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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

With 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 bugs,...

Team-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 first year XBMC won two of the...

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...

XBMC 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-XBMC...