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XBMC media center was nominated as a finalist in this years SourceForge Community Choice Awards (CCA) in no less than seven categories, including “Most Likely to Change the World” (awarded to Linux) and “Best Project for Multimedia” (awarded to VLC). The winners were announced at a party held as…

The Telematics Freedom Foundation is currently sponsoring a study about state of the art Media Center projects in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community; “We picked the 10 most prominent FOSS Media Center projects out there and we’re now collecting information about their features,…

With our recent move to host the xbmc.org website on our own webserver, Team-XBMC have now also taken steps to setup our own tracker-system for XBMC using Trac. Consequently, our previous trackers, which were hosted on SourceForge, has been closed and all bugs, patches and feature request tickets…

Team-XBMC have received news that the XBMC media center project has been nominated as finalist in the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards (CCA) in no less than seven categories. This is the third annual SourceForge CCA – in the first year XBMC won two of the categories (“best multimedia…

Due to the recent surge of downloads I see the need to reveal some details of the next release that will come out in June: XBMC will be upgradeable via the official XBMC PPAs! it will automount all local hard disk partition it will support writing to NTFS via NTFS-3G it will include a boot menu…

XBMC DEV CON 2008 will be the first event in which the Team-XBMC developers get a chance to get together face-to-face, meet and greet, discuss XBMC, and maybe get a little coding done as well. After 6 years and with so many users, it is time for the Team-XBMC programmers to get out of the IRC…

Sorry about that, I haven’t been able to blog about any updates in a while, someone came wrong with the system. Hopefully I can keep you all up to date on my workings. Stay tuned for the next release! In the meanwhile keep in mind that these instructions cover LiveXBMC-V1 and are missing some bits…

Elan Fieldgold, a developer on Team-XBMC who was working on the Mac OS X port of XBMC have decided to fork) our XBMC for Mac version and go out on his own, quiet the XBMC project, and start a new project with its own community for his fork fork. There have been differences in priorities between…

XBMC is participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC), which means that we are looking for creative college students who are skilled in the C++ programming language and would be interesting in getting paid by Google to work on new features for XBMC this summer. Google is this year…

Help wanted from Mac OS X programmers! As you may or may not know, back in May last year a few developers from Team-XBMC began porting the XBMC media-player application to Linux (and OpenGL using the SDL toolkit), with the goal of it someday becoming a full port of XBMC containing all the features…

I have been experimenting with the creation of bootable flash disk under Windows since it is not a trivial process and I have not identified a simple and effective tool doing the job. There may be several variants, but this one works and it’s easy to describe. You must be logged as local…

Support for Intel GPUs – (XBMC requires high-end GPU) DHCP on eth0 enabled FTP and SSH servers automatically started, FTP needs configuring lircd included, not configured. ivman included (removable media auto-mounting) cool XBMC usplash theme (courtesy of Duduke) General info Requires 512 MB USB…

A forum member, Duduke, kindly provided a killer usplash theme for LiveXBMC. Get the source package from Sourceforge!

This brand new website has been developed by Granqvist and co-developed by DarkDonno. Chokemaniac made the graphics. It’s been in development for 2 years, and it’s “mostly” finished. Much content is unpolished, incidentally this was why we requested a ‘content master’ a while back, but we never got…

We the members of The XBMC Project hope you all have a great holiday, (no matter if you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa), we wish everyone a happy new year! The XBMC (XBox Media Center) Project will of course continue on next year, hopefully stronger than ever with another platform…

Freelance writer Joel Johnson recently did and interview with representatives from Team-XBMC for Boing Boing Gadget blog about the Future of XBMC for Linux. From the interview: [I]“Joel: How close do you feel you are to a stable version of the XBMC for Linux port? (And by stable I mean “easy enough…

Team-XBMC has just received news that the XBMC (Xbox Media Center) project has been nominated as a SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards (CCA) finalist in no less than six categories. This is the second annual SourceForge CCA – last year the XBMC project won two of the categories; “best…

Help wanted: As you may or may not have heard, a few developers on Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to Linux and OpenGL using the SDL toolkit. The goal is for this to become a full port of XBMC containing all the features and functions available in the Xbox version of XBMC. This is a huge…

A little over a month ago, I was away from home without the xbox and still wanted to get some development done. To solve this problem, I decided to port parts of XBMC to the PC. Now, before everyone starts getting too excited, let’s make some things clear: 1. It’s not a full port, nor is it planned…

Team XBMC is in the process of moving our support channel (#XBMC on EFnet) across to the Freenode IRC network. This is to bring us in line with other similar applications (such as MediaPortal) and also because it’s lower maintenance for the ops. Everyone is encouraged to move to Freenode (#XBMC) as…