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OpenELEC is an embedded Linux version of XBMC, it designed to be a self contained XBMC system with versions for platforms like PC, Apple TV and Raspberry Pi.

OpenELEC 3.0 Beta 1 has just been released, it’s based on XBMC 12.0 Frodo  which has lots of new features like HD audio, live TV and advanced UPnP sharing. OpenELEC 3 also has official support for the Raspberry Pi, Linux kernel 3.6, improved PVR and many bug fixes.I have become a big fan of XBMC especially on the Raspberry Pi, you can get the download and read all the details on OpenElec.tv

OpenELEC 3.0 highlights and changes:

  • XBMC-12.0 (Frodo)
  • Thanks to an incredibly successful GSoC experience and numerous dedicated developers who have been working on many projects for years, XBMC 12 figures to be one of the most anticipated feature updates in a long time. Features include…
    • HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (DTS-HD / True-HD not support on AMD GPUs)
    • improved Live TV and PVR support
    • Improved image support, allowing the database to accomodate numerous additional image types
    • Support for the Raspberry PI
    • Improved Airplay support across all platforms
    • Advanced Filtering in the library
    • Advanced UPnP sharing
  • XBMC Frodo has improved sound card detection and “Audio Engine support”. This may change the naming of audio devices available on your system and the Audio configuration handling. If audio stops working after the update please adjust audio configuration in XBMC settings to use the updated device names and remove any previously installed/configured /storage/.config/asound.conf
  • improved PVR Support
    Based on XBMC 12.0 included PVR support we support many more DVB hardware, and have 4TheRecord, DVB Viewer, Mediaportal, MythTV, NextPVR, TVHeadend, VDR, Njoy N7 and VU+ support in the OS.
    • Improved AMD XVBA support
      Thanks to the efforts of FernetMenta, Fritsch, Newphreak and many users who have been testing and providing feedback our native XVBA support was improved again.
      Xvba now uses a better heuristics to detect wrongly encoded H264 files. The AMD decoder heavily relies that the correct level is set. With these changes, it is now possible to playback those files without artefacts.
      Another change was the handling of 2K and 4K video files. In the past, they broke the decoder and forced the user to reboot. We now correctly handle 2K resolution files and don’t try to create the hw decoder for larger resolutions that are not supported by the XVBA SDK.

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