By Team XBMC, posted September 18, 2008 2:02 pmTeam-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 associated with this release:
1. The first item that is new in this release is the brand new skin “PM3.HD”, a high-definition tribute to Project Mayhem III, which will be gracing screens as the default skin on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Xbox users can, of course, choose to use this skin if they wish as well, and the original Project Mayhem III skin is still packaged with Beta 1 for those who prefer the old-school look. This is in addition to the already awesome selection of skins available for XBMC.
2. The second item is the initial release of “XBMC Live“, a bootable CD which gives users the opportunity to try XBMC on their computer, without touching their harddrive. In addition, XBMC Live allows installation of XBMC, complete with an operating system, onto a USB flash memory sticks for a permanent, fast booting, dedicated set-top-box style installation of XBMC. XBMC Live is designed to support Microsoft’s MCE Remote and USB receiver out-of-the-box.
3. The third item is that the XBMC for Mac release now has initial support for integrating iTunes and iPhoto media into XBMC. For more information on this, please read this developers blog entry; “iTunes and iPhoto integration in XBMC“. The Mac release of Beta 1 also comes bundled with a bonus skin for XBMC, and that is MediaStream by Team Razorfish, (this skin can, of course, be downloaded and installed on all XBMC platforms, like all other XBMC skins).
You should know that XBMC ‘Atlantis’ is still in a feature freeze, the final release of which is scheduled for October, and we really need your help in order to make ‘Atlantis’ as stable as possible. We encourage all users to download and use this Beta release in preference to using SVN or the Alpha builds, and test it thoroughly, reporting all bugs to our tracking system.
We would also appreciate any and all assistance in making sure that the online manual and FAQ are as up to date as possible. Both the online manual and FAQ are wiki based so just register and request write access if you wish to contribute. In addition, translations and updates of XBMC language files is another area where help would be appreciated.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the XBMC community for the great feedback in terms of bug reports and usability suggestions. Without your assistance, we would never be able to make XBMC as solid and stable as it is right now.
Here are a few teaser screenshots from the new PM3.HD skin:
Now go, download XBMC ‘Atlantis’ Beta 1 and enjoy!
Yours sincerely / Team-XBMC
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Wow!!! God job guys, brilliant! Can’t wait to play with this one. Thank you very much!
Comment by kongondo — September 18, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Looking forward to tinkering with this, will T3CH be releasing xbox binaries still?
Comment by kambei — September 18, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
You guys rock..
Comment by Gentoo — September 18, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
@kambei, we have no control over T3CH, the source code revision in the SVN used for Atlantis Beta 1 is tagged so anyone who has the necessary software tools to compile XBMC for Xbox builds will be able to make a Beta 1 build.
Comment by Gamester17 — September 18, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Great job as always guys, look forward to tinkering and posting back!
Comment by pitpawten — September 18, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
PM3.HD is a very nice surprise! Can’t wait to get this on my Ubuntu box
Comment by Netizen — September 18, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
I thought Plex (formerly OSXBMC) was already the OS-X port of XBMC - What is the relationship between these two projects?
Comment by Chris Weiss — September 18, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
Plex is a fork of XBMC. The saga of the split is well documented on the Plex site.
Comment by Brandon — September 18, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
@Chris, no, Plex is a software fork of XBMC for Mac (look up “software fork” on wikipedia for its meaning), XBMC is the original software, they are two separate project worked by two separate development teams, some cherry picking code copying between the project does still takes place though, (Boxee is another fork of XBMC that is also available for the Mac and some cherry picking code copying between XBMC and Boxee also take place).
Short story is that Elan Feingold, who then as a member of Team-XBMC was the one who originally started porting XBMC to Mac OS X, he then decided to leave Team-XBMC, (due to reasons I will not go into here), and go out on his own and start a his own new project based on XBMC for Mac, and he named that project Plex (or Plexapp). Plex was never formally named “OSXBMC”, it was only referred to as OSXBMC by its users because Elan previously had a blog on osxbmc.com in which he posted news of the progress on his porting development.
I will not go into any more details as it has already been discussed to death and you will find more if you search for “Plex” in our XBMC for Mac forum, please go there if you absolutely feel the need to discuss it further than this.
Comment by Gamester17 — September 18, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
Happy birthday to me! No really - its my birthday and I get a beta XBMC!!! (Been waiting for a new stable release along time!)
