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For those who are picky about “judder” or jerky playback due to the difference in video source and display FPS, your screams have been heard. Play around with the new settings to find your favorite, you’ll find them in the “player” section of the video options. Be careful not to give yourself a…

A few bugs managed to slip into the XBMC Media Center 9.04 (Babylon) final release, so we decided to do a quick update. This maintenance release addresses those glaring Babylon issues as well as some other things that we have fixed since. No new features are present here, this is strictly a bug fix…

Boys and Gals By now you’ve probably realized that XBMC developer’s aren’t into doggies or other unrelated BS that gets them distracted from their key goal – polishing, continuously improving and delivering the finest media center application to its users. What you might have missed is that XBMC…

I’m currently reviewing the video library in order to make it far more flexible, as well as making it easier to use. The first thing I’m evaluating is just what sort of heirarchy is required for Movies and TV shows. Our current heirarchy gives Genre, Actor, Director, Year, and Studio nodes in…

nVidia have been kind enough to loan one of our devs (motd2k) an ION reference box that we can use to showcase XBMC at Linuxtag. It has what appears to be an Atom 230 processor, so compilation of XBMC took just over an hour, but thanks to hardware accelerated video decoding, performance while…

With the nice new background loading textures, complete with their own crossfading and so on, it made sense to rewrite the multiimage control to make use of this. Previously the multiimage control generated however many image controls it needed and did all the fading, texture loading and sizing…

It is almost time for this years SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards (CCA). This is the forth annual SourceForge CCA, back in year 2006 XBMC Media Center won two categories; “best multimedia project” and “best game project”. If you are a registered user on SourceForge.net (registration is free…

Another couple of nice changes have hit SVN for you skinners. There’s been a bug fixed in the large texture manager (that handles background loading of images) – it used to wait up to a second between loading images, which meant you couldn’t really use them in situations where you needed a lot of…

Just thought I’d comment on a nice recently added feature. ubikdood did up a nice patch that gave a popup slider dialog, similar to the seek bar and volume bar, when the audio and subtitle delays were adjusted, to give nice, visual feedback as you adjust these settings directly via a keypress…

Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon b1 As in the previous releases I need to anticipate that NVIDIA and ATI/AMD users may have to struggle to have a working setup, but that’s a limitation of the restricted drivers not being tolerant interms of configuration files. Les’t…

Hot on the heals of the Alpha 1 release, and some 350 code fixes later, the first (and only?) Beta release of XBMC Media Center 9.04 (codename: Babylon) is now available. New in this Beta 1 release is support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Mac under Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), thanks to…

For the upcoming release of XBMC 9.04 Babylon, we really need to get the following languages up to date or if you can translate into a language not currently supported by XBMC it would be great. There are two files that needs translations, XBMC language file and the translation for PM3.HD skin…

Just a quick note to let you all know that Alpha 1 builds of XBMC 9.04 are now available. New in this release, among many things, is experimental hardware acceleration on Linux via VDPAU for recent NVIDIA graphics chipsets care of motd2k, reworked internal path system to remove dependency on legacy…

Giuliano Maciocci has posted an interview with our own Jonathan Marshall over at brave little meme. Q: Let’s talk a little about XBMC itself. What would you say separates it from other media centre and HTPC software? JM: The biggest thing for me are that it’s completely opensource – both in terms of…

Have you ever wanted to upgrade your system from your couch, not being forced to SSH in on your XBMC Live and do the long whinded sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade process? I have, and finally after some troublesome python learning I finally made a script that does just this! Basically you…

Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 8.10.2b1 This BETA release has to be considered as a total fresh start, since not only it is based on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10.2), but also because I used a fresh, updated installation of the build tool. It also marks the start to a new approach: I…

As a follow up to my last post, scripters and plugin writers should be aware of the best practises for accessing files under python: Don’t use the old Q:, P:, T:, U:, Z: paths. Replace these with their special:// counterparts below. Use xbmc.translatePath() to translate any path to it’s true path if…

Hi – long time since my last blog – I’ve been too busy with real life stuff, not to mention XBMC related activities! This post is to detail the rather boring, but very important path cleanup work that WiSo and I have just completed. As a remnant from the xbox days, XBMC used 5 internal DOS based…

Good news to all translators out there. rwparris2 (most of the coding) and myself (ideas and small coding) has done a conversion script that allows us to take use of the i18n format used on launchpad.net. This script is still in early beta and not open to the public yet. Will post another blogpost…