XBMC Eden 11.0 is finally ready. It took over a year to develop but it is well worth the wait. You can expect massive improvements on playback, rendering is now less CPU intensive thanks to Dirty Region rendering support and, overall, XBMC looks and acts smoother. Noticeable XBMC Eden’s new features include a new Confluence …
As some of you may already know, October 1st marks the first step towards the next XBMC official release: soft-freeze for XBMC Eden 11.0. As usual, no new features will be added from now on unless they are considered critical for a proper release deployment. The next step, a hard-freeze, marks the ‘no API changes’ …
Keeping XBMC updated isn’t easy. A very frequent question in the community forums is: how do I update XBMC? The problem begins with the XBMC update system. Why, you ask? There isn’t one. Zero, zilch, nada! The problem goes on with the next problem: most XBMC users aren’t XBMC community forum users. Let me elaborate …
Countless hours of development over the span of two years, one year beta testing, more features added over time than we can remember, well over ten Beta and Release Candidate versions later, OpenELEC 1.0 finally arrives with a blast. Better than ever before, OpenELEC “just works”! We already talked about OpenELEC but, for the folks …
After Updated Linux Nvidia Drivers, it’s time to keep another important part of any media center PC up-to-date: sound. Most people use one of two audio drivers – also called audio servers – on Linux. ALSA or Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is the most used, at least with XBMC world. The other one is PulseAudio, …
Keeping all the drivers up-to-date can be a daunting task. Ubuntu release cycle is somewhat long and often doesn’t provide the latest drivers available. Safety measure, they say. Fortunately, good folks work hard for you. They compile, pack and publish drivers for almost everything you can imagine. Launchpad is the place where they usually make …
Modding the Xbox 360 to work with any software one might choose, including XBMC, is a long time wish for many XBMC users. Due to the success XBMC for Xbox was and still is, many XBMC users are constantly hoping one crazy developer appears with the magic potion: how to mod Xbox 360, port XBMC …
Good news to all XBMC fans! XBMC Eden 11.0 Beta 1 should be almost ready. A few hours ago, theuni bumped the strings from XBMC Eden 11.0 Pre to XBMC Eden 11.0 Beta 1 on the XBMC Eden 11.0 github branch. I think it’s safe to say we can, once again, expect great things from …
A few days ago, the news of a XBMC official remote control being under development emerged on the XBMC community forums. Unfortunately, the Motorola Nyxboard Hybrid remote control isn’t the brand new, dream come true, XBMC Team official remote control, if that is ever to happen. XBMC Team still remains a non-profit organization and ,therefore, …
After a talk I had with Martin Ellis, from Pulse-Eight, a few days ago, I was told that the company aims to provide an easy to use, user-friendly, HTPC experience. As you can imagine, with so many HTPC capable hardware out there, providing an optimal experience for every user isn’t easy. Just think about the …