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XBMC 11.0
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XBMC is an award winning media center for Mac OS X. The ultimate High Definition hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community.
What's New
Version 11.0:

Addons Framework, API, and Manager

  • Added ability for all addons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)
  • Added support for addons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting
  • Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog
  • Extended Addons API to support adding extension points for Service Addons (xbmc.service)
  • Added support for Addon Rollbacks, enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions
  • Added the ability to search Addons in the Addons-Manager
GUI Engine
  • Improve XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful
  • Added option for auto login of a specific selected user profile (good for kiosk mode)
  • Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream()
  • Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list
  • Add ability for skinners to show buffering progress for streamed/cached files (similar to YouTube)
  • Improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling
  • Improve touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms
  • Added Dirty Region support to reduce CPU usage
  • Added a custom JPEG decoder, at least 2x faster than the previous implementation (cximage)
Playback:
  • Added UDF 2.5 filesystem reading support to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
  • Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration
  • Added an option for vertical shift of video image with slider setting
  • Added support for color and font styles tag in MPL2 (MicroDVD) subtitles
  • Added support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles
  • Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles
  • Added support delay tag in vobsub subtitles
  • Gave external subtitles preference over internal subtitles
  • Added support for a new extended version of MPlayer's EDL (Edit Decision List) format
  • Added PlayerControl built in function to allow jumping to a percentage offset from a key mapping
  • Added support for Slingbox
  • Upgrade FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library
  • Improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
  • Removed subtitle caching (as it was only needed on Xbox because of the severe memory restrictions)
  • Removed all dependencies of libmms libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native MMS support
  • Remove all dependencies of liba52, libdts, and faac libraries from XBMC's code in favour of FFmpeg native
  • Added support for NFS virtual file server (vfs) (all platforms)
  • Added support for AFP (vfs) (all platforms aside from Windows)
  • Added Airplay support for Videos/Pictures (all platforms)
  • Added Airplay support for Music (all platforms aside from Windows)
  • Added Audio/L16 support for better DLNA UPnP client compliance
  • Improved UPnP Renderer
  • Added a slider for volume amplification and dynamic range compression during video playback
  • Added an option to pause video playback during refreshrate changes
  • Extended PathSubstitution from playlists to all files for users of shared MySQL Databases
  • Added the ability to adjust the display's refresh rate to match the video's frame rate in OSX (Feature already available in Windows and Linux)
  • Improvements made to the adjust refresh rate feature to pick the "best" rate, rather than the closest multiple
  • Added DXVA Deinterlacing support
Library:
  • Combined Files and Library mode for videos
  • Add asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
  • Added support for cleaning the music library via CleanLibrary(music) command
  • Added a "Play from here" context menu button for TV Shows Episodes in the video library
  • Added the option to specify the default select (Play, Resume, Show information, Choose) action on videos
  • Changed "Set Content" to "Edit Content Settings" after being set
  • Added disc stub support for cataloging DVDs, BluRays, etc.
  • Added support for scraping Movie Collections, along with the ability to toggle collections on and off
Scrapers:
  • Improve TheMovieDB.org movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
  • Added movie set scraping'
  • Improve TheTVDB.com (Multi-Lingual) TV Shows and Episode scraper
  • Improve Freebase (English) music scraper
Skins:
  • Confluence: Home screen switched to horizontal layout
  • Confluence: Greatly simplified the way FanArt works throughout the skin and the settings for it
  • Confluence: Added ability for users to easily add / remove Add-ons as items on the home screen menu
  • Confluence: Added codec flagging images for DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
Other:
  • Added ability to handle and allow access to multiple web interfaces at once
  • Added option setting to play videos within picture slideshows
  • Added dimming setting to the built-in picture slideshow screensaver
  • Added support for sorting depending on current locale
  • Added advancedsettings.xml option to disable the display of startup splash image (enabled by default)
  • Added support for batch requests to the JSON-RPC API
  • Added support for requests by notification to the JSON-RPC API
  • Make JSON-RPC API compliant with JSON-RPC 2.0 specification ( details)
  • Cleanup and improve JSON-RPC API
  • Added advancedsettings.xml option to configure the TCP port used by JSON-RPC (default is 9090)
  • Improve the features of the default web interface
  • Removed Weather from XBMC core and switched to Weather Underground as the default weather provider addon
  • Added weather lookup by IP
iOS Specific:
  • Ported XBMC to iOS 4.x (adding "XBMC for iOS" to XBMC's existing list of supported operating-systems)
  • Added support for Apple A4 (ARM) iDevices, inc. Apple TV 2G, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, the iPad (effectively all jailbroken iOS products)
  • Added hardware accelerated video decoding support for H.264 decode on iOS via Apple's VideoToolBox API
  • Added support for OpenGL ES hardware accelerated rendering of XBMC's graphical user interface on iOS
  • Added retina support
  • Added initial iOS Touch / Gesture / Inertial Scrolling support for XBMC interface on iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and the iPad
  • Added a APT repository for Apple TV, and Cydia with packages for iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, and iPad
Mac OS X Specific:
  • Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Mac OS X
  • Improve Apple VDADecoder Video Acceleration support (requires Snow Leopard and NVIDIA 9400 or later)
  • Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier
Version 11.0:

