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- Kodi 22 "Piers" RC 1Announcing the first release candidate of Kodi 22 "Piers"! Since leaving beta, we've been focusing on fixing reported issues and polishing new features. Now, we feel like we've reached the final state we want to ship for v22. We're still tracking a few bugs, but these are mostly
- Kodi 22 "Piers" Beta 2Announcing the second Beta release of Kodi 22 "Piers"! A lot of polish has come together for the features added in Beta 1. HDR support is drastically improved, including HDR screenshots. International language support is also improved, especially for JSON-RPC consumers. And if
- Kodi 22 "Piers" Beta 1Announcing the first Beta release of Kodi 22 "Piers"! As we move from the Alpha to the Beta stage of the release cycle, the team is happy with the significant number of features and improvements that have come together for v22. Now, the focus becomes stability and performance,
- Kodi 22 "Piers" Alpha 3Announcing the release of Kodi 22 "Piers" Alpha 3! Usual words - the step from 21 to 22 is a major release, but it's also an Alpha at this stage, so you're going to get some bugs as well as funky new features. That is, of course, a major part of the point of early release soft
- DevCon 2026 - Barcelona Revisited - Part IISo, here we are, back in the room after a day of sidebar meetings, coding, hacking, experimenting, and general conferencing. Time for some more structured sessions, starting with some of our partner projects. Chewitt started us off with an overview of Libre
- DevCon 2026 - Barcelona Revisited - Part IWell, hello everyone! It's that time of year again, when your favourite development team rouse themselves from their long winter slumber and emerge, blinking in the light, to reconnect with their fellow creatures. Welcome to DevCon 2026! We're coming to you
- Scheduled Maintenance: 12th/13th January, 2026UPDATE 15 Jan 18:00 UTC: The hosting provider has fixed some faulty RAM in one of the systems, and also resolved an issue in network configuration. Normality has now been resumed; thank you for your patience. --- UPDATE 13 Jan 19:00 UTC: The servers didn
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- Kodi 22 "Piers" Alpha 2It is the season for giving, so, for those who want the latest and greatest, this is for you: hot on the heels of Kodi 22 "Piers" Alpha 1 (and Kodi 21.3 "Omega"), we present the perhaps predictably-titled Alpha 2. Usual words - the step from 21 to 22 is a major release, but it
- Kodi 21.3 "Omega" - ReleaseThe more observant of you will have noticed that we've had some issues getting this version out to everyone, so some of you will have received this already depending on what channel you use (Flatpak, Google Play, winget community repos...). No matter, it's here for everyon
- Kodi 22 "Piers" Alpha 1So, here we go once again - development (and developers) never actually sleep, so we're pleased to present the first public preview of our next significant release: Kodi v22, "Piers". This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, it is
- Meet the Sponsor: Oregon State University Open Source LabIMPORTANT UPDATE, 30th April While we were proofreading this post and getting ready to publish it, we became aware of some terrible news: the OSUOSL is in very real danger of closing down at the end of this year due to recent funding changes,
- DevCon 2025 - Tirana - Part IIIDay Three dawns. We have a compressed schedule today before we break for individual workshops/breakouts - plus some people will be leaving us early in order to get home - so let's get to work. neo1973 opened the day with a discussion about merge policies, specifically
- DevCon 2025 - Tirana - Part II... and we're back! The skies are blue, the sun is shining, we're fed and refreshed, yet we're locked in a darkened, overly-warm, windowless room for today's session. The privations we suffer for our art; you really have no idea. Let's get to it, then - welcome to DevCo
- DevCon 2025 - Tirana - Part I Is this thing on? Yes, it is, and so it's time to once again introduce the highlight of the Kodi year - friends and fellow travellers, welcome to DevCon 2025! This year we're coming to you from Tirana in Albania (or Tiranë in Shqipëri in the local language†). A country
- Kodi 21.2 "Omega" - Release\UPDATE FOR WINDOWS USERS: If you're experiencing crashes since this update was released, please read the note at the end of this post about updating your Visual C++ runtime. New Year, New Kodi? Not quite, but here we go with the next point release of the 21.x "Omega" seri
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- The Kodi Foundation: Who We Are, What We DoSo, a slightly different topic for a change. We talk a lot about the Kodi software, its development and releases, and that's fine, as that's what we're all about and that's what everyone ultimately sees. However, we thought we'd change the subject a little
- Flirc Case for Raspberry Pi 5 - Kodi EditionTeam Flirc and Team Kodi are thrilled to introduce the newly designed Flirc Raspberry Pi 5 Case, Kodi Edition. Available now! Our journey began with a host of ideas that we transformed into a crowdsourcing poll on the Kodi forums. The community chose from
- Kodi 21.1 "Omega" - ReleaseOkay, a late announcement - apologies, you can blame the summer holiday season. Or, if it's easier, you can just blame me as the bloke with the keyboard, that works equally well. Either way, many of you will already have noticed this, but, in case you haven't ... Team Kodi
- Names Have PowerThis is a little later in the development cycle than would normally be the case, but I'm sure you'll understand why. It's traditional, as we move towards the release of a new version of Kodi, to begin the process of naming what will become its successor. In recent years, "Leia" gave
- A Tribute to Estuary Developer and Kodi Team Member, PiersIn 2015, Kodi’s default theme Confluence was growing long in the tooth. Most of the really exciting skins from that time accomplished far more, and Confluence was ultimately a 2009 update to an existing skin called MediaStream that was itself
- The Sun Sets on Python 2Recently, Team Kodi proudly released Kodi v21 "Omega", the latest major release of our popular media centre software. Our longevity and popularity means that Kodi is installed on literally millions of devices worldwide. For a range of reasons, not all of them are capable of s
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" - ReleaseIt's time! We are very pleased to present the latest and greatest release of Kodi, v21.0 "Omega". With this release we have seen over 3,750 commits since v20.0 "Nexus" was available to the world on January 15th, 2023. As always, this has been a huge effort from many contri
- Over a Year Late, A Dollar Short - More Than Two Decades of Kodi!Hi, everyone - I'm Keith, and while I now find myself President of the Kodi Foundation, my initial involvement with Kodi goes way back, as a humble user. Since our 20th anniversary came and went, I've been meaning to write a bit of a l
- Ubuntu Team-Kodi PPA Officially RetiredThe Team Kodi PPA has long been a staple for Ubuntu (and similar) users wishing to use more recent, and less adulterated, versions of Kodi. It is with sadness that the team has come to a decision to officially retire the PPA due to the overhead of maintaining i
- DevCon 2024 - Budapest - Part IIGood morning, dear reader (okay, "readers" - I'll be generous, and assume there's more than one of you!). It's a beautiful day, the skies are an endless sea of blue, the forecast is a congenial 20℃ spring day - and we're back in a sealed room, and ready to get going w
- DevCon 2024 - Budapest - Part IIITime flies, and we're already at the third and final day of DevCon 2024. We'll be losing people today as they head home, which will shorten events; additionally, most of the day is scheduled for the inevitable people-sitting-together-and-hacking-code later today, whi
- DevCon 2024 - Budapest - Part IThe lights are dimmed, the projector is running, the microphones are tested, the coffee is on... yes, it's time for Kodi's DevCon once again! We're coming to you from beautiful Budapest, the grand capital of Hungary - which last hosted us eight years ago, and it's genu
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" RC1Can you feel the excitement building in the air? Well, you should, as we are ready for our first Release Candidate for Kodi 21.0 "Omega"! This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very goo
- Kodi 20.5 "Nexus" - ReleaseNexus just won't end, it seems: we're back already, this time what we hope will be the final release for the Nexus line. Welcome to 20.5! An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.4 on Github, as usual. Release notes Input Re
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Beta 3Editorial note: this blog post has been delayed for technical reasons, so the release is already available. Time marches on for Kodi 21 "Omega", we are here with the third Beta release! This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, wi
- Kodi 20.4 "Nexus" - ReleaseIt looks like one last hurrah was premature for the "Nexus" line: we find ourselves back again already, this time with a new 20.4 release. An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.3 on Github, as usual. Android users, please
- Kodi at FOSDEM 2024Hi! This is just a quick note to let everyone know that Team Kodi will be present at the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels on 3 & 4 February 2024. We will have a booth in Building H level 1 where you can try out Kodi and chat with us at your lei
- Kodi 20.3 "Nexus" - ReleaseA new year dawns, and brings with it one last hurrah for the Kodi "Nexus" release line. An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.2 on Github, as usual. Release notes Estuary An assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home
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- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Beta 2We are keeping things ticking over with Kodi 21 "Omega" with the second Beta release! This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Beta 1Things are beginning to heat up for Kodi 21 "Omega" with the first Beta release! This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, ple
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Alpha 3Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". Slightly delayed this time around compared to what we were striving for, however we are happy to announce the arrival of Alpha 3. This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However,
- Kodi 20.2 "Nexus" - ReleaseAs is always inevitable in software, we are back with a new release of Kodi "Nexus". An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.1 on Github, as usual. Release notes Audio An assortment of E-AC3 related fixes were backported. E
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Alpha 2Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". This is our second Alpha release for this cycle. This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressio
- Forum Data Breach - Lessons Learned, Actions TakenAs you may have seen on other posts, we're broadly back on line now, with the forum, Wiki and paste sites all operational. It's been a huge effort by several key team members - I won't name names, but you know who you are - and we're all immensely gr
- Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Alpha 1This release is so fresh that we don't yet even have an image... oops! It's been a hectic last couple of months in the world of Kodi, but the wheels keep on turning. Without any further ado, we are happy to announce the first Alpha release for Kodi 21.x "Omega". This is a ma
- IMPORTANT: Kodi Forum - Data BreachUpdated 25th April - forum, wiki and paste systems are now back on line - please see below. ---- Original post, 08th April 2023 In the last 24 hours we became aware of a dump of the Kodi user forum (MyBB) software being advertised for sale on internet forums. This
- DevCon 2023 - Buongiorno Lombardia!Welcome, everyone, to Kodi Devcon 2023, coming to you this year from halfway up an Italian mountain overlooking Lake Iseo. We're full of coffee, it's seven degrees outside, we don't have enough power outlets, and we're struggling to stream over dubious Internet con
- Kodi 20.1 "Nexus" - ReleaseAs is always inevitable in software, we are back with a new release of Kodi 20.x "Nexus". An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.0 on Github, as usual. Release notes Audio @fritsch has been working feverishly on Android-re
- Kodi 20.0 "Nexus" - ReleaseIt's Time! We are pleased to present the latest release of Kodi, v20 "Nexus". With over 4,600 commits since v19 "Matrix" was released on February 19th, 2021, this has been a huge effort. Thanks go out to our team members, and everyone in our community who sent a pull reque
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- Kodi "Matrix" 19.5 ReleaseHappy Holidays, everyone! To celebrate, here we have release 19.5. This release caps off the v19 Matrix development cycle - we are not intending anything further now until 20.0 "Nexus". Without further fanfare, then I give you Kodi "Matrix" 19.5: more bug fixes, some backpo
- Kodi "Nexus" RC 2So... here we have a second Release Candidate for Kodi v20 "Nexus". While we have a fairly small number of fixes, they are fairly major. As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2
- Kodi "Nexus" RC 1Here we go folks, ramping things up and we have the first Release Candidate (RC) for Kodi "Nexus". As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2021. For everyone that has contributed
- What's In A Name?After all, "that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet" - okay, Shakespeare maybe had a point, but, for obvious reasons, he didn't know anything about software. For us, names matter because they usually herald a new release, a major change, and, yes, lots
- Kodi "Nexus" Beta 1Here we go folks: ramping things up, so we now have the first Beta for Kodi v20, "Nexus". As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work. We are nearing 4,000 commits since v19 "Matrix" was first released on February 19th 2021. For everyone that has contributed, both
- Skip 1s - a new (old) way to control KodiThis is perhaps a little short notice, but Jason from Flirc - a long-time friend of Kodi - is hosting an ask-me-anything on Cordcutters on 9th November 2022. We just wanted to let you know, and give him the chance to say a few words about what's going on. - -
- Kore 3.0Is Web 3.0 here? We don't know, but Kore 3.0 certainly is! Shiny, decentralized and software-based, it's ready to take over your old, centralized, atom-based remote. As a major release there are lots of changes, too many in fact to list here, but the main ones are: Migration to Google's Mate
- GSoC 2022 @ Kodi : Final EvaluationHi, everyone! I am Mohd. Shaheer, Computer Science undergrad in freshman year. I am a GSoC contributor working on the project “Finish the web interface” for Kodi. I have been working on this project for the past 3 months. This blog post contains my experience throu
- Kodi "Nexus" Alpha 3Time for another Alpha release for the upcoming Version 20 "Nexus" release of Kodi. As always, thanks go out to all contributors for their work - not only those in Team Kodi, but also to all the third party users that choose to roll up their sleeves and fix an issue. Everyone app
- TheTVDBHello Kodi community. This is Scott, the founder of TheTVDB. There has been some confusion related to the availability of our API and the various Kodi scrapers for TheTVDB. Hopefully I can provide some clarity. TheTVDB was originally written in a weekend in 2004, with features and data slowly
- Kodi "Nexus" Alpha 2Slightly delayed Alpha 2, but here we go. We had a bit of a wild ride more due to behind the scenes update and changes - however, the good news is that it's given us more time for fixes and additions. Release notes Platform Specific Android Fix a stutter when the Kodi Android app
- DevCon 2022: Moltes gràcies, Catalunya!Hello - okay - new teeth, that’s weird. So, where was I? Oh, that’s right... Barcelona! Well, we did it. After a couple of years of pandemic-induced isolation, we managed to get most of the team together in early April for the first time in forever. We successf
- Kodi "Nexus" Alpha 1So, here we go, with no further ado, we'd like to present the first Alpha releases of Kodi 20.x "Nexus". This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, it will inevitably cause problems for some people, which is why we'll go through a more
- Kodi "Matrix" 19.4 ReleaseIs it too late to say "Happy New Year"? Probably, but this is still the first release of 2022, so let's go with that anyway. It's point release o'clock once more, so, without further fanfare, I give you Kodi "Matrix" 19.4: more bug fixes, some backports, no real new feature
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- Kodi "Matrix" 19.3 ReleaseOkay, we know that we've only just released 19.2, and some of you are probably even still waiting for that, but that's a big part of the reason we need to push out a new build. We still had some challenges with the Xbox release, and some other issues came to light that we d
- Kodi "Matrix" 19.2 ReleaseIt's been some time since we released 19.1, and numerous issues have revealed themselves and been resolved in the intervening months. As such, we're probably overdue a formal release of the updates, so, without further ado - here's the latest release in the "Matrix" series.
