http://xbmc.org XBMC Media Center is an award winning media center for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Xbox, and the Apple TV. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:35:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year, XBMC held its annual DevCon after LinuxTag in Berlin.  We like to come together every now and then to meet face to face and discuss the state of things, the future of XBMC, and socialize a bit too. In attendance this time around were pike, chadoe, spiff, elupus, ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/07/04/results-of-xbmc-developers-conference/ Remember a few weeks ago when you flocked in droves to cast your vote for XBMC Media Center to be eligible for SourceForge's annual Community Choice Awards? You were at that time just voting to NOMINATE us as finalist candidate, and you did a great job at that so our ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/06/23/vote-for-xbmc-at-sourceforge/ As we have already announced, XBMC is going to have a booth at LinuxTag in Berlin in 3 weeks time. We know we have the best looking media center, and with your help, we can have the best looking booth at the show as well! Our current thinking is to first plaster ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/06/01/contest-design-a-booth-poster-for-linuxtag/ A few bugs managed to slip into the XBMC Media Center 9.04 (Babylon) final release, so we decided to do a quick update. This maintenance release addresses those glaring Babylon issues as well as some other things that we have fixed since. No new features are present here, this is ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/05/27/xbmc-9041-released/ XBMC Media Center 9.04 (codename: Babylon) final is now released. Versions for Apple TV, Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard. Intel-x86, PowerPC), Windows (XP, Vista), Linux (Ubuntu PPA), Xbox, and a bootable Live CD/USB distribution (XBMC Live) of this free cross-platform media center software are available and are ready for download, ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/05/06/xbmc-904-babylon-released-ready-for-download/ Team-XBMC is proud to announce that we have gained a sponsored booth at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin.  This is a great opportunity for the XBMC project to spread the word about XBMC Media Center throughout the open source community as a whole, and a great opportunity for our users in ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/05/04/xbmc-will-have-a-booth-at-linuxtag-2009-in-berlin/ Hot on the heals of the Alpha 1 release, and some 350 code fixes later, the first (and only?) Beta release of XBMC Media Center 9.04 (codename: Babylon) is now available.  New in this Beta 1 release is support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Mac under Mac OS ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/04/23/xbmc-904-babylon-beta-1-released/ Just a quick note to let you all know that Alpha 1 builds of XBMC 9.04 are now available.  New in this release, among many things, is experimental hardware acceleration on Linux via VDPAU for recent NVIDIA graphics chipsets care of motd2k, reworked internal path system to remove dependency on ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/04/05/xbmc-904-babylon-alpha-1-released/ Over the weekend, the VDPAU branch was merged into the main trunk, signaling the time for another feature freeze to give XBMC developers and users a chance to only focus on fixing bugs until we are ready for the next major stable release of XBMC for all platforms, 9.04. As predicted ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/03/26/xbmc-hits-feature-freeze-for-904/ Giuliano Maciocci has posted an interview with our own Jonathan Marshall over at brave little meme. Q: Let’s talk a little about XBMC itself. What would you say separates it from other media centre and HTPC software? JM: The biggest thing for me are that it’s completely opensource - both in ... http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/03/07/interview-with-jonathan-at-brave-little-meme/