The latest version of XBMC, codenamed ‘Frodo’, is finally available for all platforms, including Android , and it has a bunch of great new features. Here’s what’s new.
Straight from the official announcement, here’s what you’ll find in the new version:
- HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (OSX/iOS not yet available)
- Live TV and PVR support
- h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
- 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
- Improved image support, allowing the XBMC database to accomodate numerous additional image types and more interesting and complex skins
- Support for the Raspberry PI
- Initial support for the Android platform
- Improved Airplay support across all platforms, including Airplay audio in XBMC for Windows to match the other platforms
- Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
- Advanced Filtering in the library
- Video library tags to complement movie sets
- Advanced UPnP sharing
- Default video languages now match the language being used by XBMC
- Translations now powered by Transifex
Check out the link below to read more, or head straight to XBMC’s download page to try out the new version.
XBMC 12.0 – Frodo [XBMC Blog]
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