- Hacktoberfest 2021October... the month that gave birth to the world's most famous and traditional beer festival. What's possibly better than two weeks of collective beer drinking? Under normal circumstances...probably nothing. In the so called new normal? Let's pretend we can tolerate a bit more of
- Switching Translations to WeblateThe moment is here to move to an even more optimal translation service for our application. Ultimately we have chosen Weblate, and its service will be hosted at . This is done to optimize our workflow and to allow easy inclusion of all add-ons in the official Kodi ad
- The Votes Have Been Counted and Verified...Many of you will probably be aware that, since the dawn of time, each version of Kodi takes a vaguely sci-fi/fantasy/movie-themed name, in alphabetical order (Ed: no, don't ask what happens after we get to Z). This has become common practice throughout the
- Kodi "Matrix" 19.1 ReleaseIt is a truth universally acknowledged that, no matter how much testing you do before a major release, you'll never find and squash anything like all the bugs until you get a proper, large-scale, mass test of the code. In other words, it's time for a bugfix release on the K
- "Kodi Broke My Addons!"Since we released 19.0 "Matrix", we've been hearing a lot of noise about how people's addons have stopped working, and why we're all Really Bad People for doing this. We thought it would be worth helping people understand what's happening here - mostly, because our fingers are
- Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" - Release... yes, it's here! After several iterations of alpha, beta and RC, Team Kodi is pleased to announce that Kodi 19.0 "Matrix" has just been formally released on all supported platforms. Dare you take the red pill, and find out how deep the rabbit-hole goes? By the numbers,
- Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Release CandidateAnd, off we go again. The dust settles on the festive season, so it's time for another pre-release to hit the streets... we're getting close to final release now, so we're moving out of Beta and into RC. If you want to know the main features in this release seri
- Refactoring of the Add-on SubsystemHey everybody, In June 2020 some suggestions on improvements to our add-on system were suggested by Matt Huisman and some minor changes were implemented. Who knew at the time but this turned into much more work both cleaning up the current add-on system and adding
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- Kodi @Remote Chaos Experience (RC3)Heya fellow net dwellers, Right now the Remote Chaos Experience (RC3) is already running at full steam as virtual replacement for the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) that was supposed to be held in Leipzig, Germany, at exactly this time. While we did not r
- Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Beta 2So, here we go again. Nothing earth-shattering, just a quick note to tell you that the second Beta of Kodi 19.x "Matrix" is now available for installation. If you want to know the main features in this release series, please refer back to previous blog posts, especially th
- Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Beta 1Lights! Camera! Action! ... nearly. It's Beta time for Kodi 19.x "Matrix", so let's take another step towards the Great Unveiling. As we now move into Beta, this release is much more about fixes than features: while there will be the odd new functionality, we're concentrat
- New Sponsor Announcement: GoatCounterLast year at FOSDEM, we were approached about our usage of analytics software on our websites that gives visitor data to big companies with servers located in countries with data protection laws that are less strict than what EU citizens are accustomed to. Team K
- Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Alpha 3So... drum roll...hot on the heels of 19.x "Matrix" Alpha 2, and after a quick detour for an unexpected 18.9 "Leia" release, we bring you the stunningly-named 19.x "Matrix" Alpha 3. This will hopefully be the last of our alpha releases, before we move into beta and onto f
- Kodi "Leia" 18.9 ReleaseMutter, mutter... "18.8 will be the last", they said... "all efforts will go into 19.x now", they said... famous last words... Okay, one more roll of the "Leia" die, although this one is really driven by circumstances beyond our control. Technical changes by Cloudflare caused
- Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Alpha 2It's been more than a month since our last "preview" release, so it's time we boxed up something new for everyone. The usual drill applies: this is an alpha, some things will be broken, your home is at risk if something goes wrong, it might run off with your partner, don'
- Kodi/Inputstream Adaptive Presentation - 24 September 2020This is just a quick blog post to tell you about a presentation that might be of interest. Glenn Guy (Aussie Addons) is giving a presentation on Meetup this Thursday, 24th September, at 18:00 AEST (07:00 UTC) for the Sydney Video Technology g
- Kodi 19.x "Matrix" - Alpha 1So, here we go. Hot on the heels of what is intended to be the final release in the 18.x "Leia" series, it's time to give you good people a taste of things to come. So, with no further ado, we'd like to present the first Alpha releases of Kodi 19.x "Matrix". This is a maj
- Kodi Remote Access Security RecommendationsKodi includes a powerful web interface that can be used with any browser, but also sits behind the remote control application you use on your phone, or the web front end on your tablet - if you're using Kore, or Chorus, or one of the numerous alternatives,
- Kodi "Leia" 18.8 ReleaseSo, here we are again. Those of you with eagle eyes may already have seen this rolling out, but just to make everyone else aware - 18.8 is here. In our ongoing quest to make your lives as simple and fulfilling as possible, we're proud to present what is likely to be the final
- New Kore version - v2.5.1Kore v2.5.1 Released! Team Kodi are proud to announce the release of the latest version of our Kore Android remote. This version is mostly a bug fix release, but it also includes some improvements that we hope you like. The most relevant changes for this version are: - Add s
- Kodi "Leia" 18.7 on AndroidWhen we launched 18.7 across all platforms a couple of weeks ago, it became apparent that there were some problems on Android that wouldn't wait until a future point release to be fixed. These issues - regressions, specifically around micro-stutter and discontinuities on m
- Kodi "Leia" 18.7 ReleaseYou may have noticed that we've adopted a RERO approach to Kodi - release early, release often. Our aim is to fix problems more quickly, and then get those fixes out into the wild equally as quickly. This might mean some issues escape alongside the bug fixes, but, overall, it
- Donating with LiberapayAs you might know, your donations help us deliver a great media center experience with Kodi. In addition to PayPal, Patreon, Bitpay, and wire transfer, we are happy to announce that you can now also support us with a recurring donation on Liberapay here. Liberapay is a recurre
- Kodi's Response to Internet IssuesKodi's Response to Internet Issues Team Kodi would like to wish you all good health and security during this difficult time for the world. With almost everyone working and schooling from home now, the internet and world wide web are under severe strain for bandwidth
- Kodi 19 Welcomes tvOS but Says Goodbye to iOS 32bitDear Users, In the upcoming Kodi 19, tvOS will be added as new platform. It will be fully featured, supporting top-shelf\ and the Siri remote, with support for both the Apple 4 and 4K. Similar to iOS, it will require jailbreaking or side loading. We
- Kodi "Leia" 18.6 ReleaseAnd.... here we are again. The latest Kodi release in the 18.x "Leia" cycle, with more (count them!) and better (measure them!) bug fixes for your various delight, delectation, and delirious... discussion? 18.6 is here. More nasty (and not-so-nasty) problems fixed, more bugs
- In Defence of Our Good NameAs most who read this will know well, Kodi is a free and open source media centre software application. It is created and supported by the group of unpaid volunteers known as Team Kodi, along with a large number of members of our very large and active user community. The s
- Kodi at FOSDEM 2020Kodi at FOSDEM 2020 Hello Belgium once again. In the tradition of the last few years, members of Team Kodi will be present at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend. If you live somewhere nearby or are attending, please feel free to come and meet some of our team members in person. FOSDE
- Kore v2.5.0 Released!Kore v2.5.0 Released! Team Kodi are proud to announce the release of the latest version of our Kore Android remote application. Team members and other contributors have added several great new features which we think users will love. The changes for this new version includes: -
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- Kodi at the Chaos Communication CongressFor the next few days the 36th Chaos Communication Congress, the largest hacker conference in Europe, is held in Leipzig, Germany. Organized by the Chaos Computer Club, it features a lot of tech related talks and assemblies. Kodi will be represented by Sarbes,
- Windows Developers - Kodi Needs You!Windows Developers - Kodi Needs You! It will probably come as a surprise to many of you that the active team of Kodi developers is tiny - millions of users and yet only a handful of volunteers spending their spare time to do all the technical stuff at the heart of
- Kodi "Leia" 18.5 ReleaseIn our ongoing mission to bring you the very greatest (and most reliable) media centre software in the world, it's time to let another point release escape into the wild. Usual rules apply: this isn't about features, it's about stability and usability. As usual, you can find
- Kodi 19 with Python 3 Goes LiveKodi 19 with Python 3 Goes Live Nearly two years ago, we announced that Kodi was migrating to use the Python 3 interpreter for its many addons (see here) and we explained both why we were doing it and what would change. Since then we have been encouraging all add-on de
- DevCon 2019 - Belgrade - Part IIMorning, all. It's a beautiful day here, and we're just waiting for the last few latecomers to arrive before another day of DevCon... We kicked off with Python 3, following on from yesterday's conversation. The general consensus was to get this merged and live with an
- DevCon 2019 - Belgrade - Part IIISo, here we are, the third and final day of DevCon 2019. It's likely to be a short list of topics this morning before some people head home while those who remain use the time together to write some fabulous code. So, let's get straight to business. We kicked off wit
- DevCon 2019 - Belgrade - Part IAnother year passes, and here we are once again, locked in a windowless room to discuss all things Kodi-shaped. Genuine thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and users - that means you, you lovely people - whose donations make these meetings possible. Old faces, new
- Is Kodi legal?Is Kodi legal? After "What exactly is Kodi?", the second most common question we often get asked is "Is Kodi legal?". The two questions are of course linked, but with the recent media reporting concerning piracy the answer to the legality is sometimes not so clear to the man in the str
- Finances and more!As we approach Kodi DevCon (our annual team member conference) we continue our quest for greater transparency and openness in how the project is managed. We’d like to touch on project finances: specifically where the money comes from, and where it goes. Outreach is a major expense.
- Kodi "Leia" 18.4 ReleaseAnother couple of months have passed since we last pushed out a release, and so, in our ongoing efforts to produce the best media software in the world, it's time to squash another few of those more irritating bugs. Usual rules apply: don't expect any new features, don't thin
- The Freedom of ChoiceThe Freedom of Choice One of the main tenets of both Kodi and open-source software in general is freedom of choice. By making the software freely and publicly available without charge, users are able to try the software with no financial outlay or risk. As the source code is als
- Kodi "Leia" 18.3 ReleaseTwo months have passed since our last bugfix release and already we have a new one ready for consumption. Fancy a few more features? There aren't any, with one teeny-tiny exception. Apparently DTS-HD audio only tracks are a thing and Kodi can now play them like any other musi
- Flirc "Kodi Edition" Raspberry Pi 4B CaseYesterday the new Raspberry Pi 4B was unveiled with a revised spec that guarantees it will be super-popular with Kodi users. It brings 4K media support, faster CPUs, faster memory, faster Ethernet, faster USB, and now handles HEVC natively. It's a great updat
- Repos: When All-in-One Can Be No Fun.Repos: When All-in-one Can Be No Fun. For better or worse, one of the most powerful features of Kodi is the ability to extend its capabilities via addons. Key components in this are the repositories, or "repos" as they're more commonly known. They allow for quick
- Kodi 19 gets a codenameIt's that time again. After unleashing Kodi v18 Leia into the wild, it's time to give the upcoming Kodi 19 a codename. As usual, our users suggested a myriad of names, most right up our alley, some less... erm... "appropriate". After compiling suggestions from the community th
- Kodi "Leia" 18.2 ReleaseJust when you thought we were all having a rest for Easter, here's some surprise news for you: Kodi "Leia" 18.2 is ready to roll. The sun is shining and the sky is blue here in western Europe, and we're all tied to our keyboards to bring you the latest Kodi loveliness. We're
- Presenting KodiTV MultiPassThis is going to be short and sweet: we proudly present KodiTV™ MultiPass! Starting at 00:00 UTC, our servers will deploy an update to your Kodi install if you're in North America (Canada not included) or Europe. Unfortunately the broadcasting rights don't allow us to offe
- Kodi builds, streaming add-ons and free lunchesSo-called Kodi "builds" are essentially a preconfigured Kodi installation that someone has created, ready for you to use. They often come bundled with wizards, tons of third-party add-ons, and a boatload of stuff you don't need or doesn't work. In essen
- We do not sell hardwareDon't be fooled by the cool wallpaper above - we do not sell hardware. We do not sell computers, Kodi boxes, Kodi sticks, carrot sticks or french fries. Actually, we don't recommend specific hardware, and we're certainly not interested in selling hardware. That's the manufactu
- The Kodi Foundation joined the Linux FoundationThe Kodi Foundation is very proud to announce that it has joined the Linux Foundation as an Associate Member. It seemed natural for us to join, given the fact that we are strong believers in the benefits of open-source software. We strongly believe that
- Kodi has been accepted to GSOC 2019!We are thrilled to announced that Kodi has been accepted as a participating open source organization in Google Summer of Code 2019! What is Google Summer of Code? In Google's own words, "Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that matches students up wit
- FOSDEM 2019 reportAt the beginning of the month seven Team Kodi members attended FOSDEM, Europe's largest meeting of Free and Open Source Software developers that takes place over two days each year in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a great opportunity to meet up amongst ourselves, and with friends fr
- Kodi v18.1 Leia RC1Upcoming bug fix release... Two weeks have passed since the official release of v18.0 - hopefully, you all like it as much as we do. A final release always comes with some unexpected bugs, however, so the months to come will bring regular v18 updates with further fixes and improve
- Kodi 18.0Kodi 18 is here! \ ... after another long gestation... the Kodi team is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 18.0 "Leia" for all supported platforms (UWP for Windows Store and Xbox is working its way through the system as I type, so will be available shortly...). Whil
- FOSDEM 2019: Brussels, 2/3 FebruaryBelgium, here we come! Team Kodi will be at FOSDEM in Brussels next week. If you live anywhere near, if you're attending, if you can make the detour - please, come along and meet some of the team. FOSDEM is an annual, volunteer, non-commercial event that focuses on
- Kodi v18 Leia RC5As mentioned in the RC4 release article, a final release was close on the horizon. To that end we hereby present you the last Release Candate (RC5) before we call it a wrap on v18.0. It will not be absolutely perfect but we have to go forward at some point. Don't worry as we will of
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- Kodi v18 Leia RC4 - A new hopeIt's the days between Christmas and New Years eve, and some of our developers found the time do squash down some know issues. We hereby present you v18 RC4 that include several fixes we did past two weeks. There's not really anything more to say than wish you all a grea
- 2018 - Looking Back...So, the sun starts to set on 2018, and another year draws to a close. At the same time, we stand ready to launch Kodi 18 "Leia" in the very near future, which opens a new chapter in how Kodi is structured, how it functions, how it's used. It seems like an appropriate time to st
- Kodi v18 Leia RC2 - A new hopeAfter two years of hard work by all volunteers, either part of the team or of our great community we can finally say the last steps towards Kodi v18 are being made. In past years many things have changed, either visually or code wise and to be honest i can't even recall
- Kodi v18 Leia RC1 - A new hopeAfter two years of hard work by all volunteers, either part of the team or of our great community we can finally say the last steps towards Kodi v18 are being made. In past years many things have changed, either visually or code wise and to be honest i can't even recall
- Kodi Edition Raspberry Pi Case Version 2 - May The (Open) Source Be With You!Two years ago, we surprised everyone by taking our first step into hardware by announcing the 'Kodi Edition' Raspberry Pi case. For the past year, we’ve been working with Flirc on an exciting and ambitious newly-designed ca
- Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 5We hereby present you the fifth and last Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Next step will be Release candidates where our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a dai
- Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 4We hereby present you the fourth Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those
- Kodi v18 - Binary add-ons repositoryThe problem For many years our developers have been working getting the Kodi code in component specific parts. In that effort some components have been split off in such a way they are actually separate from Kodi itself, and can be installed at any point in time.
- Kodi 19 M***** - Code name suggestionSince the dawn of time, or at least since 2008 each released version has received a code name next to the version number. Giving each development iteration a code name in a certain category is kind of a tradition that is not only applicable for software but also
- Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 3We hereby present you the third Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those w
- DevCon 2018 - Sofia - Part IIIOne more day, with enough content to warrant a separate blog post - partly because people are still here for the most part, partly because of new stuff that's been added to the agenda as we've gone along, and partly because of the topics that, despite our best efforts,
- DevCon 2018 - Sofia - Part IIGood morning/afternoon/evening/night (delete as appropriate - we're a global community). The world has turned once more, the sun has crawled into the sky, and we're back in the room. Nate began the day with an update on the Foundation's financial status: income, expendit
- DevCon 2018 - Sofia - Part I\ What, a year already? Yup, twelve months have passed, we're all a year older, the world is still mad, and we're once again sitting in an overly-warm, windowless, anonymous conference room, discussing everyone's favourite media software while wondering where the coffee i
- Attending VDD 2018 - The 10th VideoLAN developer daysSince the open source community is open as the name implies we as Team Kodi at times also attend other conferences. One of those is VDD which is hosted by the VideoLAN team which you might know from the VLC player. During the conference many devel
- Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 2We hereby present you the second Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those
- Kodi v18 Leia - Beta 1We hereby present you the first Beta build of Kodi v18 as we are heading towards the final release. Since we are now in Beta stage our focus will be on solving bugs and possible usability problems. So far it has been proven to be quite solid to use as a daily driver for those w
- Kodi v18 Leia - Alpha 3We hereby present you the third and last alpha build of Kodi v18 as we are going forward entering beta stage. This release is a continuation of the previous two with our continous focus on solving bugs and usability problems. So far it has proved to be quite solid to use as a
- Kodi's GitHub codebase new face and better documentationThe problem Every software developer knows that keeping code documentation up-to-date is difficult and time consuming, specially if code in need of said documentation is changing fast. Like, Flash fast. Among code documentation, the process of
- Kodi v18 Leia - Alpha 2We have been relatively quiet for a while and several months have past since the first pre-release Alpha build. Today we present you the second official Alpha build in this pre-release trilogy. It is a continuation of the first one which was released beginning of March and con
- Kodi No More! - April FoolsUpdate: Of course, this was an open source joke. We're going to keep supporting all the platforms and keep our Kodi username. The XBMC shirt is actually real though, so you are welcome to keep grabbing those if you, but only for a few more days. As many of you may have not
- Kodi v18 Leia - Alpha 1A new hope dawns and it is finally time to start heading towards a final release. Today we are happy to announce that we are bringing you the first official pre-release Alpha build to a galaxy near you. breakAround November 2016 the team decided that v17 Krypton was mature eno
- We have been accepted to GSOC 2018!We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2018 project! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applying, please head over
- Kodi v18 Leia - The story so farAround November 2016 the team decided that v17 Krypton was mature enough to start with the release steps and as such it was branched off from our main development tree. This basically means it received its own place in our development repository and would only receive
- FOSDEM 3 & 4 February 2018 - BrusselsFOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. No registration necessary. FOSDEM 2018 - Presentatio
- Attention to Addon Developers: Migration to Python 3!Currently, Kodi includes the Python 2.7 interpreter to run addons written in Python programming language. However, Python 3 was released almost 10 years ago and the matter of implementing the Python 3 interpreter in Kodi has been brought up on the
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- Kodi for the Xbox OneLet us end the year 2017 with a blast including a nostalgic reference to the past. It has long been asked for by so many and now it finally happened. Kodi for Xbox One is available worldwide through Windows and Xbox Store and will only be released from Kodi v18 and onwards. Do n
- Keep Kodi and the installed add-ons updatedThese days keeping your software updated is becoming more and more important because of possible security risks. Although we will never claim Kodi will become risk free when you are using it, we will certainly try to improve security and reduce possible ris
- Beware Killer Kodi Boxes!According to recent press, "Kodi boxes" can KILL. Okay, to be specific (and perhaps a touch less alarmist), the power supplies on cheap, untested devices are often a bit on the dreadful side, and that's where a risk of things bursting into flames resides. Beyond that, we ass
- Kodi v17.6 final: The very lastWe are happy and sad at same time to announce that this will be the last v17.x release. When we say very last this, of course, only means for the v17 "Krypton" series as we are steadily heading towards the new v18 series called "Leia". For about a year already our deve
- DevCon 2017 Part II - Day ThreeThe final day of Devcon - still lots to get through, although, for the sake of some team members, we might need to speak slowly and quietly... We started the day with a Foundation financial overview from natethomas. Even as a non-profit, volunteer-run organisation, kee
- DevCon 2017 Part II - Day TwoDay Two dawns... most people are bright-eyed and ready for another day, although, if I'm honest, some people may be here more in body than in spirit... First on today, chewitt from LibreELEC gave us an update: the installed base continues to grow, with the Raspberry Pi i
- DevCon 2017 Part II - Day OneWell, 2017 has turned out to be unusual, and we're not just talking world politics. This year, we've managed to bring the newly-extended team together for a second time; it's something we'd like to do more often, although it's unlikely that we'll be able to do it every y
- Kodi v17.5 final: Another bunch of fixesIMPORTANT: If you are having issues with Android v17.5 update please redownload the "v17.5.1" version. It has been a while since we released 17.4 release which fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another named 17.5 where we tackled several more i
- Kodi Trademark Trolls - The Hidden BattleMany users are aware of the tug of war being played between piracy add-on writers on one side and legitimate services on the other that are using Kodi as a platform. Far fewer are aware of the other battle the Kodi project is dealing with on a regular basis.
