XBMC 12 Frodo - Beta 3
Hot on the heels of Beta 2, we are excited to release Beta 3. This release includes a number of fixes as we work to resolve issues that have cropped up since Beta 2 and also attempt to isolate some issues that still exist. For a quick run down of some of the big ones:
- Users of Android 4.2 should now be able to install and run XBMC for Android.
- The upgrade path of Windows users has been a little tricky. Users may upgrade to beta and discover the audio no longer works. This is due to a bit of trickiness with the AudioEngine upgrade. For Audiophiles to get the most out of AE, we recommend that you check out the AE Wiki entry.
- For those Windows users who find themselves without sound, the simple fix is to go to System->system->Audio Output and switch WASAPI to DirectSound. Users doing a clean install of XBMC for Windows Beta 3 should have no problem.
- PVR Addons have been included with XBMC for Windows, matching up with most other ports.
- We are still only partially complete on translations for numerous languages, including Romanian, Japanese, Estonian, Bosnian, Serbian, Hindi, and more. If you feel comfortable with one of these languages, but don’t know how to help, feel free to visit our forum thread that explains how to help translate XBMC using Transifex. UPDATE: Additionally, Transifex is used for translations for addons and skins, so you are always welcome to go back to a more complete language and help with any unfinished addons.
Finally, we’ve begun compiling a list of some of the more frequently asked questions about the transition from XBMC 11 Eden to XBMC 12 Frodo. If you haven’t made the switch yet, or just want to read about what other people are running into, please visit the XBMC 12 Frodo FAQ.
Conclusion
But enough of all that. Now is the time to get to downloading.
Let us know what you think of the changes in the comments below, or, if you like, via the donation button at the top of the page.
And if you have any problems, don’t hesitate to post about them in our forums and report verified bugs in Trac.
This is looking good on my Win 7 PC and my Nexus 7. Astounding stuff!
I’m tempted now to start looking at getting some Freeview tuners (I’m in the UK) and try out the PVR functionality. Can anyone recommend any? I’d like to do this on a reasonably tight budget if that’s possible. They’d have to be external (USB?) tuners as my PC is a Revo R3700 nettop.
As great as the second and third betas are, what really stops me transitioning to them is a lot of things I rely on (TVCatchup plugin, PM3.HD skin, few other things) were broken shortly after the October 5th alpha I’m using now… in fact with the alpha itself 4oD and Demand5 are broken but as I don’t use these it’s not a big deal. Because XBMC is such a collaborative freeware effort the people who develop things for it often are not told when changes in the core break their addons or skins and I think this should be looked at as part of the development process, because as nice as it is adding bells and whistles if it breaks pre-existing features that people rely on XBMC for it’s not worth the effort for them. Although if everyone catches up to the changes on or before release of Frodo stable none of that matters, assuming Frodo stable itself doesn’t have big unfixed bugs that everyone missed like the messed up video playlist order one that drove me nuts in Eden stable.
Sorry if this seems grouchy or moany, it’s just that although I don’t code I have always been very good at looking at things in a detailed overview sort of way, and my main observation seems to be “fix and/or improve existing features, be more conservative adding new features, provide better backward compatibility with older versions” and things like that. XBMC is still light years ahead of most of the competition so making it more reliable (on my Win32 Acer Revo machine XBMC crashes all the time, so much so I’ve had to map a kill/reload function to a button on my universal remote using EventGhost, plus there are numerous Android reports of being unusable to name just two examples) and far more stable should be more important than going too far too fast with such a complex piece of software being managed by a comparatively small team.
Having said all that, I hope a lot of the problems we’re all experiencing are “opening night jitters” and I’m confident that Frodo is going in the right direction – it already looks like a massive leap from Eden and fixes a lot of issues I had with that, so when all the skins/addons are updated to match the new way of doing things it should be the best one ever!
You have to un-mute it in alsamixer. I always had to do that. Works awesome on HDMI
@PizzaCat
@RAffaeleDiana
Works on my galaxy note 2 which is close to the s3.
