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SETTING UP A "XBMC WITH NAVI-X REPOSITORY" MEDIA STREAMING DEVICE FOR HOME ENTERTAINMENT USE

Devices that can be used include but are not limited to:

Personal PC Mac Linux Raspberri Pi Thumb Size Android devices Pivos Xios Jailbroken Apple TV gen I or II

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). It uses a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room, using a remote control as the primary input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons. The XBMC project is managed by the non-profit XBMC Foundation, and developed by volunteers located around the world. Since its creation in 2003 more than 60 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 40 languages. (per XBMC Wiki)

Navi-X is a "content aggregator" app that provides access to all kinds of multimedia content, listed on a public directory of user contributed listings or playlists for playing on your TV, PC or mobile devices! Users can link to content and playback video, audio, pictures, podcasts, text, rss and html on the internet and share it with people around the world in seconds! Create fully customizable playlists with backgrounds, logos and icons as well as link to your favorite multimedia on the internet or browse the already existing directory of publicly available content, in one sleek, fast and unified application! Navi-X is a multi-platform addon for XBMC, a popular and free media center application available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS (Apple TV, iPhone and iPads) as well as the original Xbox.

Install XBMC onto your particular device

Follow this for installation instructions on every device XBMC supports:
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 RaspBMC 

A mod of XBMC has been made specifically for the Raspberry Pi called 'RaspBMC'. There are two ways to install RaspBMC on your SD Card. One can download the installer files or an image. The easiest is to use the image which will be the most updated version of RaspBMC. (see useful links) After installing RaspBMC one will most likely find that downloading two codecs MPEG-2 and VC-1 are beneficial when trying to play videos on different file formats. These Codecs can be bought in the Raspberry Pi store on the website.(see useful links)A regular TV remote will most likely control this version for more information on this see the Remote Control link below.

After you have installed XBMC on your device you will want to install Navi-X in order to maximize your available media content. One can download the latest edition of the repository at this page.

***Useful Tips***

This section will be a work in progress and will mostly contain links.


 * Remote Controls


 * XBMC Quick Start Guide


 * Navi-X Quick Start Guide


 * List of single-board computers
 * Link for image or install files with useful tips on using them
 * SSH into RPI to install Codecs