- Kodi v17.4 final: Just a bunch of fixesIt has been a while since we released 17.3 release which fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another named 17.4 where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the tim
- GSOC 2017 Update - Wayland SupportFinally, we turn to Philipp, who is working to upgrade the Kodi windowing system in Linux from X11 to Wayland. As a PR is already posted, we are extremely excited about this project! Wayland Support - yol My main goal was quite simply to get Kodi to natively support
- Kodi v17.4 RC1: Just a bunch of fixesIt has been a while since we released 17.3 release where we fixed several issues. Now the time has come to do another where we tackled several more issues that were identified. Although we already moved on with development towards v18 we do take the time to fix i
- GSOC 2017 Update - Python3 UpdateNext we have Arpit's work upgrading Kodi's add-on backend from Python2 to Python3 Python3 Support - arpitn30 My initial proposal was to support both Python2 and Python3 in Kodi by maintaining two versions of the same libraries and calling the required one depending u
- GSOC 2017 Update - Shader SupportNow that we're 2/3rds finished with GSOC 2017, I've invited our intrepid student developers to spend some time writing about how their projects are going so far. For those of you out of the loop, the three projects this year are implementing shader support in Retropl
- Having issues with free Movies, TV Shows, Sports, IPTV Streams?Due to recent legal action against websites and repositories promoting add-ons that use pirated (stolen) media content, many have shut-down their services. This is driving a large increase in users complaining in our forums and on social
- Kodi v18: Windows 64-bit is hereUPDATE: 27 December 2017 The 64-bit Kodi version for Windows is now feature complete and on same level as 32-bit. From now on the 32-bit installer will include a warning to ask you to install the 64-bit instead. This upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version is seamless a
- Seven years ago we said goodbye to the original XBOXSeven years ago on this day we said goodbye to where Kodi(XBMC) once started. On 26 May 2010 we officially announced that XBOX support and it's development would continue elsewhere. Here's the original announcement from 26 May 2010 XBMC (XBMP reall
- Kodi v17.3: A minor bug fix and security releaseSorry for this quick bump to v17.3 however we deemed it necessary. In the previous v17.2 we had a slight issue due to packaging certain binary add-ons like PVR, visualisation and Inputstream. Sadly we only uncovered this too late after release. Additio
- Kodi v17.2: A minor bug fix and security releaseUpdate: We have now released v17.3 to solve the problems mentioned below: v17.3 announcement Update: Due to packaging issue after release some add-ons like PVR, visualisation and Inputstream are missing. Also on Ubuntu 14.04 an issue came to light. We
- Kodi V18: Goodbye Windows VistaDevelopment on Kodi also includes making sure it keeps working on all current and older operating systems. However at some point we also have to say goodbye and end support. In the past we already had to say goodbye to the first XBOX, Windows XP, Apple TV2, Ubuntu 12.0
- Kodi presenting at Microsoft Build 2017Last year we announced that the team worked together with Microsoft on creating a Microsoft Store version of Kodi using their Desktop Bridge (Project Centennial) project. Taking this opportunity to reach millions of Windows 10 users has proven quite successful
- DevCon 2017 - Day ThreeSo - we've got to Day Three already, which means the final day of this DevCon. As the church bells rang in the day on this cloudless Sunday morning, the team was looking jaundiced. You can see the strains showing: long days of intense concentration are taking their toll on peo
- DevCon 2017 - Day OneWelcome to DevCon 2017! Unlike previous years, where we've tried to give a live blog of what's happening (much harder than it might seem!), this year, we're aiming to simply summarise the event for you all in a series of posts. So: DevCon 2017. Thirty-two of the finest team memb
- DevCon 2017 - Day TwoDay two dawns on what is a much better day in now-sunny Portugal. The team has emerged, blinking slowly in the unfamiliar daylight - copious amounts of espresso have been drunk to neutralise the effects of all those craft beers - and we're off once again. This is also probably a
- Selling Pirate Boxes Now Illegal in the EU - Dev JournalWe wanted to address the recent judgment by the EU Court of Justice regarding so-called piracy boxes. We should start by saying that none of us are lawyers in the EU, so consider anything we say to be opinions and not facts. If you want facts,
- Kodi v18: Android Leanback suggestions, search and voice typingAlthough we released Kodi v17 not long ago our developers never stop and already work hard towards the next version. Version 18 will have the codename Leia as announced in this article. Different from past years where we combined several
- Dev Journal: Kodi and DRMFor any of you that might have been living on Planet Mars the last few years and are not familiar with all the talk surrounding DRM, here is the digest version: Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to a broad range of technologies, techniques, and standards, many of which
- Kodi's 2017 Developers' ConferenceIt's been a busy half-year since Kodi's 2016 Developers' Conference last September in Budapest. During that time Kodi v17.0 "Krypton" was released, quickly followed by v17.1, a bug-fix only release. We made our way into the Windows Store, managed to scare a lot of f
- And.....we're baaaaack!Happy April, everyone. Did you miss us? :) Apologies if we scared you, but you'll have noticed that we've redecorated while you were looking the other way. Some might even suggest that taking the website and forum down for a couple of days was all part of the plan... However,
- We Have a New WebsiteNow that our little April Fools' joke, which you can read more about here, is over, we're excited to announce that both kodi.tv and addons.kodi.tv have been fully updated and renewed! In addition, we're working hard right now to update our forums to the latest version of the for
- Kodi v17.1 “Krypton”This is the bugfix release for v17.1 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve the v17 release. Our team tried to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources we have. We do want to note that since we are just a small team
- We are a Google Summer of Code 2017 Organization!We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2017 project! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 or 3 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applyin
- Kodi v17.1 “Krypton” Release Candidate 1This is the Release Candidate for our upcoming bugfix release v17.1 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve the v17 release. Our team will certainly try to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited resources
- Kodi 17.0Team Kodi are very happy to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 17.0 (Krypton) for Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS. Krypton brings updated default user interfaces, better organisation of settings, and many under-the-hood changes on VideoPlayer, Music Library, PVR, audio on Android,
- Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 4This is the fourth Release Candidate for our upcoming v17.0 “Krypton” which contains our continuous effort to further improve v17.0 before we make it final. Our team will certainly try to tackle as much of the reported problems as possible with the limited res
- Kodi v17.0 “Krypton” Release Candidate 3Just before New Years’s day we released our first official Release Candidate which marks the final step towards the final release of v17.0. These Release Candidate builds are dedicated to gain further feedback from users who are willing to take the jump toward
- Kodi v18 - "Leia"When deciding on a code name for the release of Kodi 18, we determined to do things just a little differently this time around. Normally, when we pick a new code name, we go through the suggestion threads, gather together the top 5 or top 10 suggestions, and vote on them. We did som
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- Kodi v17.0 "Krypton" Release CandidateUPDATE: Due to some packaging problems for Android and initial response we had to do quick bump to RC2 to solve this. If you had downloaded and installed RC1 before 31 December (available from system information) please upgrade to the newer version. We want to c
- Kodi v17 “Krypton” The last Beta 7It’s almost Christmas and as such we wanted to bring you the last Beta version of Kodi 17. This means we have good hopes we have squashed the biggest and known issues and up next we will go to Release Candidates which in the end will result in the final release. How
- Plex Add-on for KodiBy now, you’ve probably heard that Plex has brought their experience to the Kodi platform, and now it’s finally in the repo! In case you didn’t know, Plex is a great way to organize and consume media on nearly any smart device you already have. Plex Media Server walks you through
- Kodi 18 Code name suggestions: Submission has closedUPDATE: 24 December 2016 ..and with those wise words, it’s time to bring our search to a closure. over the course of the upcoming days, our team members will spend some time going through the list of all suggested names, we’ll be counting, re-count
- A new webinterface called Chorus2Kodi has many hidden secrets and even team members don’t know the full potential it packs. One of those features you might not know is that Kodi also has a web-interface from which you can browse your library and start playback directly on your Kodi device. It’s some
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 6Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over t
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" - Default skin: Next GenPast March we announced that v17 would feature a brand new default skin called Estuary and since then it has been included in every build we have released. During this period our developers kept improving on how it looked, behaved and made use of the latest
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 5Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over t
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 4Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over t
- Attention ALL Companies attending CES!For the third year in a row, Kodi is attending CES. CES, also known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is an internationally renowned electronics and technology trade show, attracting major companies and industry professionals worldwide. Why do we go there? Our p
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 3Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skin, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over t
- Kodi goes Windows StoreWith the release of Windows 10 Anniversary update, Microsoft announced its Desktop Bridge (Project Centennial) feature which in theory should allow regular desktop applications to be converted to UWP-like store app without any real code changes. With the Desktop Bridge develop
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 2Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skinned, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done ove
- Kodi DevCon 2016 Live BlogEvening – Day 1 And that’s it for today. Tomorrow there should be less team talk and more actual feature presentations, so we look forward to seeing you all then! Afternoon Session – Day 1 Trademark Talk After lunch the subject of a number of different legal issues has been
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Beta 1We are excited to announce the first beta of Kodi 17, codenamed Krypton. Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skinn
- Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 3With this announcement we’re happy to release v17 alpha 3. This v17 release which the users have named Krypton features a huge amount of rework in various areas like video playback, live TV & PVR, music library, skinning and more. All these areas underwent heavy changes whi
- Kore - Android remote v2.1.0 updateIt has been a while since we talked about our official Android remote and to the outside all seemed quiet. Nothing is further from the truth. We are happy to announce that our official Kore remote is getting an update. Our developers SyncedSynapse and poisdeux have
- Kodi v17 "Krypton" Alpha 2Yes it’s finally here…… The name Krypton Since the dawn of time, or at least since 2008 each released version has received a code name next to the version number. Giving each development iteration a code name in a certain category is kind of a tradition that is not only app
- The Official Kodi Edition Raspberry Pi CaseSince the first Raspberry Pi was announced in 2012, it was inextricably linked with XBMC/Kodi. It was built with the tinkerer in mind and capable of new advanced applications, but always with the perfect fallback of being the tiny living room Kodi media cen
- 10 days till first v17 "Krypton" alpha releaseWe have been quiet for quite some time as our last official release announcement was about Kodi v16.1 “Jarvis” bugfix release end of April. We can assure we have not been sitting still as work for v17 progressed in a steadily pace. Our developers have ac
- Jarvis Skin ShowcaseThe Kodi “Jarvis” v16 release has been out for a while now and feedback has been incredibly positive. We have millions of users all over the world using the new release. Many people will be familiar with our default v16 “Confluence” skin, but did you know there were many other sk
- Warning - Be aware what additional add-ons you installThere seems to be a growing amount of reports where users are suddenly missing add-ons from their Kodi installation. It seems there are some factions out there that are removing each others add-on without the user approving or even knowing this.
- Dev Journal: Kodi’s Switch to RERO Development And A Call For Android DevsEditor’s note: Kodi 17 is a big, big release, and we’ve decided to break down blog posts about it into smaller pieces. We’re starting with an explanation of the new release philosophy we’ve been using for Kodi 15, 16, and 17.
- Kodi 16.1 – Jarvis – Mark XVIOnce a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and this release is no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 16.0 version before release and we as team trying very hard to prevent any pr
- Kodi 16.1 “Jarvis” – Release Candidate 2Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and this release is no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 16.0 version before release and we as team trying very hard to pre
- A brand new look for future Kodi versionsA long, long time ago when Kodi was still called XBMC, a new skin came into life. It was on 21 November 2009 that the switch was made from PM3.HD to Confluence. Over the years it has fulfilled it’s purpose as the default skin which every one sees on a fresh K
- Kodi 16.1 “Jarvis” – Release Candidate 1Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and this release is no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 16.0 version before release and we as team trying very hard to pre
- Kodi 16.0 - Jarvis - Mark XVIWe are proud to announce the release of Kodi 16.0. Kodi 16 is a heavy under-the-hood improvements release, but let’s review some of the more prominent features coming out. Event Logging The first big step in making Kodi better at communicating with you, the user, is the
- The Piracy Box Sellers and Youtube Promoters Are Killing KodiOver the past few years it’s become clear that many users have been watching pirated content using unofficial and unsupported add-ons that frequently break, and they are installing add-on repositories whose trustworthiness is questionable,
- Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" - Release Candidate 3It’s time for the third Release Candidate for Kodi v16. With this release candidate we added a small number of fixes that users brought to our attention. Since we only have a small team and we can’t test it all we must rely on users reporting potential problem
- Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" - Release Candidate 2It’s time for the second Release Candidate for Kodi v16. Getting the first release candidate ready took a bit longer than we anticipated due to some problems along the way though they should be under control now. With this second release candidate we added a s
- Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" - Release Candidate 1The time has come to bring you all Release Candidate 1 for Kodi v16. It took a bit longer than we anticipated due to some problems along the way though they should be under control now. This release consists of some nice features but more importantly the conti
- Two Free Tickets to Join Us at SCALE in the Los Angeles area this week, Plus CES Wrap-upWe’re attending the Southern California Linux Expo aka SCALE as exhibitors this week, so drop by our booth. This year SCALE has been moved to sunny Pasadena! (Tickets have been given out, thanks for playing) Last
- Kodi 16.0 beta 5 – Last Jarvis betaWith this announcement we are releasing the last beta in the Jarvis line before we are switching to Release Candidates. We hope the feedback from users regarding this beta is positive since we as team can’t test all use cases ourselves. As such we wan’t to thank al
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- Enjoy the holidays and a happy 2016We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas diner and are now spending some quality time using Kodi as your media center. Since we’ll probably have nothing to report in coming week we as team already want to wish you all a happy 2016. Sorry, no surprise release this time
- Kore - Android remote v2.0.0 updateIt has been a while since we talked about our official Android remote and to the outside all seemed quiet. Nothing is further from the truth. We are happy to announce that our official Kore remote is getting a big update. Our developer SyncedSynapse has been puttin
- Kodi 17 - Code name has been chosenThanks for all your suggestions!\ We decided to go with the most popular suggestion from the community and have selected Krypton as the code name for Kodi v17 ! Since the dawn of time, or at least since 2008 each released version has received a code name next to th
- Kodi 16.0 beta 4 – Jarvis is getting ready #4With this announcement we are releasing beta 4. Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it n
- Kodi 16.0 beta 3 – Jarvis is getting ready #3With this announcement we are releasing beta 3. Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it n
- Kodi 16.0 beta 2 – Jarvis is getting ready #2Only a week ago we announced 16.0 beta 1 and with this announcement we are releasing beta 2. Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in eac
- Kodi 16.0 beta 1 - Jarvis is getting readyOnly three weeks ago we announced 15.2 which is the last release of the Kodi version 15 range and now we’re announcing the first beta of version 16. What does this means for users? That after four months of alpha versions we have changed to the beta stage an
- Kodi 16.0 Alpha 4 - Jarvis nearing completionOnly two weeks ago we announced 15.2 which is the last release of the Kodi version 15 range and now we’re announcing the last alpha of version 16. What does this means for users? That after four months of alpha versions we are gearing up for changing to t
- Kodi 15.2 Isengard - Final ChapterOnce a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them, as so
- DevCon 2015 LiveBlog2:20 Keith is now talking BizDev. Last year several of us went to CES somewhat randomly to talk to a smaller cable operator, and as a result we started talking to a number of pretty cool companies. One of the bigger results of that trip was the current work with Silicon Dust’s HD
- Kodi 15.2 Isengard - Release Candidate 3Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them,
- Kodi 16: Alpha 3Development never ceases on Kodi, and so we’re delighted to present the 3rd alpha for Kodi 16 with features and fixes galore. Long Press More and more hardware companies are coming out with remote controls with a very limited button set. In particular, all current Android TVs are lac
- Kodi 15.2 Isengard - Release Candidate 2Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them,
- Kodi 16.0 Alpha 1 & 2 - Jarvis at your serviceWhile we are still working on improving the Kodi 15 release by adding numerous fixes, developers have been working on new features and new fixes for Kodi 16, codenamed Jarvis, for quite some time now. Let’s take a look at a few of those features and fixe
- Kodi 15.2 Isengard - Release CandidateOnce a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release and we try very hard to prevent them, a
- Kodi 15 Skin Showcase - Part 2By default Kodi starts with the Confluence skin which gives users almost everything they need to enjoy it as media center. Though one of the great powers of Kodi is that it can be adjusted in many ways. One of the most noticeable ones is changing the so called skin. Eac
- Kodi 15.1 Isengard - Maintenance releaseOnce a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release, as soon as million started using it,
- Kodi 15.1 Isengard - Release CandidateOnce a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and last release was no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 15.0 version before release, as soon as millions started using it,
- Kodi 15.0 skin showcaseBy default Kodi starts with the Confluence skin which gives users almost everything they need to enjoy it as a media center. Though one of the great powers of Kodi is that it can be adjusted in many ways. One of the most noticeable ones is changing the so called skin. Each ver
