XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 3

January 3rd, 2013 natethomas

We would like to take this time to announce the third 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 RC2 and RC3 are entirely stability fixes. For the full list, visit our Github milestones for RC3. 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.

A quick note for Linux users, PVR addons have now been made a separate install from XBMC and can be found in the same PPA as XBMC. Each addon will be labeled “xbmc-pvr-[plugin-name].”

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. foldor
    January 3rd, 2013 at 19:15 | #1

    Congrats on the release. I’ll check it out now and see how it looks so far :)

  2. Skilogram
    January 3rd, 2013 at 19:35 | #2

    Tits

  3. Xeus32
    January 3rd, 2013 at 19:40 | #3

    Very good news.
    I’m using RC2 and it work quite good.
    The unique problem is when I try to play a mp3 file that crash the player.
    I think i have some trouble with my audio configuration.

  4. dieselboy28
    January 3rd, 2013 at 19:54 | #4

    Great work! Can’t wait for the Final Frodo build :)

  5. uomiarz
    January 3rd, 2013 at 20:04 | #5

    All right XBMC team !!!
    Thx for your work

  6. January 3rd, 2013 at 20:04 | #6

    Good Job! I can´t wait for the stable :)

  7. Gerardjm
    January 3rd, 2013 at 20:06 | #7

    No dual audio yet?

  8. narc78
    January 3rd, 2013 at 20:13 | #8

    Crashes when ever I click on music tab!!!!

  9. Nico
    January 3rd, 2013 at 20:56 | #9

    I still cannot use PVR Clients on android. according to [url=https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons/issues/133]Lars[/url] the pvr addons should be included in the android build, but I don’t have the .so files on my tablet

  10. Adam
    January 3rd, 2013 at 21:18 | #10

    Still got horrible delays in changing channels using NextPVR.

    Hardware is:
    Intel E8500
    4GB RAM
    1GB 9800GT
    Hauppauge HVR-2200

    Running Windows 7 Professional

    Thinking a lot of it comes from the liveTV buffer as there is an awful amount of disk thrashing when first selecting a channel

  11. nedscott
    January 3rd, 2013 at 21:54 | #11

    @Gerardjm
    No dual audio feature is planned by Team XBMC.

  12. bluenote
    January 4th, 2013 at 00:06 | #12

    UPNP seems to break Windows idle-to-sleep, on a fresh install , on – no idle, off – sleeps

  13. Ozybard
    January 4th, 2013 at 01:16 | #13

    Well Done and thankyou to all working on this. I last looked at xbmc-pvr about 9 months ago but found it somewhat fragile in the live tv area. However, Frodo RC3 looks to be much more stable and feature rich. I plan to set this all up in a working environment with mythtv as the backend and let the family loose on it. Should be interesting.

    Would like to see some improvement in the channel change time when using myth as the backend but as it stands it’s quite usable.

    Keep up the great work.

  14. Humpatz
    January 4th, 2013 at 03:11 | #14

    Is crossfading music working now?

  15. Dan
    January 4th, 2013 at 04:08 | #15

    @Adam

    Had similar issues with a HVR-2200 in PVR builds for some time, as did quite a few other folks – turned out to be the linux drivers for that card, so I’m not sure that XBMC team can do anything about it. Fair bit of talk about it over at openelec forums.. in the end, I just bought a HD Homerun instead and works a treat :)

  16. Dyos
    January 4th, 2013 at 04:12 | #16

    Good news!
    Thx XBMC team!!

    What do it list?

  17. Skank
    January 4th, 2013 at 04:18 | #17

    Great job, though still having issues with lots of files, which play fine on eden +hd audio or any external player or dsplayer…
    Still waiting for a release with latest ffmpeg

  18. KorT3X
    January 4th, 2013 at 04:27 | #18

    Good!

    So, next release will be the official build or a RC4 is planned ?

  19. VascoDaGama
    January 4th, 2013 at 05:34 | #19

    Is crossfading working again in this release?

  20. chris
    January 4th, 2013 at 05:46 | #20

    thanks for the excellent work! using xbmc for android as client for my liveTV (unfortunately the usb tuner is not yet compatible to linux and i had to do it the windows way :( ) and its running great lately. i am thinking of buying an explicitly compatible dvb-c tuner next, so i can get rid of the redmond flaw.

    keep up the good work!!

  21. Logaan
    January 4th, 2013 at 05:58 | #21

    Dear developers,
    Why can not sort the list of the directory content, under UPnP steaming function (Sort by: “Name, File, date…”)??? This possibility is gray now thence the new “Frodo” release!!! In the “Eden” worked this function perfectly. Operating system: Windows 7 64bit

    Please fix this!

    Regards,
    Logaan

  22. Logaan
    January 4th, 2013 at 06:06 | #22

    @Logaan
    One more thing to the previous problem: “Sort: Descending, Ascending” also gray in release “Frodo”. It can not change, also inactive.
    Thank you for your work!
    Regards,
    Logaan

  23. Sevennl
    January 4th, 2013 at 06:18 | #23

    there are no downloads for XBMCbuntu 12 RC3

  24. January 4th, 2013 at 08:16 | #24

    Amazing work to everyone involved! Thanks so much for doing this year on year!

  25. Jan
  26. Jose
    January 4th, 2013 at 09:35 | #26

    Is it not release the XDMCbuntu RC3 yet? I could’t find it.