Stylus, screen auto rotate and HDMI still don’t work tough.
Hi guys,
I’m the one who made the translation for Romanian language for the last 2 releases.
Sorry for not updating the translation since last year, I was busy with something else :(.
Now I have time and I’m glad to help again. I sent a request to join the team on Transifex.
Thank you!
Android:
Live-TV works on zenithink zt282 @ ICS 4.0.3
still missing Bonjour, someone gonna implement jmDNS for final?
@Zeke
We have an add-on developers mailing list that any add-on authors can subscribe to in order to get such notices. We always strive for backwards compatibility when it’s reasonable/possible.
little issue, when i explore my video or music library in Frodo beta 3 he suddenly stop working and exit to windows.
@drmacmuffin
No way. We had already poked at zeroconf and it was a nogo atm. This won’t be available in frodo on android.
@agreendc
You need beta 3
Well done… really looking forward for the Frodo Final Release :)
LoL just finished downloading Beta3 and a few minutes later i just recognized now we get RC1 :)
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/
hey, just updated my libraries and did an install. I got RC1! Is beta 3 already old news?
How does one change the skin settings to Confluence in this beta? I haven’t tried the other ones, but my options in System have disappeared.
@spoonTRex
Nevermind. The moment I finally post a comment, I find the info I need: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:Confluence/Settings
@Stefan
Same problem since beta 2 with the stottering video HD files. I use an Asrock ION 330…
Forgot to mention I use WIndows 7.
I did some more testing and there definitly something wrong with HD playback on ION 330 on windows.
For testing I use a 1080p clip that always played well until beta 2 (It’s still OK on beta 1). The playback is stuttering around 4 fps, like there is no hardware decoding enabled.
If I can help with an bug report or logfile please let me know.
We shouldn’t expect hardware acceleration/decoding anytime soon for android right ? Interesting that programs like mxplayer can yet not this. I’ll be sticking with mxplayer until a proper release is out thanks
is it just me or are all the video and music sources not visible in the ‘files’ section,, I only see the removeable usb drives in the files section.. but none of my hard drive folders,, it does keep updating correctly, but I do need to go in there to ‘refresh’ and manually get some folders to pull correct information from internet but I can’t at the moment…
since I installed RC1, the subtitle downloader doesn’t work anymore. Anyone alse having this issue?
@Eat
Unlikely that XBMC for Android will have any kind of universal hardware decoding for v12. Other players have hardware decoding because they signed NDAs or are using closed source code, which are not options for XBMC.
@Robert
Most likely it is an issue with audio settings.
Frodo beta 1 and Frodo beta 2 work.
Frodo beta 3 and Frodo RC1, not only crash windows but completely freeze my PC. green bars fill the screen and everything stops. Only a restart can fix it.
INTEL.SSD_Win7.64bit_ATI6870.2GB_Intel.Q9450_AUZEN.PRELUDE7.1
Frodo beta 1, 2, 3, RC1 installed in separate folders.
@Robert
Check your video settings and that deinterlacer isn’t set to forced on. I had that problem with a previous version – the Ion isn’t powerful enough to do it and it will attempt to deinterlace even progressive video if told to.
@nedscott
i don’t think it’s an audio issue. I have analog audio set up; which worked in beta 1 and many nightly builds before.
Ion 330 is powerful enough to deinterlace, it’s really not an issue on my Revo R3610. I have it interlacing off by default and set it to on when watching 1080i TS files (H.264/AC3) from my Freesat box, and it deinterlaces to a nice steady 50fps with no issue whatsoever.
Hola,habria alguna posibilidad de instalarse en un webtv lite o si en algun momento hareis uno para este aparato,un saludo
A lot of audio tweaking has been going on, and it’s very possible that XBMC is trying to keep the video in sync with the audio. So if audio is slowing down/messing up for some reason, it can cause issues for video as well. It could be something else, though.