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Broadcom Crystal HD, It`s Magic.

Dec 29, 2009
Team XBMC
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...
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Xperience Beta1 Released

Dec 28, 2009
Team XBMC
It’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...
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Transparency! v2.11 released

Dec 24, 2009
Team XBMC
If 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...
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XBMC 9.11: Camelot

Dec 24, 2009
Team XBMC
It’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...
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XBMC 9.11: RC1 ready for testing

Dec 17, 2009
Team XBMC
The 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...
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Xperience Teaser

Dec 13, 2009
Team XBMC
XBMCG33K from Team Blackbolt posted this teaser for the upcoming Xperience skin today. He also revealed at the end of the video (spoiler alert!) that they plan on releasing a public beta on Christmas weekend. Thanks to team Blackbolt for the hard work. Check out the...
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Welcome Bytemark: Hosting Sponsor

Dec 11, 2009
Team XBMC
Lately 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...
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XBMC 9.11: Beta2 ready for testing

Dec 9, 2009
Team XBMC
Development 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...
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Updated: XBMC 9.11 Beta1: Introducing Confluence

Nov 22, 2009
Team XBMC
As 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 soon, but for now...
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Updated: TheTVDB.com Downtime

Nov 16, 2009
Team XBMC
As 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...
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Virtual Controller by EqUiNoX

Nov 16, 2009
Team XBMC
In 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...
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XBMC 9.11: Alpha2 ready for testing

Nov 12, 2009
Team XBMC
The 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 those...
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XBMC 9.11: Alpha1 ready for testing

Nov 4, 2009
Team XBMC
Today 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 build...
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Ubuntu 9.10 Released

Oct 29, 2009
Team XBMC
As 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...
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XBMC: Get involved!

Oct 27, 2009
Team XBMC
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...
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IR remote fixed for Snow Leopard

Oct 23, 2009
Team XBMC
XBMC 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 Candelair...
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XBMC on ARM: GLES 2.0

Oct 23, 2009
Team XBMC
Here’s a quick teaser for those of you who dream of using XBMC on a low-powered ARM platform some day. Our very own McGeagh briefly demonstrates XBMC running on the BeagleBoard using OpenGL ES 2.0 and even manages the obligatory playback of everyone’s favorite: Big...
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TMDB Downtime

Oct 16, 2009
Team XBMC
Our 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...
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ASRock ION 330

Oct 12, 2009
Team XBMC
A 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...
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On Settings

Oct 11, 2009
Team XBMC
XBMC 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...
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