{"id":3268,"date":"2014-05-05T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2014-05-05T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:43:14","slug":"media-center-xbmc-13-install-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/media-center-xbmc-13-install-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Center XBMC 13 Gotham Released, Install it in Ubuntu via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"xbmc<\/a><\/p>\n

XBMC 13.0 Gotham edition was finally released a few hours ago. This tutorial will show you how to upgrade or install this free and open-source media center in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.<\/p>\n

\"install<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the announcements, XBMC 13 brings:<\/p>\n

  • Android hardware decoding<\/li>\n
  • Raspberry Pi and Android speed improvements<\/li>\n
  • Stereoscopic 3D rendering<\/li>\n
  • Improved UPnP capabilities<\/li>\n
  • Dramatic audio engine improvements<\/li>\n
  • making subtitle search better<\/li>\n
  • An extended Python and JSON-RPC API for developers<\/li>\n
  • Update to FFMPEG v1.2 used for audio\/video playback<\/li>\n
  • Stereo audio can now be up-mixed to 5.1 and sent through optical\/SPDIF devices<\/li>\n
  • Various visual changes throughout the skin which should improve usability and logic.<\/li>\n
  • Improve the handling of subtitle downloading and selection<\/li>\n
  • Extend and improve the User-interface Engine which developers use to create a variety of skins to be used.<\/li>\n
  • Drop of support for Windows XP.<\/li>\n
  • When initiating a library cleaning, XBMC will send a wake-on-lan request to any sleeping servers first, before cleaning the library, to ensure that content isn’t unnecessarily cleaned<\/li>\n
  • Numerous PVR fixes and updates with additional new features updated on a per-platform basis.<\/li>\n
  • Copy\/paste support on Windows, OSX, and iOS to match copy\/paste support elsewhere<\/li>\n
  • Movie sets are now user editable<\/li>\n
  • Episodic bookmarks<\/li>\n
  • More details, go to official release page<\/a><\/li>\n

     
    \nInstall \/ Upgrade to XBMC 13 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n

    IMPORTANT NOTICE<\/b>: 1. Backup your your current userdata folder before upgrading; 2. Due to changes related to the add-on system and skin improvement, certain plugins, scripts and skins may become incompatible when upgrading from Frodo to Gotham. <\/p>\n

    Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run the commands below one by one will added XBMC PPA and install\/upgrade to XBMC 13.0:<\/p>\n

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc\/ppa\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install xbmc<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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