- Kodi 15.0 - Isengard - One Release to Rule Them AllWe are proud to announce the release of Kodi 15.0. No new name this time around, but many new features that cover requests both more than 5 years old and less than 5 months old. Let’s take a quick look at a few. Kodi for Android Perhaps the biggest
- New server and some statsWe just wanted to make a quick Blog to say thanks to one of our sponsors - ByteMark - for providing us with a brand new dedicated SSD web server. We currently run a number of back-end services for Kodi such as this website, forum, wiki, mirror redirector, buildbot ect. With
- Kodi 15.0 Isengard – RC 2Here it is, the second Release Candidate (RC) built for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! Although we said that Kodi 15.0 is a “clean-up” edition, we still managed to squeeze in a couple of really nice features. So far we had around 1080 code change requests w
- Kodi 15.0 Isengard - RC 1Here it is, the first Release Candidate (RC) built for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! Although we said that Kodi 15.0 is a “clean-up” edition, we still managed to squeeze in a couple of really nice features. So far we had around 1050 code change requests wh
- Kodi Available on Google Play, Not on AmazonAs you may have heard by now, we have a few announcements to make that should be of particular relevance to you Kodi for Android users out there. Google Play Firstly, Kodi is now available in Google Play. You can download it at the previous link or using t
- Kodi 15.0 Isengard – Beta 2Here it is, the second beta build for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! A little later than originally planned though, which we’ll explain later. Although we said that Kodi 15.0 a “clean-up” edition, we still managed to squeeze in a couple of really nice fea
- Kore - The new official Android remoteWe are happy to announce that once again we have a fully working Android remote. As you may had noticed, our previous Android remote wasn’t updated for a while and as such didn’t work any more due to code changes we’ve done over time. One of our team members who
- Kodi Community - May 2015Exciting Google Summer of Code projects, major developments in the codebase that need testing, and even a Kickstarter are just a few of the many items that have occurred since our last community roundup in January. Let’s get updating. Official Android Remote With the last co
- Kodi 15.0 Isengard - Beta 1Here it is, the first beta build for Kodi 15.0; freshly baked and ready to be served! We could call Kodi 15.0 a “clean-up” edition due to the lack of any prominent features and due to the massive spring cleaning we have been doing during the past months. Although some nice
- Kodi 15.0 Isengard - Alpha 2In many ways, we could call Isengard the release that finally answers many of the oldest requests we have. With Alpha1 we introduced Skip Steps, which allow the user to more naturally and organically find the exact moment they are attempting to skip to in the show or movi
- Kodi 14.2 - Helix: The Final TranslationWe are proud to announce Kodi 14.2. This marks the final point release before we move on to Kodi 15 “Isengard.” As you may all know by now, we have a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the sam
- Kodi Visits SCALE, Plus the New Villain Shirt/HoodieWe wanted to take a minute today to talk about our trip down to Los Angeles for the Southern California Linux Expo, otherwise known as SCALE. XBMC/Kodi have been attending SCALE for the past several years now, and we’ve always very much appreciated
- Addon Spotlight: HDHomeRun Live TVMaybe you’ve heard the rumors, or seen the YouTube teaser video that hinted this was coming. And it’s finally here! No longer will you be required to muck around with XMLTV files or playlists in order to get your HDHomeRun running. The best feature is the lack of co
- Kodi 14.2 Helix - Release CandidateWe are proud to announce the release candidate of Kodi 14.2 in which we further try to improve stability. As you may all know by now, we have a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the same software
- We’ve been accepted to GSOC 2015!We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 project! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applying, please head over t
- Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 - The road to IsengardLast year we shocked the community and the world with the announcement of our name change. Now some months later we are happy to see that a lot of people have adopted this change and embraced what is now know as Kodi. The best media center in the world… We pro
- FOSDEM 2015 presentation videosOn the 31st of January and 1st of February a few team-Kodi members visited the Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2015 to give two presentations as well as to set up a stand. As part of our ongoing goal to improve communication to all th
- Google Summer of Code 2015We’d like to inform our users that we have applied to be a mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code. As many of you know, we were accepted in 2013, 2012, and 2008. We recognize that GSoC is always a fierce competition, but we are, as ever, hopeful that w
- Kodi 14.2 Helix beta 1 - Some more fixesWe are proud to announce the first beta of Kodi 14.2 in which we further try to improve stability. As you may all know by now, we have a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the same software we
- Kodi 14.1 - Helix Bugfix ReleaseEDIT: Please see our Kodi 14.2 beta release We are proud to announce the release of Kodi 14.1, which comes with a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the same software we all love. This is the first sm
- Kodi attending FOSDEM 2015Hey girls and guys, Here is a quick shoutout to any software developers attending FOSDEM ’15 in Brussels this weekend. A few Kodi Team members will be attending the Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting 2015. We have a stand, and will be holding a presen
- Farewell to future Apple TV2 developmentDear users, As the current maintainer of the AppleTV2 platform for Kodi, I wanted you to know that I have decided to stop official support for it. I know that the fact that XBMC/Kodi runs on Apple’s black puck has been the main reason for buying one for many p
- Some New Year Community Updates 2015 (part 2)Because we have so much great things lined up which we want to share, it’s time for a follow up on our previous community update. Don’t worry, we will do continues effort to further improve stability over just adding new features. We have a continues syst
- Some New Year Community Updates 2015Now that the dust has settled on the new Kodi “Helix” release we thought we would take you through a few of the developments that you may have missed in our community forums. There’s some exciting stuff going on as developers and add-on creators get back to work o
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- Kodi 14.0 - Helix UnwindsMerry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! We are proud to announce the release of Kodi 14.0, which comes with a new name, a new logo, and a wide variety of new features, but underneath the new coat of paint remains the same software we all love. A detailed changelog for
- Kodi 14.0 Helix – Release candidate 3Although we announced our first release candidate not long ago, we’re proud to release our third one in the 14.0 Helix range. Some might find it odd that we do so many releases in this short period of time. We can assure you that this is by intention. By doing mo
- Kodi 14.0 Helix - Release candidate arrivesThe last few months have certainly been rough-and-tumble, but we are pleased to announce the release candidate cycle for Kodi 14.0 Helix. This 14.0 release brings many updates and changes, not the least of which is the change to the software’s name and logo
- Introducing the Kodi LogoAfter many weeks of designing, deliberation, and a few beers, we are pleased to present the official logo of Kodi! Logo Design History It has been several months now since we introduced the new name for the software that we all love so much. In that time, the feedback we too
- Kodi 14.0 Helix - Beta Springs ForwardIt’s certainly been a few rough-and-tumble months, but we’re pleased to announce the release of Beta cycle for Kodi 14.0 Helix. This release brings many updates and changes, not the least of which being the name of the software. For those of you curious, we’ve n
- Kodi 14.0 "Helix" nearing beta releaseAs we already mention in last alpha4 release post, the first beta release is nearing pretty fast. At this moment we are only waiting for one more final change to happen and then we are good to go. We are only talking a week or two at most. About three weeks have
- Mirrors back online after server was physically moved.Update: As you can see our mirroring server came back online nicely after the physical move. We are excited to be able to use the better networking link, and to know that the server is yet again in the caring hands of the entire networking team a
- Kodi DevCon 2014 Live BlogFriday, 10th of October, 2014 Good morning everyone. As with last year, we’re going to try to keep a running update of useful info that comes from this year’s devcon. To begin, we’re having a number of developers and support members give various presentations, so we’ll star
- The Kodi Logo Decision and Kodi DevConAs many of you know, the path to our new name is only partially complete. Beyond the various legal steps still needed to be taken, we need to finally take a step forward in the design of our new logo. The logo that’s been posted on the alpha release threads has
- Kodi 14.0 "Helix" alpha 4Kodi 14, which we gave the codename “Helix“, is slowly heading towards beta status. In this possibly last alpha release, we continue to focus on stability and user friendliness. Around 117 pull-request (code changes) have been added past month in a variety of areas. There ar
- Kodi 14.0 code name "Helix" enters feature freezeKodi 14, which we gave the code name “Helix“, is shaping up to be what is often called a “stability” release. As of this moment we have entered feature freeze. What does this actually mean for the users For the average user, this means a couple things
- Kodi 14.0 - Helix alpha 3Kodi 14, which we gave the codename “Helix“, is shaping up to be what is often called a “stability” release. In software development, many projects operate on a sort of tick-tock release schedule. The “tick” often introduces new features, dramatically alters the UI, and can
- Some repository skins stats 2014We all know the default skin which XBMC comes with in 13.x Gotham. It’s designed to be simple and lightweight to support even the least powerful media device. More importantly to be new user friendly, without all bells and whistles. Some like it, some might not. Howev
- XBMC 13.2 - Gotham final releaseHere it is. One of the last versions ever that will be using the XBMC name, as we are renaming XBMC to Kodi. All our future releases will be using the Kodi name. You can read about that here. However lets focus on this release. After three beta releases and a release
- Kodi 14.0 "Helix" alpha 2Kodi 14, which we gave the codename “Helix“, is shaping up to be what is often called a “stability” release. In software development, many projects operate on a sort of tick-tock release schedule. The “tick” often introduces new features, dramatically alters the UI, and can
- XBMC 13.2 Gotham - Release Candidate 1After three beta releases, we are happy to announce our 13.2 Release Candidate. This follows a couple of months after the 13.1 release, and is considered a small bug fix release. Unfortunately we cannot fix all things reported. Below you will find a list of most
- XBMC 13.2 Gotham – beta 3About two months ago we released our 13.1 version which included several bug fixes compared to the 13.0 release. Because of the fact that not all fixes could be included in that point release, we now are happy to announce a 13.2 beta3 version. We actually skipped the 13.2 be
- A Call for Kodi Logo IdeasWe’ve waited a few days for the dust to settle. And the response to the name change has been pretty much exactly as we expected. People are attached to the old name, no matter whether they call that name XBMC or XMBC. We assure you, we are at least as attached, if not more
- XBMC Is Getting a New Name - Introducing Kodi 14UPDATE: Download Kodi 14.0 from our download page. We are excited to announce that the media center software we’ve all loved for so many years will have a new name, starting with version 14. Instead of XBMC 14, we’d like to introduce you to Kodi 14. Si
- XBMC 13.2 Gotham – beta 1Update: Our download page now contains a Gotham 13.2 beta 2 release. List of fixes has been updated. About a month ago we released our 13.1 version which included several bug fixes compared to the 13.0 release. Because of the fact that not all fixes could be included in that
- Support for metadata sites 2014This is just the yearly reminder to support our 3rd party metadata sites with data contributions or financial donations so they can keep running. XBMC relies on these sites to provide metadata and fanart for things like Music, Movies, Games and TVShows. Most sites have
- XBMC 13.1 - Gotham returnsNow that more people are starting to use XBMC 13.0 codename “Gotham,” several issues have popped up which testing hadn’t previously revealed. After releasing two betas and a release candidate, it’s time for a final 13.1 release. The incorporated fixes are the ones already m
- XBMC 13.1 Gotham – RC1Now that more people are starting to use XBMC 13.0 codename “Gotham,” several issues have popped up which thorough testing hadn’t previously revealed. We have already released two 13.1 beta versions, which had several fixes and improvements compared to the 13.0 stable release.
- XBMC 13.1 Gotham - beta 2Now that more people are starting to use XBMC 13.0 codename “Gotham,” several issues have popped up which thorough testing hadn’t previously revealed. We have already released a 13.1 beta1 which has several fixes and improvements compared to the 13.0 stable release. Since th
- XBMC 13.1 beta1 GothamOnly a week ago we released the stable version of 13.0 codename “Gotham”. So far, from the responses we have received, people are pretty excited about it and are happily using it. Now that more people are starting to use the stable release, several issues popped up, that we now
- XBMC 13.0 - Gotham risesThe dark night of waiting is finally over. Because here it is. The stable release of XBMC 13.0 Gotham edition. It has been months of hard work, improvements and testing since the 12.x releases. There have been around 530 commits (chunks of code change) done by 51 developers d
- XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Release Candidate 1We hope you are as excited about this as we are. After a year of hard work, improvements and testing since the release of version 12.0, we are delighted to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming XBMC 13.0, codenamed “Gotham”. The past year we have
- A Little Community GrowthIn this post we aren’t announcing anything or releasing anything or even providing how-to guides. Instead, in honor of our 75,000th fan on Facebook, I’d just like to take a step back and consider the past few years of XBMC community growth. Some History Way back in 2010, I d
- XBMC 13.0 Gotham – Beta 4With Beta 4 we are only looking at bug fixing rather than features. Further down we will list several of the more important fixes that have been added since last beta. Hopefully Beta 4 will be the last one, before we will enter Release Candidate stage. This means final relea
- Meet us at LinuxTag 2014Once again we will be exhibit between the 8th and 10th of May at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. This will be our sixth year attending. This year will be really different, new exhibition halls, new partners droidcon and re:publica. Of course we want you to join us at the booth,
- The end of Windows XPAs you may have read, the official Microsoft support for Windows XP will ended at April 8th, 2014. This means the end of life for this 13 years old operating system which has fulfilled it’s purpose. After this date there will be no more updates any more, plugging possible securi
- XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Beta 3 ReturnsOnce again with Beta 3 we are looking at almost entirely fixes rather than features. Still, many of those fixes are worth mentioning in an abbreviated change log, and at least one is worth bringing up by name. Ever since the release of iOS 7, Airplay support in XBMC
- April fools: Introducting XBMC 14 - The HoffNote: This was of course an April fools prank. The real codename for v14 has since been established as ‘Helix’. Amid all this news of the XBMC 13 release (Just now hitting Beta 3), we have some developers who are beginning to submit features for the upcomi
- XBMC 13.0 Gotham - The Beta 2 We DeserveIt’s been a mere 13 days since beta 1 came out, and already we’re ready for beta 2. This is almost entirely a “fix” beta release, meaning no new features, only a more rock solid foundation. Still, many of those fixes are worth mentioning in an abbreviated chan
- XBMC shirts and hoodies sale, now with new colors, but less than a week leftThis is just a quick reminder for those of you not on the social networks that the XBMC Beta shirt and hoodie sale has less than a week to go, and after that we won’t be selling this particular design again, possibly forever
- XBMC 13.0 Gotham - Beta1 rises!We hope you are as excited about this as we are. After a year of hard work, improvements and testing since the release of version 12.0, we are delighted to announce the Beta release of the upcoming XBMC 13.0, codenamed “Gotham”. The past year we have kept you informed
- XBMC at SCALE 2014 (Plus Google On Air Hangout)Greetings XBMC users in the southern California region! We’d like to take this time to formally invite you to come visit us at our booth at the Southern California Linux Expo this Saturday and Sunday (Feb. 22nd-23rd) at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Ho
- Work in Progress Skins 2014The XBMC skinning engine has matured over the years to allow lots of different kinds of styles such as horizontal, vertical, touchscreen menus, fanart, clearart and advanced animations. Many users are familiar with our popular skins but we also have a vibrant community of
- XBMC 13 Gotham - on its way to Beta statusIn the last blog post we already told you we are working hard towards a Beta release. There are still some things that need to be improved before we are confident on releasing a Beta. We will of course keep you posted when that time comes. Work continues by
- XBMC 13 Gotham – November and DecemberWith Feature Freeze now being in effect and the team is working towards a Beta release which we still have not set a release day for, the last two months have had tons of new additions and fixes to XBMC, both major and minor. A quick look at the change log shows
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- XBMC 12.3 - Frodo fixes!First of all we want to wish happy holidays and a merry Christmas to all our users, developers, contributors and every one else. Thank you all for the support and help and for enjoying our software. Let’s hope the year 2014 will bring all of you health and happiness and of co
- Server Issues: SolvedWe are pleased to announce that the XBMC download and addon servers are back up and running. We’ve switched over to some newer, faster hardware, and after a few hiccups, it appears the problems that have been hounding us for the past week or so have finally been resolved. The on
- Server IssuesIf you’ve tried to download XBMC, update an addon, or download a new addon over the past few days, you may have noticed that our servers have been behaving poorly. Let me begin by assuring you that we believe we have tracked down the issue to a malfunctioning piece of code on our primar
- Introducing the new Add-on WebsiteXBMC is a comprehensive piece of software in its own right, but what really gives it power, is the ability to extend the features beyond the normal application through 3rd party Add-ons. In the recent times we have encouraged more users to develop these Add-ons, wit
- XBMC 13 - Gotham: Note to Add-on developersAs we now have reached feature freeze as you have read here, it’s safe to say that there will be no more fundamental changes done that would greatly influence the work that developers need to do to get ready for Gotham. This doesn’t mean changes are exclude
- Making Subtitle Search BetterWe’d like to take a minute to quickly announce that we’ve dramatically changed the way subtitle search works under the hood in XBMC. In XBMC 12.2, all subtitle search services are part of a single piece of code that comes in the form of the XBMC Subtitles addon that is r
- Jenkins, servers and mirrorsUsually we only post interesting facts about XBMC itself on our website like our monthly version or actual releases. Maybe it’s time to tell you a little about the infrastructure that goes behind all this. Without all this there wouldn’t really be much of a website, XBMC
- XBMC 13 Gotham – September and OctoberBecause of our Devcon 2013 meeting we were to busy to put up a decent monthly blog post. So let’s sum up the changes done so far after the September cyle. September cycle ActiveAE – A Simpler Approach to Audio With the September month’s alpha, we are also excite
- Gotham 13.0 Feature freezeAs you may have already read in our XBMC Devcon 2013 liveblog, we have decided that it’s time to feature freeze XBMC 13 “Gotham” and get ready for a new major version release. This feature freeze date has been set around the 10th of November 2013 so this means we have less
