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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: It’s not a full port, nor is it planned to…

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…

Team-XBMC and The XBMC Project is proud to announce the release of XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1. XBox Media Center (XBMC) is an award winning, free and open source media player for the Xbox™ game-console. XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1 point-release source code has now been set in our CVS, and all XBMC users are…

Team-XBMC and The XBMC Project is proud to announce the release of XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0. XBox Media Center (XBMC) is an award winning, free and open source media player for the Xbox™ game-console. The XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0 point-release source code has now been set in our CVS. We consider that the…

hi all you translators out there, this tool is exclusively made for you. ;) since i (bobbin007) am one of the maintainers of the german language file, i thought it would be time to simplify the whole process of updating a language file a little. after a lot of pondering and hacking, i proudly…

the xbmc (xbox media center) project unfortunately missed the sign up for this years “google summer of code“, however if you have c language programming skills then you can still contribute indirectly by signing up for this years google summer of code and assisting the ffmpeg project. google is…

andy herbert has created an xbmc widget that enables os-x users to drag and drop links onto the widget, which then gets played back on an internet connected xbox running xbmc. check it out here thanks andy! xbmc forums discussion

maxconsole interviewed some of team xbmc members. in this interview you get to know that linksboks will be added to cvs after 2.0.0 has been finalized. you also learn that darkie plans to add even more feature’s to xbmc! (shocker) read interview here and here’s the forumdiscussion digg it!

2006 sourceforge.net community choice awards we won! thanks to you – our users, xbmc won best multimedia and also best game(!) category. prize: ‘bragging rights’ and the logo on our projectpage. and while i have your attention, we are in need of assistance to get our wiki manual “up to speed” for…

as you may already know, xbmc (xbox media center) is currently in a feature-freeze and bug-bash stage. we just now heard that we have been nominated for two categories in 2006 sourceforge.net community choice awards. these are the first annual sourceforge community awards; vote for osd (open source…

ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. we are happy to announce that we have once again put the official xbmc cvs into a feature freeze and thus our third official public bug-bash has begun. this is the first step in the process of getting ready for another ‘stable’ point release of xbmc. the cvs…

the day many of you have been waiting for has finally come; xbmc’s built-in dvd-player core is now officially open to the public for general usage. the new dvdplayer-core, which a few of our developers have been working on for almost a year has been enabled in our cvs and is of today the default…

2005-05-15 milkdrop was added to xbmc cvs. nullsoft kindly opensourced this awesome visualization 2005-05-04, and then it was just a matter of time until one of our devs ported it ;) here’s a screenshot captured using our built-in screenshot function, showing one of the 435 .milk presets currently…

quote from chokemaniac.net: i’ve come a long way :) many things happened in the past 12 months. when i started this site, i only wanted a couple of screenshots of the project mayhem skin and a download button. but critikill made soo much more out of it. thanks a lot out to you bud. hope your current…

the contest is now over. we would like to thank all who contributed in one way or another. the standard was very high, and we are really impressed with what you guys came up with. the 5 winners were easy to choose since 5 people entered the contest. each of the winners receive an x2vga-adapter each…

from chokemaniacs website: “it’s finally online. the new project mayhem website. it was about time to give it a general facelift. think it turned out pretty good. there’s plenty of new stuff to check out. new skins, updated gallery, news archive, wallpapers and much more to come. the man, who put…

from arddrive of xform.xbox-scene.com: “hi everyone, arddrive here at xform. i am please to announce that xform [an xbmc skinning tool] is now open source and i am looking for .net c# programmers to help work on xform to work on custom objects and fun stuff like that (you will need a good knowledge…

yesterday, an article with the headline “xbox enthusiasts uncover its versatility” (by daniel greenberg) was posted in the washington post technology section. the article basically informs its readers of the potential in unlocking the xbox to install xboxmediacenter, which makes the versatile xbox…

in an interview yesterday with cnet news.com bill gates outlined multimedia playback as one of microsoft’s primary goals with xbox 2; quote: “this whole story of the windows media connect and how all the formats and rights management and that simple media center menu that’s just got tv, photos…