XBMC Manual beta 0.7.01.pdf

Xbox Media

Center Manual

Beta 0.06

History:

- 0.06 Added "My Videos.mht", reformatted into the .doc manual

- 0.06 Added keymapping-schematics into the .doc manual

- 0.06 Added original Beta 0.05 manual into the .doc manual

- 0.05 Added "My Videos.mht" from RUNTiME

- 0.04 Packed all manual files into one ZIP for tracking & management.

Table of Contents:

Contents of My Videos.mht…………………………...…2-11

Keymapping Schematics……………………………….12-23

Original Beta 0.05 Manual……………………………....24-70

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Contents of My Videos.mht as follows:

My Videos

Arguably the most compelling feature of Xbox Media Center is My Videos.

At a glance, this feature allows you to view all of the movies available on the local

XBOX hard-drive and DVD-ROM. Xbox Media Center supports the latest digital video

formats including but not limited to XViD, DiVX, MPEG2 and WMV9.

Should you decide to connect your XBOX to a local area network, XBOX Media Center

will show the contents of network folders, allowing you to stream movies across the

network as easily as playing them off a DVD. This is a great way to make your favourite

movies easily available, utilizing the huge storage capacity that desktop computers and

network storage devices offer.

To help you manage your movie collection My Videos offers an Internet Movie Database

(IMDb) cataloguing service that will scan your movie collection, generating thumbnails

for each of your movies as well as gathering useful meta-data including title, genre, year

and actors. This information allows you to search your movie collection using these

criteria as well as sort your movies by name, year and rating.

Xbox Media Center offers a slew of features for the advanced user, allowing you to

precisely configure everything from display settings through to image enhancement.

While the most common settings are easily accessible within one or two clicks of a

button, the more advanced settings are only available by selecting the Settings option

from the Home screen.

To access My Videos, select it from the Home screen.

Left: The XBOX Media Center Home screen

shows a preview of the current movie in the

lower left frame.

Supplementary information about the movie

scrolls from right to left across the top right

of the screen.

The current play time is visible to the right

of the playback status icon

On selecting My Videos the first view is that of local devices and network folders.

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Left: My Videos provides access to local devices such

as the XBOX hard-disk and DVD-ROM. Access to

network folders is available if configured.

If desired, you can easily toggle the view to show list

items instead of icons. Simple move the cursor to the

top-left of the screen and press the select button.

Movies on Local Devices

Each of the items that appear in My Videos appears because they are referenced in the

Xbox Media Center XML file. The configuration method is much the same as you will

find in My Programs, My Music, My Pictures and My Files.

TIP: When customising this view, to reduce the possibility of human error it is

recommended that you edit the file using an XML editing tool, in preference to using a

simple text editor such as Notepad.

Open the XBOX Media Center XML file and find the section delimited by the <video>

and </video> tags. Each occurrence of a ‘bookmark’ tag identifies an item that appears

in the My Video screen as shown above. Briefly, each bookmark contains a name and a

path. The name is what is displayed on-screen; the path identifies the location of the

folder containing your movies.

Consider the following example:

</bookmark>

The drive letter and colon in the path (D:) identify this bookmark as a local XBOX drive,

specifically the DVD-ROM drive.

If you wish you can create additional bookmarks that enable direct access to specific

folders on your hard-disk or DVD-ROM media. Similarly, you can remove existing

bookmarks by deleting them.

Movies on Networked Devices

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If you have a local area network set-up at home (sometimes referred to as home-

networking or LAN), you may want to consider creating bookmarks to allow you to view

movies stored in folders on networked devices.

Consider the following example:

<name> Films on My Computer </name>

<path> smb://KLAATU/films_media </path>

</bookmark>

This is an example of a simple network share. SMB is short for Samba, the network file

system used by Windows networking.

In the example above the path points to a network folder share on a computer called

‘KLAATU’. The name of the shared folder is ‘films_media’, but rather than display that

on-screen a friendlier name has been chosen, ‘Films on My Computer’.

If you prefer to secure access to your network folders so that only certain users can access

them, then you should consider using the full path specification:

<name> My Secure Network Share </name>

<path> smb://DOMAIN;username:pwd@MyWindowsServer/movies/ </path>

</bookmark>

Notice that you can specify the network domain, username and password of the user in

addition to the server computer name and shared folder.

There are a variety of other network file systems developed specifically for XBOX Media

Center, of which include XNS (Xbox Network Share) and XBMS (Xbox Media Share).

You are more likely to consider configuring these types of bookmark if you previously

used Xbox Media Player:

Xbox Network Streaming Protocol (XNS)

</bookmark>

Xbox Media Streaming Protocol (XBMS/XBMSP)

</bookmark>

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Notice that instead of specifying the name the server computer, the IP address and port

number is used.

Movie Selection

After you select a local or network device My Videos will present you with a view of the

device contents.

Notice that only movie files with supported file extensions are listed. Although unlikely,

should you wish to limit or extend support to other file extensions you should consider

editing the XBOX Media Center XML file, locating and editing the contents of the

‘videoextensions’ tag.

My Videos uses a hierarchical view to display files and folders in very much the same

way as Windows Explorer. Similarly, My Programs, My Music, My Pictures and My

Files share the same basic concept. To navigate into a sub-folder press the A button on

your controller, to navigate out of a sub-folder back to its parent folder, press the B

button.

If at any point you wish to change the behaviour of the controller button layout you

should consider editing the Keymap XML file. For the purposes of this manual it is

assumed that the default layout is used.

Once the desired movie file is high-lighted, start playback by pressing the A button.

Left: My Videos lists the movies available in

the current folder. The number of movies in

the folder is displayed along the bottom of

the screen.

If more movies are available than can be

displayed on-screen you may scroll up and

down the screen a line at a time or highlight

and select the page buttons to move quickly

through them a page at a time.

TIP: Use gamepad shoulder buttons to scroll

up and down a page at a time.

In this view you can also perform a number of related tasks:

‘Switch View’, ‘Scan’ and ‘IMDB’ require internet connectivity and are discussed in the

following section.

‘Play DVD’ immediately start playback of any DVD Movie currently in the XBOX

DVD-ROM.

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