Addons Framework, API, and Manager

  • Added ability for all addons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)
  • Added support for addons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting
  • Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog
  • Extended Addons API to support more...
Requirements
  • Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
  • Or Apple TV


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XBMC User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 11.x:
(22)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
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Libertyforall1776 commented on 06 May 2012
XBMC 12 alpha1 is out!:

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/osx/
[Version 11.0]


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TripHHH reviewed on 01 May 2012
groovy ui,
[Version 11.0]


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Monkeyjunkey reviewed on 26 Mar 2012
Good job with XBMC 11 "Eden". Works great. And as a frustrated Plex user (MP3s are still unskipable in Plex) I'm very happy I can finally skip all my music.

Setup has been a breeze and I'm looking forward to using XBMC.

One minor annoyance: I don't get why Artist Name does have to be displayed , when I'm on album view. Chances are I came there by browsing artists, so that info + Title Track is one info too many and the view looks very cluttered. Artist Name should be removed.
[Version 11.0]


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Thomas1977 reviewed on 25 Mar 2012
Slick looking interface! imo the rest looks like crap.

Highly appreciated this is free. Great stuff.
[Version 11.0]


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Libertyforall1776 commented on 01 Mar 2012
LOVE the new AirPlay reception abilities, now if only they would also add AirPlay OUTPUT... ;-)
[Version 11.0 rc1]


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Wgscott reviewed on 11 Feb 2012
I've been using this both on my Mac mini and my ATV2 (unfortunately you need to jailbreak your ATV2), primarily so I can stream Amazon prime videos. For this the ATV2 version is almost flawless, and the mac mini version is quite reasonable (it sometimes crashes). There is a plugin available on the internet that allows you to launch XMBC from within Front Row.app, so you can have the best of both worlds for a mac hooked up to your TV.

Apple limits you to playing their iTunes store movies through their own software, as far as I am aware.
[Version 11.0.beta3]

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Kapps7 replied on 28 Feb 2012
Front row? I'm assuming this is not on lion then ?
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Y-Guy replied on 03 Mar 2012
Kapps7, FrontRow was dropped in Lion.
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Kapps7 replied on 03 Mar 2012
Yeah I know. I tried out the Front Row enabler for Lion but it was very unstable for me.
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+9
mika33 commented on 18 Jan 2012
Trying no XBMC as Boxee is dead for my Mac Mini. However with all these MM frontends there are problem to access my UPnP server on my Synology NAS. Photos, Videos are not found or connection is broken...
I suspect this is a problem on the NAS but I wonder whether other users have similar problems?

