XBMC Frodo (12.0) is officially released by umOuch on January 31, 2013
If you are one of our faithful fans who have (11.0) installed on your jailbroken , , or any other device for that matter, we have some exciting news for you: the development team over at has been hard at work, this past month, preparing to release the latest iteration of their multimedia center software known only as (12.0). This update comes complete with a great deal of improvements, bug fixes, and extended hardware support. The real question is what will this mean for us Apple TV junkies. Well, this new build offers: HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new (OSX/iOS not yet available) Live TV and h.264 10bit (aka ) 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 Initial support for the Improved support across all platforms, including AirPlay audio in XBMC for Windowsto match the other platforms in Windows and Linux in the library to complement movie sets sharing Default video languages now match the language being used by XBMC Translations now For you Apple TV fans, one of the biggest adjustments is the extended support for H.D. audio. This latest builds helps enable you to make the most of the audio capabilities that the Apple TV has to offer. Aside from these listed improvements, you will see many changes under the hood. Some of these are great to see, others are a bit frustrating. One of the more exciting features, to me, is the inclusion of something known as skin.widgets. This tool makes skinning a much better experience. If you want to get a real idea of what this means for skins in Frodo, look no further than by a developer named fastcolors. This skin is designed with you in mind. Read also: In contrast, one of the frustrating items is the fact that we lose the use of playback in this latest build. They explained this on their blog, atxbmc.org, as something that was unavoidable do to the changes in the coding, but it is missed none the less. It is also worth noting that there are quite a few add-ons/skins that are not currently supported in Frodo. Usually, this is not a problem as developers can easily make changes to get their add-ons/skins working in the latest XBMC build. Sadly, there are quite a few devs, of some well known add-ons/skins, that are no longer actively keeping their items up to date. This means that we may lose some of our favorite add-ons/skins in the upgrade. Time will tell. All in all. It is worth the update. As a rule, we should always upgrade as it only improves the overall experience. If an add-on, or skin, is missed enough, someone will get it working again! Tagged as: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,