Now, let's review a few of those features we're particularly excited about. The past year we have kept you informed with our monthly blog posts of all the exciting new features added to this final release. Not to forget all users who have been using the monthly and nightly builds, helping us test this upcoming release, and all third-party software libraries we use. So we would like to thank every one, inside and outside of Team XBMC for their hard work and effort to make this possible. Also a large group of translators who aided in making the user interface available in your local language.

There have been around 530 commits (chunks of code change) done by 51 developers during this time.

It has been months of hard work, improvements and testing since the 12.x releases. The stable release of XBMC 13.0 Gotham edition. The dark night of waiting is finally over. It is difficult to put into words all that XBMC can do, head to the gallery to see some examples, or take the plunge and download it today. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.Ĭurrently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows.

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