XBMC Eden 11.0 Launched was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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 ...

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XBMC Skins: Confluence Horizontal was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

XBMC skins change a lot. They are modded by talented users with new ideas popping up all the time, crazy concepts flying out and different user needs satisfied by generous coders. State-of-the-art skinning indeed. In this context, Confluence, the default XBMC Media Center skin since XBMC Camelot 9.11, has done a great job at what ...

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XBMC Eden 11.0 Feature Freeze was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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’ ...

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Update XBMC on Linux was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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 ...

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Hama MCE Event Client was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

The Hama MCE remote control, also known as Ortek VRC-1100 and a few other names, is a popular and inexpensive USB HID remote control. To make it work with Linux, we need to set up LIRC correctly – difficult even for experienced users – or install a client event and go see TV. Today we ...

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OpenELEC 1.0 was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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 ...

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Updated ALSA Drivers was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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, ...

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Updated Linux Nvidia Drivers was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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 ...

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XBMC for XBOX 360 problem was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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 ...

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XBMC Eden 11.0 Beta 1 was originally published at Home Theater Salsa.

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 ...

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