Changes in XBMC Media Center 11.0:
- addon rollbacks so you can install previous addons versions
- GPU video decoding on Linux to "some extent" for AMD graphic cards
- support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc as well as video library integration
- addons can provide their own web interface
- improved mouse support, add better control for dragging of seek / slide / scroll bars, and click handling
- improved touch interface API and gesture support for XBMC's GUI Engine for all platforms
- new custom JPEG decoder which is at least 2x faster than the previous implementation
- support for SSA/ASS subtitle tags; italics, bold, and color for SubRip (.srt) subtitles as well as MP4 embedded subtitles
- upgraded ffmpeg
- improved Blu-ray Disc and harddrive playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus
- support for NFS virtual file server
- support for AFP (vfs)
- Airplay support for Videos, Pictures and Music
- asynchronous threaded background loading of metadata to XBMC's VFS (Virtual File System)
- improved TheMovieDB.org movie scraper by adding themoviedb.org posters scraping
- Linux: support for Texas Instruments OMAP4 (OMAP4430 and OMAP4440 with video decoding on IVA 3)
- dynamic runtime detection of CPU features (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, etc.) implementation for Linux
- improved ARM processor architecture support for embedded devices and embedded system platforms
XBMC Media Center 11.0 "Eden" screenshots:
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XBMCbuntu |
Install XBMC Media Center in Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
The official XBMC PPA doesn't provide any packages for Ubuntu 12.04 for now but if you use Precise, you can use an unofficial PPA to install the latest XBMC 11:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
For other Linux distributions, Mac OSX, Apple TV, iOS, Windows or XBMCbuntu, see the XBMC Media Center download page.