OpenELEC - Media Center Operating System

We are happy to announce our two winners of the two 8GB Raspberry Pi Media Centre Kit sponsored by The Pi Hut from our RaspberryPi Media Center draw: Stefan from Germany James from Singapore Congratulations and enjoy these devices with ... [More] OpenELEC! We want to thank all users who have participated. This Draw was very successful so we have decided to repeat this very soon. Watch us on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and/or here to not miss out on any further surprises! [Less]

  The OpenELEC Team want to wish all of our users, Team XBMC, supporting manufacturers and developers a warm, lovely, healthy and joyful Christmas and that you will enjoy OpenELEC in the most useful way these days.

The OpenELEC Team want to wish all of our users, Team XBMC, supporting manufacturers and developers a warm, lovely, healthy and joyful Christmas and that you will enjoy OpenELEC in the most useful way these days.        

  The OpenELEC team is proud to release the 6th Beta of OpenELEC 3.0! Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 2.95.6 :). This Beta updates XBMC to XBMC Frodo Release Candidate 2, and fixes some issues found in our Beta 5 ... [More] release. We hope this will be any of the last Betas before releasing Release Canditates of OpenELEC-3.0.     To manually update to this Beta read http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Updating_OpenELEC. Be social, join our community now! We invite everyone to actively participate in the OpenELEC community. In a short time we have become a bustling project with many keen users of all skill levels helping out daily. OpenELEC is for everyone and following us on social media not only keeps you up to date but helps the project by letting more people know about us. Forum: http://openelec.tv/forum Twitter: https://twitter.com/openelec Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OpenELEC Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112115795516947592126/112115795516947592126/posts IRC: #openelec on freenode.net (also avaible via our webchat)     We would like to thank our users, team members and partners for testing, reporting and fixing issues, creating how-to documents, developing new features, and their donations of hardware and funds to the project. We appreciate your continued support! How can I make a donation? If you want to contribute to the OpenELEC project, you can make a donation using PayPal. Donating is easy, takes only a few minutes and you do not need a PayPal account to make a donation. We have not set up our PayPal donation page to suggest a donation amount; please just donate what you feel comfortable with. You can download your OpenELEC 3.0 Beta 6 build here. Upgrading to OpenELEC 2.95.6 There have been many months of developer testing in the run-up to this beta release, but like any major update there are a lot of changes and something somewhere will have been missed (this is why we do beta tests). If you are going to update to the beta release from our actual stable OpenELEC-1.0 or OpenELEC-2.0 we STRONGLY advise you to make a backup of XBMC’s data files first and start with a fresh XBMC user dir: mv /storage/.xbmc /storage/.xbmc-backup   The Slideshow screensaver has been moved to the XBMC add-on repo, users will now need to download the add-on to be able to use it. (If not they will just get a black screen which does nothing)   Improved OpenELEC WikiThanks to our Teammember lrusak and many of our users we have improved our wiki on http://wiki.openelec.tv. If you need a account to help us to contribute to our Wiki please ask one of our Teammembers for a account.   Issue Reports & Feature Requests on githubOpenELEC gained many new users since 2.0 and it became impossible to track issue reports and feature requests via forum postings. To re-assert some control and improve visibility for the dev team we have moved all bug reporting and feature requests to the github issue tracker here: http://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues. {gallery}openelec-3.0-beta1{/gallery} OpenELEC 3.0 highlights and changes: XBMC-12.0 (Frodo) Thanks to an incredibly successful GSoC experience and numerous dedicated developers who have been working on many projects for years, XBMC 12 figures to be one of the most anticipated feature updates in a long time. Features include… HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (DTS-HD / True-HD not support on AMD GPUs) improved Live TV and PVR support Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types Support for the Raspberry PI Improved Airplay support across all platforms Advanced Filtering in the library Advanced UPnP sharing XBMC Frodo has improved sound card detection and "Audio Engine support". This may change the naming of audio devices available on your system and the Audio configuration handling. If audio stops working after the update please adjust audio configuration in XBMC settings to use the updated device names and remove any previously installed/configured /storage/.config/asound.conf Starting in XBMC v12 "Frodo", you should no longer use path substitution to sync thumbnails and other art between XBMC devices. For more infos see http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Upgrading_XBMC_to_v12   improved PVR SupportBased on XBMC 12.0 included PVR support we support many more DVB hardware, and have 4TheRecord, DVB Viewer, Mediaportal, MythTV, NextPVR, TVHeadend, VDR, Njoy N7 and VU+ support in the OS. New “RPi” imageWith XBMC Frodo version now getting stable, there is also a great choice for RaspberryPi owners, that want to use XBMC on their RaspberryPi. Among multiple distributions, like Raspbmc and XBian which are both Debian/Raspbian based and the fully RaspberryPi and XBMC optimized OpenELEC embedded OS, they can exactly choose what fits their needs. All those projects help XBMC to mature and bear great possibilities for all users out there.This new build was created to run OpenELEC on our first supported ARM device the RaspberryPi. To find informations how to use and install this build please read http://openelec.tv/forum/124-raspberry-pi/40979-raspberry-pi-faq#40979 and http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_PiWe would like to thanks "Gimli" and "Popcornmix" for all the help we got with porting OpenELEC to the RaspberryPi   Improved AMD XVBA supportThanks to the efforts of FernetMenta, Fritsch, Newphreak and many users who have been testing and providing feedback our native XVBA support was improved again.Xvba now uses a better heuristics to detect wrongly encoded H264 files. The AMD decoder heavily relies that the correct level is set. With these changes, it is now possible to playback those files without artefacts.Another change was the handling of 2K and 4K video files. In the past, they broke the decoder and forced the user to reboot. We now correctly handle 2K resolution files and don't try to create the hw decoder for larger resolutions that are not supported by the XVBA SDK. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to release the 6th Beta of OpenELEC 3.0! Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 2.95.6 :). This Beta updates XBMC to XBMC Frodo Release Candidate 2, and fixes some issues found in our Beta 5 release. We hope this will be any of the last Betas before releasing Release Canditates of OpenELEC-3.0.  

