMC for windows xbmc.org. at this official website of XBMC for windows you will get all the information about it including download.
If you want to know about the details of the features of the XMBC then here is its detail. XMBC has an ability to play media from CD/DVD media using an internal DVD-ROM drive. At the same time it can also play media from an internal built-in hard disk drive and SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares (Windows File-Sharing), or stream them over ReplayTV DVRs, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) shares, XBMSP (Xbox Media Stream Protocol) shares, or stream iTunes-shares via DAAP. Interesting thing is that XBMC can also take advantage of the Xbox’s Ethernet network port and a broadband Internet connection if available, using the IMDb to obtain thumbnails and reviews on movies, CDDB (via FreeDB) for Audio-CD track-listings), and album-thumbnails via AMG, it can stream Internet-video-streams, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as SHOUTcast). XBMC also includes the option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and a weather-forecast (via weather.com). Other features of XBMC include music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function and many audio-visualizations and screensavers. In addition XBMC can upscale/upconvert all standard-definition (480i/480p/576i/576p) resolution videos and output them to 720p, 1080i, and 1080p high-definition resolutions.
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