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XBMC Media Center 9.11 leaves Alpha to Beta and introduces Confluence as the new default skin to replace the PM3.HD skin that now becomes an ordinary skin.
– XBMC developers ask translators to pay particular attention to XBMC settings and Confluence skin when translating.
– PPAs for Karmic and Live builds are also available for testers. Hit the link below to see the Confluence skin.
XBMC is an award-winning cross-platform entertainment center released under the GNU/GPL license.
via XBMC ~ XBMC 9.11 Beta1: Introducing Confluence
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The notice that YouTube will get support for watching 1080p HD video next week comes straight from the horse’s mouth. As of now YouTube’s HD mode for viewing video was max 720p, those who have submitted Full HD video will have their video re-encoded to the better mode.
YouTube also intends to put awesome video uploaded by you to its homepage – in a future spotlight. via [YouTube Blog] ~ 1080p HD Is Coming to YouTube
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SopCast Player makes use of the P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology to bring live streaming video and audio to your Ubuntu. Getting it installed on Ubuntu 9.04 was rather tricky: How to Setup P2P Tv with gtk-SopCast on Ubuntu 9.04 , but that was then. More»
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For Windows, Mac and Linux: An early version of the popular open source media center XBMC 9.11 has been released. XBMC 9.11 codenamed “Camelot” Alpha 1 is the first official testing release of this overhauled (code-wise) version. More»
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The popular open source media player VLC gets a maintenance release to fix bugs found in previously released VLC 1.0.1. VLC 1.0.1 that was rolled out about two months ago had a number of bugs and security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in VLC 1.0.2. VLC 1.0.2 fixes issues in subtitles, Theora video compression format and Ogg, it addresses dvb-c channels-scanning and fixes some playlist sorting issues.
Mac OS X Port users benefit most from this update that addresses issues like, VLC crashing during an update, a newly added “Quit after Playback” feature and a full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 amongst other feature. See the changelog.
Because of the security issues addressed in this release, the VLC team strongly recommends everyone to update to VLC 1.0.2.
VLC is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2).
Download VLC 1.0.2 ~ for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows
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