By Team XBMC, posted November 14, 2008 9:46 pmTeam-XBMC is proud to announce the cross-platform release of XBMC Media Center version 8.10 for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, code named ‘Atlantis‘.
We have reached the end of over 3-months of bug bashing, and have closed 425 tickets for this Gold version release and, while there are still some bugs outstanding, we feel that ‘Atlantis’ is reasonably stable, and thus it is time to move on and get cracking on new features. We have branched for release, and will maintain this branch with critical bug fixes while we move on and begin working on new features in the main linuxport SVN trunk.
Thanks goes to everyone in the XBMC community who have made this possible by reporting bugs and suggesting improvements. In particular we’d like to recognise the sterling efforts of Sigurdur Olafsson (a.k.a. Sho) who has been acting release manager for ‘Atlantis’, diligently handling the tracking system on behalf of developers. We would also like to thank Arnova, SandmanCL and ShortySco of our new Quality Assurance Team for their help verifying bug reports and making it easier for the developers to concentrate on fixing bugs.
Go grab XBMC ‘Atlantis’ and let us know how it goes!
Yours sincerely / Team-XBMC
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’bout damn time…
Comment by althekiller — November 14, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Can’t wait to get this stable relase a try! Thank you team XBMC.
Comment by fosk — November 14, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
Whoa then no RC releases? Great! This means that XBMC has an incredible level of stability!
I’ll upgrade my xbox asap, thankyou very much for the great work!
Comment by Wingman — November 14, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
err, final version? Why does the XBOX have the option to exit XBMC and to suspend? The exit option just closes to a black screen, while the suspend option does nothing.
Clearly these aren’t dramatic bugs, but they’d have been picked up if you guys done a RC. Disappointing.
Comment by Tester — November 14, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
oh, I should add, those problems I said above are seen with the PM.3 skin, not sure about the default PM3 one
Comment by Tester — November 14, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !
Comment by XBMC4Ever — November 14, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
I can confirm the suspend/exit bug inside the shutdown menu only exists on PM.3 the only other bug I found is that tetris is knackered still, completely out of frame on all skins at 720p resolution
Comment by Tester — November 14, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
Awesome work as always!
Comment by YM — November 14, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
Thanx for the update…
Comment by theo — November 14, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
Big Thanks guys!
Comment by americantabloid — November 14, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Thank you guys for all your time, hard work and commitment. XBMC is a great product and the continuous effort put in is much appreciated !
Comment by Countzero — November 14, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
Great news, and congratulations! All the hard work that the developers have put into this is very much appreciated. this is a new day for XBMC, i still use XBMC on my XBOX but i am glad that the team is moving forward. XBOX is an obsolete platform that needed to be put to rest as it was an unnecessary burden for the developers to have to worry about cross platform compatibility with legacy hardware was really holding us back.
Now to look forward to the future: I look forward to seeing new and innovative features added to XBMC with out the restraints of the XBOX platform, and would hope that the XBMC LIVE be further developed into a full fledged embedded Linux distribution for installation on turn-key HTPC solutions. I feel it is important for the LIVE distribution to be an important focus. Creating an embedded Linux solution with XBMC as its only UI would most certainly do wonders as fare as making an simple Linux based media center accessible to the public. embedding as apposed to the simple try it from a thumb drive looks to be promising for the LIVE version of XBMC. features such as auto update from within the XBMC interface need to be added so to enable the updating of both the Linux base platform that runs XBMC and to update XBMC itself.
Comment by Slice — November 14, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
Fantastic software! Thank you for all your work.
Comment by Richard Ayotte — November 14, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
Wow. Who would have believed that Xbmc Atlantis would be released on my birthday. This is the best birthday gift ever. Thank you so much dear community!!
Daniel
Comment by Daniel — November 15, 2008 @ 12:11 am
A day… which will live in infamy!!!
Comment by GBot — November 15, 2008 @ 1:10 am
Congratulations XBMC team and contributors!
Comment by Paul Armstrong — November 15, 2008 @ 1:12 am
Great work guys I’ll give this a shot tomorrow
BTW tester - no need to be harsh, these guys do a hell of a lot of hard work for an industry leading product which you get for free and you lay into them!! Bad form…
Comment by Lumpsack — November 15, 2008 @ 1:58 am
Daniel: Best birthday gift ever? You know I bought you a Cadillac. Twice.
Comment by Juan234 — November 15, 2008 @ 3:45 am
You are all awesome! Thx for the hard work.
Comment by Roark — November 15, 2008 @ 3:56 am
Hi, guys. What can I say? GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!!!! Thanks so much for your hard effort. Surely it’s being appreciated all over the world. At least, here in Brazil, it is.
Keep up the awesome work you have been doing and let’s make it better and better.
Best regards for you all.
Comment by ALcALoIDe — November 15, 2008 @ 5:12 am
When will the updated version be up on the Ubuntu repository?
Comment by Slice — November 15, 2008 @ 8:28 am
never mind, just rechecked and sure enough there they are, thanks again to everyone who has made this possible!
