' The T3CH group also made a new CVS build of XboxMediaCenter, so you can directly try out this new DVD-Player Team XBMC has been working on for about a year '

This T3CH-compile is a BAREBONE package (so less stuff that can cause issues) compiled with XDK v5849. Most important change is that XBMC's own DVD-Player has now been enabled for everyone for public testing. If you've followed the CVS changelogs over the last months/year you saw a lot of work has been involved with this. Also in this release the winamp DLL is no longer required, they made their own MP3 decoder based on libMAD for Paplayer. Here's the full changelog since the 2005-09-06 CVS release:
- changed: XBMC DVD-Player is public now, and is now used by default when playing dvd's
- changed: libid3tag closes files immediately after reading and writing
- changed: libid3tag only opens files on the hdd with write access
- changed: my music files view now uses a true numeric sort for starting digits, like the library
- changed: my music files is now strictly the files view. if you want to open up to the LAST open music window, use window ID of 5, or the window name "mymusic". this is a virtual window which will open up music to the last window.

- changed: added display of default player when selectring player. moved Play Using... up in context menu
- changed: replaced id3lib with libid3tag (much smaller and better performance), needs libid3tag.dll in q:system
- changed: made section unloading delayed same as dll unloading. (speeds up filelisting over daap://)
- changed: increased progressbar timeout to 3 seconds on startup instead of 2
- added: skin and xboxmediacenter tags now accept window names
- added: ability to select player for music and video from context menu
- added: libfaad to dvdplayer
- added: NSF (Nintendo Sound File) codec to paplayer. Based on nosefart.
- added: MP2 audio for Paplayer
- added: MP3 decoder based on libMAD for Paplayer, this replaces winamp's in_mp3.dll for mp3 decoding.
If you still want to use in_mp3.dll instead rename in_mp3.dll to MADCodec.dll
- added: Startwindow examples to xboxmediacenter.xml
- fixed: id3 tags with ISO 8859 1 textencoding may not display correct, q:systemlibid3tag.dll got updated
- fixed: charset conversion from id3 tags was wrong
- fixed: play button in movie info screen now plays back in full screen
- fixed: After libid3tag was added, music files opened over smb could be destroyed if write access was enabled on the share. It is sometimes enough to enter directory....
- fixed: when playing an audio file with the dvdplayer, switching between visualisation and menu resulted in a crash
- fixed: replay gain info from an id3v2 tag was never read
- fixed: replay gain info created with MP3gain was never read
- fixed: audio stutters when playback is started.
- fixed: mplayer would leak about 300k on each run, du to UnrarXLib not cleaning up when failing
- updated: Polish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, German (Austrian), Spanish, Finnish, Korean, Chinese (Traditional) language file

You can add more scripts and skins yourself if desired. You can download them from allxboxskins.com, xbox-skins.net and xbmcscripts.com.

Keep in mind this is a CVS snapshot of the current development tree. It's not a official (stable) point release. Use only if you know what you are doing.

Official Site: http://www.xboxmediacenter.com / http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc Download SourceCode: here