Archives for April 2008

April 28, 2008

Interview with AutomatedHome

Mark McCall from AutomatedHome was kind enough to interview me about the direction of XBMC for OS X. I know what you’re all thinking, I should stop wasting time and...

April 27, 2008

Accessing your iTunes library

I’ve read about a few ways of doing this, but this evening it occurred to me that using iTunesFS might be really easy and work quite well. Sure enough, load...

April 23, 2008

Survey Results and Status

We’ve gotten over 1200 responses on the survey, and I wanted to start by just thanking everyone for taking the time to complete it (and cullman for suggesting the idea...

April 22, 2008

Alternate download location

Isaac here, Many of you have noticed our bug reporting and download site is down. It should be back up soon. In the meantime if you want to get your...

April 16, 2008

Please take our survey

While we sweat away perfecting the Apple Remote/Universal Remote code, please help us out by taking our short survey. We’re trying to get a better sense of our community, which...

April 12, 2008

A Quick 1080p Tip

For some reason, OS X seems to be reluctant to output 1080p to TVs, and usually defaults to 1080i. At first I thought it was the cable (a 50′ HDMI...

April 8, 2008

Release 0.4.5: An interim release

The Apple Remote work is taking a bit longer than I expected, so another release is probably a good idea, to share some of the bug-fixes and new features that...

April 5, 2008

High quality upscaling in next release

OK, I just adding software upscaling as a full-fledged feature for the next release. Both bicubic and lanczos upscaling is selectable, and you can enable it for SD content only,...

April 4, 2008

Experimenting with Bicubic scaling

So for lack of anything better to do, I played around with getting swscale (a component of ffmpeg) to attempt performing high quality software upscaling. By default we perform bilinear...

April 2, 2008

Roadmap improved

We’ve restructured the milestones on our Trac site to correspond to specific versions and better illustrate the bugs and features that will make it into these versions. A few things...

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