XBOX-HQ.COM - XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) 2004-11-15 CVS build

' A new CVS compile of XboxMediaCenter has been released with all the new XLink Kai and SPEEX features and including Project Mayhem I and II (11-13 version) skins '

What's new/fixed (since 10-29 CVS build):
- added: Kai default games directory set to f:games
- added: Kai Toast - pop up notifications for XLink Kai function
- added: Kai Auto Play - automatically launch games off the harddrive
- added: Kai Network Settings - configure games directory and notifications.

- added: Kai Netowrk Dialogs - help for n00bs
- added: RealMedia RTSP/RDT support
- added: Implementation of 2 channel PCM passthrough
- added: GUI setting for 2 channel PCM passthrough
- added: Ability to define a built-in function in place of an action in keymap.xml eg. you can have XBMC.ActivateWindow(501) to go to My Music screen or you can do XBMC.RunScript(my script.py) etc. etc.
- added: tag with the real label etc. for the block in XBoxMediaCenter.xml
- added: new control buttonscroller for homepage buttons.
- added: group added to XBoxMediaCenter.xml for user configurable buttons.
- added: XBMC.ActivateWindow() built-in command.
- added: new command "XBMC.RestartApp" for skinners to restart only the application
- added: xbmc will now check for necessary files when executing a python script
- added: OSD selection of STEREO/LEFT/RIGHT for 2 channel audio.
- added: GUI code for monkeyh1
- added: Context menu to My Pictures
- added: Random slideshow ability
- added: Recursive thumb generation
- added: Folder thumbs for picture folders
- added: my music songs, Shoutcast Top 500 streams share
- added: [ 1051008 ] CD-TEXT support (doesn't work on all drives!!!) (Thnx to mog)
- added: tag to give skinners the ability to enable/disable the overlay windows via xml file
- added: SF patch #1056254 New simple-stacking mode for video
- added: Possibility for skinners to define their own windows (custom*.xml where * is a number)
- added: SF patch #1056175 FTP server uses /E/ now instead of /E:/
- added: Support for the context menu for editting bookmarks in My Videos, My Pictures, My Music
- added: [ 990760 ] My Programs now displays shares in panel (same as other sections)
- fixed: Crash in dialogs if some dialog skin files weren't present.
- fixed: Less intrusive warning on Kai disconnection and better reconnection facilities.
- fixed: Reconnection to Kai engine after disconnection.
- fixed: , , didn't work for listcontrolex
- fixed: My Pictures shows folder thumb for parent folder items
- fixed: Lockup adding artist folders to playlist (sf bug #1062846)
- fixed: Alpha level errors that occured with some button types (radio button etc.)
- fixed: prevent switching to vis during slideshow (stops slideshow)
- fixed: minor bugs like delay calculation in audio output device
- fixed: multi byte language cue file not open correctly over SMB share
- fixed: shutdown button
- fixed: subtitle size of 4:3 videos displayed on widescreen
- fixed: my music songs, record button was not enabled/disabled immediately after starting/stopping a shoutcast stream
- fixed ttf font .srt subtitle lockup issue
- fixed: default resolution tags in skin.xml are now case-insensitive
- fixed: CUtil::Lower not work correctly in multi byte language
- fixed: 3/5 channel non-passthrough audio lockup
- fixed: smb multibyte language not display correctly in some places
- fixed: Remote INFO button wasn't working for show file info
- fixed: After showing video/album info item is selected
- fixed: album info is not displayed in songs
- fixed: Bug in new video code (hopefully!)
- fixed: Thumbs aspect ratio in list controls
- updated: German (Austrian), German, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, French, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Polish language file (Thnx to CEOMR, wellingtontu, bompy, modhack2, kotix, joepmeloenx, okets, napek)
- Updated finnish strings.xml (thanks nanite1k)
- changed: Use msdash audio settings for analog audio (Stereo Dolby Surround) instead of forcing Dolby Surround
- changed: xbmc will now only restart xbmc instead of the xbox when soft restart is requested
- changed: Some strings from cd+g support changed for better translation
- changed: CD+G support updated (Thnx to stcogolin)
- changed: default IP addresses if none are set.
- changed: progress control now can have an overlay texture
- changed: Rearranged a lot of the My Videos code into a base class
- moved: Random slideshow button to My Pictures (from settings)

Official Site: http://www.xboxmediacenter.com / http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc
XLink Kai Tutorial: here
Download SourceCode: here
News-Source: http://xbins.org