Software Update: GeeXboX 0.97 Birthday Edition

By admin On May 19, 2004

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A new version of the software is available on the GeeXboX site published† This release has been given version number 0.97 Birthday Edition and was made available to the general public exactly one year after the release of the first version. The 0.97 branch is available in the languages English and French† It is also possible to create your own variant by means of the source†

GeeXboX is a standalone media player that runs on a custom Linux version. After booting from the CD, the program is capable of playing mpeg, DivX, XviD, RealMedia, ogg, mp3 and wmv media file, among others. GeeXboX can be operated via the OSD or a remote controller. According to the site, a computer with at least a Pentium II 400MHz and 64MB RAM is more than enough to play the different media. The 0.97 Birthday Edition changelog looks like this:

Switch MPlayer to 1.0pre4

Support for Packard Bell Fast media remote and receiver.

Support for DXR3/Hollywood+ (MPEG1/2 hardware decoder) cards (TVOut only for now).

Support for S3 Virge GX2 TV Out.

Support for the Matroska container.

Support for the Nullsoft streaming video (NSV) container.

Support for PCI and USB WiFi network adapters (AiroNet, Atmel, Atheros, Prism2 et Prism54/GT chipsets).

Support for Serial ATA disks.

Support for 3COM/NetGear Gigabit Ethernet cards.

Support for BT8x8 and Saa73134 cards (Composite and S-VHS inputs and TV tuners).

Support for audio/video streaming (Web-Radios etc …)

Access to the Internet through web gateways.

Added Telnet server for remote access.

Support for hardware video acceleration (VidiX) for EPIA-M (CLE266 chipset) and ATI Radeon 9xxx boards.

Support for VidiX for nVidia cards (EXPERIMENTAL : disabled by default).

Added the IrMan library.

Support for ATI Remote Wonder remotes through LIRC (better latency time and customizable key bindings).

Added an image viewer (FBI) with support for BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCD, PNG, PNM and PPM formats.

Switch form CVS revision control system to GNU Arch.

Version number	0.97 Birthday Edition
Operating systems	Linux
Website	GeeXboX
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file size	5.64MB
License type	GPL