So last week, I was at CES and I met with Jerome “Gej” Rota, the DivX founder, at their booth. We had a nice chat about their new product DivX Connected. It is very exciting because it’s what I wanted to do a year ago with a couple of friends:
Build a software platform for set-top boxes to access services/internet but make it opened (and not closed like AppleTV is) for people to build their own plugin and for companies to easily integrate their services.

Well DivX did it and quite nicely. So I spent my last week-end playing with their SDK and voila, a nice little plugin to browse the UPnP servers on your network (using Platinum of course). The idea is that maybe you have your files on your NAS running TwonkyVision or maybe you have Videos on your XBox and have the XBMC with UPnP server running. Check the screenshot out:

Ok, i just finished coding. There’s still no playback, just discovery and there’s no installer yet for the plugin.

Update:
There’s an installer now. It’s here. Video playback is not working great yet because of Divx Connected requiring HTTP 1.1 and some weird trick mode…