XBMC Media Center 11.0 Beta 1

XBMC - (Open Source)

XBMC Media Center is a great media center alternative, though brilliant in its simplicity of use by its features allowing to navigate photo, video and audio content via a remotely controllable interface.

XBMC Media Center is an Open Source Media Center compatible with DLNA. This software provides access to all media sources that exists on the local network. Movies, music, videos or Internet, all sources can be managed and accessed from the laptop, PDA, XBox, TV or simply from the computer. If any connections to a DLNA-compatible network drive are opened, the application instantly identifies all multimedia files in it to make them available through its interface.

Upon launching the application , the interface is distinguished by its elegance and fluidity. The default theme is very successful, but user can opt for many other skins available directly from the application settings. The themes are applicable without rebooting.

XBMC supports many video formats (MPEG 1, 2 and 4, MOV, MKV, AVI, XVID, Real Video, WMV) and audio (MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WMA, WAV, MPC, APE). Side options, for each section there are available several parameters: HD optimization SD video format 4:3 movies, customize the display of subtitles, auto-hide summary movies for video unread, activation crossfade to music or pan and zoom effect for photos.

By default, the application offers a weather and a RSS reader but, there is everything from BitTorrent client frontend for MAME emulator .

Title:: XBMC Media Center 11.0 Beta 1
File Size:: 47.6 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 27 Dec 2011
Publisher:: XBMC
Homepage:: http://xbmc.org
MD5 Checksum:: 36EB79A7CACF7AA5912FD9A99AE7D476

# Addons Framework, API, and Manager
* Added ability for all addons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)
* Added support for addons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting
* Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog
* Extended Addons API to support adding extension points for Service Addons (xbmc.service)
* Added support for Addon Rollbacks, enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions
* Added the ability to search Addons in the Addons-Manager
# GUI Engine
* Improve XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
* Added option for auto login of a specific selected user profile (good for kiosk mode)
* Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream()
* Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list
* Add ability for skinners to show buffering progress for streamed/cached files (similar to YouTube)
* Improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling
* Improve touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms
* Added Dirty Region support to reduce CPU usage
* Added a custom JPEG decoder, at least 2x faster than the previous implementation (cximage)
# Playback:
* Added UDF 2.5 filesystem reading support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
* Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration
* Added an option for vertical shift of video image with slider setting
* Added support for color and font styles tag in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles
* Added support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles
* Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles
* Added support delay tag in vobsub subtitles
* Added support for a new extended version of MPlayer's EDL (Edit Decision List) format
* Added PlayerControl built in function to allow jumping to a percentage offset from a key mapping
* Added support for Slingbox
* Upgrade FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
* Improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
* Removed subtitle caching (as it was only needed on Xbox because of the severe memory restrictions)
* Removed all dependencies of libmms libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native MMS support
* Remove all dependencies of liba52, libdts, and faac libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native
* Added support for NFS virtual file server (vfs) (all platforms)
* Added support for AFP (vfs) (all platforms aside from Windows)
* Added Airplay support for Videos/Pictures (all platforms)
* Added Airplay support for Music (all platforms aside from Windows)
* Improved UPnP Renderer
* Added a slider for volume amplification and dynamic range compression during video playback
* Added an option to pause video playback during refreshrate changes
* Extended PathSubstitution from playlists to all files for users of shared MySQL Databases
* Added the ability to adjust the display's refresh rate to match the video's frame rate in OSX (Feature already available in Windows and Linux)
* Improvements made to the adjust refresh rate feature to pick the "best" rate, rather than the closest multiple
* Added DXVA Deinterlacing support
# Library:
* Combined Files and Library mode for videos
* Add asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
* Added support for cleaning the music library via CleanLibrary(music) command
* Added a "Play from here" context menu button for TV Shows Episodes in the video library
* Added the option to specify the default select (Play, Resume, Show information, Choose) action on videos
* Changed "Set Content" to "Edit Content Settings" after being set
* Added disc stub support for cataloging DVDs, BluRays, etc.
# Scrapers:
* Improve TheMovieDB.org movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
* Improve TheTVDB.com (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper
* Improve Freebase (English) music scraper
# Skins:
* Confluence: Home screen switched to horizontal layout
* Confluence: Greatly simplified the way FanArt works throughout the skin and the settings for it
* Confluence: Added ability for users to easily add / remove Add-ons as items on the home screen menu
* Confluence: Added codec flagging images for DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
# Other:
* Added ability to handle and allow access to multiple web interfaces at once
* Added option setting to play videos within picture slideshows
* Added dimming setting to the built-in picture slideshow screensaver
* Added support for sorting depending on current locale
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to disable the display of startup splash image (enabled by default)
* Added support for batch requests to the JSON-RPC API
* Added support for requests by notification to the JSON-RPC API
* Make JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specification ( details)
* Cleanup and improve JSON-RPC API
* Added advancedsettings.xml option to configure the TCP port used by JSON-RPC (default is 9090)
* Improve the features of the default web interface
* Removed Weather from XBMC core and switched to Weather Underground as the default weather provider addon
# Linux Specific:
* Add support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3)
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux
* Added proper timezone support for systems based on Slackware Linux
* Added altname (alternative name) support to LIRC mapping for linux-input-layer devices
* Added lircmap for Conexant's CX23885 IR (infrared) recievers
* Added lircmap to switch between subtitles with iMON Pad remote control
* Improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
* Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
* Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
* Provide JSON-RPC server over Bluetooth
# iOS Specific:
* Ported XBMC to iOS 4.x (adding "XBMC for iOS" to XBMC's existing list of supported operating-systems)
* Added support for Apple A4 (ARM) iDevices, inc. Apple TV 2G, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and the iPad
* Added hardware accelerated video decoding support for H.264 decode on iOS via Apple's VideoToolBox API
* Added support for OpenGL ES hardware accelerated rendering of XBMC's graphical user interface on iOS
* Added initial iOS Touch / Gesture / Inertial Scrolling support for XBMC interface on iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and the iPad
* Added a APT repository for Apple TV, and Cydia with packages for iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and iPad
# Mac OS X Specific:
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Mac OS X
* Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier
# Windows Specific:
* Added support for NV12, UVYV, UYVY, and YUV2 rendering (software and ps)
* Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Windows
* Added DXVA video rendering option
* Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier