XBMC 'Atlantis' Beta 2 released – added Apple TV support

October 6th, 2008 Team XBMC

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the second cross-platform Beta version of XBMC Media Center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming point release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis‘.

New in this release is multi-core video decoding for Windows users, courtesy of a rebuilt FFmpeg by WiSo and AreaScout, and XBMC now runs on the Apple TV via the easy to use USB installer created by Scott Davilla. We have also updated the skins (PM3.HD, Project Mayhem III, and MediaStream by Team Razorfish) to their latest versions.

With almost 80 tickets closed, and close to 200 commits to SVN since Beta 1 was released, Beta 2 represents a clear step forward in terms of stability. Thanks to all in the community who have made this possible by reporting bugs and suggesting improvements!

Go grab XBMC ‘Atlantis’ Beta 2 and let us know how it goes!

Yours sincerely / Team-XBMC

  1. Andre
    October 6th, 2008 at 23:55 | #1

    Have my baby! I love you guys! XBMC on Xbox was the reason I built an HTPC.

  2. October 7th, 2008 at 01:25 | #2

    Thanks guys! XBMC goes from strength to strength. Can’t wait to see what your planning next. Keep up the great work

  3. October 7th, 2008 at 02:15 | #3

    I swear by XBMC, I rarely even watch TV anymore.

    You guys are the greatest.

    Oh yeah.

    XBMC + MediaStream = The Best Shit Ever

    I just want a HDTV and HD cables now.

  4. Carlos Bragatto
    October 7th, 2008 at 02:30 | #4

    Multicore/multiprocessor decoding did wonders on my P4 3.0HT ! Keep the good work going!

  5. Sloppy
    October 7th, 2008 at 03:48 | #5

    Sweeet! Anyone know if there is a Beta 2 on the way for the LIVE version as well?

  6. XIYL
    October 7th, 2008 at 04:49 | #6

    I really love XBMC, I have been using on my xbox for a very long time and i was so excited when they released a PC version. I now frequently use XBMC on both my computer (Vista Ultimate 64) and my xbox and i haven’t watched TV in ages. Thank you everyone that has worked so hard on this.

  7. Conza
    October 7th, 2008 at 07:56 | #7

    Dudes! Awesome!

    Been using XBMC on my Xbox for years now, and is currently planning to replace it with a HTPC – which of course will run XBMC! :D

  8. Albert
    October 7th, 2008 at 08:01 | #8

    Great job!!

    Ive been using xbmc for many many years now, and iam still having alot of fun using it.

  9. Kazuka
    October 7th, 2008 at 08:36 | #9

    Will there be a beta2 for Linux and LiveCD? I’m hoping the new Intel chipset will be supported, G45.

    Great work by the way! Amazing piece of software.

  10. Talle
    October 7th, 2008 at 09:25 | #10

    Thanx!!!!

    I really apriciate your efforts!!

  11. Trakster
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:14 | #11

    Just wantet to thank the developers and the whole xbmc team for a superb piece of software!
    You guys are heroes for the low budget costumer!

  12. October 7th, 2008 at 12:26 | #12

    64bit Ubuntu version still bombs when attempting to add a Samba video source via the GUI. Also, via the default skin, can’t figure out how to switch to Fahrenheit for weather. Weather does work though.

    XBox version appears to rock though.

  13. October 7th, 2008 at 13:32 | #13

    >> Will there be a beta2 for Linux and LiveCD?

    - Linux beta2 is updated to the PPA .
    - LiveCD is just on the way.

  14. Mike
    October 7th, 2008 at 14:50 | #14

    Hi,

    on sourceforge.net there is XBMC_Live-Atlantis-Beta_2.zip available, but can’t be downloaded. Does anyone know what up?

    Greetz

    Mike

  15. John Bäckstrand
    October 7th, 2008 at 17:18 | #15

    I wonder about the automatic refresh-rate patch. Was it included? This one: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=221069

  16. Sylvio Furtado
    October 7th, 2008 at 17:42 | #16

    Download for live cd beta 2 is not working

  17. Bartdesign
    October 7th, 2008 at 18:05 | #17

    Great job guys, keep up the good work!!!

  18. Gilbert Jonathan Garcia
    October 7th, 2008 at 18:14 | #18

    the live cd download aint working!

