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I was testing some smartplaylists out from some bug reports, and found that the same query was performed significantly faster in SQLiteSpy than in XBMC on the same machine. The performance was an order of magnitude slower in XBMC than it was in SQLiteSpy, and we actually use a newer version of…

Thought I should slip my tongue a bit… Been working on a new installer script that will replace xbmcscripts.com installer. This new one will be a total addons manager, meaning: install/uninstall of addons – plugins, scripts, skins (to start with, later on maybe extend it to skinmods, soundpacks…

Due to the great feedback from Alpha 3 users in terms of bug reports, many of which have already been fixed, Team-XBMC have released the latest Alpha version of XBMC for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Xbox. This is the last in a series of alpha releases in preparation for the upcoming stable release…

Many of the latest skins for XBMC are now supporting the recently added XBMC feature that is FanArt backdrops. Skins such as Aeon, Focus, MediaStream, and even the default Project Mayhem III, all feature FanArt backdrop support. We think that FanArt really enhances the look and feel of XBMC skins…

Development to port XBMC for Linux to PPC (PowerPC) have begun by third-party developers and source code patches for that is available, however these developers are only focusing on XBMC for Linux, not XBMC for Mac (and no one on Team-XBMC even own a PowerPC based Mac), thus additional third-party…

Are there anyone out there who would like to volunteers to help us make “XBMC Portable” for us, a PortableApps.com USB Edition of XBMC for Windows? PortableApps.com works similar to U3, the main difference is that PortableApps.com is free and open source , and it also works with any with any…

The XBMC project have decided to adopt Ubuntu’s Year.Month versioning for all of our future XBMC stable point-releases. This means that if we hold true to the current XBMC roadmap schedule then the next ‘Gold’ release should be released in October 2008 and will thus have the version 8.10 (so “…

If you enjoy the command prompt in Linux/OS X as much as I do, then I hope you’ve been aquainted with screen. If not, think of it like tabs in your browser. Except now you can go to a different computer and pull up your browser with all those same tabs already opened. The one thing that sucks about…

Just bought myself a new computer. Not a superpowered one, but a decent (compared to my old). Abit A-N78HD (with internal GF8200 and HDMI + HD Audio) 4GB DDR II 320 GB Harddrive (sata) DVD/RW (sata) AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Now to the not so fun part, installation. Booted up Ubuntu 8.04 and somewhere in…

XBMC media center was nominated as a finalist in this years SourceForge Community Choice Awards (CCA) in no less than seven categories, including “Most Likely to Change the World” (awarded to Linux) and “Best Project for Multimedia” (awarded to VLC). The winners were announced at a party held as…

The Telematics Freedom Foundation is currently sponsoring a study about state of the art Media Center projects in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community; “We picked the 10 most prominent FOSS Media Center projects out there and we’re now collecting information about their features…

With our recent move to host the xbmc.org website on our own webserver, Team-XBMC have now also taken steps to setup our own tracker-system for XBMC using Trac. Consequently, our previous trackers, which were hosted on SourceForge, has been closed and all bugs, patches and feature request tickets…

Team-XBMC have received news that the XBMC media center project has been nominated as finalist in the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards (CCA) in no less than seven categories. This is the third annual SourceForge CCA – in the first year XBMC won two of the categories (“best multimedia…

Due to the recent surge of downloads I see the need to reveal some details of the next release that will come out in June: XBMC will be upgradeable via the official XBMC PPAs! it will automount all local hard disk partition it will support writing to NTFS via NTFS-3G it will include a boot menu…

XBMC DEV CON 2008 will be the first event in which the Team-XBMC developers get a chance to get together face-to-face, meet and greet, discuss XBMC, and maybe get a little coding done as well. After 6 years and with so many users, it is time for the Team-XBMC programmers to get out of the IRC chat…

Sorry about that, I haven’t been able to blog about any updates in a while, someone came wrong with the system. Hopefully I can keep you all up to date on my workings. Stay tuned for the next release! In the meanwhile keep in mind that these instructions cover LiveXBMC-V1 and are missing some bits…

Elan Fieldgold, a developer on Team-XBMC who was working on the Mac OS X port of XBMC have decided to fork our XBMC for Mac version and go out on his own, quiet the XBMC project, and start a new project with its own community for his fork fork. There have been differences in priorities between Elan…

XBMC is participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC), which means that we are looking for creative college students who are skilled in the C++ programming language and would be interesting in getting paid by Google to work on new features for XBMC this summer. Google is this year…

Help wanted from Mac OS X programmers! As you may or may not know, back in May last year a few developers from Team-XBMC began porting the XBMC media-player application to Linux (and OpenGL using the SDL toolkit), with the goal of it someday becoming a full port of XBMC containing all the features…

I have been experimenting with the creation of bootable flash disk under Windows since it is not a trivial process and I have not identified a simple and effective tool doing the job. There may be several variants, but this one works and it’s easy to describe. You must be logged as local…