Peace,
Comment by Slice — November 15, 2008 @ 8:32 am
Thanks to all involved.
Comment by hasselhof — November 15, 2008 @ 8:55 am
Nice one, great work!
I just wonder about the name of it 8.10, isnt november the 11:th month?
Comment by tommyhome — November 15, 2008 @ 10:29 am
Thanks for all the hard work guys, you’re the best!
Comment by Jeroen — November 15, 2008 @ 10:37 am
What is it with the people complaining over this great FREE software created by people in their SPARE TIME? Yeezz… get a live…
You guys did a great job and I’m sure you will iron out any problems coming to the surface in no time! Keep up the good work, I am confident that XBMC will become the best mediacenter available! (for me it is already)
Comment by Mart! — November 15, 2008 @ 11:58 am
@Tester - I think the expression is “we look forward to your patches”.
Comment by Spiderlane — November 15, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
HOLY CRAP!!
Im excited!
Downloading now….
Comment by Craig — November 15, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
cant find xbox release anywhere
Comment by xbox — November 15, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
@xbox: google for “t3ch”
Comment by Jeroen — November 15, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
great release , thanx!!
Comment by woot! — November 15, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
Big Thanks to the great team-xbmc !
Comment by Anonymous — November 15, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
Holy Crap!!!!
Can’t wait to test it.
Thanks to all involved and thanx for keeping this free
Comment by A_Villa vinner jo kampen — November 15, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
XBMC Rocks!
I’m actively promoting XBMX, just because I KNOW there’s nothing comparable our there.
Thanks a lot - You can be proud of what you achived with Atlantis in such a short period.
Lot’s of appreciateion, netwho
Comment by netwho — November 15, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Tnx for the great release , just bought old XBOX and will install it on it.
Hope that you will still develop for XBOX as well
GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Quovadis — November 15, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
Everyone involved with XBMC development - thank you. This software lacks for nothing - beats FrontRow, Windows Media Centre and even Fluendo’s upcoming Elisa easily. Beautiful work. You all need a lot more exposure for this software - it’s an unsung masterpiece.
–Scaine.
Comment by Scaine — November 15, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Many thanks to all on the XBMC team!,
I love your software soooooo much!, it has revolutionised how we use our media around my household.
I Wouldn’t have it any other way now!. Please keep up the good work !!!
Cheers
4D
Comment by 4D — November 15, 2008 @ 10:00 pm
Great news guys! XMBC is great software and makes it really easy for me to stay on the couch
Comment by madsurfer — November 15, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
Hay this version supports play movie dvd rip codec x264 and h264 ? Old version its difficulties in working play dvd rip h264 ac3 sound and x264 ac3 sound please tell me why
Comment by -=Ethan_Hunt=- — November 16, 2008 @ 12:52 am
wow… nice work guys… i will test the new version later on my rig…
Comment by SDogo — November 16, 2008 @ 1:45 am
best mediacenter ever!
thanks a lot guys!
Comment by bobrooney — November 16, 2008 @ 10:28 am
is the features page upto date? and could you publish more details about what is and is not supported for mkv (ordered chapters, are ass/ssa properly supported unlike the older builds where formatting was ignored).
Comment by wayland — November 16, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Using XBMC for years on Xbox, just to say a big THANK YOU and keep up the good job!!!
Comment by Dan Dar3 — November 16, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
I came in my pants! ~_^
I love u guys!
THANK YOU
Comment by K405 — November 17, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Thanks very much … I’ll give a try asap! You guys are really AWESOME!
Comment by Emmanue — November 17, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Thank you guys very much for all your work..
this is one great piece of software.
MS could learn a thing or thousand from you
Comment by Junta — November 17, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Hi will Try it and write a feedback on http://www.kde4.de in german. I have tested the last two versions and will give the release my try on ubuntu.
Thanks alot and keep the media turning !
Comment by www.kde4.de — November 17, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
Looks great, thanks a lot
Comment by Dorma — November 18, 2008 @ 12:19 am
Fantastic Software - Thank you for the good work! It is stunning.
Comment by jan — November 19, 2008 @ 8:40 am
Hi,
Don’t work on Vista.
How to run it on safemode ?
Herve
Comment by rvmfr — November 20, 2008 @ 11:15 am
Many thanks guys!! XBMC is really the best media center software available for windows and linux, i just hope that GPU accelleration could be added in future releases, other than this, is almost perfect…
congratulations and keep up the good work!
Comment by FidoBoy — November 21, 2008 @ 3:21 am
You guys are the best. Thanx for all your hard work.
Comment by xbmcfan — November 21, 2008 @ 4:59 am
Thank you so much for the hard work. Long live the xbox scene!!!!
Comment by IMD1 PK — November 22, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Fantastic. Thanks for all your effort guys. Will try it out tomorrow.
Comment by Bobafett77 — November 22, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
Thank you for all you have done. This softare is great!!!!
Comment by tdogg — November 24, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
there is a BUG, video calibration is not saved (on apple tv).
after exit, when entering again - you have to calibrate over and over again…
in rest, OUTSTANDING!
