XBMC 11 Eden: RC1: UPDATE
XBMC 11 Eden: RC1, ready for take off.
Today we are excited to announce Eden Release Candidate 1. It has been a productive few weeks since Beta 3, as we’ve ironed out numerous minor (and one or two major) bugs.
In particular, we’ve:
- Given preference to external subtitles over internal subtitles
- Updated a number of XBMC translations for final release
- Resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues
- Allowed specified movie sets to be sorted by title, rather than year, without changing the default sort order on other sets.
We’ve also added the useful feature of IP weather look up. Now, on a clean install of XBMC, users will no longer need to manually enter their weather location. Instead, XBMC will simply check the IP location of your box and auto-set the weather.
For a complete rundown on changes made since February 9th, feel free to visit here.
Now you all know what to do. Head on over to our download page, pick your favorite version of XBMC, and let us know how the experience goes in the comments.
One additional note: The new release of XBMCbuntu is currently delayed due to packaging issues. We will update this post with new info when it is ready.
Update
Unfortunately, it appears a major bug has snuck into RC1 resulting in video lag across all platforms under certain situations. To resolve this, users are encouraged to add an advancedsettings.xml to their userdata folder with code from this thread. The provided links should give you all the necessary instructions to add the xml. In the meantime, we are rebuilding a quick RC2 to resolve the issue, so you are alternatively welcome to wait a brief while until RC2 has been built.
Feel free to disregard this message if you are not experiencing this issue.
@Dai They give you free software and work for free, so they can make whatever they want, you should just be thankful. Also, I see people asking about HD audio all the time. It’s not gonna be in Eden, stop asking.
Thank you so much guys for the hard work. I appreciate it!
However, I don’t understand Fahrenheit, can there be a Celsius option in weather add-on?
@Dai
Uninstall XBMC and start your own project for free. Hurry, we are eager to see your skills! You will, for sure, renew all the HTPC world!
Thanks to the XBMC team for keeping the good work and even going beyond what we could imagine (from a very long time user on Xbox 1 :)
hey i heard that vlc supports dts-hd. Why dont all you whiners uninstall xbmc and go try vlc. I would love to see your list of complaints then. The beauty of xbmc is it supports virtually every format and displays your content in an easy to navigate and control way. You should be happy for what you get. If you do indeed need dts-hd and bitstreaming join the developers and give an actual helping hand instead of complaining about something you get for free without putting any of your own effort in.
Thanks XBMC team!! Appreciate all the hard work!!
I had a lot of crashes in beta 3 on ubuntu live. With the rc i did not have one crash! Thank you! Only thing im missing is 5.1 audio over hdmi, its only noise if the video has more channels than stereo. Only solution is to sample all audio down to stereo (set to 2.0 speaker in settings)
@Jeff Yeah thats actually how I found out RC1 was out in the first place. :)
Hmm,
Is there a shortcut for switching to internal subtitles? Because sometimes I download movies from other sources than couchpotato e.d. and in that case the subtitle plugin can’t find my subtitles due to a weird file name…
Oeh RC2 .. thanks!
I agree with both.. primarily with TFH, it’s a free (and GREAT!) product, thanks for that!! However, when fixing things, HD audio should override Weather plugin in importance. Though I understand if it’s just being left out-of-scope or delayed due to the scale of the effort required.
When will XBMCbuntu rc1 or rc2 be available for download?
When will XBMCbuntu rc1 or rc2 be available?
@skeeter alamo
ignorance is the beauty of open-source in a nutshell
Thanks for another solid build! I guess I did notice some weird buffering on one of the HD tv shows I was watching a few nights ago. It wasn’t bad but it also was strange since that never seemed to happen before. Now I know.
Anyway thanks again for using the *most important (free) time to develop such an amazing app!
Pardon my ignorance with this site, and the formats…
where would i find a list of changes/improvements from dharma?
thanks!
Why was this not posted to the Google+ page? Don’t believe what you read. The 3k+ users following you on G+ are likely some of your most loyal fans. I am one. I have never had a twitter or facebook account. They server no purpose. Please post all future announcements on Google+.
Thanks
When will RC2 be released? I’m having buffering and Audio/Video sync problems since I have updated from Beta 3 to the RC1 version. Thanks for the great product!
top work guys, thanks for the release
Love XBMC! Been a Supporter for years now, cant wait till Frodo, Live Tv Themes :)~~ Dont stop the excellent work !@
Great work indeed by all the people who contribute. I personally enjoy XBMC on all my media centers throughout the house. Its my personal choice over all others. Was sick of windows media center, and all the sluggish issues. Far behind me now so keep up the good work guys. the release of 11 will be amazing :-D
Till I use the Eden version pf XBMC Windows I don’t find the options to adding videos under the “Video” menu.
There is a different way to set the content of the video and add videos?
I try to follow the wiki guide but with no success:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adding_videos_to_the_library/Adding_media_sources
I just tried the RC2, and at least on the Mac CPU consumption has increased graphics acceleration, so far I think I’m going back to RC1
@John
go to system from the xbmc main menu select settings then select weather settings then select general then select settings then add your location and then select ok keep going back until you see the xbmc main screen then select weather as long as the location you entered uses celsius as its unit of measurement when it comes to temperature then it will display it as celsius this works for me as i am in tasmanian australia and celsius is our unit of measurement when it comes to temperature i hope this helps if not i am sure the xbmc guys are up to taking suggestions
I’ve connected my Samsung galaxy s2 to XBMC via Allshare and it works like a charm. There is one issue though that should have been a tad better. Everytime I switch photos on my phone, while using AllShare and showing my photos to XBMC, there is no smooth change between those photos. In between each photo, XBMC-menu is shown. I wish there would be a smoot transition between them as we can experience on AppleTV.
@John
Hello John,
Somewhere in the system options you will see a section that says something like ” TIME 12 HR AUSTRALIA” Or “TIME 24HR USA” I had to switch mine to 12hour USA for it to change into Fahrenheit. By default mine was on Australia 24 hour time and in Celsius. It was NOT in the settings for the weather.
I am playing an MTS recorded by my Canon Vixia. The recording is 1080i 25FPS.
When I play it back (via Ubuntu+XBMC+Sony Bravia -> 1080p 24FPS), the video skips and jumps as if there was a network error or something.
@John You can change this under some timezone settings in the system menu somewhere. Mine was defaulted on 24 hour Australia time or something so it showed my weather in Celsius. I had to change it to USA and then it showed my weather in Fahrenheit. It was not in the settings for weather anywhere.
Just tried on OSX and I see the splash screen then the main screen appears where I can normally go to the different sections of the app (video, movie, etc). but the screen is frozen. I have to force quit the app. Not sure what the troubleshooting process is or what info is needed to go forward. happy to help though.
Thanks guys for the job you’ve done :)
Thanks for all the great work guys!
Noticed that music files sound distorted. (Flac and wma) Problem cleared up when I rolled back to 10.1. wma loss-less still doesn’t work.
Hey Dave, if you could post a debug log while playing a losses music file in RC2 in the forum using pastebin.com, we may have better luck figuring out what the problem is.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file
working great except it is not scraping any new library additions (for videos at least, haven’t tested audio). files can be added manually if i go to the video tab and manually scan for new content but when i start xbmc the initial scan just exits out.
otherwise it runs really well! great work you guys, this project is amazing.
@John
I fixed this last night got to Settings-Appearance-International and make sure you choose US if you want Fahrenheit instead of metric units.
@will
Try disabling gapless audio or crossover audio (not sure how this is called in the settings).
@John
2/3 th of the world uses the metric scale, please give us Celcius in the final 11 release