XBMC 12.0 - Frodo
Everyone at Team XBMC is proud and excited to announce the long awaited XBMC 12 “Frodo.” Features for XBMC 12 include:
- HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (OSX/iOS not yet available)
- 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 and more interesting and complex skins
- 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
- Video library tags to complement movie sets
- Advanced UPnP sharing
- Default video languages now match the language being used by XBMC
- Translations now powered by Transifex
A Shout Out to Our Friends and Sponsors
With this release, we’d like to single out a few friends and sponsors who went a very long ways to make Frodo a reality.
To start, we’ve added two entirely new users bases with Frodo. The first was the Raspberry Pi platform. It’s rare when a registered charity can do something as incredible as create a piece of hardware that’s got thousands of people salivating. It’s absolutely unheard of when that piece of hardware pops out as the single least expensive means of running XBMC ever. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi Foundation for their efforts and their support!
Pivos: The XBMC for Android port catalyst
The second new platform is XBMC for Android. The simple fact of the matter is, XBMC for Android might not exist as a working port right now if it weren’t for the decision of Pivos Technology to employ two XBMC Team members fulltime to make it happen. Of course, countless other Team Members and non-Team coders have contributed to the code base both before and after that initial decision, but it was Pivos who gave our developers the necessary man hours to make XBMC for Android a reality.
In addition, in an unheralded move, Pivos has gone above and beyond the standard sponsor requirements and donated enough XIOS DS’s to the Foundation so that every current XBMC Team member, regardless of skill set (from developers to wiki maintainers to testers), has or will have an Android device to tinker with and test things out on.
Finally, there are the friends and sponsors who provide all the data that makes XBMC what it is, including TheTVDB, TheMovieDb, Fanart.tv, and TheAudioDb, among so many others. In particular, we’d like to acknowledge Weather Underground who stepped in to rescue XBMC when we lost our last weather host and also WebHostingBuzz and Bytemark Hosting, the webservers who make XBMC.org possible.
Thanks to you all!
Conclusion and Download
To get XBMC 12 Frodo, please visit our download page.
Check out our changelog for a more complete list of updates for XBMC 12.
Let us know what you think of XBMC 12 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, the Raspberry Pi FAQ, or the Android FAQ, depending on your version, and don’t hesitate to report them in our forums and report verified bugs in Trac.
Amazing turnaround guys!
Two questions regarding upnp sharing, on the client machine:
1. Will ‘TV Shows’ & ‘Movies’ now appear?
2. Will watched shows be remembered?
Great job guys. Can’t wait to install the final version 12.0 and can’t wait to try our new xbmc beta version for v13. Thanks to the team.
Thank you so much! Please keep up the good work. We <3 you.
Totally awesome. Can’t wait to give the software on my Pi an upgrade, it’s been months since I did that.
Nice,
This is great news, and can’t wait to hit install :)
A Big thanks to all who have been working on XBMC, core-skins-scripts-plugins etc.
Awesome cant wait to get home and install it!
Congrats!
Great work guys!
Congratulations. I just installed it and I am looking forward to enjoy this marvelous piece of software engineering!
Fantastic work everyone, I can’t wait to upgrade my network tonight. If I have a SQL backend powering my setup, do I have to do anything different or can I simply upgrade each machine?
Great Work! … and I really like the announcement picture. Any chance of sharing that, minus the text? I think it would make a really cool background image!
Fan-freaking-tastic
Congrats to the team!
Congrats!
Thank you for all your hard work. Donation will be a pleasure when payday come…
is this newer then the RC3 version? not sure….
Thank you for your good work!
AMAZING! Best day of the year! Thank you!
Awesome work everyone! Yeeehaa! :D
best birthday present I got so far^^
great work guys.
Yay, first my hole library are gone. It doesn’t work to import the old one. And now when I try to start XBMC, it crashes at startup.
Perfect!
Anyway, thanks for a great application!
Congratulations – and I can’t wait to see what’s next :)
Great job guys! XBMC has come a long way. Now to find a good TV tuner :p
Just awesome… as always!
Great Work!
Upgrade from v.11 to v.12 worked perfect on ubuntu.
Thanks!
Congratulations! Here’s to a week of fiddling with all the endpoints in my house!
@TheDisneyMagic: First run of the new version will update your MySQL backend automatically; nothing more to it!
Congrats, Team XBMC!
AWESOME! congrats on the release and thank you so very much for the entire teams hard work and valiant efforts! God Speed!
Thanks alot guys can’t wait to try it out really looking forward to the PVR support
Congratulations!
V12 is not working on my ipad 1 with ios 5.1.1, V11was working well. The display stays black when I start XBMC V12. Please advise? Many thanks in advance!
Great :)
Amazing Work, the only thing I am still missing is timeshiftling with my dreambox. :)
sweet :)
Please fix the “Donate” button so we can give something back! Thanks
Super Awesome Guys!!!
thank you, thank you….we know you’ve worked hard on this…
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w000000t you guys are awesome!!! Perfect timing – hadn’t heard anything for awhile and knew it must be close!
Great work guys. We love you all. Can’t wait to hit install
Great Stuff! Thanks and much kudos to all involved.
Installed on 2 Windows 7 PCs and 2 Android tablets… yippeee!!! Now off to install on laptop (Win 7) and Netbook (Win XP).
@adam Yes, it’s newer than RC3.
Android is all the way. Second new platform is XBMC for Android.
@S Chr
Thanks very much for the clarification. Was running the rc editions in a virtual environment, can’t wait to use this lil beauty live.
I bought a Pivos XIOS DS because they were supporting XMBC development. With XMBC, this is a great device.
Congrats on the release.
Another milestone achieved reinstating the power of open source software developed with a shared spirit and collective enthisiasm.
Great Job, although not a very old user of XBMC, i give it very high regards for all the countless hours of work and volunteering effort behind it.
Thanks for this and the future versions.
Thank you!!!
Going to install it now ! Thank you team xbmc
Can we get an ETA on xbmcbuntu? Want to know whether to update just XBMC when I get home from work, or wait for the .iso so I can do a fresh install…
Thanks! Now I got duplicates of everything in my library. And they are pointing at the same location on the disk.
Congrats!
Thank you for this hard work guys. I hope the video rendering will be better than v.11, especially when playing Divx Movies.