  19. Quintixbox
    October 7th, 2008 at 22:20 | #19

    Thanks guys,
    I’ve been a fervent XBMC user since Frodo’s XboxMediaPlayer times and seen this app mature into the best media related software out there, period. It puts Microsoft’s MCE and other commercial software to shame. Even great open source beauties like MythTV, Freevo and Frodo’s own MediaPortal still have a long way to go in terms of media format compatibility, ‘out of the box’ usability and sheer UI beauty.
    Keep up the good work, I’m sure there’s a whole community out there sharing my eager anticipation for the final Atlantis release.
    Another huge vote of gratitude goes to TECH, who’s freed us affectionado’s of the burden of compiling from source and/or IRC downloads with a long series of fantastic builds.
    Now XBMC has been released from the shackles of the superb but unfortunately outdated xbox hardware, we can once again start dreaming of XBMC with capture card and PVR support (hint, hint)…
    Regards & greetz from the Netherlands,
    Quintixbox

  20. October 8th, 2008 at 10:03 | #20

    Thanks guys I’ll be pushing this on my computer as soon as I can. I really love the compatibility and beauty of XBMC and it is so good that it even got the financial controller to approve the build of a HTPC. Thank you again!!

  21. adrianmak
    October 8th, 2008 at 14:15 | #21

    does xbmc receive TV singal ? if my pc is equipped a tv card

  22. muriani
    October 8th, 2008 at 15:30 | #22

    @Quintixbox: What would be awesome is if Frodo started working with the XBMC team again to add Tuner/PVR support to XBMC. I have friends that use XP MCE just because of its ease of use (and overall ease of setup, although we’ve hacked it up a bit), and they’d switch to XBMC in a heartbeat if it had tuner/PVR support just because of how easy and well-supported XBMC is. Keep it up team, you’ve really got something good here.

    Who’d have thought that the best-running and looking HTPC UI would be Open Source?

  23. Dirk
    October 8th, 2008 at 19:35 | #23

    Awesome job guys! This was one of the easiest upgrades ever. I was finished removing beta 1 and installing beta 2 in about 5 minutes, with keeping my database. A way better experience then I had with simular products like MediaPortal.

    No TV support needed here. I prefer to download my episodes… way easier than having to mess with TC-guides, commercials, etc…

    I could think of some cool plug-ins though or at least something better to handle installing (or finding) the scripts. That’s one area are where I feel Mediaportal and MCE is still stronger. But aside from that, XBMC is now the default HTPC program on my system.

  24. mike
    October 8th, 2008 at 23:39 | #24

    downloaded the live CD. Seems will not boot to XBMC.
    seems to be cycling around a log in screen.
    Anybody else experiencing this?

  25. Kevin
    October 9th, 2008 at 03:14 | #25

    XBMC RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  26. Kevin
    October 9th, 2008 at 03:15 | #26

    Let’s work on getting the TV scraper to be more flexible in picking up episode info….Great Job

  27. mike
    October 9th, 2008 at 03:18 | #27

    I tried it on another PC and It works perfectly.
    I guess it is not compatible with older Nvidia graphics cards.

    Sorry for posting here, forums were down earlier.

  28. Andreas
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:52 | #28

    I tried to run XBMC over RDP on WinXP and got following error:
    An unhandled win32 exception occurred in XBMC.exe [1664]. Just-In-Time debugging this exception failed with the following error: No installed debugger has Just-In-Time debugging enabled…

    I also got Problems with VNC. It does not produce an error but it does not start either.

    Without RDP or VNC it works fine;)

  29. October 9th, 2008 at 11:44 | #29

    On WinXP there happens the following, if i start xbmc over rdp:
    An unhandled win32 exception occurred in XBMC.exe [1664]. Just-In-Time debugging this exception failed with the following error: No installed debugger has Just-In-Time debugging enabled…

    VNC does not work either.

  30. Fabian
    October 11th, 2008 at 14:49 | #30

    When I run XBMC (beta2) under Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS. .flac files won’t play, infact XBMC crashes..

  31. Markus
    October 13th, 2008 at 14:06 | #31

    THX! I LOVE IT :-)

  32. Mike
    October 14th, 2008 at 03:40 | #32

    Multithreaded video decoding is awesome! Now my machine can handle 1080p h.264 without a problem!

  33. neg
    October 15th, 2008 at 12:30 | #33

    Still the best and even better than MS Media Center, works flawlessly, wife friendly and supports pretty much everything I have ever thrown at it. If I ever get round to replacing my xbox with a HTPC I will be running XBMC on it.

    Just wanted to say thanks!

  34. October 16th, 2008 at 17:53 | #34

    Hi there, great piece of software!

    Does it keep my library? :)

    Thx!

