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With the upcoming Atlantis release, we would like to ask for international users to help out by translating XBMC into your language or if it’s already translated, review and improve the current translation. Deadline for submitting these translations is the 25th of october. These two english…

On October the 15th an important conference on “The role of open standards and free software in bringing the choice of Net TV To Italians’ sofas” was held at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, see the event page for more information (and videos!). In that context I had the pleasure to present…

I’ve gotten numinous queries about when atvusb-creator will get released for the Windows platform. Rest assured, it’s in progress. I thought I would take a little time to explain the difficulties. First, Windows is really a goofy platform, it has almost no command-line tools that are of any use. Or…

XBMC Live Atlantis Beta2 has been released and is available at sourceforge! Main changes since last release: updated NVIDIA drivers, 177.78 enhanced XBMC Live creator, with bug fixes and new functionality such as install to hard disk. WARNING: THE CHOSEN DISK (HARD DISK or FLASH DISK) WILL BE…

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the second cross-platform Beta version of XBMC Media Center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming point release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis‘. New in this release is multi-core video decoding for Windows…

As a XBMC developer and as XBMC is now supported on multiple Ubuntu version (feisty, gutsy, hardy and Intrepid), you might sometimes want to compile on another system than the one you are running on. This article is to help you doing that without reinstalling your whole system. For this you will use…

Yes sir, that’s correct. XBMC for Mac runs on the AppleTV and get this, it’s under the native AppleTV OS that you can launch right from FrontRow. Pretty cool. I do have give great thanks to Stephan Diederich for his absolutely brilliant work on the AppleTV plugin XBMC Launcher with install/update…

Just wanted to make it aware to skinners (and people wanting to tweak keymap.xml) that it is possible since beta1 to controll power management through actions. The usefull commands are: XBMC.Shutdown() – Will trigger your default behaviour (setup in settings -> system) XBMC.Quit() – Will quit XBMC…

XBMC for Mac – Atlantis Beta 1, includes two new plugins that allow users to access their organized media in iTunes and iPhoto from within XBMC. (Both released under GPL, see update at the end of this post) iTunes The iTunes plugin is in the Music section. To start using it, you need to first…

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the first cross-platform Beta version of XBMC media center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming stable release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis’. There are three important news items associated with this release: The…

Pondering one would have XBMC and iPhone, wouldn’t that little touchscreen make a good remote? Narcan made one, but is it all a pipe dream or could it be the remote of the future? In a nutshell the remote is doing querys to XBMC’s webserver and displays the result in a neat fashion, but if we skip…

Just a quick post of gratitude for all the bug reports we’ve had over the last month or so. Without your great support at testing things out and taking the time to narrow down and get any issues reproducible, XBMC wouldn’t be as great as it is now. As you can see, we’ve been busy tackling these…

I was recently looking into the fade effect on OS X which happens when you switch from windowed mode to full screen and vice versa. I thought it’d be better if it only faded the effected display, so I started looking into a great example from Apple. There was an issue though. After retrieving the…

I long suspected something to not be 100% correct with Intel’s Linux drivers for Graphics, so before this weekend I set out to do some benchmarking. Here’s what happened before: I chatted briefly with people in #Intel-gfx on FREENODE earlier this week, understandably they thought I was bitching, I…

I was testing some smartplaylists out from some bug reports, and found that the same query was performed significantly faster in SQLiteSpy than in XBMC on the same machine. The performance was an order of magnitude slower in XBMC than it was in SQLiteSpy, and we actually use a newer version of…

Thought I should slip my tongue a bit… Been working on a new installer script that will replace xbmcscripts.com installer. This new one will be a total addons manager, meaning: install/uninstall of addons – plugins, scripts, skins (to start with, later on maybe extend it to skinmods, soundpacks…

Due to the great feedback from Alpha 3 users in terms of bug reports, many of which have already been fixed, Team-XBMC have released the latest Alpha version of XBMC for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Xbox. This is the last in a series of alpha releases in preparation for the upcoming stable release…

Many of the latest skins for XBMC are now supporting the recently added XBMC feature that is FanArt backdrops. Skins such as Aeon, Focus, MediaStream, and even the default Project Mayhem III, all feature FanArt backdrop support. We think that FanArt really enhances the look and feel of XBMC skins…

Development to port XBMC for Linux to PPC (PowerPC) have begun by third-party developers and source code patches for that is available, however these developers are only focusing on XBMC for Linux, not XBMC for Mac (and no one on Team-XBMC even own a PowerPC based Mac), thus additional third-party…

Are there anyone out there who would like to volunteers to help us make “XBMC Portable” for us, a PortableApps.com USB Edition of XBMC for Windows? PortableApps.com works similar to U3, the main difference is that PortableApps.com is free and open source , and it also works with any with any…