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XBMC.2005.0612-EXPERT

GENERAL iNFORMATiON

TYPE ( APPLiCATiON
PLATFORM ( XBOX
SiZE ( 15MB x 6
COMPRESSiON ( RAR
FiLE CHECK ( SFV
RLS DATE ( 06/12/o5
FiTS ON { XBOX HDD
HOMEPAGE { Http://www.xboxmediacenter.de
Http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc

RELEASE NOTES

Only use the skin s included with this release!
Other or old skins may ,or more likly will, not work.

NOTE:

We once again ship our release with 2, two, mplayer.dll s
Mad props to the XBMC team for their work and updates to
the mplayer source. Can be found in system/players/mplayer and
named mplayer.new So whats the big diff with the two dll s?
Best explaination we have found is in the compile guides for
mplayer

"Using the --disable-avformat tag disables as it says libavformat
it means that the dll now relies on only demuxers present in
mplayer directly. I don't know exactly what demuxers might not
exist there, but there might be some. The use of that tag will
lower mem usage with about .8mb, so it could be a lifesaver for
those of you who are running HD rezes, but as i said it limits
some of the dll's functionallity when it comes to obscure
formats."

--> Make sure you always read our nfo since it will contain
important information like not using all the +3600 presets
for milk since this will make it lag like a bitch.

SO MAKE SURE YOU READ IT EVERYTIME ;-)
(you don't have to read the changelog if your lazy tho..)

The skins included are latest versions of Project Mayhem 3
and The Orbs Reloaded!, Antiguo, HiFi, NMS PM3, PM3 CE 2
Scripts are ready for use, Just edit the DialogSubMenu.xml in
your XBMC/skin/Project Mayhem III\Pal and/or PAL16x9 folder to
your likings. PMIII CE 2 should be fully setup for you ;)
Visit http://xbmcscripts.com for more and maybe new versions.
Paplayer is used for mp3 s now so if you want to
go back to using mplayer , no reason todo so realy, then just
delete the in_mp3.dll in your system\players\paplayer folder.

A new skin for the web interface is also included!!!!!

Also a separate folder included with +3600 presets
for the milkdrop plugin. Put in XBMC\visualisations\milkdrop

NOTE: DONT USE ALL PRESEST AS MILKDROP WILL LAG LIKE A BITCH!!!

Else I would like to grant a big thanks to the guys and girls
in #XBMC (EFnet) for lovley support and for all the devlopers
behind XBMC for doing such a lovley work fixing and adding new
stuff!

Fixed/added/changed's from our last release

12-06-2005 added: readstring method to zip file class.

12-06-2005 fixed: seeking after selecting time using seekbar was
very slow

12-06-2005 changed: HttpApi: re-enabled database lookup

11-06-2005 updated: mplayer.dll - about 1 meg smaller than old
(saves mem). has been compiled with gcc.3.4.4 and has
some unneeded filters removed

11-06-2005 fixed: HttpApi internal logic bug

10-06-2005 added: Master Code Control: XBMC Startup Lock!
[GeminiServer]
XBMC Startup Lock will use the Master Lock Settings
and if Startup Lock is enabled: On XBMC Startup, the
XBMC Startup Lock will ask you the predefined Master
Code in addition with the Max Retry. If you enter the
correct MasterCode, XBMC will start as used. But if
you enterthe Wrong Master Code in addition with the
Max Retry: Then XBMC switches off! if you restart
XBMC it will ask the Master Code again!

10-06-2005 added: Master Code control within the GUI!
[GeminiServer]
This will  make it easy to set the Master Code
handling, instead of XboxMediaCenter.xml editing to
set the <masterlock> settings. It will set the Master
Code, Retry, Enable Shutdown,Protect Shares,
Master Mode, automatic, with MasterCode detection
and also the conditions to use it! Master Lock will
use the Max Retry condition, to prevent the infinite
tries on the Settings Screen! It will ask you the
Master code on: Entering a New Master Code,
Disabling Master Mode and also it will ask on hit
Applying Changes! The Master Code Remember is not used
here, to prevent not intended changes

10-06-2005 added: more extensive RSS comments &
changed the id method in
xboxmediacenter.xml

10-06-2005 changed: rss sets use an id attribute
rather than separate tag + updated skin.

10-06-2005 fixed: GUIThumbnailPanel graphical glitches
(focused item while scrolling + page
number glitchon last page).

10-06-2005 fixed: List/Thumb controls spin control
didn't use relative coordinates correctly.

10-06-2005 changed: rss sets must be tagged with a
<id>#</id> now.

10-06-2005 fixed: [ 1218199 ] Fix for Bug 1216728
(hardware panel on systeminfo) thanks
to Mr_Muh.

10-06-2005 changed: IMDb lookups (and Scanning) now
threaded.now easily cancellable.

10-06-2005 fixed: Crossfade - initial volume of new
track could spike to max volume.

10-06-2005 removed: unneded function call to
mplayer.dll

08-06-2005 fixed: OutputToAllSpeakers didn't work with
when AC3 Output was enabled on 2ch AC3
files

06-06-2005 changed: VSync now always on.

06-06-2005 added: dll_fprintf() initial code for
writing text files from dll's.

06-06-2005 changed: Updated OpenForWrite() to open
with overwrite if requested.

06-06-2005 fixed: FileZip Read() missed last chunk
if read chunksize was small.

06-06-2005 updated: Hungarian language file
(Thnx to tcsizmadia)

06-06-2005 fixed: mplayer may crash when playback ends
(updated again)

06-06-2005 fixed: item is highlighted as playing when
the start of a song fails

06-06-2005 fixed: .cue sheets would loop indefinitely
on the last two tracks.

