RE: best HD media player to replace xbmc

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool. Thanks James, - I wasn't aware of that, - I *had* seen some info
online about upgrading the HDD with softmod only, but when I read it, it
sounded like way too much hassle.

I still have a couple of XBOXes sitting around here, and I also have all
the bits necessary to do the softmod, (on loan for about the last 2
years from another UKHAer!) - just need to find the time & get around
to
doing it..

I Was hoping to get about 250GB in it if poss. - that's enough for as
much audio & video as is ever likely to be needed, - if I recompress
movies down to about 2GB each I'd easily get over a hundred on there....
Plus I happen to have 3 or 4 250GB IDE disks floating around spare.

Do you have any links to any instructions for the process so I can
revisit the idea and get a feel for what the process entails? I wouldn't
describe myself as a hardcore modder, but I managed to mod quite a few
TiVos in my time, and never had a single problem with any of those
upgrades. The XBOX modchips have been an entirely different story
though, and I just don't want to bother with them any more.

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of James Reed
> Sent: 22 September 2008 23:23
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] best HD media player to replace xbmc
>
> Hi,
>
> You can then get a bootable Xbox linux distribution called 'xboxhdm'
> which runs on a normal PC, and understands the xbox filesystem. From
> memory, all you have to do is supply it with a copy of the EEPROM file
> (from the modded xbox) and it will then format up the new drive. I'm
> not
> sure what the size limit is, but you will need to partition it up a
bit
> to manage the space.
>
> How much storage did you have in mind? The other advantage of doing
> this
> is that it makes the Xbox a lot quieter and cooler, if you get the
> right
> drive (Samsung spinpoint etc).
>
> I'd be happy to help out if you wanted to do this. It's well worth
> trying the softmod out as it's again pretty easy. Unless you're a hard
> core modder I don't think you really need hardware modchips any more.
>
> James
>
>
>


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