Download OpenELEC 2.0 Release Candidate 1

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center is based on XBMC and aims to turn a computer into a full-fledged HTPC. OpenELEC is easy to install, maintain and use, as well as being small and lightning fast. In addition to the standard download, special versions are available for AMD’s Fusion, Nvidia’s ION, Apple TV, and the Xtreamer Ultra TV. The developers have released the first release candidate of OpenELEC 2.0 after seven beta releases, with the following announcement:

OpenELEC 2.0 Release Candidate 1 released

The OpenELEC team is proud to release the first release candidate of OpenELEC 2.0! Internally this is known by the less-catchy name OpenELEC 1.99.1 🙂 and we really hope its one of the latest prereleases before our OpenELEC 2.0 final.

After the XBMC Devcon in Vienna 5 weeks ago the PVR sub-projects have now been formally accepted into the XBMC master branch. Because of this and to save us a lot of additional work we have decided to drop the non PVR builds completly starting with this release candidate. Going forward all OpenELEC images will be PVR ready – the PVR functions can simply be enabled (or disabled) in XBMC settings.

An unofficial blog of the Vienna discussions can be read here: http://xbmc.us

To learn more about XBMC’s PVR capabilities please read here: http://xbmc.org/pvr

After the release of OpenELEC Beta 7 we received new bug reports. Most of them should be fixed now. There are 215 changes by 11 authors and 100 closed issues since Beta 7 (1.95.7). The most important changes are:

• update to linux-3.2.30
• update to connman-1.7
• update to systemd-194
• update broken music/music video scrapers
• update to xorg-server-1.12.4
• update to xf86-video-intel-2.20.9
• update to libaacs-0.5.0
• update to libbluray-0.2.3
• downgrade to xf86-video-fglrx-12.6
• update to libcec-1.9.0
• update to kmod-10
• update to libvdpau-0.5
• update to util-linux-2.22
• update to alsa-lib-1.0.26
• update to ffmpeg-0.10.5
• update to gcc-4.7.2
• add backports for VDPAU and XVBA

We would like to thank our users, team members and partners for testing, reporting and fixing issues, creating how-to documents, developing new features, and their donations of hardware and funds to the project. We appreciate your continued support!