How to install Boxee in Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic’

By • Jan 5th, 2010 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu 9.10 lovers of Boxee, the cross-platform open source, media center – a branch of XBMC that focuses on the social network, should have noticed that there are no Boxee repositories for Ubuntu 9.10 – and no pre-complied Deb packages too.

XBMC 9.11 Camelot Final with a Kick-Ass new Look is Out

By • Dec 27th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Lovers of the famous open source media center XBMC can now grab XBMC 9.11 final alias Camelot that comes with a new default Confluence Skin that replaces previous default PM3.HD.

XBMC 9.11 Beta 1 with new default Confluence Skin

By • Nov 25th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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 […]

XBMC Media Center 9.11 Codenamed Camelot – Alpha1 out

By • Nov 5th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video, Windows

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.

Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC

By • Jun 29th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source

For Windows/Mac/Linux: With the Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC you can now watch live streams from the Justin.tv on your XBMC Media Center. Justin.tv is surely the largest online community to broadcast, watch and interact with live videos. Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC does not support video clips, for now. The author says he’s looking […]

Updating to XBMC 9.04 Babylon

By • May 6th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu/Linux Windows, Mac OS X and others: You are now set to update to XBMC 9.04, codename Babylon. Amongst the many new features in XBMC 9.04 shines out the PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X. As concerns Ubuntu/Linux, support for VDPAU – – NVIDIA GPU Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Linux. Other features are: […]

Ubuntu:Complete your XBMC Media Center with YouTube Playlists and Give it Better Looks with XBMC Skin Manager

By • Feb 14th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Multimedia, Open-Source

XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center) is a free and open source application for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox, that can turn your Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or 8.10 into a veritable media center platform, with video playback, streaming videos, audio, images, playlist playback, slideshows and more. – If you’ve been using Microsoft’s […]