New XBMC 12.0 “Frodo”, henceforth available: Opportunities around improvements and new features.



Available since January 29, 2013, this new release brings some enhancements,  and new features. Besides, one of the particularities in this release, it is the fact that the application is now
available for Android and Raspberry Pi. However there are no official Raspberry Pi builds provided by XBMC.
 Henceforth Features for XBMC 12 include:

  • HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (OSX/iOS not yet available)
  • Live TV and PVR support
  • h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime
  • 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux
  • Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types and more interesting and complex skins
  • Support for the Raspberry PI
  • Initial support for the Android platform
  • Improved AirPlay support across all platforms, including AirPlay audio in XBMC for Windows to match the other platforms
  • Improved controller support in Windows and Linux
  • Advanced Filtering in the library
  • Video library tags to complement movie sets
  • Advanced UPnP sharing
  • Default video languages now match the language being used by XBMC
  • Translations now powered by Transifex

To get XBMC 12 Frodo, you can visit the download page.

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