Archives for February 2008

February 27, 2008

Release 0.1.4: Pink-be-gone!

The big change in this release (or perhaps the one which will make the most people happy) is the fix for the “pink screen” issue affecting GMA X3100 video hardware....

February 27, 2008

X3100 problem fixed!

I need to clean up some code and then I’ll make a release later on tonight (and check in my changes, sorry it’s been so long). It turned out to...

February 26, 2008

X3100 Battle Continues

Very strange…there appears to be something fundamentally wrong or different with the X3100, as best I can tell from my extremely limited experience with such things. Which probably means I’m...

February 25, 2008

Update on the GMA X3100 issue

I now have the hardware in-house, and have confirmed that the problem appears to be with the ARB YUV-to-RGB conversion. If I enable software conversion (which takes a rather large...

February 24, 2008

Finally nailed the font issue!

The bottom line was that the canonical type on OS X is UTF-32LE, not UTF-16LE as on Windows, or WCHAR_T as on Linux (which is a pseudo-encoding anyhow, which means...

February 23, 2008

Support Tips

As many of you know, there aren’t a lot of people coding on this project. I try very hard to respond to comments and help people out with the problems...

February 23, 2008

Bad Movie, Good News

Last night I was forced to watch Rumor Has It. I say forced, but actually I was staring at the screen transfixed the entire time, not because of the acting...

February 22, 2008

Release 0.1.3: Tasty Kibbles

This new release still only works on Leopard and Intel. No plans at all, present or future, to move to PPC or Tiger. (Note that I’m linking to another page...

February 17, 2008

Release 0.1.2: Meep meep!

I’m actively working on support for the Apple Remote (and after that other remote control options), but we had quite a spectacularly good development over the weekend that I wanted...

February 13, 2008

Diagnostic release for TV mode problem

To all those (like mingistech) who are noticing differences in the output modes to their TVs, please download this binary and replace the one in XBMC.app/Contents/MacOS. Then run from the...

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