- Platform Statistics: OctoberXBMC runs on many platforms and everyone has their favourites, but ever wondered which is the most popular? Take a look at the chart below to find out (based on audio universal scraper usage). Currently Microsoft Windows makes up over half of the XBMC user base but this i
- XBMC DevCon 2013 LiveBlogGood morning, Germany! This live blog is intended to keep users up to date with DevCon conversations. I’ll likely update roughly once at the change of each hour, so there’s no real reason to constantly hit refresh. If you don’t see an update on the hour, I’ll hold back up up
- Beers, Users, and Devs NightWe apologize for the late notice, but for those of you in the Munich area we finally have a date and time for our Devs and Users Meet-up. We’ll be meeting at the NH München Dornach, Einsteinring 20. D-85609 Dornach. Munich at 19.30 (that’s 7:30PM for Americans) on this F
- XBMC DevCon 2013It’s been a busy year since XBMC’s 2012 Developers’ Conference. In that time, XBMC 12.2 was released. The Raspberry Pi became one of the most used (if not the single most used) pieces of hardware to run XBMC. Hardware decoding in Android has become a real thing if only in alpha build
- XBMC 13 - Gotham - August CycleFor those keeping track, we’ve just completed alpha #7 in the August cycle, which includes two absolutely massive new features: Stereoscopic 3D support and Android Hardware video decoding. As always, the monthly alpha build is available on our Snapshots page, and the t
- XBMC 13 -Gotham - June and July CyclesAs has been the case for a few months now, for those who just can’t wait for a write-up about the newest alpha but tend to steer clear of the bleeding edge of nightlies, the new build should typically be available on the 1st of the month at mirrors.xbmc.org/snap
- The New XBMC Website LookAfter quite a lot of hard work, we are very excited to present to everyone the new and improved look for XBMC.org (as well as a very necessary WordPress update). In particular, thanks go to Zag and Da-anda for their major contributions to the site, as well as Keith, Clumsy,
- XBMC 13 - Gotham - April and May cyclesWith the release of XBMC 12.2 and GSoC, not to mention some behind the scenes work going on, an April cycle announcement was not published; however, thanks to a new process, both the April cycle and May cycle builds were built rapidly and efficiently (and on ti
- Google Summer of Code StudentsAs of yesterday, all of those who applied for Google Summer of Code should have gotten their replies from the Google Open Source group. We are very excited to be working with the four students who were selected and are only sorry that we couldn’t select more, as there w
- This Site is the Only Official Source of XBMC SoftwareA few months ago, some of you may remember that a number of news sites wrote articles under the apparent mistaken impression that a site making a modified version of XBMC was an official XBMC source. For the most part, most of those sites (with t
- XBMC 12.2 - Even More Frodo!About a month and a half after the release of XBMC 12.1, we are happy to announce XBMC 12.2 with substantial fixes for 12.1 and 12.0 across all platforms. Fixes include: - Fixed infinite loop on addon dependencies, resolves crashing problem that arrose immediately post 12
- Students Time to start applying for GSoCHey all you students, now is the time to beginning applying to work with XBMC on your favorite project this summer during 2013′s Google Summer of Code. To apply: 2. Take a look at the XBMC Ideas page 3. Prepare an outline for your GSoC proposal using our outli
- XBMC 12.2pre testingIn between coding up exciting new features, we have been hard at work pushing as many fixes as possible into the next bug fix release of XBMC 12. With 12.2, we’d like to ask your help in performing some bug testing, prior to the release. Broadly speaking, we are only looking for
- Google Summer of Code 2013: Students, Get Ready!We are excited to announce to everyone that we have been accepted as an official GSOC 2013 mentor organization this year. GSoC 2012 was an incredible success for XBMC and XBMC users, as our Library, scrapers, and media server services took a massive le
- XBMC 13 - Gotham - March CycleWe are now finished with month #2 of our monthly development cycle for XBMC 13 – Gotham. This month we see new features for iOS, Android, and PVR, as well as a new notification system, a new method for sorting images, and much more. iOS Dev ulion has added a boatload of
- XBMC Goes Back to its Roots [April Fools]Sranshaft's Immersive skin is a leading candidate for new default XBMC skin After extensive contract talks and negotiations, we at XBMC are excited to announce an early agreement to work with Microsoft to replace the now defunct Windows Media Center with XBMC
- Google Summer of Code 2013We’d like to inform our users again that we have applied to be a mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code. As many of you know, we were accepted last year as well as in2008. As last year was such a success for the program, we have very high hopes that we
- OpenELEC 3.0.0 ReleasedCongratulations to our friends over at OpenELEC for their release of OpenELEC 3.0.0! OpenELEC is an embedded operating system built around XBMC designed to be as lightweight as possible. OpenELEC 3.0.0 incorporates XBMC 12.1 with support for NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel solutions, a
- XBMC 12.1 - Now Even BetterAbout a month and a half after the release of XBMC 12.0, we are happy to announce XBMC 12.1 with substantial fixes for 12.0 across all platforms. Fixes include: - XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in
- XBMC 13 - Gotham - February CycleBefore we get started with the Cycle release notes, we are going to let the cat out of the bag. Team XBMC has voted and determined that the development code name for XBMC 13 will be Gotham. Those of you with art skills are welcome to start putting together awesome XB
- XBMC now available on iOS 6.1 for Apple TVAs many of you likely have been aware, neither XBMC nor any other non-Apple media center has been available for the updated Apple TV 2 Software 5.2 (iOS 6.1). Now, we are pleased to announce that XBMC finally supports this update, thanks to the incredible wo
- XBMC Server Update, SCALE, and Other NotesNow that some of the excitement of the XBMC 12 release has blown over, we need to take a moment to handle some maintenance and take a look at the very near future. ### Server Update First up, this Sunday (Feb. 10th) starting at 2100 UTC (1PM PST), we are fin
- XBMC 12.0 - FrodoEveryone at Team XBMC is proud and excited to announce the long awaited XBMC 12 “Frodo.” Features for XBMC 12 include: HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (OSX/iOS not yet available) Live TV and PVR support h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video
- XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 3We would like to take this time to announce the third release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include: HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine Live TV and PVR support h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software deco
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- XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 2We would quickly like to take this time to announce the second release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include: HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine Live TV and PVR support h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video soft
- XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 1We would quickly like to take this time to announce the first release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include: HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine Live TV and PVR support h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video softw
- XBMC 12 Frodo - Beta 3Hot on the heels of Beta 2, we are excited to release Beta 3. This release includes a number of fixes as we work to resolve issues that have cropped up since Beta 2 and also attempt to isolate some issues that still exist. For a quick run down of some of the big ones: Users of
- XBMC 12 Frodo - Beta 2 Now with Android!We are excited to announce Beta 2 of XBMC 12 today, as it brings with it many fixes and one long awaited major update. As you know, XBMC currently supports OSX, Linux, Windows, iOS, and the ARM-based Raspberry Pi. That’s a great list, but anyone paying attenti
- XBMC 12.0 Frodo - Beta 1Update: There was a packaging issue with the Beta1 Windows build that caused some scrapers to not install correctly. This has since been resolved, any Windows Beta1 users should grab the repack available at the download page. It’s been a mere eight months since Team XBMC rele
- Frodo Feature Freeze! - And the October CycleThe rumors are true. As you may have noticed if you avidly watch XBMC development on Github, we have now entered Feature Freeze for the upcoming release of XBMC 12: Frodo. For the average user, this means a couple things. First, you should begin to see XB
- Dear addon and skin developers!As you might already know, XBMC has moved translations handling to a great web based translation system called Transifex lately for the Frodo release. This turned out to work really awesome with the help of our regular and a lot of new translators. Translators would lo
- OpenELEC 2.0 now available - Now with PVR SupportFor those of you interested in using XBMC purely as an appliance, which is to say, for those of you who don’t want to deal with a full operating system like Windows or OSX, and would rather boot directly into a super fast, super efficient version of X
- XBMC September CycleAs mentioned previously, we have now moved into a monthly development cycle, in which we merge new features at the beginning of the month and then perform bug fixes through the rest of the month. This means, at the end of every month, developers, bug-reporters, and those willing
- 10 Years of XBMCHappy Birthday To Us! Today marks a very important and proud milestone in our history. On 5th October 2002, one of the first ever betas of the XBMC source code was uploaded, as the result of a merge between two different home theatre applications. Frodo, the founder of “YAMP” (Yet An
- Our Content Information ProvidersWe really don’t spend enough time pointing out and thanking those individuals and websites who make the entire XBMC experience possible by agreeing to be included as default XBMC addons and scrapers. Every time you turn on XBMC, browse your library, and navigate your
- XBMC August 2012 CycleAs mentioned previously, we have now moved into a monthly development cycle, in which we merge new features at the beginning of the month and then perform bug fixes through the rest of the month. This means, at the end of every month, developers, bug-reporters, and those willin
- Meetup Postponed to Next DevCon/SCALE/LinuxTagOur apologies to Vienna users. The lack of consistent internet plus the incredible amount of discussion and work that we’ve managed over the past two days has made it next to impossible to put together and adequately advertise a Meetup in time. Even as t
- DevCon 2012 & User MeetupIt’s been nearly two years since Team XBMC has gotten together in person to discuss the past, present, and future of the XBMC project. The cost and complexity of getting 30+ people from nearly every corner of the world to one place is truly staggering. As such, we are please
- XBMC 11.0 - July CycleAs mentioned previously, we have now moved into a monthly development cycle, in which we merge new features at the beginning of the month and then perform bug fixes through the rest of the month. This means, at the end of every month, developers, bug-reporters, and those willin
- Multi-Content Addons - a Note for Addon WritersThis is just a quick note for addon developers. A recent change to the codebase from the August cycle has added a new “content\type” parameter. With this parameter, addons that provide access to content that includes both audio and video (like the Inter
- XBMC and Ouya? Oh Yeah!Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe it was because of the hundreds, if not thousands, of demands on Twitter, in blogs, on Facebook, in Reddit, and in Kickstarter comments. Maybe it’s because many of Team Ouya support XBMC, and nearly a third of Team XBMC members are Ouya backers. R
- XBMC For AndroidWe have been keeping a little secret.. the kind that is so much fun to share when the time comes. Today we announce XBMC for Android. Not a remote, not a thin client; the real deal. No root or jailbreak required. XBMC can be launched as an application on your set-top-box, tablet, pho
- XBMC4Xbox Update.webp As you should all know by now, Team XBMC does not maintain a build for the original Xbox. With that said, a few valiant souls have continued to port over some of the more beneficial lines of XBMC code and done other bug fixing the keep the aging Xbox as a valid option for many
- GSoC 2012 Statistics gatheringHi everyone! As you all may or may not know I’ve been tasked to clean up parts of the scraping process in my GSoC project. A first step to this is to gather some information so that we statistically can say what formats your media is formatted in: do you usually have do
- XBMC 11.0 - June CycleAs mentioned previously, we have now moved into a monthly development cycle, in which we merge new features at the beginning of the month and then perform bug fixes through the rest of the month. This means, at the end of every month, developers, bug-reporters, and those willin
- XBMC 11.0 - May Cycle (updated)As mentioned previously, we have now moved into a monthly development cycle, in which we merge new features at the beginning of the month and then perform bug fixes through the rest of the month. This means, at the end of every month, developers, bug-reporters, and tho
- XBMC Audio goes HDIt’s been long-awaited, oft-discussed and it’s finally here – AudioEngine for XBMC! What is AudioEngine? A complete re-write of the core audio sub-system of XBMC, and a two-year project comprising some 22,000 lines of code. Spear-headed by lead-developer gnif, with contributions fr
- New translation serviceAs some of you might have noticed, we are in the process of making life for all hard working translators a whole lot easier. And for those of you who wanted to contribute with translating XBMC but have always thought it was too much hassle, we have now made it easier than ever
- XBMC 11.0 - April CycleAs mentioned previously, we have now moved into a monthly development cycle, in which we merge new features at the beginning of the month and then perform bug fixes through the rest of the month. This means, at the end of every month, developers, bug-reporters, and those willi
- Update Grab-bagThere is lots going on in XBMC-land, so now seems like a good time for an update on all fronts. I’d like to touch quickly on several areas, there are sure to be some follow-ups coming soon. We’ve been busy This was mentioned a few weeks ago on the forum but was never brought up here:
- FLIRC - a new (old) way to control XBMCIn a continuation of the series begun with our write-up of the USB-CEC adapter, we would like to take the time today to highlight another adapter out there that makes controlling XBMC dramatically easier. This week, I’d like to introduce Chris (psuedo7 in the f
- XBMC Accepted into DebianLinux users rejoice! Thanks primarily to the hard work of Andres Mejia, XBMC has been accepted into the official Debian distribution! In the past we have been unable to make it into Debian as the sheer size and complexity of XBMC made the review process so difficult, so Andr
- XBMC 11.0 - EdenIt’s been over a year in the works and today we are excited to announce that XBMC 11.0 is finally ready and available for download. You can find XBMC 11.0 here. XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default skin), massive speed increases v
- Google Summer of Code 2012: UpdateWe are pleased and excited to announce to everyone that we have been accepted as an official GSOC mentor organization this year. From now until the 26th, we would like to encourage all our faithful student users (and other interested students) to visit our GSOC Idea
- Google Summer of Code 2012A quick note to let our users know that we have applied to be a sponsor for this year’s GSOC. Some of you may recall that we were accepted a few years ago, and by proxy thanks to the BeagleBoard project in 2010. We’re confident that the recent buzz from the Raspberry Pi amo
- XBMC 11 Eden: RC2We are pleased to announce that the video sync bug introduced has been resolved and Release Candidate 2 released in record time. For those of you who skipped RC1, a review of major changes since Beta 3 may be found in this post. Additionally, you are welcome, as always, to review ou
- XBMC 11 Eden: RC1: UPDATEXBMC 11 Eden: RC1, ready for take off. Today we are excited to announce Eden Release Candidate 1. It has been a productive few weeks since Beta 3, as we’ve ironed out numerous minor (and one or two major) bugs. In particular, we’ve: - Given preference to external subtitles o
- Forum Upgrade - It’s finally happening!This is just a quick note. Over the next few weeks, the team plans on finally updating the forums to more modern, open source software that will play nice with current browsers and will connect with plugins that will allow for better mobile browsing. Right now,
- XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 3 available now [Updated]As we continue moving toward the release of Eden, more and more fixes are slotting into place. With Beta 3, we’ve fixed playlist issues, altered some misbehaving Library buttons, provided a little more control over the way movie sets are scraped, and cle
- XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available nowIt’s been a productive few weeks in the race to release Eden. Since Beta 1, unencrypted bluray, dvd player, startup problems in OSX, airplay, subtitle issues, unofficial addon repository installations, and the frustrating TMDB scraper problems that have made it di
- Operation SOPA/PIPA BlackoutOn January 18th, the entire XBMC.org website will go black in protest of SOPA/PIPA. XBMC prefers to avoid political activism. It is our opinion that we are builders of software. Awesome software, to be precise. And we, as a group, do not care one bit how our users choose
- Scale 10XJust a quick note everyone. XBMC will once again be in attendance at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 10x), and we’d love to see everyone who isn’t TOO far away. Right now, it’s looking like Malloc (Sean), theuni (Cory), Keith (Keith), and I (Nate) will all be there with a primo bo
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- Updated: Possible Unreachable Time TonightWe will be changing registrars and nameservers for xbmc.org tonight (US time), which could lead to a brief unreachable period (via DNS) while the records propagate around the net. The move will affect this site, the forum, the wiki, trac, our email, and addo
- XBMC 11.0 Eden: Beta available nowIt took a bit longer than expected due to a few bumps in the road, but we are excited to present the first preview release of (what we consider to be) the best version of the best home theater software out there. Ladies and Gentlemen, XBMC 11.0 Eden: Beta 1 is avail
- Welcome sponsor: Weather UndergroundYou may have noticed that for the past few weeks the Weather section of XBMC has become unable to provide updated information due to our default weather provider moving to a fully fee-based API. A brief scramble ensued, and the change provided the kick-in-the-pant
- Addon Authors, please prepare for EdenThis is just a quick note for addon authors. "Please return your trays and seatbacks to upright position and prepare for Eden." XBMC 11.0 Eden represents the first update to the addon repository since Dharma was released and a number of API changes have occurred
- Feature Friday: Hidden HTPCsFor this week’s Feature Friday, we decided to go a bit different in our theme. Rather than focusing on one setup, we decided to pull together as many setups as we could under a common theme, where the winning entries would receive a Pulse Eight USB CEC Adapter or a TotalM
- Photo Challenge: Contest ClosedQuick update: That does it folks! Thanks for your several dozen submissions. Just a quick glance tells me this is going to be a difficult one to judge. Looks like the non-busy members of the Team have some work to do.
- Photo Challenge: Hidden HTPC - UpdateAs many of you know, we’ve set a challenge for this week’s Feature Friday for you to submit your best hidden HTPC. At present, we’ve already gotten quite a few entries. Keep those coming! We’d just like to update with the announcement that now we can confirm the
- Don’t Look UpThanks to some unexpected freeing up of time (and more news unrelated to Feature Friday), we are happy to announce that Feature Fridays are back on the menu. As always, if you have a setup you’d like featured, feel free to send it in to natethomas AT xbmc DOT org (also, see the end of t
- Brief Weather BulletinAs a quick followup to the previous article, we are happy to say that XBMC Eden-Pre now has working weather once again, using an addon created by Amet that connects with World Weather Online. To turn weather on, one must install a nightly build of XBMC Eden-Pre no older than 20
- Weekend Weather UpdateAs many of you are aware, recent API changes have forced XBMC and most XBMC-based software offshoots to change the way they handle their weather app. We have refrained from commenting until now, because the Team wanted to internally discuss what the best step forward would be.
