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As our readers probably know by now, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released today with many new features. For those who are considering making the move, here’s what you need to know as the update relates to XBMC: Rather than wasting the time and effort required to update the current stable release…

XBMC has gone a long way since its first stable release in 2004. It has evolved from a xbox only application into a sleek cross platform media center that runs on almost anything you throw it at. XBMC has thousands of users, is the mother of many successful derivative projects and commercial spin…

XBMC for Mac is seeing some serious love these days. First up is a working IR remote under Snow Leopard (the crowd cheers). TeamXBMC is extremely grateful to Felix Schwarz (developer for Remote Buddy) for expanding his excellent driver framework and providing Candelair free to all. Candelair…

Here’s a quick teaser for those of you who dream of using XBMC on a low-powered ARM platform some day. Our very own McGeagh briefly demonstrates XBMC running on the BeagleBoard using OpenGL ES 2.0 and even manages the obligatory playback of everyone’s favorite: Big Buck Bunny. This is still in early…

tmdb-logoOur friends at themoviedb.org have experienced a major hard drive failure (the database is fine) and they are hard at work rebuilding. This obviously means that XBMC will not be able to scrape movie information from TMDB at this time. There is no need to report the issue, please be patient…

A while ago ASRock Europe kindly lent me an ION 330 to try out as my new HTPC equipment. Got it delivered and started unpacking. It was packed in a neat box along with a hdmi to dvi adapter, a support cd and an anti-slip pad. The case looks just as good as it does on the pictures. Installed it with…

XBMC has long been criticized and at the same time hailed for its multitude of settings. Depending on your point of view, it is either highly configurable or overwhelmingly confusing. In a sense, both are true. Like many other open-source programs, we suffer occasionally from the ‘too many cooks in…

Check the changelog for the full list of changes You can download it here As always if you find any problems or have a general question, post them on the support forum

MiniMeedia has now been added to the Official XBMC Skinning Project SVN so that anyone can now download the project files (including all the textures etc). You can find out more details about the XBMC Skinning Project here. The code added to SVN is the same as the 0.95 version that was released last…

This update tries to address all the known problems that have been reported as well as add some new features that have been requested. Some of the things users wanted were: Integration with OpenSubtitles_OSD script Option to hide the top option menu bar when not focused Option to have separate…

If you’ve been watching svn lately, you might have noticed that lots of cleaning, pruning, and reorganizing has been taking place. While everything else was churned up, it seemed like a good time to move the main development code to trunk. The linuxport branch has been removed. She was a good ship…

Today scarfa came out of nowhere with a beautiful new skin, available immediately. Click the image below for a screenshot preview. Click image for slideshow RapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapier Here’s what the author had to say about Rapier: This was originally a joint project between…

I have many singles in my music collection – songs that were released independently of an album, or perhaps in parallel to an album release. As part of an album release, the single may be a particular edit (such as an edit for radio) and thus be somewhat different than the album version of the track…

NvidiaToday Nvidia announced a new set of beta drivers that add several new features to VDPAU in linux. For those somehow still in the dark about VDPAU read about it from here and here. Yes, it’s linux only. New features include improved video upscaling and hardware acceleration for MPEG-4 Part…

screenshot home pageIt’s kinda funny, you would think building your skin upon an existing one (PM3.HD in my case) will save you a lot of time, compared to building it from scratch. But some time after the the initial work is done and released, you realize the skin still resembles the the original…

It was mentioned a few days ago that things might get bumpy for a while and a few of you asked to be notified when all the fun was starting. Well, consider yourselves notified. As of svn rev #22529 the branch has been merged into main. Please be patient as we get things back in line. And again, we…

It’s been a long time coming, but today xbmc.org gets a new look: the stale useless site has been replaced with one that should be far more active. It’s still a work in progress, but we’re hoping to make this a portal for all things XBMC. In the past it’s been difficult for our users to keep up with…

To keep with the spirit of breaking things, xbmc.org may be down a bit in the next few days. Not exactly sure when, but it should be within a week. We’re making some changes that should render the site more useful. If you see anything out of the ordinary, don’t fret, if all goes well it should just…

The folks at AnandTech reviewed two IONs which, due to XBMC’s VDPAU support, make decent platforms for cheap linux based HTPCs capable of playing HD content. A section which you might of particular interest is titled Ion Meets Linux: XBMC: What impressed me most about the XBMC experience on Ion was…

A few days ago I posted a trailer for the Surface skin which may or may not ever be completed. Today, XBMCG33K has unveiled a brand new video preview of Xperience, which is under heavy development, and I must say it’s looking great. Here’s what XBMCG33K had to say about the work in progress (No…