News

If you are curious about what sexy new features XBMC developers are (not sooo secretly) working on, you might find the following links to our forum enlightening: Please note that most of these threads are development discussions and should therefore be kept at a technical level! Webkit integration…

There is only one week remaining to vote in this years SourceForge Community Choice Awards. See the original announcement here. If you have not voted yet, please consider taking a moment to show your appreciation for XBMC Media Center. While you are there, check out the other categories as well,…

A primary goal of Team XBMC has always been to make the user experience as straightforward as possible. The theory goes that I should be able to accomplish nearly everything I want from within the XBMC interface.With that focus in mind, as some of you may know if you troll the message boards…

For a growing number of our loyal users, we’ve noticed that more and more of you are using the nfo managers to organize your movie database. The XBMC team has no problem with these programs, however we feel that many of you are overlooking one of XBMC’s most powerful features: the ability to…

As promised, here are some pictures of the NVIDIA ION box which were so kindly lent out to us during LinuxTag. Big thanks to NVIDIA for making this happen Before sending it back to NVIDIA (with a tear in my eye, wanted to keep it ) I gave it a quick testspin, since I didn’t get to play with it all…

This year, Team-XBMC held its annual XBMC Dev Con directly after LinuxTag in Berlin. We like to come together every now and then to meet face to face and discuss the state of things, the future of XBMC, and socialize a bit too. In attendance this time around were pike, chadoe, spiff, elupus,…

JezzX has been kind enough to announce the initial public release of his personal MediaStream mod, though the word “mod” hardly fits. It’s more of a fresh and modern take on an already great skin; usability has been greatly improved and many of the new XBMC features have been added in. Here are…

Yesterday we set the booth up, and now people are droping in. The ION box is playing 1080p stuff great, I am surely impressed. We even got to borrow a zotac booth Acer Aspire running XBMC for windows Ion box, compare to the apple-tv remote next to it Zotac box <3 (this one wants to go home with…

Remember a few weeks ago when you flocked in droves to cast your vote for XBMC Media Center to be eligible for SourceForge’s annual Community Choice Awards? You were at that time just voting to NOMINATE us as finalist candidate, and you did a great job at that so our thanks goes out to all of you.…

A very sought after feature for many in a media center application is the ability to banish these terrible optical disks, which every so often get scratches or never returned after lending them to friends, to your hard drive. While XBMC has been capable of ripping Audio CDs for a long time this…

With commit r21076, Media Flagging was added to XBMC’s main codebase. Full history and discussion can be seen here. Information for skinners is available here. Everyone be sure to thank CapnBry for his hard work. What does this bring to the table? When turned on (Video settings -> Extract media…

As promised in my previous post, TheUni and myself are trying to keep you informed about developments from within the XBMC community. To kick it off I’ve decided to pick one of XBMC’s most admired feature – it’s skinning engine. Thanks to the great work of many, foremost jmarshall, XBMC has the…

As we have already announced, XBMC is going to have a booth at LinuxTag in Berlin in 3 weeks time. We know we have the best looking media center, and with your help, we can have the best looking booth at the show as well! Our current thinking is to first plaster the entire booth in black to…

Author’s description (skunkm0nkee) The idea for the skin grew out of the feedback we got for the MediaStream skin. A lot of users seemed to want to make MediaStream pretty much transparent so that they could see the background images better. Since MediaStream was designed to focus on the media it…

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…