The OpenELEC team is proud to release the 5th Beta of OpenELEC 3.0! Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 2.95.5 :). This Beta updates XBMC to XBMC Frodo Release Candidate 1, and fixes some issues found in our Beta 4 ... [More] release like the issue where all our Addons are marked as "broken". You must do a forced refresh on our repo to reset the "broken" markers. To manually update to this Beta read http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Updating_OpenELEC. Be social, join our community now! We invite everyone to actively participate in the OpenELEC community. In a short time we have become a bustling project with many keen users of all skill levels helping out daily. OpenELEC is for everyone and following us on social media not only keeps you up to date but helps the project by letting more people know about us. Forum: http://openelec.tv/forum Twitter: https://twitter.com/openelec Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OpenELEC Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112115795516947592126/112115795516947592126/posts IRC: #openelec on freenode.net (also avaible via our webchat) We would like to thank our users, team members and partners for testing, reporting and fixing issues, creating how-to documents, developing new features, and their donations of hardware and funds to the project. We appreciate your continued support! How can I make a donation? If you want to contribute to the OpenELEC project, you can make a donation using PayPal. Donating is easy, takes only a few minutes and you do not need a PayPal account to make a donation. We have not set up our PayPal donation page to suggest a donation amount; please just donate what you feel comfortable with. You can download your OpenELEC 3.0 Beta 5 build here. Upgrading to OpenELEC 2.95.5 There have been many months of developer testing in the run-up to this beta release, but like any major update there are a lot of changes and something somewhere will have been missed (this is why we do beta tests). If you are going to update to the beta release from our actual stable OpenELEC-1.0 or OpenELEC-2.0 we STRONGLY advise you to make a backup of XBMC’s data files first and start with a fresh XBMC user dir: mv /storage/.xbmc /storage/.xbmc-backup The Slideshow screensaver has been moved to the XBMC add-on repo, users will now need to download the add-on to be able to use it. (If not they will just get a black screen which does nothing) Improved OpenELEC WikiThanks to our Teammember lrusak and many of our users we have improved our wiki on http://wiki.openelec.tv. If you need a account to help us to contribute to our Wiki please ask one of our Teammembers for a account. Issue Reports & Feature Requests on githubOpenELEC gained many new users since 2.0 and it became impossible to track issue reports and feature requests via forum postings. To re-assert some control and improve visibility for the dev team we have moved all bug reporting and feature requests to the github issue tracker here: http://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues. {gallery}openelec-3.0-beta1{/gallery} OpenELEC 3.0 highlights and changes: XBMC-12.0 (Frodo) Thanks to an incredibly successful GSoC experience and numerous dedicated developers who have been working on many projects for years, XBMC 12 figures to be one of the most anticipated feature updates in a long time. Features include… HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (DTS-HD / True-HD not support on AMD GPUs) improved Live TV and PVR support Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types Support for the Raspberry PI Improved Airplay support across all platforms Advanced Filtering in the library Advanced UPnP sharing XBMC Frodo has improved sound card detection and "Audio Engine support". This may change the naming of audio devices available on your system and the Audio configuration handling. If audio stops working after the update please adjust audio configuration in XBMC settings to use the updated device names and remove any previously installed/configured /storage/.config/asound.conf Starting in XBMC v12 "Frodo", you should no longer use path substitution to sync thumbnails and other art between XBMC devices. For more infos see http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Upgrading_XBMC_to_v12 improved PVR SupportBased on XBMC 12.0 included PVR support we support many more DVB hardware, and have 4TheRecord, DVB Viewer, Mediaportal, MythTV, NextPVR, TVHeadend, VDR, Njoy N7 and VU+ support in the OS. New “RPi” imageWith XBMC Frodo version now getting stable, there is also a great choice for RaspberryPi owners, that want to use XBMC on their RaspberryPi. Among multiple distributions, like Raspbmc and XBian which are both Debian/Raspbian based and the fully RaspberryPi and XBMC optimized OpenELEC embedded OS, they can exactly choose what fits their needs. All those projects help XBMC to mature and bear great possibilities for all users out there.This new build was created to run OpenELEC on our first supported ARM device the RaspberryPi. To find informations how to use and install this build please read http://openelec.tv/forum/124-raspberry-pi/40979-raspberry-pi-faq#40979 and http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_PiWe would like to thanks "Gimli" and "Popcornmix" for all the help we got with porting OpenELEC to the RaspberryPi Improved AMD XVBA supportThanks to the efforts of FernetMenta, Fritsch, Newphreak and many users who have been testing and providing feedback our native XVBA support was improved again.Xvba now uses a better heuristics to detect wrongly encoded H264 files. The AMD decoder heavily relies that the correct level is set. With these changes, it is now possible to playback those files without artefacts.Another change was the handling of 2K and 4K video files. In the past, they broke the decoder and forced the user to reboot. We now correctly handle 2K resolution files and don't try to create the hw decoder for larger resolutions that are not supported by the XVBA SDK. [Less]

