XBMC 12 Frodo - Release Candidate 3
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.
Congrats on the release. I’ll check it out now and see how it looks so far :)
Tits
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.
Great work! Can’t wait for the Final Frodo build :)
All right XBMC team !!!
Thx for your work
Good Job! I can´t wait for the stable :)
No dual audio yet?
Crashes when ever I click on music tab!!!!
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
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
@Gerardjm
No dual audio feature is planned by Team XBMC.
UPNP seems to break Windows idle-to-sleep, on a fresh install , on – no idle, off – sleeps
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.
Is crossfading music working now?
@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 :)
Good news!
Thx XBMC team!!
What do it list?
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
Good!
So, next release will be the official build or a RC4 is planned ?
Is crossfading working again in this release?
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!!
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
@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
there are no downloads for XBMCbuntu 12 RC3
Amazing work to everyone involved! Thanks so much for doing this year on year!
Works great on my ATV1200 http://www.myhdplayer.de/Android-TV-Box/MyGica-ATV1200-Dual-Core-Android-4-1-TV-Box-inkl–XBMC-Support.html
Is it not release the XDMCbuntu RC3 yet? I could’t find it.
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
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=149044 The announcement thread still needs to be updated!
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…
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!
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.
@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…
good morning … XBMC 12 Frodo, supports 3D content?
Greetings from Venezuela
Any Update to show the subtitles fixed in the center of the screen when XBMC is playing 3D movies?
@Gerardjm
afaik it was never planned to be included (in this release)
Thanks for the hard work, guys!
Can’t wait for the Final Frodo Fatality! :)
@Gerardjm , what do you mean by Dual Channel?
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.
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.
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 …
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?
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.
Is the Exit bug for Windows fixed yet? I’ll have to check it out.
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.
Having a wierd problem with a apple tv2…
on some files the video will lock but audio will keep playing …
Rc2 was fine ?
@ANNIHILATOR001 I know my GTX 465 Nvidia card cannot do Dolby True HD or DTS HD MA. It could be your video card.
@StrangeCrunchy1
yes it has
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.
If i install this, how do i upgrade to the final version when that comes out?
@narc78
It’s a ‘feature’.