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Neat and Clean… and Swedish!

If you’re looking for clean lines and an elegant use of color and lighting, one need look no further than the living room of Nik from Sweden. Nik's Place Nik was one of the very first people to post his setup on the XBMC Facebook Fanpage. Ever since then, after convincing him to let us crash at his…

Nathan Betzen

August 26, 2011·3 min read

Deep Dive 

August 2011 Hardware Guide

As time goes by, it becomes more and more evident that an incredibly expensive computer is not necessary to run an adequate version of XBMC. In fact, assuming you have a server somewhere else in the house that hosts your media, the cost of running XBMC on a modern machine is actually beginning to…

Nathan Betzen

August 15, 2011·5 min read

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Feature Friday: 24 Terabytes of awesome

This is Micah’s gaming PC. Gaming PC says hi Often, Micah will play a few quick hours of Star Trek Online with his gaming PC. Naturally, this means he needs some serious processor power, which is why the PC is equipped with a Core i7 3.06GHz quad-core processor and a GTX 470 video card, along with…

Nathan Betzen

August 05, 2011·3 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: XBMC Pres Jonathan Marshall

This is Jonathan Marshall. He’s a New Zealander and the president of the XBMC Foundation, and right now he’s standing in his crawl space. You may note the lack of a floor in his house. Jonathan Marshall in his 2 feet deep basement Jonathan has been with the XBMC Team longer than almost anybody…

Nathan Betzen

July 15, 2011·4 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: Pure Imagination

Hold your breath Make a wish Count to three Where the Magic Happens Come with me to the home of Lutz, one of our Germany XBMC users. Lutz’s home doesn’t have a bat cave or any other kind of man cave. There are no super creative touch screens or repurposed upstairs bedrooms. In fact, the intro to…

Nathan Betzen

July 08, 2011·3 min read

Community 

What’s Going On: Solstice Edition

As it’s been a little while since the Team’s taken a look around the community, it seems high time to do just that. TV Logos (extra credit if you can name all 5 shows on the screen in the comments) First off, chances are, if you’ve used a modern skin that isn’t Confluence, you’ve had the…

Nathan Betzen

June 21, 2011·3 min read

Developer 

Working with dirty regions

Some of you may remember that back in 2010, Tobias (topfs2) began working on a GSOC project to improve XBMC performance on the BeagleBoard. Many optimizations came out of this project, but the most ambitious feature was dirty region rendering. The short of it is that a major chunk of dirty-region…

Cory

June 18, 2011·3 min read

Community 

And without further ado…

A bit over a month ago, Team XBMC started a mascot contest that resulted in a 49 page thread in our forum, so many amazing Mascot contestants that we had to push back the results to get the best vote we could within the team, and quite a few new avatars and forum signatures. In total, there were…

Nathan Betzen

June 16, 2011·1 min read

Community 

Contest results delayed - just a little

Hey all, this is only a brief note. As you know, we are currently hosting a contest for a new XBMC mascot, and the results of that contest were supposed to be finished and announced today. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our community went absolutely above and beyond the call of duty and submitted…

Nathan Betzen

June 13, 2011·1 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: XBMC, easy as 1-2-3

For this week’s Feature Friday, we turn to AJ Perkins of the UK. AJ has a pretty awesome living room setup, but this week we’d like to take a break from just telling you about how awesome the various homes of users are. Instead, I’d like to ask you to bring a loved one over to the computer. That’s…

Nathan Betzen

June 09, 2011·4 min read

Community 

XBMC Statistics

As a group, Team XBMC has been curious for quite some time about how popular the website and XBMC actually are with the general population. I know many users have also asked similar questions. This post is intended answer a lot of those questions. My apologies if that makes it run fairly long.…

Team XBMC

June 01, 2011·6 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: Spending Money to Save Money

Jon Barrow is married with four children. An average trip to the movie theater for a family of that size would require two $10 tickets, plus four $8 tickets. That’s $42 $52 before the candy, popcorn, and soda. Most times, they have to leave the youngest with a sitter, as the little one is still too…

