News with the Tag: Community

XBMCG33K from Team Blackbolt posted this teaser for the upcoming Xperience skin today. He also revealed at the end of the video (spoiler alert!) that they plan on releasing a public beta on Christmas weekend. Thanks to team Blackbolt for the hard work. Check out the video and see the forum thread…

logoLately the XBMC project has picked up a few new sponsors. Others will be announced as we begin taking advantage of their services. First on the list is Bytemark. See them in our footer down there? They have been nice enough to give us a fancy server at their hosting facility in Manchester for us…

XBMC has gone a long way since its first stable release in 2004. It has evolved from a xbox only application into a sleek cross platform media center that runs on almost anything you throw it at. XBMC has thousands of users, is the mother of many successful derivative projects and commercial spin…

Here’s a quick teaser for those of you who dream of using XBMC on a low-powered ARM platform some day. Our very own McGeagh briefly demonstrates XBMC running on the BeagleBoard using OpenGL ES 2.0 and even manages the obligatory playback of everyone’s favorite: Big Buck Bunny. This is still in early…

screenshot home pageIt’s kinda funny, you would think building your skin upon an existing one (PM3.HD in my case) will save you a lot of time, compared to building it from scratch. But some time after the the initial work is done and released, you realize the skin still resembles the the original…

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…

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…

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…

Our very own Scott Davilla and Jonathan Marshall were recently interviewed by Leo Laporte and Randall Schwartz for the show FLOSS Weekly on TWiT.tv The recorded show is now available for download, or for streaming from https://twit.tv/floss57, so pop over there and hear Scott and Jonathan discuss…

Did you know that XBMC has its own official fan page on Facebook where fans around the world can show their support of XBMC Media Center software? Now you to can become a fan of XBMC on Facebook, post fan photos and videos or post a review, and tell all your friends of the best free and cross-port…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

we are happy to announce that we have now once again put the xboxmediacenter cvs in a feature freeze and our second official xbmc public bug bash have begun, which is the first steps in the process of getting ready for another stable point release of xbmc. the cvs feature freeze stage implies that…

the winners of the xbmc skinning contest has now been finalized, but first we like to offer a public apology for our delay in this decision, (we had some copyright issues to sort out and real-life/work stuff came up too that had to be dealt with first). 15 out the 20 submitted entries has been…

we are glad to announce the xboxmediacenter projects official online merchandise store open. the store is hosted by cafepress and offers xbmc merchandise such as t-shirt’s, hooded shirts, mugs and a few other goodies, all with the official xbmc logos (courtesy of tamper). currently the store is a…

Note: As of 2021-03-07, the links and media mentioned here are no longer available. This post is maintained for historical purposes only without any of the links or associated media. tamper has finalized the official xboxmediacenter logo and these are the two main logos: missing logos Please…

the last submission date for our xbmc audio visualization competition has now passed and six valid entries was received. since we had ten prize positions all six entries are winners and will each be awarded with a final version of the xecuter-3 modchip courtesy of team-xecuter. know that we are…