Bug-fix Release: 10.1

March 10th, 2011 theuni

While we are moving quickly to get new features into 11.0, the time has come for a maintenance release for Dharma. We recommend that all users update to 10.1 as soon as possible to increase stability.

The main focus of this release is to address a bug that could cause XBMC to freeze when updating a skin. We have held back skin updates from the main repository because of this, but now that it is fixed, they will begin rolling out in a few weeks.

This is intended as a bug-fix release only, no new features have been introduced. Notable fixes include:

  • If an in-use skin was updated in Windows, XBMC would freeze
  • Some RTMP streams in Windows did not play
  • Included add-ons have been updated
  • The correct referrer is now used for downloading add-ons, improving dependency statistics
  • Crashes during playback on ATI hardware in some circumstances have been fixed
  • Hardware decoding improvements for OSX
  • Various small fixes

In addition, XBMC Live has been updated with the most recent packages, one of which includes a fix for the annoying SMB+Windows Live Essentials bug.

Those interested may check out the full changelog.

Updating

Windows and OSX users should download and install as usual, all user data will be kept intact.

Ubuntu and XBMC Live users can use ‘apt-get update && apt-get install xbmc’ to update.

  1. jason williams
    March 12th, 2011 at 05:57 | #1

    @Jaspov
    Wow i though it was only single core sytems getting stutters i went back to 9.11, but then found the live system would work better than windows ever did

  2. March 12th, 2011 at 06:39 | #2

    Alfa60 :
    Even with this bug-fix release, Dharma player is still stuttering some videos in Linux, when the very same videos at the very same hardware play absolutely and perfectly smooth when reverting to 9.11 Camelot. But I guess skin problems in Windows platform are way more urgent than playing movies, so… too bad. Congratulations for the excellent work on 9.11 Camelot, though.

    Start the stuttering movie. Stop it again and select resume -> Now it will play fine (weird enough…)

  3. March 12th, 2011 at 06:40 | #3

    @Jaspov
    Start the stuttering movie. Stop it again and select resume -> Now it will play fine (weird enough…)

  4. keasan
    March 12th, 2011 at 07:04 | #4

    can’t shown in Chinese, it shows as the block, my OS is win7 chinese version SP1

  5. ss
    March 12th, 2011 at 15:29 | #5

    did

    apt-get update && apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2

    and said I had latest version but when I went to system info it still said 1.0.7? any ideas?

  6. Agnel
    March 12th, 2011 at 15:43 | #6

    For ATV2, the update will not work unless the packages are available.

    Currently, the repository that is being pointed to is : http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/

    That only has the packages from 10.0 release and they were compiled on Feb 19th. The latest, March 10th release isn’t there yet. So, I guess we’ll have to wait until we get new updates.

  7. zynex
    March 12th, 2011 at 18:06 | #7

    Unfortunately this update broke my system, as it seems? When trying to play or stream a video, the interface hangs totally. I can hear the sound in the background, but the interface freezes and is non responsive to inputs. Using linux/live distro.

  8. Agnel
    March 12th, 2011 at 19:15 | #8

    Update : According to Davilla’s post. ATV2 will not get 10.1 update

    http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=748439#post748439

  9. ss
    March 12th, 2011 at 19:34 | #9

    Too bad!! :) Was lookign forward for some fixes there.

    Thanks…

  10. Kujo
    March 12th, 2011 at 20:52 | #10

    sjskent :
    @Kujo
    Is this to update ATV2?

    No, XBMC Live/Linux.

    The ION stuttering comments are surprising. Never had any stuttering issues with this chip. All 720P/1080P HD vids play flawlessly.

  11. lildadou
    March 13th, 2011 at 13:20 | #11

    WiiRemote patched version for 64bit is still not applied to the repository: ‘(

  12. frapstar
    March 13th, 2011 at 16:48 | #12

    It works fine. Thanks!

  13. Agape
    March 13th, 2011 at 17:31 | #13

    Still don’t solve the problem with the low FPS in the rmvb in Windows.
    C’mon, in the 9 version are perfect. What happen?

  14. March 13th, 2011 at 19:43 | #14

    Alfa60 :
    Even with this bug-fix release, Dharma player is still stuttering some videos in Linux, when the very same videos at the very same hardware play absolutely and perfectly smooth when reverting to 9.11 Camelot. But I guess skin problems in Windows platform are way more urgent than playing movies, so… too bad. Congratulations for the excellent work on 9.11 Camelot, though.

    Well, I guess all we need now is to wait for XMBC 10.11. :)

  15. Anonymous
    March 13th, 2011 at 23:10 | #15

    Kujo :

    sjskent :
    @Kujo
    Is this to update ATV2?

    No, XBMC Live/Linux.
    The ION stuttering comments are surprising. Never had any stuttering issues with this chip. All 720P/1080P HD vids play flawlessly.

    As I posted in one of the threads on this, I have zero problems with Dharma on Ion as well.

  16. Fredrik
    March 14th, 2011 at 02:39 | #16

    About the ION stuttering , one thing that came to mind was that my friend has an Asrock ION330 and running Dharma 10.0 with no problem and i have the Asrock ION330HT stuttering as hell .
    With XBMC 9.11 or something it runs perfect.
    The only difference in hardware that i can think of is the chip for sound , can that be the problem to the stuttering ?
    It seems that not all ION based machines have the problem , so it looks to me that there is some hardware/driver issue ?
    Anyway thanks for a great program and good work.