Nathan Betzen

May 19, 2011·4 min read

Conferences 

Reporting from LinuxTag

We have been attending LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany since wednesday the 11th. As always it has been a great experience and we have meet a lot of interested people, both current users and hopefully new users. As you can see, we have been pretty busy demonstrating the system, most people have been…

Team XBMC

May 13, 2011·1 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: Doubling Up Halfway Around the World

A US service member was living in Great Falls, MT. When the military reassigned him to a base in Turkey, he was met with the unenviable task of trying to squeeze all of the home theater equipment that easily fit is his old house into a much smaller military home halfway across the world. XBMC in…

Nathan Betzen

May 05, 2011·3 min read

Community 

Mascot Contest

Team XBMC is interested in finding a mascot for XBMC. To that end, we have decided to have a competition in which you, the user, can submit drawings for what you think an ideal mascot would be. Can you make the XBMC Mascot? The winner will receive a Nyxboard Hybrid Remote and an OpenELEC HTPC with…

Nathan Betzen

May 01, 2011·2 min read

Developer 

Updated add-on repository for nightly users

For those of you using unstable or nightly builds, you will soon notice a change in available add-ons at the xbmc.org repository. Dharma users shouldn’t fret as nothing changes for stable add-ons. With each new version of XBMC, there are sure to be changes that require add-on authors to make…

Team XBMC

April 28, 2011·2 min read

Community 

Feature Friday BIG SCREEN small room

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…

Nathan Betzen

April 21, 2011·4 min read

Community, Developer 

What’s going on around the community remotes, skins, and addons

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…

Nathan Betzen

April 19, 2011·3 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: The Kitchen Hi-Fi

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…

Nathan Betzen

April 14, 2011·3 min read

Conferences 

See us at LinuxTag

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…

Team XBMC

April 11, 2011·1 min read

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All News653Community Updates176Conferences56Deep Dive14DevCon33Developer Updates129Prerelease Announcements138Release Announcements66April Fools7

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Community 

Neat and Clean… and Swedish!

If you’re looking for clean lines and an elegant use of color and lighting, one need look no further than the living room of Nik from Sweden. Nik's Place Nik was one of the very first people to post his setup on the XBMC Facebook Fanpage. Ever since then, after convincing him to let us crash at his…

Nathan Betzen

August 26, 2011·3 min read

Deep Dive 

August 2011 Hardware Guide

As time goes by, it becomes more and more evident that an incredibly expensive computer is not necessary to run an adequate version of XBMC. In fact, assuming you have a server somewhere else in the house that hosts your media, the cost of running XBMC on a modern machine is actually beginning to…

Nathan Betzen

August 15, 2011·5 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: 24 Terabytes of awesome

This is Micah’s gaming PC. Gaming PC says hi Often, Micah will play a few quick hours of Star Trek Online with his gaming PC. Naturally, this means he needs some serious processor power, which is why the PC is equipped with a Core i7 3.06GHz quad-core processor and a GTX 470 video card, along with…

Nathan Betzen

August 05, 2011·3 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: XBMC Pres Jonathan Marshall

This is Jonathan Marshall. He’s a New Zealander and the president of the XBMC Foundation, and right now he’s standing in his crawl space. You may note the lack of a floor in his house. Jonathan Marshall in his 2 feet deep basement Jonathan has been with the XBMC Team longer than almost anybody…

Nathan Betzen

July 15, 2011·4 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: Pure Imagination

Hold your breath Make a wish Count to three Where the Magic Happens Come with me to the home of Lutz, one of our Germany XBMC users. Lutz’s home doesn’t have a bat cave or any other kind of man cave. There are no super creative touch screens or repurposed upstairs bedrooms. In fact, the intro to…