- The USB-CEC Adapter is a look into the FutureSometime around 2006 or 2007, I modded my first Xbox. I admit it, I’m practically a n00b in the realm of XBMC hacking. I didn’t even know what YAMP or Xbox Media Player were until I researched them! I bring this up because since that amazing day I haven’t
- OpenELEC 1.0 releasedTeam XBMC would happily like to congratulate Team OpenELEC on their release of v1.0. OpenELEC, for those who don’t know, is somewhat similar to XBMC Live. The basic concept is that the user interacts with XBMC without once having to visit a non-XBMC screen. The similarities betw
- XBMC Addon RollbacksToday we’d like to feature a much less visible component of the upcoming Eden that is, nevertheless, something the team deems extremely important. As a rule, we believe that a user’s install of XBMC is his or her own install of XBMC. That’s why you won’t be clicking through any t
- XBMC Eden Skinning ChangesThat's smooth skin! Confluence has been XBMC’s default skin for approximately 2 years now. In software dev terms, that makes it practically ancient. Fortunately, XBMC’s JezzX has been on the case to update Confluence so that it might better take advantage of a bushel bag of
- Feature Freeze: Looking Forward to EdenToday marks the first step in the long-awaited release cycle for Eden: soft-freeze. Other than what is already slated for entry, no new features may be added unless they’re deemed critical for release. After that comes a hard freeze, when all APIs are frozen an
- One Network to Rule Them AllLet’s talk about brilliant user Jon from Florida. Jon has two things going for him. First of all, he started using XBMC back in the glory days when “XBMC” wasn’t a recursive name for XBMC Media Center. Second, he doesn’t do things half way. When he decided to install XBMC
- A Call for XBMC writersAs you may have noticed, our blog has often been lacking in content, outside of the occasional Feature Friday. We would like to change that. Starting right now, we will begin accepting applications for up to five XBMC writers. The pay is terrible (i.e. you will not get paid),
- Neat and Clean… and Swedish!If you’re looking for clean lines and an elegant use of color and lighting, one need look no further than the living room of Nik from Sweden. Nik's Place Nik was one of the very first people to post his setup on the XBMC Facebook Fanpage. Ever since then, after convincing
- August 2011 Hardware GuideAs time goes by, it becomes more and more evident that an incredibly expensive computer is not necessary to run an adequate version of XBMC. In fact, assuming you have a server somewhere else in the house that hosts your media, the cost of running XBMC on a modern machine i
- Feature Friday: 24 Terabytes of awesomeThis is Micah’s gaming PC. Gaming PC says hi Often, Micah will play a few quick hours of Star Trek Online with his gaming PC. Naturally, this means he needs some serious processor power, which is why the PC is equipped with a Core i7 3.06GHz quad-core processor
- Feature Friday: XBMC Pres Jonathan MarshallThis is Jonathan Marshall. He’s a New Zealander and the president of the XBMC Foundation, and right now he’s standing in his crawl space. You may note the lack of a floor in his house. Jonathan Marshall in his 2 feet deep basement Jonathan has been with the
- Feature Friday: Pure ImaginationHold your breath Make a wish Count to three Where the Magic Happens Come with me to the home of Lutz, one of our Germany XBMC users. Lutz’s home doesn’t have a bat cave or any other kind of man cave. There are no super creative touch screens or repurposed upstairs bed
- What’s Going On: Solstice EditionAs it’s been a little while since the Team’s taken a look around the community, it seems high time to do just that. TV Logos (extra credit if you can name all 5 shows on the screen in the comments) First off, chances are, if you’ve used a modern skin that isn’t Confl
- Working with dirty regionsSome of you may remember that back in 2010, Tobias (topfs2) began working on a GSOC project to improve XBMC performance on the BeagleBoard. Many optimizations came out of this project, but the most ambitious feature was dirty region rendering. The short of it is that a majo
- And without further ado…A bit over a month ago, Team XBMC started a mascot contest that resulted in a 49 page thread in our forum, so many amazing Mascot contestants that we had to push back the results to get the best vote we could within the team, and quite a few new avatars and forum signatures.
- Contest results delayed - just a littleHey all, this is only a brief note. As you know, we are currently hosting a contest for a new XBMC mascot, and the results of that contest were supposed to be finished and announced today. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our community went absolutely above and
- Feature Friday: XBMC, easy as 1-2-3For this week’s Feature Friday, we turn to AJ Perkins of the UK. AJ has a pretty awesome living room setup, but this week we’d like to take a break from just telling you about how awesome the various homes of users are. Instead, I’d like to ask you to bring a loved
- XBMC StatisticsAs a group, Team XBMC has been curious for quite some time about how popular the website and XBMC actually are with the general population. I know many users have also asked similar questions. This post is intended answer a lot of those questions. My apologies if that makes it run fai
- Feature Friday: Spending Money to Save MoneyJon Barrow is married with four children. An average trip to the movie theater for a family of that size would require two $10 tickets, plus four $8 tickets. That’s $42 $52 before the candy, popcorn, and soda. Most times, they have to leave the youngest wi
- Reporting from LinuxTagWe have been attending LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany since wednesday the 11th. As always it has been a great experience and we have meet a lot of interested people, both current users and hopefully new users. As you can see, we have been pretty busy demonstrating the system, mos
- Feature Friday: Doubling Up Halfway Around the WorldA US service member was living in Great Falls, MT. When the military reassigned him to a base in Turkey, he was met with the unenviable task of trying to squeeze all of the home theater equipment that easily fit is his old house into a much smaller
- Mascot ContestTeam XBMC is interested in finding a mascot for XBMC. To that end, we have decided to have a competition in which you, the user, can submit drawings for what you think an ideal mascot would be. Can you make the XBMC Mascot? The winner will receive a Nyxboard Hybrid Remote and an OpenEL
- Updated add-on repository for nightly usersFor those of you using unstable or nightly builds, you will soon notice a change in available add-ons at the xbmc.org repository. Dharma users shouldn’t fret as nothing changes for stable add-ons. With each new version of XBMC, there are sure to be changes
- Feature Friday BIG SCREEN small roomFor this week’s Feature Friday, we’re going to move from the kitchen to a tiny, spare bedroom. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the massive home theaters with moving parts, star-lit skies, curved screens, and more insulation than an average person could shak
- What’s going on around the community remotes, skins, and addonsRather than focusing on developer work within the team, we thought we’d switch this post up to focus on work by the community at large. But before we do, a quick announcement. For those of you who don’t already know, we’ve decided to nam
- Feature Friday: The Kitchen Hi-FiIn this first edition of Feature Friday, we are going to forego the boring old bat cave and million dollar living room in favor of a wee bit of creativity. Brilliant user Oliver Owen, of the UK, has been using various versions of XBMC since 2003. He has had XBMC inst
- See us at LinuxTagFor the third year in a row we are going to exhibit on LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition is running from May 11 to 14 at the Berlin Fairgrounds (Messedamm 22) in hall 7 (S-Bahn station Messe Süd, next to the Deutschlandhalle). We will be in hall 7.2.a booth 101. If you ar
- What's Going On: April Fools - Non-Technical EditionIt’s been a bit over a month since last we let you in on the inner workings of the Team, so we figured it was time to bring everyone up to date on some new and slightly less new developments. Today it’s going to be technical-light, but we promise n
- [April Fool's Day] Partnership with Sony, Movie streaming Add-on unveiledToday we are proud to announce an exciting new partnership. In early May 2010, a representative at Sony Japan’s Home Theater and Console division expressed interest in using XBMC as a delivery platform for its newest content. A
- Skin updatesAs you may remember, XBMC 10.1 was recently released in order to address a bug that would cause a crash for Windows users when receiving an automatic update for the current skin. Now that a few weeks have gone by we are comfortable sending out skin updates. For those of you who still hav
- Follow-Up: What’s going on?Thanks to everyone who commented on the last post. Apparently there’s enough interest to justify some technical ramblings every now and then. As promised, here is a follow-up to address the popular questions and comments. Next up after SCALE will be a few words about add-o
- Feature Friday: Cords AwayPerhaps the single most popular picture ever posted to the XBMC Facebook Fanpage (‘like’ us, if you haven’t already) had almost nothing at all to do with XBMC. Palle Olsen was tired of trying to hide his cords. All the usual methods didn’t work or ended up even more clutter
- Bug-fix Release: 10.1While we are moving quickly to get new features into 11.0, the time has come for a maintenance release for Dharma. We recommend that all users update to 10.1 as soon as possible to increase stability. The main focus of this release is to address a bug that could cause XBMC to fr
- What’s going on?I promised an update a few weeks ago and here it is. Better late than never! There’s lots to discuss about what’s going on with XBMC development work. So how about this.. I’ll provide an overview as to what’s in the works, then respond to any questions/comments in a follow-up post. T
- SCALE 9x and XBMC Meetup - UpdateAfter discussion, the Team has agreed on a time and place for this meetup, and we’re all very excited to actually get to meet a few of you in person. Details below. And if you’re even thinking about going, please say so below. We don’t need a headcount, but it really
- Scale 9x and XBMC MeetupAs some of you may know, XBMC will have a booth at SCALE 9x at the LAX Hilton on February 25th through the 27th. This year the booth will be manned by Cory Fields (theuni), Sean Soria (malloc), and Nathan Betzen (natethomas). We’d all love to see you there. Additionally, our
- Updated: XBMC update for iDevice/AppleTV2We expected a good amount of interest from the last post, but the response was overwhelming. As a result, we have been hard at work fixing bugs and adding missing features from the first release. So here it is, v2 of XBMC for your AppleTV2/iDevices. Update: A
- You asked for it: XBMC for AppleTV2, iPad, iPhone4.The XBMC team is proud to present our first ARM-based release, and it’s a big one. Scott Davilla, with the help of Edgar (gimli) Hucek and Zeljko (amet) Ametovic and several other developers and testers, is finally ready to pull the curtain off of h
- Updated: More About SigmaUpdate: There was a typo in Sigma’s press release and our resulting post. Their XBMC port was done on the SMP 8656 which supports Open GL ES. GLES will also be supported on Sigma’s recently announced SMP 8910, so this may be a potential target for XBMC as well. For those ask
- XBMC Port From SigmaToday Sigma Designs announced(pdf) that they are working to bring XBMC to their popular line of system-on-a-chip models (their new SMP8656 in particular). For those not familiar with Sigma, they are a major player in the set-top box market and their SOCs are the heart of many pro
- Updated: XBMC Moves to GitAs we discussed in a recent post, XBMC is finally moving to a current SCM. Many of us have been using git-svn for quite a while anyway, but the burden of doing a real migration has kept us from making the switch. Today the migration begins. We have picked GitHub as our host
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- XBMC 10.0It’s been a LONG time coming. Too long. But here it is. XBMC 10.0 “Dharma” is ready for consumption. Those who have been following development know that add-ons are the main focus of this release. In the past, in order to find a new skin, you would have to dig through the forums, find a lin
- The XBMC FoundationThe XBMC Foundation was established as a non-profit entity on January 16, 2009. Since then we haven’t really released much information about the Foundation. We know this is something that comes up occasionally in the forums and there is a great deal of misleading information being
- Improving our development processAt this year’s DevCon we took a long hard look our development process; we decided that while it works, it is starting to show a few cracks and we know we can do better. We have a lot of issues with the current development model, mostly due to a lack of communication
- XBMC DevCon 2010 SummaryIt has been a few weeks since the annual XBMC Developers Conference (DevCon) took place and we thought it was about time that we gave you some feedback about what took place. What follows is a rundown of what happened at DevCon, who the sponsors for the event were, a brief di
- Dharma RC2Dharma RC2 is ready, and this one is a Release Candidate in the truest sense. There are a few reasons we decided to do one last pre-release: Shoutcast support has been redone. Listening to your favorite online radio stations with the shoutcast plugin is now a much nicer experience. The add
- Dharma RC1It’s that time again. After an extremely productive DevCon where we hammered out some nasty bugs, we’re proud to announce Dharma Release Candidate 1. Major fixes since Beta4: A fix for a problem when pausing/seeking. This was known to cause static or erratic behavior on some amplifiers. Be
- DevCon 2010It has been quite a while since the XBMC team has gotten together as a group to discuss the project in person. The time and effort it takes to assemble a group of people from around the world is truly staggering. We are proud to announce that this year’s conference is being sponsored by a
- Dharma Beta 4Well, beta 3 had a few regressions. So rather than moving along to rc1, we decided to throw out one last (we hope!) beta. There a few things to take note of: - Live now contains an Audio Mixer. You’ll find it in the Programs section. Non-Live users (Linux and OSX) may install it from th
- Dharma Beta 3Nearly one month after the release of Beta 2, the latest Dharma pre-release is ready for testing. We have been working very hard to to stabilize XBMC for the final release; there have been over 300 commits to the release branch since the last beta. Notable fixes include: - Lots of Live
- Updated: Planned Add-ons Downtime - Now Done.Thanks to the excellent mirrorbrain project, we will be upgrading the backend to our mirror system tomorrow to take advantage of some new features, some of them were even added at our request (thanks again Peter)! As a result, beta testers for the upcomin
- Dharma Beta 2Just over two weeks after beta1, the next pre-release version of Dharma is ready for testing. We have closed many bugs, touched up some translations, and updated a substantial number of addons. With beta2, we also made the last-minute decision to include web-interfaces as addons. This m
- Finally out the door: Dharma Beta1Today we announce the first beta in what we hope is a very short pre-release cycle. Dharma has been in development for over 9 months now, and we’re quite happy with the result. The improvements are too many to name, but head over to the milestone page to get an idea
- Weekly report 12This is the last weekly report and I would like to thank google and the beagleboard community for the fun summer! It have been a wonderful opportunity and I’ve learned heaps and gotten extremely interested in embedded development. Status Done further investigation regarding finding t
- Weekly Report 11Before we go into the actual status report I would like to be abit nostalgic, this is the last week of feature addition after all. Before GSoC XBMC didn’t even compile on angstrom and now I just finished watching a SD video which ran without the BeagleBoard breaking much of a sweat!
- Weekly report 10Status Overlay is scaled and positioned according to how the skin wants it. Overlay playback is tearing free and rather fast. Runs bunny 480p almost perfect while before it was about 5fps. Finally got crosscompile working. Thanks again koen for all your help providing me with builds
- Weekly report 9Status OMAP Overlay is hooked up to XBMC and works rather well (for a few seconds) Switched the yuv transformation from swscale to the NEON method created by mru. Have created a hack that should get rid of the memcpy, needs major redesign though to get it into trunk though but probabl
- Weekly report 8Status Understood how OMAP Overlay works and how it should be done, thanks to måns awesome application omapfbplay. Implemented a VideoRenderer in XBMC which transforms from yuv420p to yuv422p via swscale. I might use the neon optimized from Måns at a later stage but for now I isolate
- Dharma BranchedLast night jmarshall created the Dharma branch, which will eventually become the stable Dharma release. That means that from this point on, only fixes and important updates will go into the release branch, while trunk remains open for business. So for all the skinners, translators, an
- Official XBMC Remote for AndroidNearly a year ago, topfs2 started working on a remote client for Android phones and was shortly joined by me, not even having my phone yet. The project grew rapidly and soon thealien and mikkle joined the show. While the app was always freely available via Google Code
- Weekly report 7Status Finally gotten the dirty region based rendering solution to work on the Beagle Board. During the week I’ve tried rendering to a framebuffer and render this buffer to the backbuffer but it was incredibly slow but Måns Rullgård (mru) pointed me to track dirty regions from 2 frame
- Submit your Add-OnsIt’s been quite a while since we’ve posted an update, but rest assured we’ve been very busy behind the scenes. The new add-ons system is now nearly complete, the only missing piece is the add-ons themselves. So let’s fix that! Here’s a quick refresher course for those who may have
- Weekly report 6Last week have been a busy week indeed and I have focused on getting the dirty region based rendering to work. I am glad I followed my mentor’s advice and did dirty region before moving to an event based rendering, especially considering that when dirty region rendering works we have
- Weekly report 5Status Finally XBMC runs on Angstrom, turns out it was optical code paths deadlocking while loading. Commited a –disable-optical-drive on the gsoc branch. XBMC Runs on C4 at about 10-15 fps (15fps in 640×480 and 10 in 720p) but koen have tried it on the new BeagleBoard xM which does a
- LinuxTag ReportLinuxTag 2010 was a great success, and XBMC was there in Berlin to do its part. In attendance this year: Sigurdur Olafsson (sho), Stephan Diederich (mdd), Gunnar Norin (blittan), Michael Probst (Stephan’s friend and helper for the week), and Cory Fields (theuni). Also, Matthias Kortst
- Weekly report 4After discussion with my mentor we decided to not use the EVAS model suggested in my last weekly report. While it might have worked it would have taken to much time to realize which is a bad idea due to the limited time of GSoC. Hence I have started altering the guilib to do the actua
- Weekly report 3Since I’ve been without computer the last week the status update will be slim. Status Committed the initial patches to get XBMC on Ångström building Decided on an abstracted rendering model which works like EVAS. Basically guilib will add drawable elements to the render system. When a
- Weekly report 2While I had exams last week there were some major work done with getting Ångström working as a development environment for XBMC, much thanks to the extremely helpful people over at #beagle!. The plans for next weeks will consist mostly of reading up on already created technologies as
- Weekly report 1Finally the GSoC have begun and while I have been plauged with exams this week I have made some accomplishments. It is sad but next week will also be filled with exams but hopefully I will find some time during the weekend. First of I planned to fix up and use Ångström but since I jus
- Farewell XBOXXBMC (XBMP really) started as a program for modified XBOX consoles. In the following years, XBMC has grown into a multi-platform, multi-architecture media center that runs on most standard hardware. The hardware and legal limitations of the XBOX were always a concern and the Team has in
- Weekly report 0First Weekly report of GSoC 2010, this is what have been done prior to the actual start. Status Downloaded ångström files and partitioned the SD-Card Recieved the BeagleBoard Installed and set up ScratchBox Sandbox version on the EventBased solution Plans Install the ånströmdistributi
- Beagleboard project for GSOC 2010I have been selected by the Beagleboard community and Google to work on Google Summer of Code 2010. My project will consist of optimizing the rendering of XBMC for the embedded market. The Beagleboard is an arm based embedded device. Similar hardware can be found in
- Come see us at LinuxTag and OSCONFor the second year, XBMC will be hosting a booth at LinuxTag in Berlin, June 9-12. The list of exhibitors is quite impressive, and there will be several influential speakers. For the Americans, we will also be attending OSCON on July 19-23 in Portland, Oregon. This
- Interview with Linux JournalAfter meeting the fine folks from Linux Journal at SCALE this year, we discussed doing an interview to give their readers more insight into the world of XBMC. A few months later Steven Evatt tracked me down for a quick Q/A. See here for the result, and don’t forget to lea
- Zotac shows off with XBMCThis promotional video has been linked several times in the XBMC IRC channels in the last few days so it seemed appropriate to post here (it gets good at about 3:00). It’s flattering to see that the manufacturers have taken notice of our project, and even seem to have it in
- OSX Gets H.264 AccelerationApple has long been known to be tapping the GPU for accelerated video decode under OSX with their private applications such as iTunes or QuickTime player. Even with the AppleTV, there are there hints of some sort of CPU/GPU decoding deep down inside the private OS framewor
- XBMC Gains RepresentationIn another sign that the project is growing up, we are happy to announce that XBMC is now legally represented by the Software Freedom Law Center. This has been in the works since our introduction at SCALE a few months back and today it is official. From their website: We pro
- State of the addonsIt’s been a while since we’ve updated our readers on the status of things, so I wanted to give a quick preview of how the addons are shaping up. Many nightly users are itching for new builds, and those that have compiled their own have been greeted by broken plugins, scrapers, etc
- We’re back!After a nasty lightning strike at our ISP, we were temporarily left with no networking and no power. That in itself is not so bad. Unfortunately, due to the power loss, there was substantial filesystem corruption and data loss to deal with. After the crash, we were able to recover everyth
- Impending Merge: AddonsThe next version of XBMC is shaping up quite well, with a host of new features already in. For a refresher, see a few posts back. Next up is the merge from the addons branch, the underpinning of the new addons manager (go figure) as well as the basis for the PVR frontend branc
- Welcome Sponsor: 9×9 NetworksWe would like to welcome our latest sponsor, 9×9 Networks. The nice people over at 9×9 are using XBMC as a frontend for their delivery network, and have agreed to make a reasonable annual donation to the XBMC Foundation to help us with travel expenses for conferences, ac
- Xbmc.org Gets a New HomeAs I alluded in the last post, the main xbmc.org site, as well as the wiki, trac, and forum have all been moved to a new location, graciously provided by WebHostingBuzz. They have stepped up in a huge way and provided an 8-core Xeon server with all the bells and whistles at t
- SCALE 2010 ReportLast weekend I got the opportunity to fly out to sunny (or so I thought) California for the 8th annual SCALE expo. Sean (malloc) and I had a great time shaking hands with users, talking about XBMC, and meeting developers and volunteers from a vast number of projects. It was especial
- Coming soonIt’s been a while since we’ve posted about the work currently going into XBMC, so here’s a quick taste of what’s been added lately, what’s in the works, and what we’re dreaming of: - DXVA2: Elupus has already added the initial code for gpu offloading in Windows (Vista/7 only). Not to be c
