Great thanks Jmarshall & team

Great work everyone! Are there any special considerations for upgrading from 8.10 (changes in database format, etc.)?

@Anand: You should be able to install the new version without issue, and your db should be automatically updated as needed. I can’t guarantee it’ll be smooth sailing, however, so I suggest taking a backup of your userdata folder before updating to ensure you have it should you need to switch back. Let us know on the forums if you have any problems.

I found a major problem with subtitles!
The tests:
In 8.10 Atlantis subtitles are OK.
but in 9.04 no subtitles at all!

Win XP+SP3,
Same avi-file, same subtitle(.srt) file.
I also tried with ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode (Big/Little Indian), .txt,.utf8,utf-8 -file extetntions,….

P.S. The subtitle files successfully copied in \XMBC\cache\subtitle.srt

Please Help!

This is not the place to post bug reports. Post them on the forums for discussion, and/or on trac along with everything one needs to reproduce.

Great news on the 9.04 alpha!

Just wondering if there will be an XBMC Live install like there was with 8.10??

Cheers

doh’
my customized keymap.xml and my self made videoplugins, all gone :(((((
backuped userdata but forgot those other stuff :/
so dont be that stupid like me :p

nevermind xD

Hi there,

the new release is stuttering during video Playback. (avi, mkv, mpg).
The 8.10 is doing fine.

Hallo, gibt es das neue XBMC schon zum Downloaden?

Gruß

Any word on when the Linux PPAs will be up?

@All: If you have problems please pop over to the forums where we can get you some assistance. Thanks!

I am no more able to use Altgr+\ to display “XMBC (Window)” in fullscreen. I get a black fullscreen but the “XMBC (Window)” keeps the same. (Vista Sp1, Nvidia Quadro 140M)
Bug?

Add: It’s is working with the main monitor but not on an additional extern display

yeeha, thanks JMarshall! Good timing from T3CH as well, let the games begin :-)

Hi jmarshall.

Jubii i cant wait for the stable version – btw i use T3CH ;-)

Its obvious xbmc is awesome, but I just wish you could integrate tv tuners with it. MythTv + XBMC would equal awesome!!!

If I have movie like StarWars – more episode is posible sort like one movie – like tvshows ?

thanks so much for an update..

I love XBMC. I have used many software before but XBMC is best..

Keep up the great work.. :)

thanks

@woody: Checkout http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythTV if you already have a MythTV server running

Hey jmarshall,

Finally finished listening to Floss Weekly episode 57 (was sitting in my queue for a while). There was an Nvidia based Atom board that was mentioned in the podcase using Linux/Nvidia VDPAU. What was this motherboard/processor combo. It’s killing me. I’m currently using a GF8200 based board AMD 4850e and I am about to try out 9.04 Alpha 1 and see if I can finally get away from Windows/MediaPortal and totally go over to Linux for my 1080p HTPC.

I am very interested in finding the Nvidia based mini-itx atom board for me to make my HTPC awesome, and run 1080p with all free software (XBMC + Ubuntu 9.04).

Thanks a lot jmarshall, I’ve been using XBMC since I modded my first XBOX in 2005, I now own 7 original XBOX’s soeley due to XBMC, version 2 was awesome in it’s day. But 1080p content has forced me to focus on making low-end HTPC’s to play all my content.

I also have numerous family & friends hooked on XBMC, everyone loves the fact that it “Just Works”.

Awesome Program and thanks a lot.

The experimental hardware acceleration, does anyone know if that will work on the appletv? If so would it enable the appletv to playback the 720p mkv files you get in recent bittorrents – 8.04 won’t…

Also, how do you install the apple tv alpha?

@HwyXingFrog – the board you are reffering to is the nVidia ION platform, an Atom 330 with geforce 9400 onboard. I believe these are still not available to anyone but developers/manufacturers/reviewers.

I am also quite interested in this board, and hope it works better with XBMC Live than the Asus 8200 based board I recently tried. No matter what I do lately, no optical out seems to work in XBMC Live, this can be a drag.

I use Windows XP professional 64bit…. any hopes for the 64 bit community???…:)))

Will there be a 64bit Xbmc media center?…

XBMC should work just fine on 64bit machines using the released binary. There are no plans for a purely 64bit only release.

I installed 9.04 and I am totally amazed by the clear and easy structure and the simple customization of the browsing appearance at each level (full list, list, media info, cover flow etc.) Great work!

I also love the great integration of last.fm and other nice plug-ins like Youtube, Apple Movie Trailers etc. I used Microsoft Vista Media Center for a long time and I would love to immediatly fully switch to XBMC…

There are some little improvments I would love to see:

1.) Fully native MCE remote compatiblity without extra software installs. “Up” and “down” and “ok” buttons work fine, but not functions like “back” or “play”, “skip forward” etc.

2.) I have my DVD collection managed my MyMovies (www.mymovies.dk) which is pretty a standard application for all DVD enthusiasts and there is no integration of XBMC to get the library information from the MyMovies database. Would be great to have this. I tried to let XBMC to scan my DVD folders but it works pretty bad. Basically it converts the title images and description to english and also makes many mistakes in recognizing the movies (wrong titles, wrong images, description etc.)

3.) I love to use IPTV. However many providers limit their offering to US only. I therefore have still a classic TV-Card (analogue) in my HTPC which works without problems in Vista Media Center. So it would be nice to have a real “Live-TV” integration with TV-Guide like in Vista MediaCenter.

I have problem with rewind and forward “function”, the screen was frozen… So, maybe the video codec is not the best (if it changed)…

No mess.
No fuss.
It just works.
Many thanks old boy.. Many thanks indeed!

I’m so glad that stop, play, next and previous are now working on my Apple TV with Logitech Harmony remote! It was a bit of a drawback coming from an XBOX. So thanks!

Again, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE to make feature suggestions!

Also, the “feature freeze” means no new features for now.

Love XBMC, great work guys and big of you to have this amazing product for free.
Keep up the good work.

Any news on the LIVE version for the 9.04 ? Thanks

Well written article.

Не совсем уловил некоторые моменты, но в общем интересно :)