BTW: Accessing NAS content via a normal file share is no problem..
[Version 11.0.beta1]


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Ben-Marko reviewed on 27 Dec 2011
Overall a very slick looking interface. But it won't even see my .mp4 and .m4v video files (which constitute around 90% of my videos). A huge drawback...plus it would be nice to have a seperate PDF manual you could read outside of the app rather than the help in the app itself (which provided zero help with my video problem). Even if it is free, it holds no value if it can't be used.
[Version 11.0.beta1]

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Libertyforall1776 replied on 28 Dec 2011
It's a beta, submit your bug reports to them....
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Ben-Marko replied on 28 Dec 2011
I did, and it is being planned for future versions. Though if it utilized VLC to play the files it would have had it from the start (even for a beta). No word on a manual.
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Edvinas replied on 12 Mar 2012
You are doing something wrong. XBMC definitely both sees and plays mp4 and m4v files.
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Alessandro82 reviewed on 27 Dec 2011
waste of time smart playlist doesn t work ,15 cpu usage in idel mode (macbook pro early 2011 core i 7!!!!)
[Version 11.0.beta1]


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Whitebuck reviewed on 23 Jul 2011
On my iMac I could never get the iTunes library imported. Compared to Front Row when used on a Mac, XBMC 10.1 Dharma is absolute JUNK! Front Row blows it away, no comparison! XBMC, a waste of my time!
[Version 11.0.pre]

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NachoCheeseDeath replied on 28 Jul 2011
You copy and pasted the exact same "review" in Plex. You're an idiot.
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Whitebuck replied on 29 Jul 2011
After attempting to use both XBMC and Plex I had the same result, so I posted the same comments not that is any of your concern Nacho Moron! I installed Boxee and it worked as claimed, excellent now I have a replacement for Front Row. When and if I decide to purchase OSX Lion. My comments about XBMC or Plex stand as stated your agreement or approval matters not Nacho Moron!!!
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NachoCheeseDeath replied on 27 Aug 2011
I hope you're not older than 11 years old...
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Echorob replied on 30 Aug 2011
@whitebuck, You're liar. XBMC is virtually identical to Boxee to add your music and Plex connects to iTunes out of the box nothing to be done. You simply did not use use either. IS boxes paying you to rubbish these apps ?
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Y-Guy had trouble on 03 Mar 2012
Anyone running this on their Mac know if they resolved the issue where the volume chances as you scroll within Movies/TV Show lists? I had to fall back to the last version due to this.
[Version 11.0.rc2]


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xXAkumuXx had trouble on 01 Apr 2011
AVI playback is EXTREMELY jerky on some movies. Any way to address this?
[Version 10.1]


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Agmaster had trouble on 22 Jan 2011
If anyone can tell me why the heck XBMC always has poor playback performance (Random Stuttering) with 720p 4GB+ mkv movies and how I can fix that. I will use this app, because the new Plex has even worse playback performance than XBMC. I'm not even streaming my movies, just playing them from a 2008 MBP connected to my HDTV.
[Version 10.0]


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Pissnaround had trouble on 31 Aug 2010
I've used this before with no problems. however, the 10.0-beta 1 runs slow as molasses on my duo core iMac. I have 3gb of ram.
[Version 10.0-beta1]


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macbookbaby had trouble on 28 Jan 2009
I have installed xbmc on my apple tv but i don't know how to find my macbook on it? my macbook is installed on my apple tv so i can play my music but I want to play various video files and things through my television. Have I not installed xbmc properly? should it just work automatically? when I open xbmc and itunes in xbmc my music isn't there. how do I install my macbook so I can play everything on it through my apple tv using xbmc?

thanks,

James
[Version 8.10]

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MacUpdate Lon commented on 28 Jan 2009
The horse's mouth:

http://xbmc.org/support/

http://xbmc.org/forum/
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db had trouble on 15 Nov 2008
has anyone figured out how to get a download of this going? no joy with the link or at sourceforge.
[Version 8.10]



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Aaron-T. rated on 23 May 2012

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Allan Candido rated on 20 May 2012

[Version 11.0]



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TripHHH rated on 01 May 2012

[Version 11.0]



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Yoshinatsu rated on 25 Mar 2012

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Wdprice1@gmail.com rated on 22 Mar 2012

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Tyler E rated on 03 Mar 2012

[Version 11.0.rc2]



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Greedyfranky rated on 03 Mar 2012

[Version 11.0.rc2]



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TripHHH rated on 05 Feb 2012

[Version 11.0.beta2]




mifinc rated on 10 Dec 2011

[Version 11.0.pre]



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TripHHH rated on 10 Nov 2011

[Version 11.0.pre]


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Version Downloads:7,659
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License:Free
Date:24 Mar 2012
Platform:Intel
Price:Free0.00
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