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Download XBMC Media Center 9.11

Posted in Uncategorized on December 25th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment Tags: ,

Download XBMC Media Center 9.11

XBMC Media Center 9.11 Informaiton
XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community. Try it now!

Media Management
XBMC supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and image formats. XBMC has a sophisticated library management system that allows you to organize all your media to give you quick and immediate access.

Fluid Interface
XBMC provides a user friendly interface that’s intuitive, very flexible, and easy to use. The interface is completely customizable through user-created or downloadable skins.

Plug-ins and Extensibility
XBMC has a built-in Python interpreter that allows users and developers to write their own scripts and plugins that run inside XBMC using it’s own widgets and controls. It also has a built-in web server that allows it to be controlled remotely.

Visualisations
XBMC’s audio player supports many visualisations including ProjectM and Goom. In addition, it allows easy development of visualisations using a simple API.

XBMC Media Center 9.11 Change Log
GUI:
- Improved XBMC GUI Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
- Powerbutton follows “shutdown function” in settings/system/power saving
- Updated translations for most languages (help is always wanted with translation)
- Skinnable Weather Plugin API enabling third-party Weather Plugins (Python Scripts)
- Edit button for RSS feeds in settings, (needs RssTicker script installed, see SCRIPTS section below)
- New screensaver option to turn off the screen (using VESA DPMS)
- Always On Top option to advancedsettings.xml when XBMC runs in Windowed Mode
- Better support for multi-monitor setups
- Settings have been re-organized and cleaned up to sync with new features

Playback:
- High Definition, Surround Sound, and Subtitle Flagging and Filtering in Video Library
- Added support for SingStar and UltraStar Karaoke Lyrics Format
- Updated FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
- Speed up RAW image loading and handle more file extension
- 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 forVPlayer 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
- Added audio and subtitle delay pop-up to the GUI (similar to volume control)
- Improved Commercial Skipping, EDL (Edit Decision List), and SceneMarker support
- Options for smoother video playback (syncing the video to the refresh rate of the display)
- Smart Playlists support for video resolution, aspect-ratio, codec, audio, and subtitles
- Extension of ExternalPlayer enabling multiple external players based on file-extension
- Added overlay renderer for dvd/vobsub/xsub

Library:
- Performance improvements to SQLite (database) queries
- Support for movie sets and a sortorder tag in the Video Library
- 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
- Added scan for new content command to HTTP API, extended XBMC.updatelibrary call
- Reorganized MythTV directory structure to separate TV Shows from Movies
- Support importing MythTV movies into the Movies Library (including scraping)
- 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»
- Added library update on resume if we are coming from suspend/hibernate
- Ability to scrape and scan TV Shows into the video library by air-date via TheTVDB.com

Scrapers:
- TheMovieDB.org (TMDB) movie scraper upgraded to version 2.1
- 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 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

Skins:
- Confluence is the new default
- PM3.HD set to secondary
- Removed legacy PM III (farewell old friend)

Windows-Specific:
- Changed from Open GL to DirectX for GUI and video rendering.
- Added Crash Dump for Windows
- Support Milkdrop visualizations

Linux-Specific:
- Added support for Debian building and packaging to the XBMC SVN
- External libraries options when compiling XBMC for Linux making it more distro agnostic
- Support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Linux (OpenGL support required)
- Avahi Zeroconf (Zero Configuration Networking) for XBMC webserver
- Added DeviceKit.Disks integration
- Added DeviceKit.Power and ConsoleKit.Manager integration

OS X Specific:
- Logitech Harmony Universal Remote support
- Added support for CoreAudio API and removed the PortAudio API code
- AC3 and DTS digital audio pass-through to SP/DIF on Apple TV (thanks to CoreAudio)
- Support for running external Applescripts
- Support for command-tab application switching
- support for OS X Spaces (virtual desktops)

Live-Specific:
- New installer with disk partitioning support, network setup and language selection
- Uses Beatzeps08’s variation of duduke’s great “spinner black” usplash theme!
- Based on Ubuntu Karmic
- NVIDIA drivers: 190.53 (VDPAU included on supported GPUs)
- ATI/AMD drivers: Catalyst 9.11
- Includes the magic tvheadend package, which brings live TV in XBMCLive
- The plugin “SVN Repo Installer” is also included, thus installing new scripts/plugins/skins will be easier

Download XBMC Media Center 9.11

XBMC Media Center 9.04.1

Posted in Uncategorized on June 4th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment Tags: ,

XBMC - 44.38MB (Open Source)
XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community. Try it now!

Media Management
XBMC supports viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and image formats. XBMC has a sophisticated library management system that allows you to organize all your media to give you quick and immediate access.

Fluid Interface
XBMC provides a user friendly interface that’s intuitive, very flexible, and easy to use. The interface is completely customizable through user-created or downloadable skins.

Plug-ins and Extensibility
XBMC has a built-in Python interpreter that allows users and developers to write their own scripts and plugins that run inside XBMC using it’s own widgets and controls. It also has a built-in web server that allows it to be controlled remotely.