  17. March 14th, 2011 at 03:51 | #17

    The ION stuttering comments are surprising. Never had any stuttering issues with this chip. All 720P/1080P HD vids play flawlessly.

    I suspect these people are either using a very old version or have done something really weird to their system. Never saw any stutter problems on my Asrock ION 330 HT, neither with XBMC-live or with a manual Ubuntu Jaunty install on which I installed XBMC from the PPA repositories.

    Maybe they haven’t updated their NVidia drivers to use VDPAU, that could cause some issues.

  18. Anonymous
    March 14th, 2011 at 15:47 | #18

    @ATVDude
    eh..bye?

  19. topfs2
    March 15th, 2011 at 13:04 | #19

    @Fredrik
    We use audio for part of the syncing AFAIK so yes if the audio is acting up severly it could cause stuttering I would say. Please take this to the forum with full debug logs of both working systems and non-working systems and we can perhaps see something. The team has a bit of hardware but we have far from everything so while we work hard to maintain it working on all hardware its hard for us to test everything.

    And we would obviously not release something if it stuttered badly on our ION systems so people please stop whining that we prioritize windows users over ION linux users, most of the devs use linux and have IONs so obviously we prioritize it quite a bit.. Besides, whining seldom lead to anything good, full debug logs and a smile will get you a lot further :)

  20. topfs2
    March 15th, 2011 at 13:05 | #20

    Btw, the latter part of my reply was not directed at Fredrik :)

  21. Dave
    March 16th, 2011 at 03:05 | #21

    I am not sure if I am posting in the right place…

    I have read on a few forums that XBMC can work as a sling catcher, but looks like this isn’t ‘out of the box’ functionality. I really want to be able to use my aTV as a sling catcher. With XBMC support on the aTV is this possible?

    Cheers

    Dave

  22. March 16th, 2011 at 04:16 | #22

    topfs2 :
    @Fredrik
    We use audio for part of the syncing AFAIK so yes if the audio is acting up severly it could cause stuttering I would say. Please take this to the forum with full debug logs of both working systems and non-working systems and we can perhaps see something. The team has a bit of hardware but we have far from everything so while we work hard to maintain it working on all hardware its hard for us to test everything.
    And we would obviously not release something if it stuttered badly on our ION systems so people please stop whining that we prioritize windows users over ION linux users, most of the devs use linux and have IONs so obviously we prioritize it quite a bit.. Besides, whining seldom lead to anything good, full debug logs and a smile will get you a lot further :)

    All already done…:

    Forum Thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=94841
    Bugtracker ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11322

    Both with full debug logs, and on the bugtracker even with a sample file.

    Can I supply you with more information? Please let me know!

  23. Andreas B
    March 17th, 2011 at 06:30 | #23

    I Have 10.1 on ION and Win7. If I do a cold boot theres no stuttering, but If I wake the PC from sleep, the video stutters (Maybe note the first time, but after a week with several sleeps the problem is there).

  24. Sergey Averichev
    March 17th, 2011 at 16:24 | #24

    Hail to all XBMC team!

    Great improvement in hardware decoding in OSX version. Guys – u r just awesome!

    10.1 flawlessly “eating” full-fledged H.264 video where 10.0 stucked. Actually now on my Macmini4,1 XBMC 10.1 – the only player to watch some videos.

    Many thanks to team, and small donation. ;)

  25. greg
    March 18th, 2011 at 10:41 | #25

    Hi,

    Can anyone help how can I use XBMC on my XBOX 360?

    Thanks in advance,

    Greg

  26. John
    March 18th, 2011 at 12:05 | #26

    @Ejal
    ZBOXHD-ID11
    2Gb Kingston ram 800Mhz DDR2 CL6 SO DIMM
    1Tb – Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB Sata 8MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive OEM
    OS: Windows7 32 Bit
    Application: XBMC (10.1)

    Stuttering and crashing when playing video files.

  27. John
    March 18th, 2011 at 12:18 | #27

    Hello guys!

    Where can i get XBMC 9.11: Camelot?
    I’m tired of stuttering and system crashes with 10 and 10.1 ..
    i’m told 9.11 is the best stable version but i cant find it anywhere. Does anyone know where can i get XBMC 9.11: Camelot?

  28. jon
    March 18th, 2011 at 22:02 | #28

    Hi guys, was curious when you are going to publish addon stats? Thanks!

  29. Beer
    March 19th, 2011 at 18:14 | #29

    Do I suppose to uninstall the previous version 10.0 and then install 10.1? Or is it ok to just install with out the uninstall of 10.0?

  30. dd_macle
    March 21st, 2011 at 12:19 | #30
  31. Bill
    March 22nd, 2011 at 00:15 | #31

    Hmmm…. just went to 10.1, using an old desktop with win 7 pro 32 bit, 2gb of ram, nvidia 9800 gtx+ and an e6600 cpu. Should be plenty to watch videos. However, major stuttering and hang ups. I have not tried 9.11, I did try Vlc media player, same thing in some movies. Particularly animated movies in 1080p like guardians of the owls and how to train your dragon. Perhaps version 11 is soon? Most movies were mkv format as well.

  32. John
    March 23rd, 2011 at 05:40 | #32

    dd_macle :@John That’s here http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc/ :-)

    Thanks soo much!!! :)

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