XBMC4XBOX

We are pleased to announce stable version 3.0.1 of the popular media center platform XBMC
for the 1st generation XBOX (now called XBMC4XBOX). A huge amount of work has been put into this, and it features numerous additions and improvements over the last release such as:

• librtmp Support (http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) to support many online video streaming services.

• Updates to dvdplayer’s ffmpeg libraries, including some tweaks for additional speed. Performance with h.264 for example is much improved from previous releases thanks to plenty of optimisations upstream.

• Many improvements and bug fixes to the video/music libraries and scrapers.

• Python updated to 2.4.6 as well as improved compatibility for addons intended for mainline XBMC.

• Support for encoding CD’s to the FLAC format.

• We now ship with a customised version of the Confluence skin optimised for the XBOX.

• Bug fixes and updates to many core components such as Samba and libCurl – such as compatibility with Windows 7 shares.

and plenty more!

Get your download (via bittorrent):
http://malus.exotica.org.uk/torrents/XBMC4XBOX-3.0.1-STABLE.RAR.torrent

Join the community at http://www.xbmc4xbox.org. Nightly builds can be downloaded from http://www.xbmcsvn.com, where the stable release should also soon be available.

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It was some weeks ago that the current code-base of XBMC4XBOX was marked beta, and we have now hit beta2, meaning we are getting much closer to being happy with the stability of the current code for a final 3.0 release soon.

Over the past months, since the split from XBMC for the other OSes, development has been continuing on the XBOX version. Considering the limited number of developers we have, things have gone well, and of course, we can merge some portions of code from xbmc.org which helps too. Some of the improvements since the last stable release include:

• librtmp Support  (http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) to support many online video streaming services
• Updates to dvdplayer’s ffmpeg libraries, including some tweaks for additional speed. Performance with h.264 for example is much improved from previous releases thanks to plenty of optimisations upstream.
• Many improvements and bug fixes to the video/music libraries and scrapers.
• Python updated to 2.4.6 as well as improved compatibility for addons intended for mainline xbmc.
  
• We now ship with a customised version of the Confluence skin optimised for the XBOX.
• Bug fixes and updates to many core components such as Samba and libCurl
• and much more that we have probably forgotten !

If you want to try out the new version, you can download it at http://www.xbmcsvn.com. Please report any bugs over at the forum or on the sourceforge trac page for the project.