The OpenELEC team is proud to release the 5th Beta of OpenELEC 3.0! Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 2.95.5 :). This Beta updates XBMC to XBMC Frodo Release Candidate 1, and fixes some issues found in our Beta 4 release ... [More] like the issue where all our Addons are marked as "broken". You must do a forced refresh on our repo to reset the "broken" markers.   [Less]

  The OpenELEC team is proud to release the 5th Beta of OpenELEC 3.0! Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 2.95.5 :). This Beta updates XBMC to XBMC Frodo Release Candidate 1, and fixes some issues found in our Beta 4 ... [More] release like the issue where all our Addons are marked as "broken". You must do a forced refresh on our repo to reset the "broken" markers.     To manually update to this Beta read http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Updating_OpenELEC. Be social, join our community now! We invite everyone to actively participate in the OpenELEC community. In a short time we have become a bustling project with many keen users of all skill levels helping out daily. OpenELEC is for everyone and following us on social media not only keeps you up to date but helps the project by letting more people know about us. Forum: http://openelec.tv/forum Twitter: https://twitter.com/openelec Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OpenELEC Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112115795516947592126/112115795516947592126/posts IRC: #openelec on freenode.net (also avaible via our webchat)     We would like to thank our users, team members and partners for testing, reporting and fixing issues, creating how-to documents, developing new features, and their donations of hardware and funds to the project. We appreciate your continued support! How can I make a donation? If you want to contribute to the OpenELEC project, you can make a donation using PayPal. Donating is easy, takes only a few minutes and you do not need a PayPal account to make a donation. We have not set up our PayPal donation page to suggest a donation amount; please just donate what you feel comfortable with. You can download your OpenELEC 3.0 Beta 5 build here. Upgrading to OpenELEC 2.95.5 There have been many months of developer testing in the run-up to this beta release, but like any major update there are a lot of changes and something somewhere will have been missed (this is why we do beta tests). If you are going to update to the beta release from our actual stable OpenELEC-1.0 or OpenELEC-2.0 we STRONGLY advise you to make a backup of XBMC’s data files first and start with a fresh XBMC user dir: mv /storage/.xbmc /storage/.xbmc-backup   The Slideshow screensaver has been moved to the XBMC add-on repo, users will now need to download the add-on to be able to use it. (If not they will just get a black screen which does nothing)   Improved OpenELEC WikiThanks to our Teammember lrusak and many of our users we have improved our wiki on http://wiki.openelec.tv. If you need a account to help us to contribute to our Wiki please ask one of our Teammembers for a account.   Issue Reports & Feature Requests on githubOpenELEC gained many new users since 2.0 and it became impossible to track issue reports and feature requests via forum postings. To re-assert some control and improve visibility for the dev team we have moved all bug reporting and feature requests to the github issue tracker here: http://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues. {gallery}openelec-3.0-beta1{/gallery} OpenELEC 3.0 highlights and changes: XBMC-12.0 (Frodo) Thanks to an incredibly successful GSoC experience and numerous dedicated developers who have been working on many projects for years, XBMC 12 figures to be one of the most anticipated feature updates in a long time. Features include… HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (DTS-HD / True-HD not support on AMD GPUs) improved Live TV and PVR support Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types Support for the Raspberry PI Improved Airplay support across all platforms Advanced Filtering in the library Advanced UPnP sharing XBMC Frodo has improved sound card detection and "Audio Engine support". This may change the naming of audio devices available on your system and the Audio configuration handling. If audio stops working after the update please adjust audio configuration in XBMC settings to