Great news.

Any plans to have h.264 10bit with hardware decoding? My CPU Intel Atom is too small for software decoding un 1080p. :(

Going really fast this time…looking forward to it…

mad-max

Has this release candidate fixed any bugs from Beta 3? A lot of people on the forums, including me, have been complaining of no audio when playing TV shows, which requires a reboot, and then when it plays the next video it has no video.

Awesome!
Damn you guys are fast! :)
XBMC 12; Maybe a nice christmas present for 2012? :)

Keep up the good work.

Awesome! Cant wait to try this one out! Had some issues with Aeon MQ4 and Frodo Beta 3!

Great job guys – Beer commin’ ;)

Great job. Will the Android remote app get a facelift now that frodo is almost done

What an incredible fast development since Eden!!!!

Thanks a lot for your hard work! Hardware acceleration broken since beta 2 though, I can’t test the betas for now

Any foreseable support for 21:9 aspect ratio?

I’ve posted this on the forums/irc, but had no response. In the beta’s/rc I can no longer select mapped shares as network locations.
I have several xbmc clients. all of them have several drive letters mapped to SMB shares. However, in frodo I can no longer use mapped drives as library locations.
So “When adding a network location, these mapped drives are no longer a selectable option. “

I’m so excited I almost explode! XBMC 12 is going to be amazing, I can feel it!!! Thank you for what you are doing!

@Chamalo
No existing, or future, GPU’s can decode hi10p.

This release of XBMC prevents Mac OS screensaver to be running. I’ve got screensaver on Mac OS setup up after 1 minute of idleness, but XBMC just dims the screen and screensaver never runs.

Can’t find in the documentation whether RC1 with the new AudioEngine plays multichannel DTS-Wav files?

Since Frodo seems to have killed off the old way of sharing a thumbnails library, and everything I’ve read seems to indicate that “magic” is now used sync multiple machines to one library, what are people actually doing to keep all these workstations in sync?

Is the XBMCbuntu installation procedure still borked?

thx again team xbmc… hope my donation will help in a way.
i’m hesitating to install Frodo RC1 on my AsRock ION 330. just read that another guy got some stuttering since Frodo Beta 2.
is that problem solved (question 2 all guy in this room) :)

again thx for this beautiful piece of software

crashes on my google TV sony NSZ-GS7 firmware 3.2 :(

XBMC 12 on 12/12/12? It is a sign. The planets have aligned and I have downloaded.

@Chainjr
Should already be supported, but probably just doesn’t have any skins made for that ratio yet. Skinners can make skins for just about any aspect ratio.

@JD
No support for Google TV yet

@Hado
Please post your issue to the forums and include as many details as you can, like what OS you are using, and try to include an xbmc debug log (see http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file ).

@Tarantulas
See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Upgrading_XBMC_to_v12

@Dmitry
Normal behavior for XBMC is to prevent OS sleep/screensaver if XBMC is full screen.

b2/b3/rc1 is still broken for correctly reading and working with a sql setup and sources xml. the sources show up in ‘videos’ but the content type is broken and so ‘tv’ and ‘movies’ cant be selected. it looks like it doesnt update the database or something.

frustrating as this has been posted here and on the forum. what is the fix?

@dave
Do you mean MySQL? As far as I know, there are no outstanding issues with MySQL, and several users have it up and running with Frodo RC1 and working just fine.

@john
Try Yatse… it is amazing!

@nedscott
yes mysql, i posted the log on the thread on the forum, it looks like there is failure of it to upgrade the database.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=147655&highlight=rc1+sources

waiting for a response. when i revert back to b1 it works, but neither b2/b3/rc1 will upgrade my database.

The MySQL upgrade instructions specifies that Textures13 db should be copied from the ‘first upgraded’ HTPC to the other HTPC’s along the thumbnails folder.
If the process was not carried out in the specified order, will the folders still sync? And in this case which textures13.db do I copy to the others?

Case here, the first install was on a test machine where the thumbnails were not synced.

@dave
i’ve fixed the database issue and updated the post with the fix, working great now!

Chamalo :
Great news.
Any plans to have h.264 10bit with hardware decoding? My CPU Intel Atom is too small for software decoding un 1080p. :(

No Vendor supports H.264 10bit hardware decoding… A little bit reading before posting is always useful.

