Download XBMC Media Center 13.1 Beta 1

A week and a half after the release of version 13 of XBMC Media Center, the first beta release of the successor has been released. This cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV and the Raspberry Pi. Version 13.0, which has been codenamed Gotham, contains a large number of changes. For example, there are hardware decoding in Android and support for 3D material, and significant improvements have been made to the audio engine. Support for Windows XP has been dropped. Version 13.1 is a so-called bugfix release and modest collection of bug fixes.

XBMC 13.1 beta1 Gotham

Only a week ago we released the stable version of 13.0 codename “Gotham”. So far, from the responses we have received, people are pretty excited about it and are happily using it. Now that more people are starting to use the stable release, several issues popped up, that we now hope to address with this 13.1 beta1 release. Do note that this release contains only fixes and no new features. So it should be safe to install on top of current 13.0 release.

Fixes

• Better recovery of VDPAU on errors.
• Fixes for cropping of interlaced content using VDPAU.
• Fix for FLAC tracks with large embedded images not playing.
• Fix for crash if librtmp wasn’t available.
• Fix for ffmpeg building on linux using later versions of librtmp.
• Fix for broken m4a, mp4 playback with papplayer.
• Fix for the hint text not being shown in editcontrols once unfocused.
• Fix minor memory leak in PlayMedia builtin function.
• Fix album artist use in song smart playlists.
• Use unique client broadcast UID in the PVR api.