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Since the release of Atlantis we have had dozens of new users, and a few noted one of our weaknesses, which was PulseAudio, link to thread. People usually experienced video that ran in great speed, this was because ALSA couldn´t create a stream. And the only way of making XBMC run like it should on…

Did you know that XBMC has its own official fan page on Facebook where fans around the world can show their support of XBMC Media Center software? Now you to can become a fan of XBMC on Facebook, post fan photos and videos or post a review, and tell all your friends of the best free and cross-port…

The first task I’ve taken up for the next release of XBMC is to clean up our build system. As it stands now, XBMC is a hassle to build on any Linux distrobution except Ubuntu. This is mostly the fault of our configure and Makefiles not conforming to expected standards. I’d also like to get our Mac…

The new release is out in public. It contains the following notable changes: ATI/AMD Catalyst 8.9 unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer; new in this version is the hard disk installation: it creates three partitions on the hard disk (boot, fat32 – swap – media, ext3) it disables the “root…

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the cross-platform release of XBMC Media Center version 8.10 for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, code named ‘Atlantis‘. We have reached the end of over 3-months of bug bashing, and have closed 425 tickets for this Gold version release…

With the upcoming Atlantis release, we would like to ask for international users to help out by translating XBMC into your language or if it’s already translated, review and improve the current translation. Deadline for submitting these translations is the 25th of october. These two english…

On October the 15th an important conference on “The role of open standards and free software in bringing the choice of Net TV To Italians’ sofas” was held at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, see the event page for more information (and videos!). In that context I had the pleasure to present…

I’ve gotten numinous queries about when atvusb-creator will get released for the Windows platform. Rest assured, it’s in progress. I thought I would take a little time to explain the difficulties. First, Windows is really a goofy platform, it has almost no command-line tools that are of any use. Or…

XBMC Live Atlantis Beta2 has been released and is available at sourceforge! Main changes since last release: updated NVIDIA drivers, 177.78 enhanced XBMC Live creator, with bug fixes and new functionality such as install to hard disk. WARNING: THE CHOSEN DISK (HARD DISK or FLASH DISK) WILL BE…

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the second cross-platform Beta version of XBMC Media Center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming point release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis‘. New in this release is multi-core video decoding for Windows…

As a XBMC developer and as XBMC is now supported on multiple Ubuntu version (feisty, gutsy, hardy and Intrepid), you might sometimes want to compile on another system than the one you are running on. This article is to help you doing that without reinstalling your whole system. For this you will use…

Yes sir, that’s correct. XBMC for Mac runs on the AppleTV and get this, it’s under the native AppleTV OS that you can launch right from FrontRow. Pretty cool. I do have give great thanks to Stephan Diederich for his absolutely brilliant work on the AppleTV plugin XBMC Launcher with install/update…

Just wanted to make it aware to skinners (and people wanting to tweak keymap.xml) that it is possible since beta1 to controll power management through actions. The usefull commands are: XBMC.Shutdown() – Will trigger your default behaviour (setup in settings -> system) XBMC.Quit() – Will quit XBMC…

XBMC for Mac – Atlantis Beta 1, includes two new plugins that allow users to access their organized media in iTunes and iPhoto from within XBMC. (Both released under GPL, see update at the end of this post) iTunes The iTunes plugin is in the Music section. To start using it, you need to first…

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the first cross-platform Beta version of XBMC media center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming stable release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis’. There are three important news items associated with this release: The…

Pondering one would have XBMC and iPhone, wouldn’t that little touchscreen make a good remote? Narcan made one, but is it all a pipe dream or could it be the remote of the future? In a nutshell the remote is doing querys to XBMC’s webserver and displays the result in a neat fashion, but if we skip…

Just a quick post of gratitude for all the bug reports we’ve had over the last month or so. Without your great support at testing things out and taking the time to narrow down and get any issues reproducible, XBMC wouldn’t be as great as it is now. As you can see, we’ve been busy tackling these…

I was recently looking into the fade effect on OS X which happens when you switch from windowed mode to full screen and vice versa. I thought it’d be better if it only faded the effected display, so I started looking into a great example from Apple. There was an issue though. After retrieving the…

I long suspected something to not be 100% correct with Intel’s Linux drivers for Graphics, so before this weekend I set out to do some benchmarking. Here’s what happened before: I chatted briefly with people in #Intel-gfx on FREENODE earlier this week, understandably they thought I was bitching, I…