Comment by SniperCharlie — September 18, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
I just install the latest SVN from T3CH and now this comes out?!!? I can’t wait for it to be compiled and released!
Comment by SalNap — September 18, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
Amazing…just waiting paciently for October!
Tried it and it’s a little heavy…
Comment by Sérgio Dias — September 18, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
You are really awesome. Great job!!!
Comment by Luis — September 18, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
Great! If it had been any better, I would have to go and get a clean pair of pants! Now, what to do to pass the time until the release of the stable version?
Comment by Troberg — September 18, 2008 @ 9:03 pm
When are we going to see boxes on shelves with this installed
Comment by TT — September 18, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
where can we see the changelog ? from the alpah to the beta
what have been change ?
Comment by moshelog — September 18, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
thanks devs!!! i love your mediacenter soft
regards from spain
Comment by zorth — September 18, 2008 @ 9:42 pm
This is a pleasant surprise………can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Comment by Ravi Haroulang — September 18, 2008 @ 9:44 pm
Gorgeous. My respect for the XBMC team knows no limits.
Comment by Gavin — September 18, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
The realtime changelog feed is available on XBMC Trac:
http://xbmc.org/trac/timeline
Comment by Gamester17 — September 18, 2008 @ 10:22 pm
The beta 1 is there already?! Wowsers, that’s much quicker then i ever expected! Respect for the team and the fantastic XBMC. Can’t live without it!
Comment by dynamix — September 18, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Brilliant. I’ve tried a couple of the previous builds on Vista and it was brilliant. My old chipped xboxes have been faithful media players for years now, it will be great to just use the same interface on my PC’s too. (was planning on picking up an old mac mini to replace one of the xboxes, but now the XBMC comes in a USB bootable version supporting an off the shelf remote, I’ll probably just build an atom based uATX PC!! < NZ$300 if I don’t need an internal HDD.
Cheers XBMC team, you rock!
Comment by John Howell — September 18, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
You guys are the roxorz. Been rollin with XBMC since it first came out. Can’t wait to give this a try. Been meaning to break out a media server. My config will probly be a linux box that boots up and automatically runs Atlantis. Tnx.
Comment by Lowbolt — September 18, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
I notice you say the XBMC Live version supports the Microsoft Media Center receiver and remote control. Does this mean XBMC running under Windows and Mac and Linux, will also support using the same receiver and remote?
I am currently running XBMC Atlantis on a Mac mini and have a Microsoft Media Center receiver and remote so this would be a lot better than the Apple remote.
Comment by John Lockwood — September 19, 2008 @ 12:29 am
Awesome job, this is the product every other media center software should be put up against. I do it and sure as heck, NOTHING beats it.
Comment by reckless — September 19, 2008 @ 1:02 am
@Gamester: Feingold, not Fieldgold. The latter actually makes more sense, if you think about it, but what can I do?
Comment by Elan — September 19, 2008 @ 1:46 am
Absolutely HOT! Thank you for the hard work!
Comment by NuSkooler — September 19, 2008 @ 5:11 am
THANKS! THANKS! THANKS! XBMC is the best media center solution that I know…..
I love XBMC on my xbox and in the next time I’m hopefully to build a media pc based on the new XBMC…..
Greetings from Germany
Comment by hgw — September 19, 2008 @ 7:56 am
Congrats on the release guys, from everyone over at meedios.com
Comment by zag — September 19, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Thanks zag!
Comment by d4rk — September 19, 2008 @ 9:56 am
@Elan, sorry for the wrong spelling Elan (Feingold), my bad :/
Comment by Gamester17 — September 19, 2008 @ 10:15 am
what Revision Number is the Beta 1 based off of 15635? i’m looking in the SVN for a TAG saying its the Beta like said above but i dont see it anywhere the last commit is remove old files
Comment by Hack_kid — September 19, 2008 @ 10:41 am
hack_kid; it sits rite in (tags/XBMC_Atlantis_beta1-linux-osx-win32) based on 15610
Comment by spiff — September 19, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Great stuff! Awesome job by you team xbmc guys. It really shows your experience when it comes to making this stable after the feature freeze.
Comment by YM — September 19, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
Spectacular! I’ve been planning on getting my HD tv later this year and it will be great to build a small PC to play higher resolution formats. I was dreading having to get something other than my XBMC to play my media.
