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Feed Engadget: XBMC 9.11 'Camelot' now available for download, huge changelog in tow (engadget.com)

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Frankly, we haven't heard much noise coming from the XBMC camp in quite some time. All that changes today, as the project has just launched its latest major update in v9.11. The so-called Camelot build is now available for download on Windows, OS X and Linux, with the most notable changes including a revamped user interface, DirectX support by default in Windows, a "complete reorganization of the settings menus, automatic video information extraction, and smoother video playback." You'll also find updated scrapers, expanded remote control support and updated codecs. Tap that source link for the download and condensed changelog -- though, we should caution you that the live installer seems to be causing issues for some, so try and stay positive, okay?

XBMC 9.11 'Camelot' now available for download, huge changelog in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Comment Re:does anyone still use it? (Score 3, Informative) 329

by TheUni (#30029526) Attached to: MythTV 0.22 Released

All fair points.

For one, you are correct about the Live TV support. One of the benefits of having such a large community is that we get a multitude of third-party plugins, scripts, skins, etc. That is also a problem in itself though, because they are often half-finished and poorly implemented. The MythTV frontend is such an example, though it has recently been picked up an greatly improved by our own dtierney.

The DVR rewrite is much more than that, it is an entire add-on framework that makes development more modular. It is being designed as a 'pvr-frontend' solution, one that you can hookup to one of many backends. There's no reason to rewrite what's already been done.

Your baby is ugly too! Really, though, the XBMC skinning engine is so powerful that simply diving in and changing a few things isn't exactly easy. That's also why we've drawn the interests of so many talented skinners and modders, the possibilities are endless. So it's a trade-off.

Currently Live TV certainly isn't what XBMC is known for, but it certainly excels as the face of your media library. We hope to improve that as time goes.

Sorry to hijack. Congratulations to the Myth devs on your release.

TheUni

Submission + - XBMC running on ARM Processor (xbmc.org)

Submitted by TheUni
TheUni writes: XBMC's ARM support is improving quickly, as it is seen here running on a BeagleBoard. Even more impressive, the rendering is done via OpenGL ES 2.0.
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Submission + - XBMC 9.04 'Babylon' Released

Submitted by Pvt_Ryan
Pvt_Ryan writes: XBMC 9.04 'Babylon' was released today.

Among the many new features in XBMC 9.04:
  • PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X,
  • VDPAU (NVIDIA GPU Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Linux),
  • updated Codecs,
  • new Karaoke features,
  • more Media Info Scrapers,
  • improved FanArt support,
  • enhancements to the XBMC Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful.

For the full list of what is new in this version of XBMC please see the 9.04 milestone on trac.

Software

Submission + - XBMC Babylon 9.04 includes VDPAU support (xbmc.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The latest stable release of the cross platform media center, XBMC, includes support for VDPAU acceleration in Linux, allowing it to take advantage of GPU assisting decoding for video. The release also adds PPC support on Mac OS X, for old timers, and host of other improvements including new Karakoe features, enhancements to the skinning engine (a showcase of which can be seen in this video of the Aeon Stark skin), support for more codecs, etc. It's now available for grabs here.
Software

Submission + - Suggested interview with XBMC Team (xbmc.org)

Submitted by
TheUni
TheUni writes: "Team XBMC is preparing to release the next major version of the media center program to coincide roughly with Ubuntu 9.04. I've spoken with some of the developers and project managers, and they are up for an interview about the current status and future plans/goals/suggestions. Slashdot seems to have a relatively large following of XBMC users, and so it should garner a reasonable response.

If interested please contact the team at contact@xbmc.org (pike, the project manager monitors that address). However, note that the interview should be conducted shortly after the final release of Xbmc "Babylon" 9.04, sometime in the coming weeks.

TheUni"
AMD

Submission + - AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code (phoronix.com)

Submitted by lldmer
lldmer writes: Phoronix has reported AMD released open source code for 3D acceleration on R600/700 GPU's:

Since earlier this year we have been waiting for AMD to release documentation and/or code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. It has taken longer than expected for AMD to complete and release this information, but it's now available. AMD has released the fundamental Linux code needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. Furthermore, this code also concerns the latest R700 series of graphics processors! The microcode for the newest GPUs has also been released.

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