- XBMC and The BBCSeveral forum users have brought to our attention this article from the register. Here’s the scoop (from the article): The BBC has quietly updated its hugely popular iPlayer with a verification layer that closes the door on open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging pro
- Linux.conf.au ReportDavid Teirney and I just got back from hosting a successful booth at the Linux.conf.au open day in Wellington, NZ. It was great to meet a bunch of people and show them just what XBMC is all about. In particular it was great meeting Erik de Castro Lopo of libsamplerate fame, which
- Followup: Bots and MirrorsAfter the recent post introducing our new build services and content delivery system, the response from users wishing to help out has been quite impressive. I wanted to quickly follow-up with another ‘thank you’ to the community that never ceases to amaze. Seven mirrors hav
- Come join us at Linux.conf.au and SCALEIf you happen to live near Wellington, New Zealand, you should drop by Linux.conf.au on January 23rd. Our very own Jonathan Marshall will be there hosting an XBMC booth along with David Teirney. Check out the full list of exhibitors here. For those of you on th
- XBMC is growing up. Gains cool new services.Remember a few weeks back when we announced our new Bytemark server? Well, we’ve already put it to very good use. In addition to setting up the buildbot mentioned previously, we’ve also created an extremely versatile file repository for XBMC use. Over the
- Rapier 3.0: Ready For ConsumptionWhat a way to kick off the new year with the release of Camelot and then the flurry of skins released thereafter. It’s time I join in on the release frenzy and add Rapier 3.0 to the mix. It’s been awhile since the last update and the changes are too numerous to list
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- Broadcom Crystal HD, It's Magic.1080p HD content playback has always been the Holy Grail for any Media Center application but this has traditionally been difficult; playback using software decode alone requires a very hefty CPU and hardware decoding has only been made available recently using the nV
- Xperience Beta1 ReleasedIt’s been a busy week for skins: first Transparency!, then Xperience. As promised in their teaser video a few weeks back, team Blackbolt has unveiled Beta1 of their NXE-inspired skin. Of course, it requires the fancy new Camelot version of XBMC. You can grab the skin here, an
- XBMC 9.11: CamelotIt’s been quite a while in the making (and maybe a bit late), but Camelot has arrived for Windows, OSX, Linux, and XBMC Live, and just in time for the holidays. Noteworthy changes include a revamped user interface via the new default skin “Confluence“, DirectX support by default fo
- Transparency! v2.11 releasedIf you have been running XBMC 9.04 until now, it must have been a big disappointment that you couldn’t check out all the new skins, as every one of them required you to install an unstable XBMC svn version. Luckily, with the release of XBMC 9.11 Camelot, this has come to
- XBMC 9.11: RC1 ready for testingThe testing process is winding down, and we are happy to present XBMC 9.11 Release Candidate 1. Assuming there are no major show-stoppers, we expect that this will be the last pre-release before final. That means that this is your last chance to report major bugs, or
- Xperience TeaserXBMCG33K 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
- Welcome Bytemark: Hosting SponsorLately 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
- XBMC 9.11: Beta2 ready for testingDevelopment for Camelot is winding down, and we have a new beta for all brave users to try. We have closed just under 200 bugs since the last beta (to be fair, some of those were translations and other small patches). That is an impressive number, thanks to all who
- Updated: XBMC 9.11 Beta1: Introducing ConfluenceAs the testing portion of Camelot continues, we would like to introduce Confluence as the new default XBMC skin. We have also stopped including the original Project Mayhem III skin (Don’t worry, PM3.HD is still there). It will be added to the gallery s
- Virtual Controller by EqUiNoXIn another bit of late news, here’s a cool new app from EqUiNoX. This handy (and skinnable) program lets you control XBMC from anywhere on your network. Sadly, it’s Windows only so I can’t test it myself, though I’m sure it’s up to EqUiNoX’s usual high standards. Head ov
- Updated: TheTVDB.com DowntimeAs many of our forum users have pointed out, thetvdb.com is currently down. This notice is a bit late, it seems that they’ve been having trouble all weekend. Obviously, as thetvdb is the default TV scraper for XBMC, many of you will not be able to scrape your shows. Not
- XBMC 9.11: Alpha2 ready for testingThe second testing release in the Camelot series has been tagged and is now available for general consumption. The first Alpha was a great success; all of the known issues listed in the previous announcement have been fixed, along with a slew of others. All of thos
- XBMC 9.11: Alpha1 ready for testingToday we are pleased to announce the first official testing release of 9.11, Codename: Camelot. It’s been quite a while since Babylon, so we’re very excited to begin the release cycle and work towards a new release. Please keep in mind that this is an early alpha b
- Ubuntu 9.10 ReleasedAs our readers probably know by now, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released today with many new features. For those who are considering making the move, here’s what you need to know as the update relates to XBMC: Rather than wasting the time and effort required to update the cur
- XBMC: Get involved!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
- XBMC on ARM: GLES 2.0Here’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. T
- IR remote fixed for Snow LeopardXBMC for Mac is seeing some serious love these days. First up is a working IR remote under Snow Leopard (the crowd cheers). TeamXBMC is extremely grateful to Felix Schwarz (developer for Remote Buddy) for expanding his excellent driver framework and providing Candelai
- TMDB DowntimeOur friends at themoviedb.org have experienced a major hard drive failure (the database is fine) and they are hard at work rebuilding. This obviously means that XBMC will not be able to scrape movie information from TMDB at this time. There is no need to report the issue, please be pati
- ASRock ION 330A while ago ASRock Europe kindly lent me an ION 330 to try out as my new HTPC equipment. Got it delivered and started unpacking. It was packed in a neat box along with a hdmi to dvi adapter, a support cd and an anti-slip pad. The case looks just as good as it does on the pictures. Inst
- On SettingsXBMC has long been criticized and at the same time hailed for its multitude of settings. Depending on your point of view, it is either highly configurable or overwhelmingly confusing. In a sense, both are true. Like many other open-source programs, we suffer occasionally from the ‘too man
- Rapier Skin Update v2.0Check the changelog for the full list of changes You can download it here As always if you find any problems or have a general question, post them on the support forum
- MiniMeedia Added to XBMC Skinning ProjectMiniMeedia has now been added to the Official XBMC Skinning Project SVN so that anyone can now download the project files (including all the textures etc). You can find out more details about the XBMC Skinning Project here. The code added to SVN is the same a
- Rapier Skin Update v1.60This update tries to address all the known problems that have been reported as well as add some new features that have been requested. Some of the things users wanted were: - Integration with OpenSubtitles\OSD script - Option to hide the top option menu bar when not focused -
- Notice: SVN Path ChangeIf you’ve been watching svn lately, you might have noticed that lots of cleaning, pruning, and reorganizing has been taking place. While everything else was churned up, it seemed like a good time to move the main development code to trunk. The linuxport branch has been removed
- Skin Release: RapierToday scarfa came out of nowhere with a beautiful new skin, available immediately. Click the image below for a screenshot preview. Click image for slideshow RapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapier Here’s what the author had to say about Rapier: This was originally a join
- Singles support in the Music LibraryI have many singles in my music collection – songs that were released independently of an album, or perhaps in parallel to an album release. As part of an album release, the single may be a particular edit (such as an edit for radio) and thus be somewhat different
- New VDPAU FeaturesToday Nvidia announced a new set of beta drivers that add several new features to VDPAU in linux. For those somehow still in the dark about VDPAU read about it from here and here. Yes, it’s linux only. New features include improved video upscaling and hardware acceleration for MPEG
- Transparency! v2.00 releasedIt’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 ori
- Follow Up: BreakageIt was mentioned a few days ago that things might get bumpy for a while and a few of you asked to be notified when all the fun was starting. Well, consider yourselves notified. As of svn rev #22529 the branch has been merged into main. Please be patient as we get things back in li
- Website FaceliftIt’s been a long time coming, but today xbmc.org gets a new look: the stale useless site has been replaced with one that should be far more active. It’s still a work in progress, but we’re hoping to make this a portal for all things XBMC. In the past it’s been difficult for our users
- Teaser: Xperience SkinA few days ago I posted a trailer for the Surface skin which may or may not ever be completed. Today, XBMCG33K has unveiled a brand new video preview of Xperience, which is under heavy development, and I must say it’s looking great. Here’s what XBMCG33K had to say about the wor
- Ion Meets Linux: XBMCThe folks at AnandTech reviewed two IONs which, due to XBMC’s VDPAU support, make decent platforms for cheap linux based HTPCs capable of playing HD content. A section which you might of particular interest is titled Ion Meets Linux: XBMC: What impressed me most about the XBMC e
- Also impending: xbmc.org downtimeTo keep with the spirit of breaking things, xbmc.org may be down a bit in the next few days. Not exactly sure when, but it should be within a week. We’re making some changes that should render the site more useful. If you see anything out of the ordinary, don’t fret,
- Impending merge: Likely temporary breakageAll of our loyal self-compilers and nightly-build users please take note: Yuvalt and elisemory (from boxee) have been hard at work abstracting a few of XBMC’s subsystems (rendering, windowing, input) in order to improve performance on all platforms and make
- Updating the ClassicsIt has come to my attention that over the last few years of development by jmarshall of the XBMC skinning engine we have come very far. The problem is with progress comes change, change is good (in some ways) unfortunately moving forward also mean sometimes breaking the old. You
- Teaser: Surface skinFirst things first, Surface (A skin developed by phyek and Minimalko) is not finished and has possibly been shelved indefinitely, but I can’t resist posting this video. Some of our forum users have undoubtedly seen it already, so this is for those who might have missed it. Here’s
- There is always next yearThe results are in and unfortunately we didn’t take home any awards from the SourceForge Community Choice Awards. That’s a shame, because we really had our eyes on that Best Multimedia title… but there’s always next year. Congratulations to all projects that were nominated,
- Top Secret XBMC DevelopmentsIf you are curious about what sexy new features XBMC developers are (not sooo secretly) working on, you might find the following links to our forum enlightening: Please note that most of these threads are development discussions and should therefore be kept at a technical
- One last reminder: SourceForge AwardsThere is only one week remaining to vote in this years SourceForge Community Choice Awards. See the original announcement here. If you have not voted yet, please consider taking a moment to show your appreciation for XBMC Media Center. While you are there, check
- Keep it Simple, Stupid!A primary goal of Team XBMC has always been to make the user experience as straightforward as possible. The theory goes that I should be able to accomplish nearly everything I want from within the XBMC interface.With that focus in mind, as some of you may know if you troll the
- The power of ScrapersFor a growing number of our loyal users, we’ve noticed that more and more of you are using the nfo managers to organize your movie database. The XBMC team has no problem with these programs, however we feel that many of you are overlooking one of XBMC’s most powerful features: t
- NVIDIA ION and LinuxTagAs promised, here are some pictures of the NVIDIA ION box which were so kindly lent out to us during LinuxTag. Big thanks to NVIDIA for making this happen Before sending it back to NVIDIA (with a tear in my eye, wanted to keep it ) I gave it a quick testspin, since I didn’t ge
- Results of XBMC Developers ConferenceThis year, Team-XBMC held its annual XBMC Dev Con directly after LinuxTag in Berlin. We like to come together every now and then to meet face to face and discuss the state of things, the future of XBMC, and socialize a bit too. In attendance this time around were
- Skin Showcase: MediaStream ReduxJezzX has been kind enough to announce the initial public release of his personal MediaStream mod, though the word “mod” hardly fits. It’s more of a fresh and modern take on an already great skin; usability has been greatly improved and many of the new XBMC features h
- LinuxTag here we go [update]Yesterday we set the booth up, and now people are droping in. The ION box is playing 1080p stuff great, I am surely impressed. We even got to borrow a zotac booth Acer Aspire running XBMC for windows Ion box, compare to the apple-tv remote next to it Zotac box <3 (this on
- Vote for XBMC Media Center on SourceForge.netRemember a few weeks ago when you flocked in droves to cast your vote for XBMC Media Center to be eligible for SourceForge’s annual Community Choice Awards? You were at that time just voting to NOMINATE us as finalist candidate, and you did a great job at
- Ripping DVDs in XBMCA very sought after feature for many in a media center application is the ability to banish these terrible optical disks, which every so often get scratches or never returned after lending them to friends, to your hard drive. While XBMC has been capable of ripping Audio CDs for a
- Media Flagging SupportWith commit r21076, Media Flagging was added to XBMC’s main codebase. Full history and discussion can be seen here. Information for skinners is available here. Everyone be sure to thank CapnBry for his hard work. What does this bring to the table? When turned on (Video settings
- XBMC Skins in a NutshellAs promised in my previous post, TheUni and myself are trying to keep you informed about developments from within the XBMC community. To kick it off I’ve decided to pick one of XBMC’s most admired feature – it’s skinning engine. Thanks to the great work of many, foremost jmar
- Contest: Design a booth poster for LinuxTagAs we have already announced, XBMC is going to have a booth at LinuxTag in Berlin in 3 weeks time. We know we have the best looking media center, and with your help, we can have the best looking booth at the show as well! Our current thinking is to first pl
- Skin Showcase: MiniMeediaAuthor’s description (skunkm0nkee) The idea for the skin grew out of the feedback we got for the MediaStream skin. A lot of users seemed to want to make MediaStream pretty much transparent so that they could see the background images better. Since MediaStream was designed to
- XBMC 9.04.1 ReleasedA few bugs managed to slip into the XBMC Media Center 9.04 (Babylon) final release, so we decided to do a quick update. This maintenance release addresses those glaring Babylon issues as well as some other things that we have fixed since. No new features are present here, this is
- New playback optionsFor those who are picky about “judder” or jerky playback due to the difference in video source and display FPS, your screams have been heard. Play around with the new settings to find your favorite, you’ll find them in the “player” section of the video options. Be careful not to
- XBMC Community UpdatesBoys 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 m
- Video library redesign - do you use the Actors/Genres nodes?I’m currently reviewing the video library in order to make it far more flexible, as well as making it easier to use. The first thing I’m evaluating is just what sort of heirarchy is required for Movies and TV shows. Our current heirarchy gi
- XBMC running on nVidia ION reference boxnVidia 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
- Nominate XBMC for SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2009It is almost time for this years SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards (CCA). This is the forth annual SourceForge CCA, back in year 2006 XBMC Media Center won two categories; “best multimedia project” and “best game project”. If you are a
- New multiimage control code allows background loadingWith the nice new background loading textures, complete with their own crossfading and so on, it made sense to rewrite the multiimage control to make use of this. Previously the multiimage control generated however many image controls it needed an
- Some texture tweaks for better background loadingAnother couple of nice changes have hit SVN for you skinners. There’s been a bug fixed in the large texture manager (that handles background loading of images) – it used to wait up to a second between loading images, which meant you couldn’t really us
- Easier to adjust audio and video settingsJust thought I’d comment on a nice recently added feature. ubikdood did up a nice patch that gave a popup slider dialog, similar to the seek bar and volume bar, when the audio and subtitle delays were adjusted, to give nice, visual feedback as you adjust thes
- XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon Beta1!Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon b1 As in the previous releases I need to anticipate that NVIDIA and ATI/AMD users may have to struggle to have a working setup, but that’s a limitation of the restricted drivers not being tolerant interms
- XBMC 9.04 (Babylon) Beta 1 releasedHot on the heals of the Alpha 1 release, and some 350 code fixes later, the first (and only?) Beta release of XBMC Media Center 9.04 (codename: Babylon) is now available. New in this Beta 1 release is support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Mac under Mac O
- XBMC needs you (internationalization)!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
- XBMC 9.04 (Babylon) Alpha 1 releasedJust a quick note to let you all know that Alpha 1 builds of XBMC 9.04 are now available. New in this release, among many things, is experimental hardware acceleration on Linux via VDPAU for recent NVIDIA graphics chipsets care of motd2k, reworked internal path sy
- Interview with Jonathan at brave little memeGiuliano Maciocci has posted an interview with our own Jonathan Marshall over at brave little meme. Q: Let’s talk a little about XBMC itself. What would you say separates it from other media centre and HTPC software? JM: The biggest thing for me are that i
- Upgrade System from XBMC Live?Have you ever wanted to upgrade your system from your couch, not being forced to SSH in on your XBMC Live and do the long whinded sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade process? I have, and finally after some troublesome python learning I finally made a script that
- It’s time to test XBMC Live 8.10.2 Beta1Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 8.10.2b1 This BETA release has to be considered as a total fresh start, since not only it is based on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10.2), but also because I used a fresh, updated installation of the build tool. It als
- XBMC interview on FLOSS WeeklyOur 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 , so pop over there and hear Scott and Jonathan dis
- Changes to paths: What it means for scripts and pluginsAs a follow up to my last post, scripters and plugin writers should be aware of the best practises for accessing files under python: 1. Don’t use the old Q:, P:, T:, U:, Z: paths. Replace these with their special:// counterparts below. 2. Use xb
- Change in the internal path structuresHi – long time since my last blog – I’ve been too busy with real life stuff, not to mention XBMC related activities! This post is to detail the rather boring, but very important path cleanup work that WiSo and I have just completed. As a remnant from the xbox da
- Translation soon available on Launchpad.Good news to all translators out there. rwparris2 (most of the coding) and myself (ideas and small coding) has done a conversion script that allows us to take use of the i18n format used on launchpad.net. This script is still in early beta and not open to the
- PulseAudio and XBMC for linuxSince the release of Atlantis we have had dozens of new users, and a few noted one of our weaknesses, which was PulseAudio, link to thread. People usually experienced video that ran in great speed, this was because ALSA couldn´t create a stream. And the only way of makin
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- Vote for XBMC on Lifehacker.comLifehacker.com is currently holding a voting contest of five best media center applications and XBMC is in the race for the win, so please consider taking the 30-seconds it takes to cast your vote: Show your support for the XBMC Media Center software Thank you in advan
- XBMC on FacebookDid 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
- gnitting can be fun, too!The first task I’ve taken up for the next release of XBMC is to clean up our build system. As it stands now, XBMC is a hassle to build on any Linux distrobution except Ubuntu. This is mostly the fault of our configure and Makefiles not conforming to expected standards. I’d a
- XBMC Live 8.10 (Atlantis) releasedThe new release is out in public. It contains the following notable changes: ATI/AMD Catalyst 8.9 unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer; new in this version is the hard disk installation: - it creates three partitions on the hard disk (boot, fat32 – swap – medi
- XBMC 8.10 Atlantis releasedTeam-XBMC is proud to announce the cross-platform release of XBMC Media Center version 8.10 for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, code named ‘Atlantis‘. We have reached the end of over 3-months of bug bashing, and have closed 425 tickets fo
- XBMC featured at IPTV 2.0 Conference in RomeOn 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 th
- Translators needed.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 t
- ATVUSB-Creator under Windows: Whats the delay?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
- Released: XBMC Live Atlantis Beta 2XBMC 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
- XBMC Atlantis Beta 2 released - added Apple TV supportTeam-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
- Whats this XBMC for Mac running on the AppleTV?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 Appl
- Pbuilder or How to Compile XBMC on a chroot system.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 re
- Skinners can suspend and hibernate!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 -> sys
- XBMC Atlantis Beta 1 released - now serving all common platformsTeam-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 a
- iTunes and iPhoto Integration in XBMCXBMC 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
- iPhone and XBMC, the remote of the future?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
- Thanks for all the bug reportsJust 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
- Apples Gamma BugI 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 r
- Intel Graphics Benchmarking WeekendI 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, understandab
- XBMC Atlantis Alpha 4 releasedDue 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
- A slip of the tongueThought 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 skinm
- Database query speedupsI 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
- Movie and TV Show FanArt support in XBMCMany 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 enh
- XBMC Portable Edition for Windows?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 al
- Developers wanted to port XBMC to PPCDevelopment 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 base
- XBMC future versioning and codenamesThe XBMC project have decided to adopt Ubuntu’s Year.Month versioning for all of our future XBMC stable point-releases. This means that if we hold true to the current XBMC roadmap schedule then the next ‘Gold’ release should be released in October 2008 and will th
- Scrollback buffer in GNU screenIf you enjoy the command prompt in Linux/OS X as much as I do, then I hope you’ve been aquainted with screen. If not, think of it like tabs in your browser. Except now you can go to a different computer and pull up your browser with all those same tabs already opened.