Looking great everyone! I’ll be downloading to test it out.
Comment by Oliver — September 19, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
wikked!!!
Comment by Henry — September 19, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
Am I not mistaken that there hasn’t been (to the source code for the Xbox) a release of Beta 1? If there has - what is it’s SVN tag?
Comment by SalNap — September 19, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Can’t seem to get atlantis to access my external hdd where my videos and music are stored… that needs to be fixed… if I click on the drive in xbmc it takes me back to my settings\application data\xbmc
Comment by J.D. — September 19, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Hi guys,
is there a way to run xbmc on ps3 throught the linux version ?
if not yet, will ps3 will one day be supported ?
thx
Comment by jay — September 19, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
Been loading Atlantis onto my Xbox today and i can only say… this is the best media center ever! it´s only getting better and better!!!!! *thumbs*
A word to the Swedish part of the XBMC team…
Bra jobbat grabbar, det märks att det är svenskar som håller i projektet, kvalitet !!!!!
Comment by Zaptor — September 19, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
Is it even out for the Xbox? Looks like the Xbox code hasn’t been folded in yet.
Comment by SalNap — September 19, 2008 @ 9:21 pm
Xbox is being merged as we speak. It’ll be tagged in a couple of hours from now. I was away from the net when the team chose to release (maybe I should go away more often!)
Comment by jmarshall — September 19, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
that PS3 question is a very good one indeed but i think htere is something called hypervios that keeps us from accessing more ram etc
Comment by Anonymous — September 21, 2008 @ 5:03 am
Top job guys, always loved XBMC and now on pc ( WOW ). Just would like to ask if there are any chances of adding tv support? Would be a great feature and I could kiss mce goodbye forever.
Comment by Anonymous — September 21, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
I tried the beta 1 and it’s stable enough for me. Guys you rules, it’s the best media player in the world! It’s awesome what you did to xbox. Keep up the good work…
Comment by clyd3 — September 21, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
AWE. SOME.
!!
Comment by Rod — September 22, 2008 @ 7:22 am
I have been waiting for this ever since I first used XBMC. Many thanks to all the developers for their hard work.
Another example of open-source and community coming together and producing something amazing!
Comment by Ben Haines — September 22, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
No comments to express my satisfaction.
When I first saw XMBC last April I was so amazed that I run to buy two Xboxs from eBay!!!
Your work is as great as you people!
Comment by LightMan — September 22, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Amaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg!!!!!.Thanks for all from Spain
Comment by Antiriad — September 23, 2008 @ 2:51 am
Hey i just tried on my legacy xbox and is just amazing!!!
Thanx to all!
i feel like is time to do some bug reporting and help with something this great project.
David
Comment by Pyro-X — September 23, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
How about a port to PS3 or xbox360
Comment by rob — September 23, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
You guys are amazing. Used it for years on the Xbox. So happy to be using it again in 1080p on my HTPC. Keep up the great work!
Comment by chris — September 25, 2008 @ 1:11 am
thanks devs
Comment by ronald — September 27, 2008 @ 4:01 am
i tried it for pc and it didn’t work i have window xp when i try to install it it keeps on saying error missing something
Comment by detroitsbest — September 28, 2008 @ 3:57 am
Doesn’t work for me
Windows version doesn’t find my shares and the bootable iso doesn’t play mp3.
Most of my series aren’t found, but maybe the parsing expressions can be altered.
Looks nice though, maybe someday I’ll change mediaportal for xbmc
Comment by Ray — September 28, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
How do I install the new XBMC. When I download the file and unzip it, I have 1340 files. What can I do with these files.
XBMC-2008-10-01-rev.-15728 Atlantis BETA 1
I downloaded several different XBMC, but I only get all these files and I don’t know what to do with it. I really need an update.
I need help…. please
Ron
Comment by ron — October 2, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
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Comment by Gamester17 — October 3, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
al parecer el primer habla hispana en reconocer el mejor trabajo realizado centros de media felicitaciones simplemente ¡exelente¡
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Comment by cheritycall — October 27, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Vielen Dank, Thank You.
Comment by Altersvorsorge — October 28, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
great thanks!!
Comment by Antiq — January 24, 2009 @ 10:35 pm