Xbox:Media X Menu (mXm)

Media X Menu is a menu system to launch applications from a DVD collection or from a hard drive. mXm is designed, first and foremost, as a great looking Games Launcher. Its features are intended to reflect that. It is intended to be very configurable and allow new "styles" to be added in, both with simple visual changes (skins), or adding 3D effects to the presentation of the menu. mXm is a “media savvy” application – it can make extensive use of videos for things like game previews and backgrounds, and also allows you the enjoyment of ambient soundtracks. It was intended to supersede Complex Menu X, which has some bugs and is lacking many desired features that mXm now has.

Media X Menu was programmed by Ben Jeremy in 2002-2003 and development stopped with version 0.9.6n. After 20 years of silence, mXm is in active development again. Lord_FF has added needed updates, features, and fixes for modern demands; like support for large hard drives (with partitions >1TB) and newer XBOX revisions.

Features

• Plug and Play: mXm will work with only the single XBE provided. No external resources are needed. Some simple skins are build in and basic menus — Apps, Games, Homebrew, Dashboards, Emulators, Misc — will be automatically generated for you. The configuration menu is available via the yellow "Y" Button.
• Preview videos: You can use videos for individual games and videos as part of the overall skin. WMV (Windows Media 7 or 8) is supported.
• Powerful skin engine: Create simple skins in Evox-Style or go "full in" with videos everywhere!
• Custom screensavers: mXm supports a user-configurable, animated, screen saver. It’s defined as part of the skin, so customized savers will soon be appearing to match the themes users select for their systems.
• Custom FTP server: The extended command set supports various Xbox-specific PC FTP Clients such as XBRenamer and xISO xFER. It supports PASV mode and a growing list of SITE commands.
• Passcode: An option assignable by the user. You can create a passcode for any entry in mXm, preventing unauthorized access to a given application via the mXm menu system. Protect your children for ‘adult’ themed games or prevent stoned roommates from trashing your EEPROM with a utility; you control access!
• Help screens: It’s hard for people to remember what all the buttons on the gamepads do in particular games, so mXm supports user-defined help screens that you can enable by placing them in the game directories. Additionally, you can launch from those screens.
• Music manager: mXm can support locally defined soundtracks (via skin definitions) as well as use the Xbox’s own ripped user soundtracks. mXm supports WMA format music files.
• XML extensible: You can add new entries and with new skins, take advantage of the information. For example, you might include Publisher and Release Date information for your entries, and display the information on screen when the game is highlighted.
• Reuse of artwork: mXm uses Images from XBMC4Gamers Artwork Installer and videos made for UnleashX. No renaming or copying of files is necessary!
• >1TB HDD support
• Supports BMP, PNG, TGA, JPG image formats as well as WMV video files!
• Different operation modes: Dashboard Mode, Launcher Mode, DVD-R Mode, DVD-R Mode.
• Render gadgets like Matrix or plasma-Effects
• Powerful scripting language: Actionscript
• IR remote and keyboard support
• Menu caching
• Screenshots
• Newsfeeds