Install XBMC 13.0 Gotham in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/14/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives
XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.
Changelog of XBMC 13.0 "Gotham":
Note: If you are using previous version of XBMC then you must uninstall that version otherwise it will break XBMC.
To install XBMC 13.0 Gotham in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.
Changelog of XBMC 13.0 "Gotham":
- Added much improved PVR / EPG and Live TV interface in XBMC's GUI skinning engine (already in use in Confluence)
- Added improved PVR / DVR timeshift support to pause Live TV (note that each PVR backend still need to support timeshifting)
- Added much improved PVR / EPG extensions and notifications support over the JSON-RPC API
- Improved PVR front-end with Live TV and EPG specific windows, plus PVR stuff in OSD and GUI settings in Confluence skin
- Added VA-API (libva) support for decoding videos with larger resolutions than 1080p (such as 4K resolution)
- Improved ARM processor architecture
- Improved OpenGL ES and EGL support
- Improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) support (requires VAAPI compatible hardware and drivers)
- Improved VDPAU (NVIDIA) Hardware Video Acceleration and its upscaling/deinterlacing capabilities
- Improved OpenMAX Video Acceleration API support for Linux (using Raspberry Pi as reference hardware)
- Added hot-plug support for Linux input devices, such as Bluetooth remotes and keyboards
- Improved AMD/Intel x86-64 64-bit (AMD64 / IA-64t CPU architectures) support under Linux
- Removed dependencies of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for windowing and event handling on X11
- Added support for customizable menu structure for home and beyond
- Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) to XBMC's GUI skinning engine
- Added Stereoscopic 3D rendering support (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, and Anaglyph) for Subtitles when in 3D mode
- Added a simple Movie Set management to GUI for Edit/Clear Set and Add/Remove Set members
- Added support for H.264 (including Hi10P) multi-threaded video decoding when software decoder on CPU is used
- Added support for Forced Subtitles ("forced flag") in external subtitle files
- Added new cross-platform event driven active state machine pattern ActiveAE sink as the default for XBMC's AudioEngine
- Added ALSA sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop and generic Linux based Embedded Systems
- Added PulseAudio sink for ActiveAE for Linux Desktop
- Added OSS (Open Sound System) sink for ActiveAE for BSD, like FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and similar Unix based systems
- Added CPU / GPU frequency and temperature for all supported Linux platforms
- Upgraded SAMBA client to version 3.6.x adding full support for SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols
- Added a generic and user-mappable cross-platform touch input system
- Upgraded DVD-Video navigation and playback libraries (libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss)
- Added support and GUI settings for SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy types and remote DNS
- Added support for "Play to" and controlling remote XBMC / DLNA instance over UPnP
Note: If you are using previous version of XBMC then you must uninstall that version otherwise it will break XBMC.
To install XBMC 13.0 Gotham in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
