XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 2

December 20th, 2012 natethomas

We would quickly like to take this time to announce the second release candidate for XBMC 12. Features for XBMC 12 include:

  • HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine
  • Live TV and PVR support
  • h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
  • 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
  • Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
  • Support for the Raspberry PI
  • Initial support for the Android platform
  • Improved Airplay support across all platforms, including Airplay audio in XBMC for Windows to match the other platforms
  • Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
  • Advanced Filtering in the library
  • Advanced UPnP sharing
  • Translations now powered by Transifex

At this point, XBMC 12 is entirely feature complete. All changes from this point forward will exclusively include fixes for replicable bugs necessary to reach final release.

Fixes between RC1 and RC2 include resolution of incorrectly disabling audio devices due to faulty detection, which should resolve all or most “audio suddenly stops altogether” complaints, along with numerous other stability enhancements and minor fixes. For the full list, visit our Github milestones for RC2. As always, please do not report bugs or other issues in Github. If you need to report a verified bug, feel free to use Trac.

To get this release candidate, please visit our download page.

Let us know what you think of this release candidate in the comments below, or, if you like, via the donation button at the top of the page.

If you have any problems read the Frodo FAQ and don’t hesitate to post about them in our forums and report verified bugs in Trac.

  1. December 20th, 2012 at 14:02 | #1

    First :)
    Good job guys!

  2. bc420
    December 20th, 2012 at 14:21 | #2

    awesome work you guys!! good to hear !

  3. Alikuenkano
    December 20th, 2012 at 14:33 | #3

    Thank you guys for making XBMC so AMAZING !!!

    =:O)

  4. Allister
    December 20th, 2012 at 14:37 | #4

    my family and i would like to extend our gratitude to the guys involved in making xbmc awesome

  5. Anonymous
    December 20th, 2012 at 14:39 | #5

    Just upgraded and my 1080p mkvs over a network share are running like treacle. Was perfectlt smooth before :o(

  6. MRj
    December 20th, 2012 at 15:06 | #6

    Hi,

    First of all i would like too thank you all for an amazing program, been using it for almost a year now, have 3 ATV2 that is running XBMC and booth me and my children loves it. I dont know if this is the right forum for this but anyway, when I was going to upgrade to the latest RC2 I ran into som problem, I followed the instructions for ATV2 but after installation it is back at RC1 as you can see at the bottom of the output from cli. Also in XBMC GUI it says it is RC1 built on the 19th of december. Any ideas?

    root# apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    The following packages will be upgraded:
    org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/44.8MB of archives.
    After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
    WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
    org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
    Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
    (Reading database … 4656 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 12.0-0~rc1 (using …/org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 _12.0-0~rc2_iphoneos-arm.deb) …
    Unpacking replacement org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 …
    Setting up org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 (12.0-0~rc1) …

  7. Steven
    December 20th, 2012 at 15:09 | #7

    Again, it just gets better :D

  8. kraft
    December 20th, 2012 at 15:11 | #8

    Thx!!!

  9. JJ
    December 20th, 2012 at 15:36 | #9

    Sound doesn’t work..running windows 7 ultimate sp1 x64

  10. Zeke
    December 20th, 2012 at 16:02 | #10

    Somewhere between the alphas and the RCs the team fixed a program crashing bug caused by logging in, logging out, logging in etc I think. This was a big one so good job getting it fixed!

  11. JJ
    December 20th, 2012 at 16:09 | #11

    nevermind the sound works sorry

  12. Jim
    December 20th, 2012 at 16:59 | #12

    Woohoo. All XBMC releases (beta/RC/whatev) are a highlight of my day.

  13. William
    December 20th, 2012 at 17:01 | #13

    Works great on my new Android mini PC – Rikomagic MK802 III

  14. Bobby Blixberg
    December 20th, 2012 at 17:02 | #14

    Fifth *rolleyes*

    Thanks again to all who contributed.

  15. Brian
    December 20th, 2012 at 19:31 | #15

    Am I the only one that checks everyday for these releases? Stoked for this, thanks.

  16. December 20th, 2012 at 20:51 | #16

    XBMC is the best christmas present this year. Congratulations on amazing work.

