GeeXboX 1.1

The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. Why such a name ? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, well just prepended a "GeeX", cause thats for the geeks you all are. GeeXboX is a full operating system, livecd that can run on any machine and it is based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX. You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. Its now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV !! At the time of the first development releases (Dec. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting : - MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...) - MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD ...) - RealMedia and Windows Media movies. - OggMedia streams - Matroska streams - Audio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3 ... GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on ;-) Youre lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies. Requirements:.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Linux
Keyword:	Audio,  Cd,  Divx,  Geexbox,  Media,  Media Player,  Movies,  Mplayer,  Multimedia,  New,  Player,  Rom,  Standalone
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