| Version
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Release date
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Codename
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Significant changes
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XBMC Live based on
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| 1.0.0
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29 June 2004
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N/A
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N/A
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| 1.1.0
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18 October 2004
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N/A
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- ITU H.261, creative labs yuv (cyuv), supermac cinepak (cvid), quicktime, on2 vp4, 3ivx d4 / 3vi1 mpeg-4 video support
- Container support for nsa, raw audio in .mov, .ac3, .dts and dts-wav
- Zoom/stretch options: zoom, stretch 4x3 or 14x9 or 16x9, original size, custom
- Volume control
- Tags parsing and display for wma, m4a, mp4 and aac (mpeg-4 audio) audio-files
- International-language fonts for subtitles via ttf-fonts
- Audio CD Ripper, backup cdda's to hdd in wav, ogg or mp3 (lame) format
- Karaoke cdg-file and audio cue sheets (.cue) support
- iIunes music shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes)
- XBMC's xbmsp-client code updated to support "auto-discovery of xbmsp servers"
- Auto-temperature and fan-speed control options
- Network-configuration and setup via GUI
- Emergency recovery console (enables the ftp-server during fatal errors)
- Profiles for settings
- Mouse support and virtual-keyboard
- LCD-display output extended to also support xaddons lcd-mods and xecuter3 lcd
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N/A
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| 2.0.0
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29 September 2006
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N/A
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- Reworked skinning engine.
- DVD-Video menu/navigation support (with ISO/IMG image parsing) through internally developed core
- RAR/ZIP archive parsing
- New audio/music-player (PAPlayer) with crossfade, gapless playback and ReplayGain support
- Karaoke CDG-file display
- Xored Trainer Engine (gaming-cheats) (not ported from Xbox)
- XLink Kai (online-gaming) front-end (depreciated)
- Added iTunes 6.x DAAP and UPnP-client
- Read-only support for FAT12/16/32 formatted USB Mass Storage Devices up to 4GB in size
- Brand new "skinnable" 3D visualizer.
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N/A
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| 8.10
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15 November 2008
|
Atlantis
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- Cross platform support adding support for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
- Brand new High Definition skin “PM3.HD”
- "XBMC Live" bootable CD with unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer
- The XBMC profile
- Integration of iTunes and iPhoto media (OS X exclusive).
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Ubuntu 8.10
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| 9.04
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6 May 2009
|
Babylon
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- PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X (PowerPC G4 or later)
- VDPAU (Nvidia's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix)
- New Karaoke features
- Officially dropped support for Xbox
- Updated codecs and major bug-fixes for DVD-Video playback core
- More Media Info Scrapers
- Improved FanArt support
- Revamped skinning engine
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Ubuntu 9.04
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| 9.11
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24 December 2009
|
Camelot
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- Revamped user interface via the new default skin “Confluence“
- DirectX support by default for the Windows platform
- A complete reorganization of the settings menus uniformed across skins
- Automatic video information extraction
- Out of the box support for new remotes
- Smoother video playback performance
- All scrapers updated
- Increased subtitle and Karaoke lyric support
- Support for CoreAudio API (OS X exclusive)
- AC3 and DTS digital audio pass-through to SP/DIF on Apple TV (thanks to CoreAudio)
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Ubuntu 9.10
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10.0
10.1
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18 December 2010
|
Dharma
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- Unified Addon framework
- Addon Browser GUI for installation and management of third-party addons, skin, and scripts
- Team XBMC's official Addons Repository with Addon FanArt support
- Update Notifications
- Movie Sets (option to group movie collections)
- WebM/VP8 codec
- Gesture support to XBMC's GUI Engine
- Unencrypted Blu-ray Disc support
- Broadcom Crystal HD video acceleration support (All Platforms)
- Windows Touch API support (Windows 7 touch features and functions)
- DXVA 2.0 (DirectX Video Acceleration) (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) for raw bitstream output (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- High-Quality Bicubic and Lanczos Upscalers (Video Resamplers) as Direct3D HLSL (Windows Vista/7 exclusive) and OpenGL GLSL Shaders
- Direct3D port of the OpenGL Spectrum 3D Audio Visualization for DirectX (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- AVisual Studio 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 non-Express edition support (Windows Vista/7 exclusive)
- ARM processor architecture (Linux exclusive)
- VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (Linux exclusive)
- OpenMAX Video Acceleration support (Linux exclusive)
- NEON (ARM) Video Acceleration support (Linux exclusive)
- Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (OS X exclusive requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
- OpenGL ES 2.0 compliance
- JSON-RPC, JSON API
- RTMPE and RTMPTE
- Microhttpd Web Server replaces old GoAhead and Spyce code
- SSH file transfer protocol (sftp) via libssh
- MySQL database backend
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Ubuntu 10.04
|
| 11.0
|
2012
|
Eden
|
- iOS port for Apple TV 2G, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
- Dirty regions rendering for texture support to skinning engine
- Efficiency improvements to reduce high cpu/gpu usage
- Default skin changed to a horizontal home layout
- New RenderCapture type to the Python script framework
- Combined Files and Library mode for videos
- Playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc support
- Slingbox playback over the network support
- Peripheral manager controller under settings
- Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) support for HDMI
- Improved Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support
- Improved Touch / Gesture API and Mouse support
- Improved ARM processor architecture support
- Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
- Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support
- Improved JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specs
- Improved VDPAU performance
- VDPAU HQ Upscaling support (require NVIDIA's capable GPU)
- H.264 accelerated video decoding via Apple's VideoToolBox API
- JPEG accelerated video decoding via Apple's VideoToolBox API
- Added basic DRC (Dynamic Range Compression) volume limiter
- AirPlay/AirTunes target support
- Extended Addons API adding extension points for Service Addons
- Ability for all addons to provide their own web interface
- Removed native weather forecast scraper, use weather add-ons instead
- Added support for multiple simultaneous HID device mappings
- FFmpeg upgraded (libavformat and libavcodec)
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Lubuntu 11.10
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| 12.0
|
2012
|
Frodo
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