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Hi to all! I'm very please to announce that I'm working hard on porting as many as I can stuffs from Kodi's GUILIB to make XBMC4Xbox more up to date with Kodi. All of this started as desire to port Estuary skin and current GUILIB that XBMC4Xbox had is very outdated and porting wasn't possible. So I started to look through Kodi's soruce code from around 2011 and slowly I was starting on implementing functionalities. Threads on Kodi forum helped me a lot because every major release of Kodi had a quick brief of all changes that were done to GUILIB. Ofcourse there aren't all changes but most crucial and important are. Here is a video that showcase what I have currently:

Don't worry about all missing things. That has nothing to do with XBMC4Xbox GUILIB. Reason for all this "error & missing things" is because of XBMC4Xbox doesn't have same Window IDs and InfoLabels like Kodi. But that's not a hard to fix, the most important thing is that XBMC4Xbox GUILIB is up to date with Kodi's (v15).

P.S. It would be really nice if admins could create separate subforum for XBMC, just like there are for Rocky5's projects and N64Freaks products. I would like to have XBMC4Xbox forum with subforums: General, Development, Skins, Plugins & Scripts. :)

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This is super cool! An update like this will really help XBMC feel more modern. XBMC isn't being left in the dust!

So if you're porting the underlying GUI library, does that mean other Kodi skins would potentially work too? Or is this copy of Estuary heavily modified from the Kodi one?

Looks awesome. Keep up the good work!

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1 hour ago, GoTeamScotch said:

So if you're porting the underlying GUI library, does that mean other Kodi skins would potentially work too? Or is this copy of Estuary heavily modified from the Kodi one?

Skin is not modified at all! I have just downloaded skin from latest Kodi branch and to next things to make it work with XBMC4Xbox:

  • renamed XML folder to 1080i
  • added skin.xml based on example from Confluence Lite where I set default resolution to 1080i
  • added unicode=true to Font.xml
  • inside Startup.xml changed from ReplaceWindow($INFO[System.StartupWindow]) to ReplaceWindow(Home)

Everything else is stock.

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We won't have that problem if we use textures of lower resolution like XBMC Origins and Confluence Lite. And also I will try to reimplement Dynamic Content which should allow use of Widgets but again you can't expect to have 10 conatainers with 20+ items on computer with 64MB of RAM :D

BTW I have tried Arctic Horizon skin and Settings and Home menus are loading without any big changes :D I hope we will get more developer interested in porting Kodi skins to XBMC...

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33 minutes ago, nikeymikey said:

Really good work here @antonic901

I always hated the Kodi skins when I used to use it though :D 

XBMC4Gamers ftw!! :)

 

Well I have plans to add X4G features to X4X to have ultimate dashboard. With Dynamic content and support for _resources I will be able to create really awesome windows. I will see with Rocky5 if he is interested in porting his layouts to Estuary for new XBMC version.

I like XBMC4Gamers but it's only useful for games and nothing more. Can't watch videos, can't play music, don't have library for media and can't run youtube plugins. Which I understand, no one is using Xbox for media (except few idiots like me xD). But it's really awesome to see latest Kodi UI running on device from 2001. And it's kind of fun working on this.

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18 hours ago, antonic901 said:

Well I have plans to add X4G features to X4X to have ultimate dashboard. With Dynamic content and support for _resources I will be able to create really awesome windows. I will see with Rocky5 if he is interested in porting his layouts to Estuary for new XBMC version.

I like XBMC4Gamers but it's only useful for games and nothing more. Can't watch videos, can't play music, don't have library for media and can't run youtube plugins. Which I understand, no one is using Xbox for media (except few idiots like me xD). But it's really awesome to see latest Kodi UI running on device from 2001. And it's kind of fun working on this.

LIke I said mate, great work getting it running. If you can do some voodoo magic and combine the 2 dashes then that would be fantastic.  Maybe I would stream the occasional film thru the OG again then :)

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I'm very intrigued and excited about your project. I can't wait to try it out once its finally released. A drastic update to XBMC4XBOX has been long overdue. The original XBOX, despite being older hardware, is still a very capable machine to push the limitations on in any way possible. Any recent updates you can provide? Thank you for your time and effort on this. I own 2 og xboxes, one that has been hardware upgraded with a 1.4mhz processor and 128mb of ram and one that is stock. They are both still running strong and have never failed me after all of these years. Thanks again.

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10 hours ago, iray1979 said:

I'm very intrigued and excited about your project. I can't wait to try it out once its finally released. A drastic update to XBMC4XBOX has been long overdue. The original XBOX, despite being older hardware, is still a very capable machine to push the limitations on in any way possible. Any recent updates you can provide? Thank you for your time and effort on this. I own 2 og xboxes, one that has been hardware upgraded with a 1.4mhz processor and 128mb of ram and one that is stock. They are both still running strong and have never failed me after all of these years. Thanks again.

 

10 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:

I would also love to see an update finally to XBMC. It's a GREAT dash and desperately needs an overhaul! It's my go to. It's so funny because I used to use EvolutionX... seems so basic to me now.

In the paths 3 months I hadn't so much time to work on XBMC. I had a lot some other non-programming work to do, so I didn't spend much time on XBMC. Maybe it was 1 hour per day.. But still, I have managed to port many underhood things which I can't show on video. Some of them are:

  • Merged Video Files and Video Library into one window
  • Completely refactored Video and Music databases and they are now almost up-to date with XBMC Gotham
  • Introduced library:// VFS
  • Implemented Advanced Filtering
  • Heavily refactored smart playlist so now you can create some really awesome filtering
  • Refactored filtering of library items
  • And many other, not mandatory, but very important features which required a lot of time

Right know I'm working on UPnP library update (which is really challenging) and Addon Framework for managing addons. After that I need to refactor Programs Database which will probably take another 2-3 months and after that I want to add XBMC4Gamers stuff and introduce integration of Insignia into XBMC

So I don't expect release this year. I hope next year is the one for new XBMC.

EDIT: Here are some images from Addons pre-alpha support. Right now can only install repositories :)
 

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I have a feature request if possible.  The developer behind UnleashX was able to add USB support for USB drives larger than 4GB and offered to help the team behind XBMC.  Team XBMC refused to implement USB support beyond 4GB because this was accomplished using a patched/hacked XDK.  Even though most people probably dont use USB drives, it would still be nice to have support for larger USB drives if needed.  The biggest problem would probably be getting your hands on the patched XDK.

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Don't know about that. If that's developer still active he can contribute to project once I make source code public.

Btw, I don't see point in using USB drives since Xbox has USB 1.1 which slow as hell. And XBMC actually allows you to connect to different media servers like FTP, UPnP etc. so I don't see a point of using USB 1.1 over 100Mb/s Ethernet port :)

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4 minutes ago, antonic901 said:

Don't know about that. If that's developer still active he can contribute to project once I make source code public.

Btw, I don't see point in using USB drives since Xbox has USB 1.1 which slow as hell. And XBMC actually allows you to connect to different media servers like FTP, UPnP etc. so I don't see a point of using USB 1.1 over 100Mb/s Ethernet port :)

Agreed. It would also be more beneficial to be able to upgrade that port to a 1Gig port instead of messing with USB :)

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