  35. October 17th, 2008 at 14:55 | #35

    I love this program =)
    Thanks to the devs!

  36. Kekojones
    October 20th, 2008 at 21:02 | #36

    XBMC FOREVER!!!!

    Best media center period.

  37. Uguth
    October 21st, 2008 at 19:37 | #37

    Hi i tried beta1 and beta1 for windows in a laptop “acer aspire 1350 AMD 2600+ mobile, 704mb memory, integrated graphics card (VIA/S3G KM400/KN400) directX 9c
    the problem is that i got a white screen when i start XBMC i can’t see the mouse pointer.

    I tried it on my other PC and its woorks like a charm.

    What’s the problem?

    I really like this soft, and would like to run it on my laptop

  38. Sevla
    October 23rd, 2008 at 18:50 | #38

    What a great piece of software. I`m trying to get a substitute htpc software since MS failed us all over here in the UK with the TV Pack 2008 fiasco. I will install Atlantis as my HTPC software as soon as it becomes available. Would like to suggest if possible a way to use an external player ie. PowerDVD to play blu ray and hddvd content if possible, using PowerDVD HD decoders.
    If Atlantis gets to support all the tv features out there ie. DVB-T, DVB-S/S2, CI support , CAM support, MHEG, EPG etc… you would defenitly do a lot of people happy over europe and the UK. Congratulations to the developers of this great piece of software. Keep up with your amazing effort and work.

  39. Roger
    October 24th, 2008 at 19:54 | #39

    @Uguth: XBMC requires OpenGL. I have a Via mini system and the Via video card on board has zero OpenGL support, could not run XBMC. That may be your problem.

  40. Roger
    October 24th, 2008 at 20:02 | #40

    Oh yeah, as soon as I get access to my wife’s old computer (she just got a quad-core cpu, 6gb of ram beast) I’m snagging the ATI card that SHOULD be able to run XBMC, and shutting off the sad Via onboard video. XBMC on 2 xboxes and the mini computer, YAY!

  41. Roland
    October 27th, 2008 at 07:13 | #41

    One Sentence: You guys Rock!

    I recently discovered XBMC while trying to find a decent media centre solution. XBMC gave my old xbox a new lease on life. It is now sitting under my tv with a 500GB HDD purring away and catering to all our AV needs. Awesome work guys, respect.

    I am singing your praises to anyone that will listen – this software is just too good to be kept a secret :)

    Keep it up.

    Oh and should you need any German/Austrian Language support don’t hesitate to get in touch ;)

  42. lazyman
    November 3rd, 2008 at 06:29 | #42

    it’s working great on my old dell inspiron 6000. gui is a bit sluggish, but cant expect much from the integrated graphics on the laptop (intel 915). i do love the play from rar and iso files. great job guys!

  43. Coop
    November 4th, 2008 at 04:01 | #43

    How long until the next release?

  44. dan
    November 5th, 2008 at 17:28 | #44

    whats this all about and does it work on a 360. i just want to get iplayer on my 360 but it said i needed xbmc. the link sent me here and it says only for old xbox

    cheers guys.

    p.s im a total noob so tell it to me like im a girl

  45. Chilling_Silence
    November 6th, 2008 at 08:45 | #45

    Any reason why the download / filesize has gone from 43.2MB for the Win32 version with Beta1 to 77.2MB in Beta2?

  46. woodsy
    November 12th, 2008 at 01:59 | #46

    Best Ever…
    PM3.HD is ace,so much faster.
    only additions to it I would want…
    Music Video player? keeps playing videos like music player, maybe even whole seasons of TV shows, for the super 19 season Simpsons marathon… even just to allow queuing of some kind???
    I would love to see a built in BitTorrent program + RSS action,

    would get all the best TV episodes with no hassles. I wouldn’t have to leave the couch… ever…

    Truly AWESOME… no Legendary!!!!

  47. corn dog
    November 13th, 2008 at 00:33 | #47

    beta 3! beta 3! beta 3!
    i feel like a junkie…

  48. techrat
    November 13th, 2008 at 03:28 | #48

    THANKS!!!!!!!!!

    xbmc rocks

    running 2 xboxs’ w/xbmc
    and now a htpc with xbmc

    can we have built in utorrent w/rss feeds ??

  49. bch12
    December 6th, 2008 at 06:40 | #49

    Running on Apple TV v2.3 and loving it.

  50. January 7th, 2009 at 22:46 | #50

    Awesome software. Can’t wait for the new mac mini’s….

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