10 Steps to XBMC on Windows (unofficial)

Ok, I’m far from an expert on this but I have been using Softmoded Xboxes for years. I own 3 softmodded Xboxes running XBMC. I have a 1.2 TB home built NAS running Freenas with large library of movies/tv shows/mp3s/karaoke/photos, a Windows Small Business Server 2003, a desktop and laptop each for my wife and I, and a home built HTPC in my living room currently dual booting Ubuntu 7.10 and Vista Ultimate. This particular system has onboard HDMI which currently works for both video and audio under Vista. Under Ubuntu, I have been struggling for 2 months but cannot seem to get audio over HDMI functioning. I do have the XBMC Linux working with the latest build but no audio.

With all of that out of the way, I am still somewhat of a noobie because I read the forums but hardly ever post. I am so happy to see some progress on the XBMC for Windows that I want to encourage further development and because of that I am posting instead of just reading.

I see many posts where people ask “how to”, and while I hope everyone understands that I am not one of the people that is currently developing this (I am just a user, not a programmer) and that there is not currently a product out there for users. What I am about to do is describe what I did to make XBMC for Windows work on my system. This is not a definitive guide, it’s just what worked for me.

Also, please do not post in the Developers Forum. That seems to make them mad and a mad developer is less likely to continue development than a happy developer.

Step 1. Download the latest T3CH build

Step 2. Download the SDL.NET package from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles...p_id=52340

Step 3. Download the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfile...p_id=67586

Step 4. Download the latest compiled XBM-PC executable from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=767JR27Z

Step 5. Uncompress the T3CH build to the directory of your choice. To keep this example simple I’ll use E:\T3CH

Step 6. Run the sdldotnet-6.0.0-runtime-setup.exe

Step 7. Uncompress the glew-1.5.0-win32.zip file and copy the glew32.dll from the glew\bin directory to your newly extracted E:\T3CH\XBMC directory

Step 8. Uncompress the XBMC-w32glfix.rar that you obtained in step 4 and copy the file XBMC_PC.exe into E:\T3CH\XBMC directory

Step 9. Copy the run_me_first.bat file from E:|\T3CH\win32 directory into E:\T3CH\XBMC directory

Step 10. Edit the run_me_first.bat file that you just copied so the line that reads “XBMC_PC.exe” reads “XBMC_PC.exe –fs”, save the changes and exit from the editor.

Now, run the run_me_first.bat file that is in the XBMC directory

Keith

great guide, thanks so much

I have a question tho, does smb work yet in this version?
also how do I go about browsing for my movies that are on my external drive? When i go to file manager, I can;t figure out how to add my external drive (letter M).

also drive d in my computer is not a cd drive it is another partition on my drive but when i try to access it through xbmc it says tray empty.

i realize these are very noobish questions and i apologize in advance. thanks

SMB is still not working in this version. As for the external drives and the CD/DVD drive, I have not tested that and have no idea why they aren't working. Keep in mind, this is all very ALPHA. The first version the developers posted worked with my MCE Remote, this current version seems to have broken that function.

Sorrry, but keep the faith. Maybe in a few months we will have a fully working version.

Keith

i figured as much but just wanted to make sure that i wasnt missing anything.

also the second link in your guide is messed up because you have "from" in front of "http"

just thought you should know

i took the liberty of editing the post / fixing the link

Step 1. Download the latest T3CH build. Simply google "t3ch" or "xbmc download"

Step 2. Download the SDL.NET package from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=52340

Step 3. Download the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library from
https://sourceforge.net/project/...group_id=67586

Step 4. Download the latest compiled XBM-PC executable from
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=767JR27Z

Step 5. Uncompress the T3CH build to the directory of your choice. To keep this example simple I’ll use E:\T3CH

Step 6. Run the sdldotnet-6.0.0-runtime-setup.exe obtained in step 2

Step 7. Uncompress the glew-1.5.0-win32.zip file obtained in step 3 and copy the glew32.dll from the glew\bin directory to your newly extracted E:\T3CH\XBMC directory

Step 8. Uncompress the XBMC-w32glfix.rar that you obtained in step 4 and copy the file XBMC_PC.exe into E:\T3CH\XBMC directory

Step 9. Copy the run_me_first.bat file from E:\T3CH\win32 directory into E:\T3CH\XBMC directory

Step 10. Edit the run_me_first.bat file that you just copied so the line that reads “XBMC_PC.exe” reads “XBMC_PC.exe –fs”, save the changes and exit from the editor.

Now, run the run_me_first.bat file in the XBMC directory

Keith

Thanks for the guide.

Finally someone maked a guide! Thanks!

Only thing, the links dont work

Sorry, me bad
The links work..

Nice guide thanks mate! Gr8 work