XBMC Media Center 9.11 Beta 2

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 9.11 Beta 2
File Size:: 46.3 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 10 Dec 2009
Publisher:: XBMC
Homepage:: http://xbmc.org
MD5 Checksum:: F7A9E8CA8D67AB6BBC09DDF1D748EA77

* Support for Microsoft DirectX for Windows platforms
* Support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Linux (OpenGL support required)
* High Definition, Surround Sound, and Subtitle Flagging and Filtering in Video Library
* Support for movie sets and a sortorder tag in the Video Library
* Smart Playlists support for video resolution, aspect-ratio, codec, audio, and subtitles
* Skinnable Weather Plugin API enabling third-party Weather Plugins (Python Scripts)
* Added support for SingStar and UltraStar Karaoke Lyrics Format
* Logitech Harmony Universal Remote support in XBMC for Mac
* UPnP MediaServer compliant with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards
* Ability to view pictures over UPnP in XBMC, also loads of fixes to the UPnP library
* Avahi Zeroconf (Zero Configuration Networking) for XBMC webserver on Linux
* Performance improvements to SQLite (database) queries (help is always wanted here)
* Updated FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
* Speed up RAW image loading and handle more file extensions
* Implemented better WAV/PCM handling on 64-bit operating-systems
* Added support for additional tags in CUE sheets (Genre/Year)
* Added support for MPL2 (Blu-ray) subtitles format
* Added support for VPlayer subtitles format (which unfortunately is still in use)
* Added support for RTMP (Flash) live video streams, plus skip, pause, and resume feature
* Added proper MMS/MMSH streaming client (libmms) support to non-Xbox platforms
* Added audio and subtitle delay pop-up to the GUI (similar to volume control)
* Added scan for new content command to HTTP API, extended XBMC.updatelibrary call
* Better support for HTS (Home Theater System) TVheadend as TV streaming backend
* Support importing MythTV movies into the Movies Library (including scraping)
* Reorganized MythTV directory structure to separate TV Shows from Movies
* Improved Commercial Skipping, EDL (Edit Decision List), and SceneMarker support
* Added support local actor thumbnails (store as actor_name.tbn under .actors directory)
* Scrape studio info for TV Show/Season/Episode, info is available via studio field item
* Changed handling in Scrapers and NFO replacing <thumbs> with multiple <thumb>
* Additional and improved music and movie scrapers:
- TheMovieDB.org ( TMDB) movie scraper improvements and enhancements
- Added Movie Trailer scraping from dtrailer.com to TheMovieDB.org scraper
- TheTVDB.com TV Shows scraper scraper improvements and enhancements
- MTV (Music Videos) scraper improvements and enhancements
- New freebase music scraper (with Artist FanArt support via htbackdrops.com)
- New Polish music scraper combining allmusic.com, merlin.pl, and lastfm.pl
- New mymovies.dk (Multilanguage) movie scraper (*commercial)
- New fdb.pl (Polish) movie scraper
- New ofdb.de (German) German movie scraper (using the ofdbgw gateway)
- New cinefacts.de (German) movie scraper
- New filmdelta.se (Swedish) movie scraper
- New world-art.ru (Russian) movie scraper
- Updated imdb.cn (Chinese) movie scraper
- New cine-passion (French/English) movie scraper
- Fixes and additions for the mymovies.xml scraper
* Ability to scrape and scan TV Shows into the video library by air-date via TheTVDB.com
* Smooth Video Support Option (syncing the video to the refresh rate of the display)
* Added overlay renderer for dvd/vobsub/xsub using OpenGL to blend overlay onto screen
* Edit button for RSS feeds in settings, (needs RssTicker script installed)
* New screensaver option to turn off the screen (using VESA DPMS)
* GUI settings for action to take when the hardware power button is pressed in Linux
* Added support for CoreAudio API and removed the PortAudio API code in XBMC for Mac
* AC3 and DTS digital audio pass-through to SP/DIF on Apple TV (thanks to CoreAudio)
* Always On Top option to advancedsettings.xml when XBMC runs in Windowed Mode
* Improved XBMC GUI Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
* New "portable" mode option for fixed disks supported by XBMC Live install to HDD
* First custom Usplash theme (graphical boot splash screen) added to XBMC Live
* Extension of ExternalPlayer enabling multiple external players based on file-extension
* External libraries options when compile XBMC for Linux making it more distro agnostic
* Allow compiling XBMC for Linux with "--enable-external-libraries" to use system libraries
* Added support for Debian building and packaging to the XBMC SVN
* Added Crash Dump for Windows (we need both the pdb and dmp file to analyze a crash)
* Updated translations for most languages (help is always wanted with translation)
* Added library update on resume if we are coming from suspend/hibernate
* Added DeviceKit.Disks integration
* Added DeviceKit.Power and ConsoleKit.Manager integration