XBMC Media Center 12.1

Among many media center software solutions on the market, XBMC managed to distinguish itself as most popular and easy to use. This was achieved with great dedication from thousand developers around the world who worked on this ambitious open source project.

Originally created as a media center application for the original Xbox game console, XBMC quickly grow into a fully featured software package that rivals Windows Media Center which came packaged in every Windows installation. XMBC features easy to use interface, full support for various streaming services, ability to play almost every audio and video codec known to man, and it can even look inside your ZIP and RAR archives for multimedia content.

With XBMC you can easily create playlists of your favorite multimedia, scan entire hard drive in search of audio/video files, playback multimedia from CDs and DVDs, and have quick access to weather forecasts and audio visualizations. With XBMC, your PC will become true center of your household’s multimedia consumption.

Features for XBMC 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

Title: XBMC Media Center 12.1
Filename: xbmc-12.1.exe
File size: 49.36MB (51,761,088 bytes)
Requirements: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Languages: Multiple languages
License: Open Source
Date added: March 19, 2013
Author: XBMC
xbmc.org

Change Log:

# Fixes:
* XBMC now supports using OSX’s default output device for audio as well as hardware decoding with Intel GPUs in OSX
* XBMC no longer hogs audio for Linux and on resume audio will continue to work in Linux
* Full iPhone 5 resolution is now enabled
* Volume buttons on Android devices now control Android volume, rather than XBMC volume
* Volume buttons on OSX devices once again control OSX volume, rather than XBMC volume
* Player optimization on the Raspberry Pi, including more efficient playback, better subtitle support, and many crash fixes
* iOS 6 support on the AppleTV 2.
* XBMC does not crash when listed on the AppleTV top shelf
* Added support for additional Xbox 360 controller types
* Broader and more intelligent support for CEC devices
* Fixed problems with several addons due to broken binary read/write in our python interface
* Language fixes, including 7 new languages: Albanian, Burmese, Malay, Persian (Iran), Tamil (India), Uzbek, Vietnamese
* AirPlay fixes, including making discovery of XBMC more reliable on OSX
* Numerous crashing and stability fixes across all platforms