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For this week’s Feature Friday, we’re going to move from the kitchen to a tiny, spare bedroom. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the massive home theaters with moving parts, star-lit skies, curved screens, and more insulation than an average person could shake a stick at. You may also know that…

Rather than focusing on developer work within the team, we thought we’d switch this post up to focus on work by the community at large. But before we do, a quick announcement. For those of you who don’t already know, we’ve decided to name XBMC 12 (the one coming after Eden*) Frodo, after one of the…

In this first edition of Feature Friday, we are going to forego the boring old bat cave and million dollar living room in favor of a wee bit of creativity. Brilliant user Oliver Owen, of the UK, has been using various versions of XBMC since 2003. He has had XBMC installed on at least one box in…

For the third year in a row we are going to exhibit on LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition is running from May 11 to 14 at the Berlin Fairgrounds (Messedamm 22) in hall 7 (S-Bahn station Messe Süd, next to the Deutschlandhalle). We will be in hall 7.2.a booth 101. If you are in Berlin, come…

It’s been a bit over a month since last we let you in on the inner workings of the Team, so we figured it was time to bring everyone up to date on some new and slightly less new developments. Today it’s going to be technical-light, but we promise next week to provide some more interesting tech news…

Today we are proud to announce an exciting new partnership. In early May 2010, a representative at Sony Japan’s Home Theater and Console division expressed interest in using XBMC as a delivery platform for its newest content. After nearly a year of development, we have delivered a product that is…

As you may remember, XBMC 10.1 was recently released in order to address a bug that would cause a crash for Windows users when receiving an automatic update for the current skin. Now that a few weeks have gone by we are comfortable sending out skin updates. For those of you who still have not…

Thanks to everyone who commented on the last post. Apparently there’s enough interest to justify some technical ramblings every now and then. As promised, here is a follow-up to address the popular questions and comments. Next up after SCALE will be a few words about add-on stats. I wonder if there…

Perhaps the single most popular picture ever posted to the XBMC Facebook Fanpage (‘like’ us, if you haven’t already) had almost nothing at all to do with XBMC. Palle Olsen was tired of trying to hide his cords. All the usual methods didn’t work or ended up even more cluttery than just letting the…

While we are moving quickly to get new features into 11.0, the time has come for a maintenance release for Dharma. We recommend that all users update to 10.1 as soon as possible to increase stability. The main focus of this release is to address a bug that could cause XBMC to freeze when updating a…

MeetupAfter discussion, the Team has agreed on a time and place for this meetup, and we’re all very excited to actually get to meet a few of you in person. Details below. And if you’re even thinking about going, please say so below. We don’t need a headcount, but it really can’t hurt. XBMC Meetup…

I promised an update a few weeks ago and here it is. Better late than never! There’s lots to discuss about what’s going on with XBMC development work. So how about this.. I’ll provide an overview as to what’s in the works, then respond to any questions/comments in a follow-up post. This information…

As some of you may know, XBMC will have a booth at SCALE 9x at the LAX Hilton on February 25th through the 27th. This year the booth will be manned by Cory Fields (theuni), Sean Soria (malloc), and Nathan Betzen (natethomas). We’d all love to see you there. Additionally, our very own theuni will…

We expected a good amount of interest from the last post, but the response was overwhelming. As a result, we have been hard at work fixing bugs and adding missing features from the first release. So here it is, v2 of XBMC for your AppleTV2/iDevices. Update: A last-minute build-bug caused the SMB…

The XBMC team is proud to present our first ARM-based release, and it’s a big one. Scott Davilla, with the help of Edgar (gimli) Hucek and Zeljko (amet) Ametovic and several other developers and testers, is finally ready to pull the curtain off of his fun little secret. You know that $99 tiny form…

Update: There was a typo in Sigma’s press release and our resulting post. Their XBMC port was done on the SMP 8656 which supports Open GL ES. GLES will also be supported on Sigma’s recently announced SMP 8910, so this may be a potential target for XBMC as well. For those asking “Will a potential…

Today Sigma Designs announced(pdf) that they are working to bring XBMC to their popular line of system-on-a-chip models (their new SMP8656 in particular). For those not familiar with Sigma, they are a major player in the set-top box market and their SOCs are the heart of many products from Popcorn…

As we discussed in a recent post, XBMC is finally moving to a current SCM. Many of us have been using git-svn for quite a while anyway, but the burden of doing a real migration has kept us from making the switch. Today the migration begins. We have picked GitHub as our host due to their great…

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…