Comment by grey — November 26, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
I Love it! I really like the HQ-movie covers! And that there are so many different to choose from for every movie!
Apple-tv very nice!
A few buggs, like sometimes xbmc freezez awhile when i start it and minor studd like that, overall WONDERFULL! BE-E-EAUTIFUL!
I can’t whait for the skins & themes section
XBMC-guys U ROCK!!
Comment by Ghozt — November 26, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Great stuff guys! Been enjoying XBMC for years! Thank you for all your hard work!
Keep it up!
Comment by Martin from holland — November 27, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
I´ve been using Meedio for over two years now on my main htpc and MyHTPC before that, running MCE on my bedroom pc and I also tested MediaPortal for a while about a year ago, I decided to give the new XBMC Atlantis release a go and wow I´m impressed.
XBMC is by far the most polished front end out there. There are still some minor bugs that I´ve ran into on the pc end but it´s still by far much better than other front ends I´ve used. KUDOS to the development team for such an outstanding job.
Comment by Orn — December 2, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
I just tried windows version. It’s FANTASTIC…
Comment by Pecinko — December 6, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Cant wait for the final version - a lot of people use XBMC Xbox ver. in Denmark - THANKS
Comment by Denmark — December 7, 2008 @ 7:39 pm
Wonderful application, now all we need is a PSP Version….
Comment by CR1T1C4L — December 11, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
I was very impressed with the beta 2 of Atlatis, use it regularly on two pcs, trying out the 8.10 release now to see differences, very happy that XBMC has came to windows, it puts other mediaplayers/centers to shame!
Comment by qwertylesh — December 13, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
Three words - You Guys Rock!
Comment by Justin — December 25, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Is it just to install from my vista pc, from pc to xbox with a switch.. It is for good old xbox yes????????????
And using Flash fxp
Please answer…
peace from norway
Comment by hans — January 4, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
Best mediacenter software I have ever used for the PC! Great stuff!
Comment by Jan Ole Peek — January 9, 2009 @ 12:38 am
Have been using XBMC since the early days on Xbox, and now on PC - amazing bit of kit, a lot of large Redmond-based software companies could learn lessons from you guys.
Thanks to everyone who helped get XBMC this far.
Comment by Gridlock — January 9, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
I cannnot believe my ears. I have been in love with XBMC ever since day 1…when it was XBMP wow. Just can’t thank you guys enough. I don’t think i’ll ever part with XBMC and my xbox even the hardware is incapable of supporting HD streaming. I’m eager to try it out now on my pc…last time i did, it was not stable. Hopefully, it’ll stop me from shelling out cash for that tvix hd m-7000a :D. Seriously, Team XBMC teach suckers how to create a great front end. Long live XBMC. Thanks for the 1600+ DVD+R/-Rs you’ve saved me over 5 years.
Comment by demyo — January 15, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
I wish I’d never upgraded my TV to Atlantis (bf1). On the former version the only nuisance I suffered was having to calibrate the screen every boot. Now my AC3 encoded MKV files only work with analog audio enabled. My Receiver displays “Decode error”. Also it takes a long time for it to start buffering video and audio files.
Comment by Carsten L — January 16, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
thankyou! thankyou! thankyou! thankyou! i’ve been waiting fro this ever since i heard about it! great job guys!
Comment by azz — February 14, 2009 @ 11:20 am
it work on ms visa need to install c ++
Comment by it — February 19, 2009 @ 3:49 am
love it on linux keep up the good work it can play eny dvd move need to give it blue ray ssss.
Comment by it — February 19, 2009 @ 3:52 am
Been using XBMC (XBMP) on xbox since late 2003. Been using it on OSX for a year or so … had to deal with your little retarded (on both sides) slap fight with osxbmc/plex/whatever. Still waiting for something that “just works”.
A year or more later and … just full, full, full of simple, minor, usability bugs. You have {} and [] mapped backwards on the keyboard. DVD ISO playback (an old, old, easy, easy feature - no CPU required) is just a nightmare - any kind of fastforwarding or rewinding just kills the whole thing - hangs and stutters and loses sound and regains sound, etc.
Let’s be clear - I did nothing interesting. No h.264. No mkv. No stressful playback. All I wanted to do was watch a dvd ISO, and that was totally out of the question. I guess I’ll keep checking back - maybe one of these days one of these pre-alpha-test versions (like 8.10 Atlantis) will have working skip/FF/REW in ISOs and properly mapped keys. (US standard keyboard, BTW, so it’s not like I have some weird setup…)
Comment by Not Impressed — February 21, 2009 @ 5:54 am
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Comment by dsyufoghyhuyuuiik — March 24, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
I have attempted to download this newest version of XBMC, that you were kind enough to provide but I continue to get an error message during download that the version is corrupt and I need to contact the developer. Any ideas? I am on a Gateway running Vista through a dial-up connection, using Opera as a browser…
Comment by 3 — March 31, 2009 @ 12:58 am