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It’s been a LONG time coming. Too long. But here it is. XBMC 10.0 “Dharma” is ready for consumption. Those who have been following development know that add-ons are the main focus of this release. In the past, in order to find a new skin, you would have to dig through the forums, find a link, and…

The XBMC Foundation was established as a non-profit entity on January 16, 2009. Since then we haven’t really released much information about the Foundation. We know this is something that comes up occasionally in the forums and there is a great deal of misleading information being passed around, so…

At this year’s DevCon we took a long hard look our development process; we decided that while it works, it is starting to show a few cracks and we know we can do better. We have a lot of issues with the current development model, mostly due to a lack of communication between developers prior to…

It has been a few weeks since the annual XBMC Developers Conference (DevCon) took place and we thought it was about time that we gave you some feedback about what took place. What follows is a rundown of what happened at DevCon, who the sponsors for the event were, a brief discussion about sponsors…

Dharma RC2 is ready, and this one is a Release Candidate in the truest sense. There are a few reasons we decided to do one last pre-release: Shoutcast support has been redone. Listening to your favorite online radio stations with the shoutcast plugin is now a much nicer experience. The add-ons moved…

It’s that time again. After an extremely productive DevCon where we hammered out some nasty bugs, we’re proud to announce Dharma Release Candidate 1. Major fixes since Beta4: A fix for a problem when pausing/seeking. This was known to cause static or erratic behavior on some amplifiers. Beta…

It has been quite a while since the XBMC team has gotten together as a group to discuss the project in person. The time and effort it takes to assemble a group of people from around the world is truly staggering. We are proud to announce that this year’s conference is being sponsored by at-visions…

Well, beta 3 had a few regressions. So rather than moving along to rc1, we decided to throw out one last (we hope!) beta. There a few things to take note of: Live now contains an Audio Mixer. You’ll find it in the Programs section. Non-Live users (Linux and OSX) may install it from the add-ons…

Nearly one month after the release of Beta 2, the latest Dharma pre-release is ready for testing. We have been working very hard to to stabilize XBMC for the final release; there have been over 300 commits to the release branch since the last beta. Notable fixes include: Lots of Live fixes and clean…

Thanks to the excellent mirrorbrain project, we will be upgrading the backend to our mirror system tomorrow to take advantage of some new features, some of them were even added at our request (thanks again Peter)! As a result, beta testers for the upcoming Dharma release may experience a brief…

Just over two weeks after beta1, the next pre-release version of Dharma is ready for testing. We have closed many bugs, touched up some translations, and updated a substantial number of addons. With beta2, we also made the last-minute decision to include web-interfaces as addons. This means that we…

Today we announce the first beta in what we hope is a very short pre-release cycle. Dharma has been in development for over 9 months now, and we’re quite happy with the result. The improvements are too many to name, but head over to the milestone page to get an idea. By far the biggest new feature…

This is the last weekly report and I would like to thank google and the beagleboard community for the fun summer! It have been a wonderful opportunity and I’ve learned heaps and gotten extremely interested in embedded development. Status Done further investigation regarding finding the performance…

Before we go into the actual status report I would like to be abit nostalgic, this is the last week of feature addition after all. Before GSoC XBMC didn’t even compile on angstrom and now I just finished watching a SD video which ran without the BeagleBoard breaking much of a sweat! I have had much…

Status Overlay is scaled and positioned according to how the skin wants it. Overlay playback is tearing free and rather fast. Runs bunny 480p almost perfect while before it was about 5fps. Finally got crosscompile working. Thanks again koen for all your help providing me with builds up to this point…

Status OMAP Overlay is hooked up to XBMC and works rather well (for a few seconds) Switched the yuv transformation from swscale to the NEON method created by mru. Have created a hack that should get rid of the memcpy, needs major redesign though to get it into trunk though but probably ok to use for…

Last night jmarshall created the Dharma branch, which will eventually become the stable Dharma release. That means that from this point on, only fixes and important updates will go into the release branch, while trunk remains open for business. So for all the skinners, translators, and add-on…

Status Understood how OMAP Overlay works and how it should be done, thanks to måns awesome application omapfbplay. Implemented a VideoRenderer in XBMC which transforms from yuv420p to yuv422p via swscale. I might use the neon optimized from Måns at a later stage but for now I isolate the unknowns to…

Nearly a year ago, topfs2 started working on a remote client for Android phones and was shortly joined by me, not even having my phone yet. The project grew rapidly and soon the_alien and mikkle joined the show. While the app was always freely available via Google Code, we’ve decided today that it’s…

Status Finally gotten the dirty region based rendering solution to work on the Beagle Board. During the week I’ve tried rendering to a framebuffer and render this buffer to the backbuffer but it was incredibly slow but Måns Rullgård (mru) pointed me to track dirty regions from 2 frames back, i.e…