Nathan Betzen

July 08, 2011·3 min read

Community 

What’s Going On: Solstice Edition

As it’s been a little while since the Team’s taken a look around the community, it seems high time to do just that. TV Logos (extra credit if you can name all 5 shows on the screen in the comments) First off, chances are, if you’ve used a modern skin that isn’t Confluence, you’ve had the…

Nathan Betzen

June 21, 2011·3 min read

Developer 

Working with dirty regions

Some of you may remember that back in 2010, Tobias (topfs2) began working on a GSOC project to improve XBMC performance on the BeagleBoard. Many optimizations came out of this project, but the most ambitious feature was dirty region rendering. The short of it is that a major chunk of dirty-region…

Cory

June 18, 2011·3 min read

Community 

And without further ado…

A bit over a month ago, Team XBMC started a mascot contest that resulted in a 49 page thread in our forum, so many amazing Mascot contestants that we had to push back the results to get the best vote we could within the team, and quite a few new avatars and forum signatures. In total, there were…

Nathan Betzen

June 16, 2011·1 min read

Community 

Contest results delayed - just a little

Hey all, this is only a brief note. As you know, we are currently hosting a contest for a new XBMC mascot, and the results of that contest were supposed to be finished and announced today. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our community went absolutely above and beyond the call of duty and submitted…

Nathan Betzen

June 13, 2011·1 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: XBMC, easy as 1-2-3

For this week’s Feature Friday, we turn to AJ Perkins of the UK. AJ has a pretty awesome living room setup, but this week we’d like to take a break from just telling you about how awesome the various homes of users are. Instead, I’d like to ask you to bring a loved one over to the computer. That’s…

Nathan Betzen

June 09, 2011·4 min read

Community 

XBMC Statistics

As a group, Team XBMC has been curious for quite some time about how popular the website and XBMC actually are with the general population. I know many users have also asked similar questions. This post is intended answer a lot of those questions. My apologies if that makes it run fairly long.…

Team XBMC

June 01, 2011·6 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: Spending Money to Save Money

Jon Barrow is married with four children. An average trip to the movie theater for a family of that size would require two $10 tickets, plus four $8 tickets. That’s $42 $52 before the candy, popcorn, and soda. Most times, they have to leave the youngest with a sitter, as the little one is still too…

Nathan Betzen

May 19, 2011·4 min read

Conferences 

Reporting from LinuxTag

We have been attending LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany since wednesday the 11th. As always it has been a great experience and we have meet a lot of interested people, both current users and hopefully new users. As you can see, we have been pretty busy demonstrating the system, most people have been…

Team XBMC

May 13, 2011·1 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: Doubling Up Halfway Around the World

A US service member was living in Great Falls, MT. When the military reassigned him to a base in Turkey, he was met with the unenviable task of trying to squeeze all of the home theater equipment that easily fit is his old house into a much smaller military home halfway across the world. XBMC in…

Nathan Betzen

May 05, 2011·3 min read

Community 

Mascot Contest

Team XBMC is interested in finding a mascot for XBMC. To that end, we have decided to have a competition in which you, the user, can submit drawings for what you think an ideal mascot would be. Can you make the XBMC Mascot? The winner will receive a Nyxboard Hybrid Remote and an OpenELEC HTPC with…

Nathan Betzen

May 01, 2011·2 min read

Developer 

Updated add-on repository for nightly users

For those of you using unstable or nightly builds, you will soon notice a change in available add-ons at the xbmc.org repository. Dharma users shouldn’t fret as nothing changes for stable add-ons. With each new version of XBMC, there are sure to be changes that require add-on authors to make…

Team XBMC

April 28, 2011·2 min read

Community 

Feature Friday BIG SCREEN small room

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…

Nathan Betzen

April 21, 2011·4 min read

Community, Developer 

What’s going on around the community remotes, skins, and addons

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…

Nathan Betzen

April 19, 2011·3 min read

Community 

Feature Friday: The Kitchen Hi-Fi

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…

Nathan Betzen

April 14, 2011·3 min read

Conferences 

See us at LinuxTag

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…

Team XBMC

April 11, 2011·1 min read
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