Congratulations dev team! Can’t wait to try it out

Amazing as always… Have been using the svn version for a month or so and it works nicely! Donation is coming!

cool, i think i will wait for the final release, hopefully not too far off?

will this new xbmc be able to play blu ray iso files now?

Installed it over the previous (up to date) version on Mac (intell), i’m getting a lot of “Buffering …%” pauses during video playback of a movie that used to run smoothly.. Thoughts?

@Chris: Dharma will update from your existing userdata just fine – no need to move it out of the way. I suggest you pop to the forums and ask there for specific support – much easier than giving it here in the comments.

Great news, Really hope Akezeke releases the Spotyxbmc music plugin soon!

Woooh! Gonna test this out now. Thanks guys, keep up the awesome work.

Darn GREAT news! Mediaplayers are the far future and this software is getting better and better! I got one tip for you developers; please make an advanced and innovative non-irritating advertisement system in XBMC to help you with financial support. I believe that many big sponsors would like to participate in making advertisements on mediaplayers with XBMC all over the world. It´s a way to contact the people directly in their living rooms. It´s a great way to get a few more bucks for the hard working developers wich are doing allot for all XBMC fans in their spare time. Great work guys! Keep it up!

finally got live usb to my Acer Revo. I dont have hdmi tv, unable to get audio working from the phono jack / dvi adapter which was supported in Camelot revision? Anyone have any insights?

I’ve been using svn 31579 for a long time. It’s the last build where I don’t get stuttering while browsing and videos stuttering at thr beggining of playback. Any clue as to what the culprit could be?

Awesome news… can’t wait for the final release. One questions though, will the HW acceleration support Intel HD Graphic? The one found on Core i3 processors? I’ve got Core-i3 530 processor which has integrated graphic, which runs 1080p movies fine under MPC-HC by the way on DXVA… just wanted to know of XBMC supports this, so that I won’t have to shell few bucks on some entry level GPU.

Anyone else having the problem of just getting “Unable to find a medium containing a live filesystem” when booting from USB?

@Fjerpje: ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!?! If they add ads, someone is just going to find a way to remove them (hosts file, blackhole dns, etc) ADS DO NOT belong in XBMC. I’m sure most users would rather donate on here than see ads. You’re nuts.

Cant wait to test it.
I love xbmc

@fjerpje ^^ ads are the spawn of the devil and we’ll rather quit than adding such nonsense.

Thank you so much. I am in love with XBMC.

Suggestion for an Add-on: Kinect for Live-TV usage.

I know, it’s not even out for another two months, but I wonder if it’s possible to make an add-on for Kinect, so I can use gesture and voice-commands to switch channels and arrange volume from Live-TV or use it to play my media. Using just my hands or voice.

Like I said, since neither Live-TV nor Kinect are currently out, I am just interested, if it is possible in the future.

Thanks again for all the hard work.

Very excited for this release. I’m going to grab the live disk and try out the LiveTV support and tie into my MythTV backend PVR. Great work XBMC team!

Also ads are a horrible idea to have in the final product, especially of this type. Have you ever watched a TV show with subtitles that had ads running over the top of the text? This would be along the same lines of annoyance. If you like and use XBMC then donate, it is that simple.

The new add-on manager is a thing of beauty. No more scouring the internet for skins, and other add-ons. I’ve noticed the GUI is much slicker, and faster as well. Nice work. Can’t wait to see the final product.

Great Job! Have been using an svn build for a bit now and it is working rock solid. The video acceleration is just awesome and it feels faster than Camelot. Full support of audio bit-streaming would allow me to ditch powerdvd completely, just a hidden request :)

Awesome work guys! This will make it much easier to maintain XBMC versions and addons. And if hardware acceleration in XBMC for Windows works well, I’ll finally be able to use my Blu-ray player. (with an addon that loads an external player of course)… Really looking forward to testing this baby out!

Thanks guys!

Wonderful!! I use XBMC a lot for streaming videos, but it is quite useless to my wife because she likes to watch recorded TV shows. Plus, video quality was not too good with XBMC before. I cannot tell you how much more compelling XBMC has become with the new hardware acceleration and Youtube add-on. Thanks.

This works wonderfully. With graphic acceleration in W7 I can notice a huge jump in how snappy things are. Thanks for all your hard work guys!

Thanks XBMC team. Looking forward to trying this out.

Re: Ads. If the devs want to include this feature as a (not overly intrusive) revenue generator, I don’t think that would be such a bad idea.
Such a feature could be included in the release as standard with the option to remove ads, subject to a small donation, perhaps a £ or 2.
Of course this is entirely up to the devs. If they can manage as thing are that’s cool. But the increase in revenue would surely result in.

Anyways, thanks agoin for the new realease. Cheers.

Another huge success… some talk about adverts, although I couldnt see where that was mentioned… ? I’d hate adverts too, but I didnt see a reference to them ?

