Xbox 360 Media Update Download

[Mckenzie Witting]

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The function accepts several parameters that help craft the queries for content. Those are endpoint (determining whether we need to get screenshots or video clips), xuid (the unique Xbox Live user identifier - this is not the gamer tag), download_location (path on the local machine where the content needs to be exported), token (the XBL 3.0 token captured earlier), and continuation_token (used for pagination to go through the list of results).

Within this function, I am constructing the OData-like query I mentioned earlier in JSON format, and then passing it to the screenshot or the video clip endpoint. The payload can take two forms. If I am only interested in the first page, I will send something like this:

On the other hand, if this is not the first page that I am requesting, I can pass a continuationToken field within the JSON (not the query string) that tells the Xbox Live service the page it needs to refer to, as such:

What can happen sometimes is that as I stored the metadata contents in memory and then would go and download them one-by-one, if the Internet is slow or the CDN node assigned to me was bad, by the time I get to the end of the list, the signature would expire and I could no longer download the content. Which means that I have the option - either re-request the full list, and then resume from where I started, or go entity by entity. I chose the latter.

A reader of this blog informed me that I could, as a matter of fact, make my code a bit easier by using maxPageSize as the JSON parameter instead of max. Looks like the Xbox iOS apps have a bug in them and are using an incorrect parameter, since max does nothing and is completely ignored, no matter what value you specify.

GetContentEntity is very similar to GetContentEntities, and in the future I might even wrap that into one function, but what it does is add an extra parameter to the OData query - see if you can spot it:

As it turns out, if I just use localId as filter, I can easily get the entity for just one screenshot or game clip - with a refreshed signature (while still using the XBL 3.0 token issued earlier). Not too bad for a start! Once the call is executed, the resulted entity takes the shape of:

Because the metadata here is so rich, and the goal of this project is to back up all media I have from the Xbox Live network, I decided that I want to store it alongside every single file that Xbox Live gives me. As such, you will notice in the code that I am pulling the contents of each media file into an associated JSON file, retaining all the data about the tile, date of the original capture, the device type (Scarlett was the code-name for Xbox Series X).

Once I glued everything together, I was actually able to successfully back up all my media in one go. Yes, I did not have to use the app and spend months going through each capture, saving it locally.

But I only addressed part of the problem. The second piece to this puzzle was freeing up the space from the old screenshots once I backed them up. Sure enough, there is a request for that. To delete a screenshot, I needed to send a DELETE request to:

Xbox Media Player (or XBMP for short), now obsolete, was the predecessor to XBMC and XBMC4Xbox, a feature-rich free and open source media player for the Xbox (console). With an audio/video-player-core based on MPlayer, it allowed owners of a modified Xbox to display pictures and movie files, as well as play music files from the Xbox DVD-ROM drive, built-in harddisk drive, LAN (SMB) or the Internet.

The Xbox Media Player Project was founded by d7o3g4q (also known as duo) and RUNTiME.[1] It started out as two separate players, with the two developers each working on their own design and code. After sharing code and coordinating features to not duplicate efforts, by XBoxMediaPlayer beta 5 the two players were merged. The development and beta-testing was done "behind closed doors" for this project (d7o3g4q and RUNTiME promising that when version 1.0 was made they would release the source code to the public). After beta 6 was completed there were complaints from a lot of people as to why the developers did not release the source code for the player sooner as they were using FFmpeg and XVID code which are under the (L)GPL license. Even though the project was closed d7o3g4q and RUNTiME released the source code for beta 6 on the October 15, 2002.

In the November 2002, another software developer nicknamed Frodo who was the founder of "YAMP - Yet Another Media Player" joined the Xbox Media Player team and the XBoxMediaPlayer and YAMP projects were merged, the first release of the merged projects was called "Xbox Media Player 2.0" and the source code for it was released on December 14, 2002. XBoxMediaPlayer 2.0 was a complete re-write using a new core based on the MPlayer project, still using FFmpeg/XVID codec code. On December 28, 2002, the source code of XBoxMediaPlayer 2.1 was released with many bug fixes and a couple of new features such as true AC3 5.1 output, volume normalizer/amplification and an additional post processing filter. Two weeks later on January 12, 2003, XBoxMediaPlayer 2.2 source code was released with new features including dashboard mode to launch other Xbox applications/games, separate national language files, streaming media from windows file shares (SMB), audio-playlist, the ability to play media on-the-fly from ISO9660-Mode1 CDs and Windows DLL support for WMV 7,8, and 9. Xbox Media Player development stopped on December 13, 2003.

XBMP requires a modchip or software exploit/hack installed in/on the Xbox to run, as it is not an authorized (a.k.a. "signed") Microsoft product. XBMP can be run as an application, or a dashboard that appears directly when the Xbox is turned on (though it takes around 15 seconds to load fully).

Although XBMP is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), it is written for use with Microsoft's XDK and so is not legally available as an executable program to non-official Microsoft game-publishers. Users are encouraged to compile their own binaries from the public CVS repository using the XDK, rather than downloading a questionable illegally released executable. XBMP's full source code is however legal 'as is' and is available on SourceForge.

I have a 360 console that was banned due to a ridiculous course of events. The console was never modded, but Microsoft thinks otherwise. This is because my friend who has a modded console put his HDD in my Xbox and it was then banned. Awesome!

I use my xbox to steam movies/music to my TV in my living room. Since i cannot connect to XBL (Xbox Live) I cannot watch movies or play music without downloading the Optional Media Update.

You have to have a jtag'ed xbox 360 for the optional media update to be usable on a box that's not the one on which it was downloaded. in this regard it's a pain in the $$^ and the ps3's media capabilities are better without any 'optional' stuff

Microsoft can be a big pain, especially with xbox 360's. Did you ever attempt to call them, and resolve the problem. There are a few ways that you can unban your xbox 360. But they are intensively hard, and involve flashing your 360's CPU Cache (Not easy) i have moded my 360, but only with hardware mods (Rapidfire, Blue ROL) but i couldn't help you with something like this, there are websites that you could look at.

Download tversity setup your folders when you set up folders click advanced and select always under transcode under settings click transcoder on left hand side set video resolution 720x480 uncheck use directshow for windows media encoding save it and watch

what you do, is you use a usb drive with at least 4 gb (idk how big the file is) and go on a computer, go to xbox live marketplace, and download it to the usb drive, then, plug it into your xbox and copy it to your xbox hard drive, if that doesn't work, then you may have to have xbox live, i suggest plugging your hard drive into a different xbox, or a friends, and downloading it that way

Speaking to Game File, Spencer said that Xbox will follow what players need when it comes to how they play their games following concerns that Microsoft was shifting to a digital-focused business model.

"We are supportive of physical media, but we don't have a need to drive that disproportionate to customer demand," he said. "We ship games physically and digitally, and we're really just following what the customers are doing.

"Gaming consoles themselves have kind of become the last consumer electronic device that has a drive," Spencer noted. "This is a real issue in terms of the number of manufacturers that are actually building drives and the cost associated with those.

Spencer also addressed Microsoft's mass layoffs in January, and clarified that while people that worked on making and selling physical media were among the 1,900 staffers cut from its games division, the decision was centered around aligning teams following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

"We have teams that are in charge of physical retail, inclusive of selling games in physical outlets," said Spencer. "So that's what the team action was. It wasn't about us getting rid of the capability."

Well, there are reasons, of course. Some people prefer to use a single device for everything TV-related, for example. And of course the Xbox One series of consoles had some useful entertainment features, like an HDMI-passthrough port, IR blasting capabilities, and optical audio, none of which are present in Xbox Series XS.

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