06-06-2005 fixed: Source of the below crash
(urlset outof range in rsscontrol), +
updated PM3 to suit the new system.

06-06-2005 fixed: added missing !--> to the rss
comments in Xboxmediacenter.xml
(fixes serious crash)

06-06-2005 fixed: some legal fat-x chars were not in
the list - thanks to yoci!

06-06-2005 changed: moved rss specifications to
xboxmediacenter.xml and added url sets.

06-06-2005 changed: removed libmp4 linkage.
reduces xbe with ~ 110kb

06-06-2005 added: sf.net patch [1215111] Fast AAC/MP4
tag retrieval - thanks to arnie pie!

05-06-2005 changed: Cleaned up use of CUtil::cmpnocase
replacing with strcmpi throughout.

05-06-2005 added: Combined spectrums into a single
.vis with presets, changeable on the fly.

05-06-2005 fixed: dvdplayer would fail to play from
scrambled disc untill mplayer had once
played it

05-06-2005 fixed: XBMC would sometimes lockup during
FF/RW when using Hardware Overlays

05-06-2005 added: Write to log when memory allocation
failes in a dll

05-06-2005 fixed: memory overrun when reading EEPROM
(not as bad as it sounds).
HalReadSMBusValue() allways touched
4bytes on each call.

05-06-2005 added: Faster path lookups in CFileItemList
(for DirectoryCache mainly) thanks
to desertbear.

05-05-2005 fixed: minor crash fix when switching
between gui and fullscreen

05-06-2005 fixed: PAPlayer correctly handles track
changes where the number of channels
changes + handles 6 channel tracks
correctly.

04-06-2005 added: sf.net patch [1209466] Multiple
RSS feeds concatenated - thanks
to desertbear!

04-06-2005 fixed: long rss feeds could crash xbmc
when using ttf fonts.

04-06-2005 added: All Winamp milkdrops
"Winamp-presets(436).zip",
no shortened filenames.
zip 'normal' compression used.

04-06-2005 changed: Ogg codec now uses the
FileReader.
04-06-2005 changed: Updated MPCCodec.dll so that
MPC files use the FileReader.

04-06-2005 updated: [ 1212669 ] Newest
BiosIDs.ini (Thnx to bubbadood)

04-06-2005 changed: added zipped G-Force
presetfiles.

04-06-2005 updated: Dutch language file
(Thnx to tijmengozer)

04-06-2005 updated: German language file

04-06-2005 updated: German (Austrian)
language file (Thnx to CEOMR)

04-06-2005 updated: Finnish language file
(Thnx to jutski)

04-06-2005 updated: Norwegian language file
(Thnx to vnm)

04-06-2005 added: HttpApi Slideshow commands
04-06-2005 fixed: File manager, context menu
option "select all" does not
select all items

04-06-2005 changed: unified dll load/unload in
paplayer codecs by using the section
loader

03-06-2005 added: G-Force - Ability to select a
folder or a zip file for presets from
the xml config.

03-06-2005 fixed: stupidity in zip code. big
preset zips should be handled more
graciously.

03-06-2005 fixed: [ 1214263 ] Duplicate Program
Icons

03-06-2005 updated: Swedish strings.xml

03-06-2005 changed: Milkdrop.zip added and the
xml s removed. LICENSE.TXT can now be
found in the
docs\visualisations\Milkdrop Source.rar

03-06-2005 fixed: PAPlayer small pause while
caching next track.

02-06-2005 fixed: system info storage percentages
now adds up to 100 as they should.

02-06-2005 fixed: Fat-X limit workaround didn't
apply to renaming.

02-06-2005 added: Milkdrop - Ability to select
a folder or a zip file containing
presets from the xml config file.

02-06-2005 fixed: Milkdrop - Problems with certain
presets not loading in correctly.

02-06-2005 added: zip support. this means, any media
can be viewed straight from .zip.playback
of big .avi's not recommended, although
supported. currently .ogg playback is
broken.

02-06-2005 changed: hopefully way better error
handling around mplayer. it shouldn't
crash entire xbmc on a crash.

02-06-2005 fixed: dvdplayer would crash if
TTFSubtitle fonts where selected

02-06-2005 changed/fixed: Moved videobuffer handling
from inside libmpeg2 to xbmc, fixes

Enjoy!

iNSTALL NOTES

Save your old xboxmediacenter.xml
(if nothing else is stated in our RELEASE NOTES!!)

Delete old install if you upgrade from an old release
(1+month or majour upgrade) and delete the e:\tdata\0face008
folder. <ie XBMC....savegame) Upload to XBox and enjoy!

If XBMC wont load read the xbmc_old.log from c:\ and/or
the dir you installed XBMC to for some info on what makes
it not load. Use the default skin(Project Mayhem III) for
"debugging" as it has come to our attention that
other skins may crash XBMC.
AQTBrowser, simpelKML and Gamespot scripts
among others are included with this release.
Start from Rootscreens popup meny.
Enjoy!

GROUP iNFO

Hi again people! We have been gone for a while due
to different reasons, but now are are back to show
how a XBMC release should look like. We where the
first todo the proper XBMC scene releases and many
have tried todo the same, but have gotten tired and gone
away. We WILL deliver the goods, in their right form where
so many have failed. And please spare us IND propers/fixes
for a missing script etc as how to edit the scriptmenu
is included with the nfo.

Just a big thank you to all the groups that bring us
QUALITY releases and who dedicate a big part of their
time to bring forth the good stuff.

Also a big thank you to all in the homebrew scene,
without you  the XBOX wouldn`t be what it is!!!

Keep up the great work!

We are also looking for 100MBiT AFFiLS outside .SE or
apply if you think you got something we would want! :)

MAiL..: n0 sir
iRC..: n0 mam

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