  27. Daniel
    January 4th, 2013 at 10:18 | #27

    Great work as usual. However the autoplay funktion seems to be mailfunktioning in both rc2 and rc3. When you play videostreems on a ipad it autoplays next item even though its off in the settings. This is really anoying sence you dont have the time to navigate the page before it plays the next item

  28. Anonymous
    January 4th, 2013 at 10:30 | #28

    http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=149044 The announcement thread still needs to be updated!

  29. S Chr
    January 4th, 2013 at 11:04 | #29

    Installed on 4 different devices running 3 different platforms (OpenELEC, Windows, pi) with a MySQL shared-library database. Works great – thanks for all the great work this past year. Time for another donation…

  30. tperricone
    January 4th, 2013 at 11:20 | #30

    Any good news for Vizio Co-Star (Android)? Received Force Closes on previous builds. Thanks to the XBMC for changing HTPC as we know it!

  31. Jørn
    January 4th, 2013 at 11:52 | #31

    PVR stopped working for me after upgrading…

    This is on Ubuntu 11.10 (XBMCbuntu), using team-xbmc ppa from launchpad.
    I used 2:12.0~git20121220.0939-rc2-0oneiric with PVR (HTS TVHeadEnd), and upgraded to 2:12.0~git20130103.0959-rc3-0oneiric. Now Im unable to install/activate HTS TVHeadEnd PVR plugin.

    Kind regards from Norway.

  32. Jørn
    January 4th, 2013 at 12:21 | #32

    @Jørn

    Ouch… Forget that I ever wrote that. These things happens when I dont read all the text ;-) Was just happy to be able to upgrade.

    apt-get install xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts did the trick! :-)

    While I can understand why this would be a better way to handle PVR-plugins, it seems odd to change this between RC2 and RC3…

  33. Luimar Suarez
    January 4th, 2013 at 12:33 | #33

    good morning … XBMC 12 Frodo, supports 3D content?

    Greetings from Venezuela

  34. Rodrigo
    January 4th, 2013 at 12:49 | #34

    Any Update to show the subtitles fixed in the center of the screen when XBMC is playing 3D movies?

  35. January 4th, 2013 at 13:27 | #35

    @Gerardjm
    afaik it was never planned to be included (in this release)

  36. Migs
    January 4th, 2013 at 13:44 | #36

    Thanks for the hard work, guys!
    Can’t wait for the Final Frodo Fatality! :)

  37. Migs
    January 4th, 2013 at 13:45 | #37

    @Gerardjm , what do you mean by Dual Channel?

  38. Ben
    January 4th, 2013 at 15:03 | #38

    Love the product..

    RC3 XBMCbuntu has invalid or corrupt kernel image.

    RC2 had issues starting up at times right before loading banner (it shows blue lights)… Sometimes it froze on splash screen showing RC..
    Sometimes there are issues acquiring IP address that only restarts fix.

  39. Adam
    January 4th, 2013 at 16:09 | #39

    Does anyone have an RC3 rpm for Fedora 17? I am having troubles with my iPhone 5 airplaying music and want to see if RC3 fixes the problem before I start debugging the problem and potentially submit a bug.

    Oddly enough, airplaying Youtube from my iPhone 5 works fine with audio.

  40. MaitreTI
    January 4th, 2013 at 17:21 | #40

    RC2 is fine with nextpvr …
    subtitle bug fixed in RC3 :o)
    I hope that channel switch will be ok in the final version ?

    beautiful work and thanks to the team for this project !

    i have forget MCE forever …

  41. Justin
    January 4th, 2013 at 19:24 | #41

    When I finish watching an episode, it is not marked as watched. I have to manual set it in the context menu. Is this a bug?

  42. ANNIHILATOR001
    January 4th, 2013 at 19:51 | #42

    The HD Audio Engine is causing horrible playback lag. I am currently using the latest drivers for a Nvidia card. When I switch back to the standard audio formats the lag is cleared up.

  43. StrangeCrunchy1
    January 4th, 2013 at 20:46 | #43

    Is the Exit bug for Windows fixed yet? I’ll have to check it out.

  44. Pop006
    January 5th, 2013 at 01:31 | #44

    Quick question. I know you guys rely on feedback from the community when releasing these types of betas, but I was just curious as to what type of stress testing the xbmc team does on each release as well. Curious to see into the inner workings of how things go! Keep up the good work, please know it does not go unapperciated.

  45. Cjrowson
    January 5th, 2013 at 02:47 | #45

    Having a wierd problem with a apple tv2…
    on some files the video will lock but audio will keep playing …
    Rc2 was fine ?

  46. nintres
    January 5th, 2013 at 06:21 | #46

    @ANNIHILATOR001 I know my GTX 465 Nvidia card cannot do Dolby True HD or DTS HD MA. It could be your video card.

  47. Martijn
    January 5th, 2013 at 09:02 | #47

    @StrangeCrunchy1
    yes it has

  48. penone
    January 5th, 2013 at 09:34 | #48

    On my Google nexus 7 I am having an issue where the plugin common cache is failing when I try to use certain video add ons that rely on it. This is on jellybean 4.2.

  49. steyr
    January 5th, 2013 at 10:19 | #49

    If i install this, how do i upgrade to the final version when that comes out?

  50. Blackstar
    January 5th, 2013 at 10:46 | #50

    @narc78

    It’s a ‘feature’.

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