I know the beta has been released but I don’t understand why it doesn’t show up on my Apple TV Launcher in order to enable me to update it. If I want to update XBMC manually, can you point me to a thread?

I have a mirror up if you guys want a faster download, should be able to max out your d/l speed. I have a 20mbps pipe at home and I constantly get the same.

http://www.hookupok.com you can find it under projects / xbmc / mirrors

Hello,

New versio looks great!!! But after testing i have a question: why does the new version XBMC not play blue-ray discs or blue-ray content? I have seen the new future 7.1 audio / HDMI, but it does not support HD audio / DTS HD Master Audio and Dolby Thrue HD ? Will this be work at the stable version?

s (or will) it possible to update the program itself within XBMC Dharma?

I mean it would be really nice if :
- XBMC checks it’s version and if there’s a new updated version it will
- ask for an automatic update
- Press Yes or No to proceed
- reset the program if necessary.

Thank you.

Cool! Nice job, sure to try it out when I get home from work :)

I have not been able to use any 10.x version (both XBMCFREAK or this Beta) on my ASUS AT3N7A-I motherboard. The NIC refuses to get an IP from my router. Same box works fine under the 9.x release

Appreciate if someone can guide me on how to fix this

Thanks

I’m guessing that since Dharma is already in beta that there is a feature freeze; so although a lot of the comments above may be good suggestions there is probably no way they’ll make it to the Dharma final. You might want to post them on Trac as a suggestion and see if they are picked up for later releases.

Outstanding work! this new version is fantastic! i’m loving the addon easyness.

AH :
Installed it over the previous (up to date) version on Mac (intell), i’m getting a lot of “Buffering …%” pauses during video playback of a movie that used to run smoothly.. Thoughts?

Yea, I’m getting the buffering problems too. Windows 7, Acer Revo.

Is Live TV/PVR functionality included in this release? or is this coming as a plugin?

So far I’ve played with it for a day or so and loving it so far. The plugin architecture it excellent and making simple thing like getting plugins SO much easier

@Hush
Acer Revo huh? Movie running from a NAS by any chance? Mine is (samba share)

@AH

Yup. Just as you said: Movie on NAS via samba. The culpri, methinks?

I can’t install xbmc live on hard disk. Instaler was halt when load partiton manager.

Hi, where can I get the Aeon Skin on Dharma? Is this currently in work or do I download a .zip somewhere?

thank you

Just downloaded (from git), compiled and executed. It is AWESOME! Loved the youtube plug-in, loved the subtitle download plug-in, loved the new confluence skin. Loved *everything*.

I’ve been using the svn version and I love all the improvements. The add-on system is marvelous. Easy to use and much more user friendly

Hi amigos! look this new from the plex project:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/plex-announces-paternship-with-lg-pledges-to-beat-boxee-box-and/

I think if Plex can, we can too, what if we have a TV set with XBMC on it! i think would be great, can we insert xbmc in the firmware of some device?, well is a new move to consider.

@Hush
BTW I have an Acer Revo running Ubuntu, movies on NAS via SMB:// share, working fine with no buffering issues with Dharma.

The add-on easyness is indeed very groovy.

For the love of god, please give us a recently played feature. using boxee just for that.

@Anonymous

I would imagine you could make a smart playlist do that…

Few bugs ive found, probably not the right place to post them
if for some reason your server with movies, tv ip address changes and u update the source in Dharma it dosent update the libary sources, meaning you have to update your libary all over again, also when you start up XBMC with libary update on startup and it cant find sources hangs for about 10 mins!

but working great other then that

@Anonymous
How… for music it may work?!? But I like the function on movies… is it possible?

You can – in the new beta you can make a smart playlist and sort by the last played date to get ‘recently played’. There was a change to when the last played date gets updated so you don’t need to finish a video for it to be updated. Now it is updated when a video is stopped so you can use the smart playlist to see a history. A lot of skins also support putting smart playlists directly in the main menu so it would be easy to name it ‘Recently Played’ and have it show up there.

I rarely go into the forums so I was pleasantly surprised by a new XBMC coming out. LOVE!!! the Night skin, super cool. Can’t wait for the offical release but so everything is great

finally had a chance to install and scrape all my media on dharma. must say that it is freakin sweet

robweber :
You can – in the new beta you can make a smart playlist and sort by the last played date to get ‘recently played’. There was a change to when the last played date gets updated so you don’t need to finish a video for it to be updated. Now it is updated when a video is stopped so you can use the smart playlist to see a history. A lot of skins also support putting smart playlists directly in the main menu so it would be easy to name it ‘Recently Played’ and have it show up there.

Sounds awesome, but am I totally blind or what because I can’t find the “Edit Smart Playlist Editor” http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=File:Smartplaylisteditor.jpg in XBMC how do I do?!?