  17. nedscott
    December 20th, 2012 at 21:18 | #17

    @MRj
    You’re missing “apt-get update” before the install command

  18. poodles
    December 20th, 2012 at 21:55 | #18

    Hi Folks,

    first of all – THANKS for this awesome christmas gift – keep up the good work…

    I have a little problem installing the RC2 on my apple TV with iOS5.0.2
    i followed the update instructions per this website:

    http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_on_Apple_TV_2#Frodo_release_candidate

    after the installation, when i check in XBMC under system settings which version of XBMC is installed, it shows as FRODO RC1 instead of RC2…

    What am i missing or doing wrong?

    Thank you all for your help!

    Merry Christmas!

  19. Scott
    December 20th, 2012 at 22:04 | #19

    @William

    William, what xbmc build are you running (link?)? Are you playing 1080 with no playback issues? Internal xbmc player with HW acceleration working? I bought a all winter android box but can only play hd using mx player or the like. No hw acceleration with xbmc, yet…

  20. es95pl
    December 20th, 2012 at 23:39 | #20

    I get the same problem as MRj. I’ve tried to do an apt-get update before the installation of rc2. No success.

  21. December 21st, 2012 at 00:32 | #21

    Merry Christmas from Spain….
    XBMC simply the best media software ever. Thanks

  22. Bloodssack
    December 21st, 2012 at 03:25 | #22

    It’s almost there. I’m still on Eden so I’ll wait for stable version of frodo before upgrading. your almost there guys! good job:)

  23. grj
    December 21st, 2012 at 03:32 | #23

    @MRj

    The exact same thing is happening to me. Have you found a fix?

  24. Piti8576
    December 21st, 2012 at 04:14 | #24
  25. richard smith
    December 21st, 2012 at 06:06 | #25

    I installed last night as a mediabrowser/media centre convertee. I was tired of codec constantly been updated and failing. 1 codec breaks another. Ran out of patience. I just wanted to turn the TV on and everything was there. XBMC does that and looks fab too.
    Ive already changed my settings in media centre master to move my trailers so they match up with XBMC style.
    No going back now! Im well chuffed and im hard to please!

  26. doogdeb
    December 21st, 2012 at 06:19 | #26

    I was having issues with RC1 where if I chose to play a TV show it would play the first one in the list every time. RC2 has fixed this. Nice work guys.

  27. Sundalic
    December 21st, 2012 at 07:03 | #27

    thanks for all the great work guys. quick question, do I need to do anything with my shared DB? or just update all my Eden clients to Frodo?

  28. doogdeb
    December 21st, 2012 at 07:06 | #28

    Since Beta 2 I was also having issues where when first playing a video it would have no audio, and when I then played the next video in the list it had no video. This now seems to have been fixed with RC2.

  29. MRj
    December 21st, 2012 at 07:33 | #29

    Hi all, Now it´s working on the appletv 2. I followed the instructions again today, and now it is correctly installed with RC2.

    Once again, thanx for all the effort and good work that you are doing.

  30. JiSiN
    December 21st, 2012 at 08:14 | #30

    Well done guys! Soon we gonna get Final version ^^

  31. asprion
    December 21st, 2012 at 08:21 | #31

    oi tannerbaum.where the fock is the support for windows xp and creative x-fi …its not workd sinse beta 1

  32. December 21st, 2012 at 10:24 | #32

    Is the MythTV PVR addon supposed to be available for the Android version? I was hoping it would be. I’m really interested in having a nice working frontend for myth on my phone.

  33. December 21st, 2012 at 12:32 | #33

    No there won’t be any final version since we’ve scheduled that after the apocalypse

  34. Gerard
    December 21st, 2012 at 12:37 | #34

    It will have dual audio?

  35. December 21st, 2012 at 18:04 | #35

    Just ungraded to Frodo RC2. Looks and works great!! I’m having an issue where the album art for most releases is being compressed. It’s strange because if I go to manually change the thumbnail to the same image I have saved in the tags it refreshes to the uncompressed one. For some reason upon initial/manual scan through my library it compresses larger album thumbs and makes them look all crappy. I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this as I would really not enjoy going through and changing the album art manually. Thanks!