@john
How about this http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=147741
Works great for both Frodo and Eden.. Just enable JSON-API in the host configuration
I hope we can see the same amazing XBMC remote on adnroid as the one released today for iOS

micjensen :
Awesome! Cant wait to try this one out! Had some issues with Aeon MQ4 and Frodo Beta 3!
Great job guys – Beer commin’ ;)

All versions of Aeon are soooo bloated, the only way it won’t have issues is if, every addon,script etc.. ever written for XBMC doesn’t have issues, since Aeon uses them all. LOL

Just installed over my eden after a failure on all 3 frodo versions, must say this excellent, quality on my TV card is bad, but thinking its the card i have Compro e750 (bad choice), but everything else movie/music wise working flawless. Just wish AEON had the support for frodo coz Confluence is lacking many features. By the way does anybody know of a skin that supports a screen that shows a list of songs that are qued with detail e.g mini album cover etc.. thanks guys…:)

I hope the YouTube plugin gets fixed next. It’s the only issue that makes me swear at XBMC. That has to be a good sign though, thanks! It’s in use for ~20 hours a day too. Most of the bugs lately haven’t affected me – I only update to see if YouTube logs-in yet….

Great job, kiss kiss!

Beautiful! I’m really looking forward to it.
Will you also make any bugfix releases after 12.0 is released this time around?

I guess the HD audio support still doesn’t include OSX due to limitations by Apple? Wouldn’t it be possible to just to a software decode and output PCM-streams?

@Tuxie
We plan to. Things got a little jumbled for a v11.1 bugfix release, so never got it out/organized, but for v12 things should go smoother.

@Erik Lindahl
For Frodo, OS X will indeed lack HD audio support. If it’s possible to work around the limitations in Apple’s audio API then I suspect the devs would be interested, but there’s a lot of factors there that would need to be looked at.

@Anonymous
In theory it shouldn’t hurt anything if it’s not done. As the footnote on that page says, that’s just an “extra safe” step in case the download urls for the artwork aren’t available anymore (if items were scanned into the library from a long time ago, etc). How it works is that XBMC saves the url for various art work/thumbs in the shared MySQL database, and then each XBMC client checks to see if it needs to download art or not. Each XBMC install has a copy of the image, but they’re all in sync (so if you manually change the art on one XBMC machine, it will be reflected on all of them, etc).

Fantastic work XBMC team, the improved UPnP server is awesome it displays all the metadata associated with XBMC at least in files mode.

It doesn’t seem to tie into displaying your typical movie or tv show library (as if you scanning network shares) but it is till a great step towards that goal and XBMC as a media server for multiple clients.

The updates come rly fast, i like that. Good job team!
But i still have a problem with the 360 controller.
On my Win 7 x86 XBMC 12 Frodo b1/2/3/rc1 when i try to use the controller i get error that No VPR clients have been started yet.
Setting is enabled to use the controller but the movement is way too fast en the No VPR error doesnt allow you to browse/enter menus.

Any of you folks have the same issue?

Hello, I have my database and my thumbnails on my Synology and have it now in this version no longer have access. I read that the thumbnails are now sync automatically and will not needed more advancedsettings.xml. However, these files are still in the database credentials for my SQL database. Now I’m a little stumped as I get to run to the back.

Ok I backed up the database and then deleted from the Synology. Have retained the xml and everything rebuilt. Running again;) IMDB goes well again and this time without extra tools wonderful in German. So far I’m very excited.

Saw something about AirPlay. Can anyone elaborate please. Thank youuu

when I stream to my Samsung Blu-Ray player via UPnP it see’s XBMC as a server but when I try to play a file it says ‘file not supported’ even though the same file (ac3 720p) works when played from a USB thumb drive.

@nedscott

Has this release fixed the audio\video issues people have been having?

Must do clean install. Passtrough and audio output device must be Wasabi:HDMI, using Directsound becauses heavily struttering at 1080 material – at least when running GPU accelerated.

Win 7
GTX680
HDMI output

“@Anonymous
In theory it shouldn’t hurt anything if it’s not done. As the footnote…..”

@nedscott
Thanks for the explanation.

glad to see we’re nearing release! can’t wait for proper nightlies to resume again without the annoying feature freeze.

All of my skins all appear to be broken, which I understand is entirely possible due to beta’s and rc’s. but from what I have been reading people are able to install working skins, what am I missing?

@Shaz – Always good to search the forums and wiki pages of an open source project like XBMC. 10 seconds of work and I found this: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AirPlay

@Dmitry
Same here, but on win 7

@Chamalo
run xbmc on linux or add ram to ur pc
running amazing here on atom n450 512cache 2 gb ram winXP 32bit

@GartimusPrime

Transparency is the only skin I’ve seen official on the repo. Other skins (like Aeon Nox) can be downloaded from Git while the developer works on it before officially releasing. I imagine that’s what people are doing with other skins as well. Of course if you do that you’ll inherently run into bugs and there’s the potential you’ll have to reset all your skin settings as more changes are made.