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Released: XBMC Live Atlantis Beta 2

Oct 7, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC 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 (...
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XBMC Atlantis Beta 2 released - added Apple TV support

Oct 6, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-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 this release is...
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Whats this XBMC for Mac running on the AppleTV?

Oct 1, 2008
Team XBMC
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 AppleTV plugin XBMC...
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Pbuilder or How to Compile XBMC on a chroot system.

Oct 1, 2008
Team XBMC
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 reinstalling your...
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Skinners can suspend and hibernate!

Sep 23, 2008
Team XBMC
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 ->...
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XBMC Atlantis Beta 1 released - now serving all common platforms

Sep 18, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-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 are three important news items...
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iTunes and iPhoto Integration in XBMC

Sep 18, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC 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 start...
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iPhone and XBMC, the remote of the future?

Sep 16, 2008
Team XBMC
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 result in a...
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Thanks for all the bug reports

Sep 9, 2008
Team XBMC
Just 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’...
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Apples Gamma Bug

Sep 5, 2008
Team XBMC
I 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...
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Intel Graphics Benchmarking Weekend

Aug 30, 2008
Team XBMC
I 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, understandably...
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Database query speedups

Aug 24, 2008
Team XBMC
I 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...
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XBMC Atlantis Alpha 4 released

Aug 24, 2008
Team XBMC
Due 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...
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A slip of the tongue

Aug 24, 2008
Team XBMC
Thought 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...
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Movie and TV Show FanArt support in XBMC

Aug 23, 2008
Team XBMC
Many 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 enhances...
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XBMC Portable Edition for Windows?

Aug 22, 2008
Team XBMC
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...
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Developers wanted to port XBMC to PPC

Aug 22, 2008
Team XBMC
Development 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 based...
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XBMC future versioning and codenames

Aug 19, 2008
Team XBMC
The 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 thus...
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Scrollback buffer in GNU screen

Aug 18, 2008
Team XBMC
If 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...
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Can one get to new hardware?

Aug 15, 2008
Team XBMC
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...
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