- Can one get to new hardware?Just bought myself a new computer. Not a superpowered one, but a decent (compared to my old). Abit A-N78HD (with internal GF8200 and HDMI + HD Audio) 4GB DDR II 320 GB Harddrive (sata) DVD/RW (sata) AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Now to the not so fun part, installation. Booted up U
- XBMC wins another SourceForge Community Choice AwardXBMC 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
- Trackers moved from SourceForge to XBMC.orgWith 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 b
- Telematics Freedom Foundation FOSS surveyThe 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 collectin
- Vote for XBMC in SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice AwardsTeam-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 fi
- Stay tuned!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 boo
- Long time no postSorry 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 mi
- Announcing XBMC DEV CON 2008 hosted by boxeeXBMC 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-X
- Mac OS X developer has decided to fork our code [UPDATED]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 for
- XBMC, a Google Summer of Code 2008 ProjectXBMC 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 XB
- XBMC recruiting developers for Mac OS X portHelp 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 ful
- New XBMC Website, New Domain (XBMC.ORG)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
- LiveXBMC Usplash ThemeA forum member, Duduke, kindly provided a killer usplash theme for LiveXBMC. Get the source package from Sourceforge!
- First Release of LiveXBMC - V20080123Support 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)
- Create bootable USB disk on Windows manuallyI 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 descr
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- Happy new year from Team-XBMC!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
- Boing Boing interview: Team-XBMC on the Future of XBMC for LinuxFreelance 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
- Vote for XBMC in SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice AwardsTeam-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
- XBMC recruiting developers for Linux portHelp 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 th
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- XBMC PC environment for skinners and python developersA 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 thi
- XBoxMediaCenter moves support to Freenode and switches to SubversionTeam 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
- XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1 released!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
- XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0 released!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
- XBMC Translator V0.1hi 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,
- Google Summer Of Code (developers wanted)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 ass
- XBMC Widget for OS-X usersandy 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 interviews Team XBMCmaxconsole 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 for
- XBMC Wins 2 Categories at 2006 CCA2006 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 ou
- 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awardsas 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
- Xbox Media Center feature-freeze and bug-bashladies 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 anothe
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- XBMC DVD-Player Announcementthe 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
- Milkdrop Visualization added to XBMC (updated)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, showi
- One Year Chokemaniacs Project Mayhem Webpagequote 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. thank
- XBMC Screensaver Competition Winnersthe 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 wi
- Project Mayhem Website Redesignfrom 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 mo
- xForm is calling out for your helpfrom 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 tha
- Article on XBMC in The Washington Postyesterday, 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 xboxmediace
- Multimedia one of Xbox-II primary goalsin 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 cente
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- XBMC Screensaver Competitionneoya inc. (makers of the best vga-adapter for the xbox) has kindly donated 5 x2vga+ adapters to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this screen-saver development competition. the purpose of this contest is to develop new screensaver plugins for xbox media center (a
- XBMC and XLink Kai (Updated)apologies for the somewhat delayed news post, by now you’ve probably already heard that we’ve added a major update to our cvs. support for the free multiplayer online gaming service xlink kai has been massively improved. amongst many new features, it has a voice chat func
- Donations for DVD-menu in XBMC campaignwe have had this idea in mind for a while and were planning to kick of this campaign at a later date but after a recent post in mplayer-dev mailing-list we have decided to bring forward the announcement. the ‘donations for dvd-menu in xbmc campaign’ basic conce
- XboxMediaCenter 1.1.0 announcementxbmc 1.1.0 final point release source code has now been set in our cvs! once again we felt that we had been holding off doing any official release candidates for so long that we now consider the current xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point release should and could be
- XForm v0.1 Beta coming this mondaynews story from xbox-scene.com: received news from arddrive who has been working on xform (previously called xbmc-skinner), a win32 tool that will allow you to easily make skins for xboxmediacenter: “i know you have all been waiting a long time for xform but the bet
- X-addons generic LCD-display modsteam-xaddons (addons.com) have officialy announced a generic lcd-mod (adds a parallel and a spi-bus interface to your xbox) and a lcd-con (lcd-connector board) xbox-mod add-ons. the lcd-mod has several pin-headers and sockets to ensure compatability with a wide range
- XBMC feature freeze and bug bashwe 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 fea
- Microsoft Xbox price drop in Europemicrosoft has as of last week (better late news than no news) officially dropped the rrp (recommended retail price) of their xbox® video game console in europe. the price was lower by £30/€50 making the new rrp £99.99/€149.99, (a price that now match the xbox price
- New Version of RelaX solves issues with XBMCrelax v0.79 # relax now works with xbmc!….. if you don’t use xmbc then don’t download this release # just put in xbmc the path like “xns://yourip:1400/” for the root and “xns://yourip:1400/divx” for your divxes.. etc # here is the changelog! relax now work
- XBMC Skinning Contest Wrap-upthe 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 sub
- XboxMediaCenter 1.0.0 announcementxbmc 1.0.0 point release source code has now been set in our cvs, so believe it or not, the day that many of you been waiting for is finally here, today, now! we felt that we had been holding off doing release candidates for so long that we now consider the xbmc cvs
- XBMC Skinning Contest UPDATEthis is just a simple reminder that there is now very little time left to submit your xboxmediacenter skin if you made one for our skinning contest. we will officially accept (valid) entries until 12:00 am g:mt 21st of june 2004 (that is 12 o’clock noon tomorrow greenwich
- XBMC Skin Contest postponedwe have decided to postpone the last submission date of our xbmc skinning contest by one month, this mostly due to the few number of skins submitted so far. postponing the contest means new skinners will get a chance to catch up to join the competition and all existing ski
- Toms Hardware Guide XBMC reviewtomshardware.com has today posted a review of “the ultimate multimedia center” that is xbmc. the famous tech review site now offers the first full review of xboxmediacenter which they call “the ideal home playback system for audio and video”. the review features xbmc t
- XBMC Official Merchandise Storewe 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 tampe
- XBMC official logo finalizedNote: 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:
- XBMC Visualization Contest Endedthe 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 tea
- XBMC reaches 1.0 Beta, bug bash kick-offwe are happy to announce the current xbmc cvs as 1.0 beta ready, thus our first official public bug bash has begun and we are now on a feature freeze. as the time has come when xboxmediacenter finally starting to reach maturity we also like to declare that the
- XBMC Skinning Contestteam-ozxodus and xbox-gear.com has kindly donated 10 xenium modchips each to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this skinning contest. the contest purpose is to get a more diverse amount of skins for xbmc and hopefully in turn this will also encourage more graphic artists
- Microsoft Announces Xbox Price Dropthe rumours of an north american xbox price drop in april has finally come true as microsoft just now officially announced that the xbox® video game system will be available $149.99 (u.s.) in the united states, $199.99 (u.s.) in canada, 1,999 pesos in mexico and $2
- XBMP/XBMC Logo Contest Overfirst of all we like to apologize to all people who entered the contest for the delay we took in deciding a winner, just know it’s very hard to organize such a large team as xbmc/xbmp have become, and on top of that the contenders where all excellent it was so very hard to
- FriendTech donates DreamX-733 to Frodofriendtech, the manufacturers of dreamx send us an e-mail telling us they like to offer frodo a dreamx-733 as their donation to our buy frodo a dreamx-733 campaign. the dreamx-733 by friendtech is a standard xbox upgraded with to 128mb ram, and like it’s big bro
- Max Console donates DreamX-1480cykiller from maxconsole.com responding to xbmc’s buy frodo a dreamx-733 campaign offered a very generous donation, a dreamx-1480 to frodo for further development of the xboxmediacenter project. the dreamx-1480 by friendtech is a modified xbox running on 1.4ghz cpu and
- The Buy Frodo a DreamX-733 campaigncurrently frodo (xbmc founder and lead developer) only has one xbox that he has to develop/debug/use xbmc and play games on, the xbmc-team have therefore decided to start this campaign to collect donations for frodo so he can buy a dreamx-733 to dedicate for xbmc d
- Xenium-LCD support too…we are pleased to announce that from today xbmc now also have support for the xenium lcd. lcd support was already added several weeks ago to xbmc, however until now we only had support for the smartxx-lcd. our thanks this time goes to team-ozxodus who donated 20 xenium c
- XBMP briefly reviewed by Toms hardwaretom’s hardware guide (probably the most famous computer hardware site on the internet) has posted a very brief article about the most current standalone “multi-talented multi-media” appliances for the living room. it shortly compares the multimedia capabilities
- XBMC Vis Competition Updatewe got some bad news and we got some good news, depending how you look on it. the bad news is team-xecuter has let us know that the x3 has been slightly delayed so we won’t have any prizes to hand out directly when the contest where about to end so we have decided to postp
- LCD support in XboxMediaCenteryou probably all heard about 4th generation of modchips now coming out. one outstanding feature these chips have is the option of a nice 20×2 or 20×4 lcd display and i’m glad to announce that we already started adding lcd display support to xbmc. an lcd display could be
- What should be XBMCs default skinxbmc has got more and more lovely skins and this made us wondering what do you all think, should we change the default skin?, if so which skin should become the default one? please cast you vote poll: what should be xbmc’s default skin?
- XBMC nightly tarballsmany users have complained that the anonymous cvs at sourceforge is unusable. most of the times it’s 24-72 hours behind in updates which can be pretty frustrating. to deliver the latest sources to you guys i have installed a cron job, this job will make a snapshot of the develop
- XBMP/XBMC Logo ContestMaybe some of you have noticed that there is one important thing missing for xbmp and xbmc projects. you’re right, a decent logo, well a logo at all as our project has amazingly never had a real official logo! so we’ve decided to hold this open logo contest. we need an official
- XBOX developers still ignore GPL license?again we’re sorry to see an xbox developer which forgot about the gpl license. this time its the ‘complex tools’ application which according to the author uses our port samba 3.01. off course we’re very happy to see that our libraries are used by other develo
- XBMP/XBMC XStream Contest overxbmp/xbmc xstream contest deadline passed without any entries, the contest is now closed.
- XBMC Visualization Competitionteam xecuter has kindly offered to donate 10 final versions of the xecuter 3 modchip to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this audio visualization development competition. the purpose of this competition is to develop new audio visualization plugins for xbmc and
- Xbox WMC Extender Kit announcedyesterday evening bill gates, microsoft chairman unveiled windows media center extender technology at 2004 international consumer electronics show (ces), one of the devices that will use this will be the xbox though a xbox windows media center extender kit xbox dvd tit
- SAMBA 3.0.1 client ported to XBMCdarkie has done an amazing job by porting samba 3.0.1 to the xbox. he threw away the old and very buggy smb (libsmb++) implementation in xbmc and replaced it with his new port of samba 3.0.1. this means that from now on xbmc is using the same samba implementation as
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- New year, new developers?we are looking for new developers who want to help us develop xbmc. we are getting more feature-requests/bugs-reports every day and currently we do not have enough developers/time to fulfil them all. with more developers working on xbmc we are hoping to speed things up and g
- Perfect smooth playback with XBMCis it possible? can we play ntsc movies on pal boxes (and vice versa) smoothly without any jerky hickups?, maybe, it’s too early to say, but with xbmc’s latest option called “adjust framerate” or “dynamic framerate conversions” things surely look promising. previousl
- Xboxes with 1400Mhz processor finally on salefriendtech, a cpu upgrade manufacturer has now started mass modify xbox consoles with a processor upgrade. however friendtech are not selling these “ft-x2″ (a.k.a. dreamx) xboxes themselves but instead offer them through online retailers, gamestron.com be
- CNET Playing for keepscnet has today posted the first in a three-day report about the multimedia capabilities of todays and future game consoles, including the use of xbmc/xbmp on the xbox. cnet is/was the popular technology news website that contacted us a couple of weeks ago about interviewing a x
- XBMP/XBMC XStream Contestbald bouncer (uk) has kindly donated some nice prizes for us to run this xstream contest. the goal of the contest is for you developers out there to create one platform independent and user-friendly xstream server, the code must be in c++ and fully open source. the ultimate
- Please respect the GPL Licensejust a reminder to all other (xbox) developers out there; please pay respect the gnu general public license (gpl). you can freely use any of the sources of xbmc and/or xbmp in your own project but remember that both xbmc and xbmp are open source under the gpl license. t
- Microsoft announces X-mas bundlesmicrosoft has now announced the holiday bundles for this year. the us version comes with xbox console, star wars: the clone wars and tetris worlds online edition for $179.99 rrp, while the uk/europe version comes with xbox console, halo and midtown madness 3 for £139
- AC3 5.1 pass-throughAfter a looooong search monkeyh0 and i finally discovered how we can output encoded ac3.51 directly to the digital output of the xbox. this means great audio quality for ac3 5.1 encoded movies. currently ac3 5.1 streams get decoded by xbmc/xbmp and the 6 raw lpcm streams are give
- xBmsx v0.8 for Mac OS Xxbmsx v0.8 is now available, (xbmsx by -rx- is a xbmp/xbmc xstream server for mac os x). from the readme: “i recompiled the binary with frodo’s xbmc-compatibility-patch, and this seems to have gotten rid of some directory browsing problems i was having with xbmc and xbmsx v0.7
- Windows CE based settop boxesfrom doom9.net: i was visiting “itu telecom world fair this weekend and found something interesting at the microsoft booth: in their windows ce section, they had a couple of windows ce.net based devices capable of playing wmv9 video. besides the samsung dvd player with i
- Xbox Mods on TECHTV, again?this saturday and upcomming week on techtv (starting saturday 10/18-2003 at 10 p.m. eastern): “mod your xbox. see how modders are adding functionality to the popular gaming console. by kevin rose. why mod the xbox? well, the xbox is more than just a gaming machine. it’s th
- Xbox Media Center, The new (ad)venturexboxmediacenter (xbmc) is a new free open source (gpl) multimedia player for microsoft’s xbox. xboxmediacenter is still in beta stage but can currently be used to play and view most video/audio/picture formats such as mpeg/mpg, vob, avi, ogm, divx, xvid, mp3, og
- Xbox Versions Databasefrom the xbox-linux project, quote: “help us build an xbox versions database! please enter your xbox data into this form (you needn’t fill all fields), so we can provide you a database that will help you find out the contents of an xbox without opening it. this database will be