  36. Ronnie
    December 21st, 2012 at 19:21 | #36

    Hello,

    As always great work and I love XBMC.

    However there seems to be one MAJOR FEATURE that has disappeared, i don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s this new version, but i am unable to modify / Refresh a movie’s information. It still works fine on TV series. But on movies say you want to change the fan art or thumbnail or if XBMC got the wrong movie name and you want to modify it it’s completely disappeared the option to do so.

    Anyone else has this problem?

    Thx.

  37. Iamjustme
    December 21st, 2012 at 20:03 | #37

    Why does the option for audio and video show up on my iPhone AirPlay when xbmc launches from sleep. I never had this problem with Eden..is anyone else aware of this issue?.

  38. Shane
    December 21st, 2012 at 20:46 | #38

    So I run XBMC on my RaspberrPi, Dell XPS laptop and my HTC EVO LTE cellphone. What specifically does it mean when you listed support for the RaspberryPi? Also LOVE XBMC been running it since I first put it on one of my several XBOX consoles.

  39. nedscott
    December 22nd, 2012 at 01:59 | #39

    ATV2 had a version number issue that should be fixed now.

  40. nedscott
    December 22nd, 2012 at 02:02 | #40

    @Shane
    It just means that Frodo is the first official/stable release of XBMC for the Raspberry Pi. Everything up to now has been test/development builds.

    @Ronnie
    That still works for me. If you could post about this on the support forums we might be able to fix the issue for you.

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

  41. Nerd
    December 22nd, 2012 at 03:58 | #41

    Awesome piece of software, thanks a lot for this.

  42. zxx
    December 22nd, 2012 at 05:52 | #42

    Just wanted to say thank you for making this great product!

  43. Ferenc
    December 22nd, 2012 at 10:14 | #43

    One of the best app, amazing!!! Thank you!

  44. cmedins7777
    December 22nd, 2012 at 12:17 | #44

    I keep have an issue no matter which version of xbmcbuntu Frodo I install. (beta1, beta2, rc1, and rc2) The go all the way through and seems to go fine. at the end it asks to restart so I do. After restart I just get a frozen black screen with a curser in the middle. cant do anything. I install eden and works like a champ. Can anyone give me some advice as to what might be happening.

  45. December 22nd, 2012 at 13:16 | #45

    awesome!!! Now i just need to know how to get this off. during video playback if i pause a cover is displayed at the rigth lower corner that before was only there if the file was on the library. Some files show cover preview. some dont.
    http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6683/screenshot000g.png

  46. Craig
    December 22nd, 2012 at 23:54 | #46

    The only thing I would change is the skin. The Frodo revised skin just doesnt seem polished like it was for Eden. The blue used for selected words from white doesnt work, the same static background seems like a step back from the different background images per category and not being able to go directly to folders via video is a deal breaker. I have always loved the work Jezz has done on skins but this is the first one I dislike. I have deleted the revised skin and copy/pasted the eden version into my addons folder. It works but some features present in Frodo like PVR ar not there due to the old skin.
    Am I the only one that feels this way?

  47. MikeB
    December 23rd, 2012 at 02:43 | #47

    Unfortunately, I’m still having audio and playback issues as on RC1 with DVR-MS and certain MKV files.

  48. December 23rd, 2012 at 12:08 | #48

    Looks and sounds Great!!! But the YouTube add-on doesn’t work for me; can’t get into my subscribed channels. Don’t know if the problem is w/ xbmc or w/ the script.

  49. John
    December 23rd, 2012 at 13:05 | #49

    Not sure where the problem lies bug I have a synology using phpmyadmin for my SQL server, and once in a while when I turn on my Asrock my movies and TV shows folder aren’t there. A restart of xbmc always fixes this issue. This happens with every version of xbmcbuntu that i’ve tested so i know its not the client. Assuming its phpmyadmin or the synology, is there something I could put in advancedsettings or something to delay startup to ensure a connection with the mysql server? I tried searching for a solution but havent had any luck. Otherwise RC2 is perfect! Thanks all.

  50. John
    December 23rd, 2012 at 13:10 | #50

    I should add that I disabled HDD hibernation on the synology thinking that could be the problem but that hasn’t helped the issue. Thanks all.

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