use the updated device names and remove any previously installed/configured /storage/.config/asound.conf Starting in XBMC v12 "Frodo", you should no longer use path substitution to sync thumbnails and other art between XBMC devices. For more infos see http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Upgrading_XBMC_to_v12   improved PVR SupportBased on XBMC 12.0 included PVR support we support many more DVB hardware, and have 4TheRecord, DVB Viewer, Mediaportal, MythTV, NextPVR, TVHeadend, VDR, Njoy N7 and VU+ support in the OS. New “RPi” imageWith XBMC Frodo version now getting stable, there is also a great choice for RaspberryPi owners, that want to use XBMC on their RaspberryPi. Among multiple distributions, like Raspbmc and XBian which are both Debian/Raspbian based and the fully RaspberryPi and XBMC optimized OpenELEC embedded OS, they can exactly choose what fits their needs. All those projects help XBMC to mature and bear great possibilities for all users out there.This new build was created to run OpenELEC on our first supported ARM device the RaspberryPi. To find informations how to use and install this build please read http://openelec.tv/forum/124-raspberry-pi/40979-raspberry-pi-faq#40979 and http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_PiWe would like to thanks "Gimli" and "Popcornmix" for all the help we got with porting OpenELEC to the RaspberryPi   Improved AMD XVBA supportThanks to the efforts of FernetMenta, Fritsch, Newphreak and many users who have been testing and providing feedback our native XVBA support was improved again.Xvba now uses a better heuristics to detect wrongly encoded H264 files. The AMD decoder heavily relies that the correct level is set. With these changes, it is now possible to playback those files without artefacts.Another change was the handling of 2K and 4K video files. In the past, they broke the decoder and forced the user to reboot. We now correctly handle 2K resolution files and don't try to create the hw decoder for larger resolutions that are not supported by the XVBA SDK. [Less]

We are happy to announce a team-up with The Pi Hut - a store for hardware solutions for the Raspberry Pi.To celebrate this team-up, OpenELEC are offering two lucky winners an 8GB Media Centre worth £58.99 (sponsored by The Pi Hut)   Here at The ... [More] Pi Hut we are extremely excited about teaming up with OpenELEC to provide customers with high quality, branded SD cards preinstalled with the latest distribution of XBMC for the Raspberry Pi. - Jamie Mann (Director - The Pi Hut). [Less]

  We are happy to announce a team-up with The Pi Hut - a store for hardware solutions for the Raspberry Pi.To celebrate this team-up, OpenELEC are offering two lucky winners an 8GB Media Centre worth £58.99 (sponsored by The Pi Hut)   Here at ... [More] The Pi Hut we are extremely excited about teaming up with OpenELEC to provide customers with high quality, branded SD cards preinstalled with the latest distribution of XBMC for the Raspberry Pi. - Jamie Mann (Director - The Pi Hut). This Kit includes: Raspberry Pi Model B (512M RAM) 8GB SD Card preinstalled with OpenELEC XBMC media center Stealth Black Raspberry Pi Case Power Supply (UK, European or American) Network Cable HDMI Cable MPEG/VC1 codec license pack   To win one of these great bundles: like us on facebook, add us on Google+ and/or follow us on Twitter (optional) simply comment below as a registered user (essential) share this page via at least one of the social media icons below (Facebook or Google +) and/or tweet this page URL via Twitter. Any donators using our Paypal button before the contest ends will automatically be added into the draw.   Terms and Conditions: This contest will end on 26. December 2012 00:00AM (UTC). The two winners will be chosen at random from the comments as registered user below or from the PayPal donations, and emailed a voucher code for £58.99 to be spent on a Media Centre Kit at The Pi Hut. Unfortunately, the voucher is unable to cover the cost of postage – but postage will be refunded as soon as the order is dispatched.   If the registering on our site fails please add a comment as a unregistered user with the username you have taken while registering, so we can fix/enable your account and comment as a registered user again after the successful login. Please check your profile to make sure that your email address is still valid.   [Less]