In another bit of late news, here’s a cool new app from EqUiNoX. This handy (and skinnable) program lets you control XBMC from anywhere on your network. Sadly, it’s Windows only so I can’t test it myself, though I’m sure it’s up to EqUiNoX’s usual high standards. Head over to the Team Blackbolt site to get.. more »

The second testing release in the Camelot series has been tagged and is now available for general consumption. The first Alpha was a great success; all of the known issues listed in the previous announcement have been fixed, along with a slew of others. All of those who are currently using Alpha1 are strongly encouraged.. more »

Today we are pleased to announce the first official testing release of 9.11, Codename: Camelot. It’s been quite a while since Babylon, so we’re very excited to begin the release cycle and work towards a new release. Please keep in mind that this is an early alpha build, and it should be treated as such. While.. more »

As our readers probably know by now, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released today with many new features. For those who are considering making the move, here’s what you need to know as the update relates to XBMC: Rather than wasting the time and effort required to update the current stable release of XBMC (Babylon) to.. more »

XBMC has gone a long way since its first stable release in 2004. It has evolved from a xbox only application into a sleek cross platform media center that runs on almost anything you throw it at. XBMC has thousands of users, is the mother of many successful derivative projects and commercial spin-offs and is.. more »

XBMC for Mac is seeing some serious love these days. First up is a working IR remote under Snow Leopard (the crowd cheers). TeamXBMC is extremely grateful to Felix Schwarz (developer for Remote Buddy) for expanding his excellent driver framework and providing Candelair free to all. Candelair resolves the IR remote issues under Snow Leopard.. more »

I've been getting a tremendous amount of downloads daily and it hasn't slowed down one bit. This has encouraged me to continue providing updates, so thank you everyone for the support. This update focuses on refining the interface. Some elements of the GUI have been given a second treatment. I've also completely remade all the media flag icons to .. more »

MiniMeedia code now added to the XBMC Skinning Project.. more »

This update tries to address all the known problems that have been reported as well as add some new features that have been requested. Some of the things users wanted were: - Integration with OpenSubtitles_OSD script - Option to hide the top option menu bar when not focused - Option to have separate custom backgrounds for videos/movies/tvshows - .. more »

If you’ve been watching svn lately, you might have noticed that lots of cleaning, pruning, and reorganizing has been taking place. While everything else was churned up, it seemed like a good time to move the main development code to trunk. The linuxport branch has been removed. She was a good ship! Builders, packagers, maintainers take.. more »

Today scarfa came out of nowhere with a beautiful new skin, available immediately. Click the image below for a screenshot preview. RapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapierRapier Here’s what the author had to say about Rapier: This was originally a joint project between me and Arcanthur [sic] but I wasn’t happy with the direction it was going so w.. more »

I have many singles in my music collection – songs that were released independently of an album, or perhaps in parallel to an album release. As part of an album release, the single may be a particular edit (such as an edit for radio) and thus be somewhat different than the album version of the.. more »

Today Nvidia announced a new set of beta drivers that add several new features to VDPAU in linux. For those somehow still in the dark about VDPAU read about it from here and here. Yes, it’s linux only. New features include improved video upscaling and hardware acceleration for MPEG-4 Part 2, DivX 4, and DivX 5.. more »

It has come to my attention that over the last few years of development by jmarshall of the XBMC skinning engine we have come very far. The problem is with progress comes change, change is good (in some ways) unfortunately moving forward also mean sometimes breaking the old. You just can’t keep constantly maintain backwards.. more »

Nearly 6 weeks after v1.00 saw the light, Transparency! v2.00 has now been released. Alot of code changes have taken place, in an effort to streamline the skin. Besides this, over 60 improvements / fixes / additions have made it to this version. Most notable are support for the Home Theather Experience script, the Weather.com plus plugin and the .. more »

A few days ago I posted a trailer for the Surface skin which may or may not ever be completed. Today, XBMCG33K has unveiled a brand new video preview of Xperience, which is under heavy development, and I must say it’s looking great. Here’s what XBMCG33K had to say about the work in progress (No.. more »

It was mentioned a few days ago that things might get bumpy for a while and a few of you asked to be notified when all the fun was starting. Well, consider yourselves notified. As of svn rev #22529 the branch has been merged into main. Please be patient as we get things back in line... more »

The results are in and unfortunately we didn’t take home any awards from the SourceForge Community Choice Awards. That’s a shame, because we really had our eyes on that Best Multimedia title… but there’s always next year. Congratulations to all projects that were nominated, and doubly to the winners. We consider it a great .. more »

The folks at AnandTech reviewed two IONs which, due to XBMC’s VDPAU support, make decent platforms for cheap linux based HTPCs capable of playing HD content. A section which you might of particular interest is titled Ion Meets Linux: XBMC: What impressed me most about the XBMC experience on Ion was how easy it was to setup.. more »

First things first, Surface (A skin developed by phyek and Minimalko) is not finished and has possibly been shelved indefinitely, but I can’t resist posting this video. Some of our forum users have undoubtedly seen it already, so this is for those who might have missed it. Here’s some info from phyek: Originally I was approached.. more »