Visualisations
XBMC’s audio player supports many visualisations including ProjectM and Goom. In addition, it allows easy development of visualisations using a simple API.

XBMC Media Center 9.04.1 Changelog
* Support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Mac under Mac OS X 10.x
* Reworked internal path system to remove dependency on legacy drive letters:

* Added special paths (“special://”) which replace the internal drive letters
* This change means that all python scripts/plugins need to be updated to work!

* VDPAU hardware accelerated video decoding under Linux on NVIDIA graphics
* Support to use HTTP directory listing as media source
* UPnP MediaServer compliant with DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standard
* Avahi Zeroconf (Zero Configuration Networking) for XBMC webserver on Mac OS X
* Initial support for streaming from HTS Tvheadend server/relay on Linux
* Shift-key navigation in lists, (jump to starting letter by holding down shift)
* PulseAudio sound server support, (only in XBMC for Linux and XBMC Live as of yet)
* New Karaoke Features in XBMC SDL/OpenGL ports (Linux/Mac/Windows):

* CDG (CDG + MP3, AAC, CDG, WAV, etc.) playback – Play standard CDG karaoke files
* LRC (LRCv1 and LRCv2) – Karaoke text based lyrics file format with .lrc extension
* MIDI (.MID/.KAR) playback – Play MIDI format karaoke files
* Transparent ZIP and RAR files – Play MP3+GDG/MIDI files wrapped in ZIP/RAR files
* Supports song numbering with permanent numbers, which means the song could be selected by number, even if another song is being played. The numbering information could be exported into HTML file and used to print catalogs
* Supports real-time lyrics timing modification, allowing to modify the lyrics-music delay. The delay is associated to the song, and then restored when this song is played again

* Updated TiMidity, adding MIDI playback support to Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
* Updated FFmpeg (libavcodec/libavformat) adding new audio/video codecs, like:

* M2TS/M2T/MTS ( Blu-ray and AVCHD video format) container support
* EVO (Enhanced VOB) for HD DVD video format container support
* AVS (Audio Video Standard) audio/video decoder and container support
* Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD audio software decoder
* MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) / Packed PCM (PPCM) audio decoder
* WMA Pro Audio Codec (Windows Media Audio 9 Professional)
* …and many more, for a full list see XBMC Supported Formats and Codecs

* vgmstream playback of various streamed audio formats used in video games:

* 51 more game audio formats: aax, asd, asr, ass, bgw, bh2pcm, capdsp, ccc, dcs, de2, emff, fag, gbts, gca, gsb, idsp, idvi, isd, joe, kraw, mihb, msvp, mwv, omu, p2bt, pdt, rnd, rwar, rwav, sap, seg, smp, spd, spsd, spw, ss7, ssm, thp, vgs, vs, waa, wac, wad, wam, xa2, xmu, xsf, xvas, ydsp, ymf, zwdsp

* Improved XBMC GUI Skinning Framework to make it even more flexible and powerful
* Skin theme/items changes on-the-fly with variables based on date and/or time
* New Weather properties (skinners can now display all weather info in any window)
* FanArt Backdrop support for Weather (based on current weather condition)
* FanArt Backdrop scraping for Music Artist from htbackdrops.com
* FanArt support for Music Artist (Artists/Groups/Bands) for locally stored backdrops
* FanArt Screensaver
* FanArt Flipping (Image Mirroring)
* Export entire music/video library into separate files (NFO with TBN images)
* Additional music and movie scrapers:

* themoviedb.org (a.k.a. TMDb) movie scraper (the new default)
* amazon.com and amazon.co.uk movie scrapers
* sratim.co.il (Israeli) movie scraper
* mymovies.it (Italian) movie scraper
* last.fm music scraper (still only basic right now)
* discogs.com (English) music scraper (use only for albums right now)
* he.israel-music.co.il (Israeli) music scraper
* imdb.cn (Chinese) movie scraper
* naver.com (Korean) movie scraper
* daum.net (Korean) movie scraper

* Scrape MyMovies.xml (to import meta data from MyMovies media manager)
* Support for movie.nfo and movie.tbn (if there is a movie.nfo file in the folder then XBMC will always use that before anything else)
* Support for mixed (XML and URL) NFO files for Movies
* Support for mixed (XML and URL) NFO files for Music Artist and Album
* Adjust framerate (auto switching refresh rate to match video source frame rate)
* Bit-Perfect Audio Playback on Linux/Mac/Windows (removed audio resampling)
* “LaunchPlayer”, option to launch external player added to advancedsettings.xml
* Xbox 360 Controller EventClient
* D-Bus Server supporting MPRIS (Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification)
* Option to safely remove (eject/unmount) external harddrives in XBMC for Linux
* Installed xsession for use in example with GDM and KDM for a XBMC-only session on Linux
* Option to enable MID Moblin support at compile time (XBMC for Linux)
* Cleaner and more consistent source code in general, and improved build systems