Version history for XBMC Media Center for Mac OS X (PPC)

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Changes for v10.1 - v11.0 (Eden)

• 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
• Linux Specific:
• Add support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3)
• Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux
• Added proper timezone support for systems based on Slackware Linux
• Added altname (alternative name) support to LIRC mapping for linux-input-layer devices
• Added lircmap for Conexant's CX23885 IR (infrared) recievers
• Added lircmap to switch between subtitles with iMON Pad remote control
• Improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
• Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
• Improved OpenMAX Video Decoding Acceleration support
• Provide JSON-RPC server over Bluetooth
• 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
• Windows Specific:
• Added support for NV12, UVYV, UYVY, and YUV2 rendering (software and ps)
• Added dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Windows
• Added DXVA video rendering option
• Improve XBMC's build system to make compiling XBMC much easier

Changes for v11.0 (Eden) RC 1 - v11.0 (Eden) RC 2

• We are pleased to announce that the video sync bug introduced has been resolved and Release Candidate 2 released in record time.

Changes for v11.0 (Eden) Beta 3 - v11.0 (Eden) RC 1

• Today we are excited to announce Eden Release Candidate 1. It has been a productive few weeks since Beta 3, as we?ve ironed out numerous minor (and one or two major) bugs.
• In particular, we?ve:
• Given preference to external subtitles over internal subtitles
• Updated a number of XBMC translations for final release
• Resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues
• Allowed specified movie sets to be sorted by title, rather than year, without changing the default sort order on other sets.
• We?ve also added the useful feature of IP weather look up. Now, on a clean install of XBMC, users will no longer need to manually enter their weather location. Instead, XBMC will simply check the IP location of your box and auto-set the weather.

Changes for v10.0 - v10.1

• This is intended as a bug-fix release only, no new features have been introduced. Notable fixes include:
• If an in-use skin was updated in Windows, XBMC would freeze
• Some RTMP streams in Windows did not play
• Included add-ons have been updated
• The correct referrer is now used for downloading add-ons, improving dependency statistics
• Crashes during playback on ATI hardware in some circumstances have been fixed
• Hardware decoding improvements for OSX
• Various small fixes

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