Sunday, September 18, 2005

Down in the movie room, my AV receiver only has two component inputs. The HD DirecTiVo and the progressive scan DVD player were using these. I replaced the DVD player with Mobil (the Xbox) to utilize any HD content from Mobil. Well, I went to watch an episode of Sopranos, and naturally Mobil couldn't play the DVD. As it turns out, XBMC uses the Microsoft DVD playback software, which requires the DVD dongle. However, I learned today that the 2005-09-12 CVS build of XBMC has now an integrated DVD player, with menu support. It looks like an upgrade is needed.