Released: Xbox Media Center (XBMC) Xbins CVS 2004-02-12

Xbox Media Center (XBMC) Xbins CVS 2004-02-12

>> A new Xbins CVS Compile of XboxMediaCenter has been released.
What's new/fixed:

* added: 8 updated skins are included in this build: Project Mayhem, HiFi, Retro, BlackBlue, lixxbox, MediaCenter (default), Media Center (alternative), FlatStyle
* added: DHCP support in dash mode (see xboxmediacenter.xml)
* added: XBMC now logs to xbmc.log when starting up. Helps finding those installation problems...
* added: my music: ff/rw for audio files
* added: my pictures: large icons view
* added: my videos: ability to set bookmarks in OSD
* added: my videos: imdb thumbnails are now stored in thumbs\imdb by using IMDB numbers
* added: my videos: large icons view
* added: my videos: manual IMDB lookup button, lets you enter a movie name with the on-screen keyboard
* added: my videos: nocache option in OSD for badly interleaved files
* added: my videos: option to specify an external dvd player (see xboxmediacenter.xml)
* added: my videos: replay tv patch from sourceforge (untested)
* added: my videos: separate section in keymap.xml for controlling the OSD
* added: my videos: support for OpenDML avi files
* added: my videos: support for video streaming (ogm,avi,mpg) via .pls files
* added: my videos: view by title (when using video database)
* added: my videos: viewing IMDB info of movies in your database now lets you set a DVD number
* added: my weather (configure your area code in xboxmediacenter.xml) (thx to mynci)
* added: settings: ac3 passthrough split into 2 seperate options. One for stereo AC3 and one for multichannel AC3
* fixed: mono audio playback was broken
* fixed: my videos: ac3 passthru fixes (some users experienced choppy playback)
* fixed: my videos: fast-forward / rewind improvements
* fixed: my videos: movies without audio played too fast
* fixed: my videos: short movie names disappeared when using filestacking
* fixed: my videos: yet more sync fixes
* fixed: smb leaving open sessions
* updated: my music: further scan speedup
* updated: my videos: default setting for postprocessing is off (results in better quality with current mplayer code)
* updated: my videos: mplayer.dll to XVID codec 1.0 RC2 Jambo
* updated: smb name resolving and share browsing speeded up