XBMC 10.0 Officially Released

Just as expected, XBMC 10.0 "Dharma" has been officially released. New features of XBMC 10 include a unified add-on framework and a lot of features related to this work for providing new functionality, initial gesture support for the XBMC GUI Engine, improved mouse support, Broadcom Crystal HD decoding support, native support for unencrypted Blu-ray playback, support for Google WebM, and so much more.

As said in last weekends news post about XBMC 10.0 being imminent: Other XBMC 10.0 features include initial support for OpenGL ES 2.0 to allow the Linux renderer to support embedded devices, SSH file transfer protocol support, a number of new movie/video scrapers have been introduced, an improved video scanner engine, an improved meta-data scraper engine, upgrades against FFmpeg, and much more.

Some of the Linux video fun exciting us in this release is VA-API video acceleration support, OpenMAX video acceleration support, and NEON video acceleration support. While VA-API and VDPAU are the most talked about video acceleration APIs at Phoronix, the OpenMAX video API is used by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 embedded devices and other OpenMAX IL hardware. The NEON video acceleration API targets OMAP3 / ARM NEON hardware. There's also improved VDPAU support with up-scaling and de-interlacing capabilities. Last but not least, there's also improved Linux 64-bit support.

There's also plans already being drafted for XBMC 11.0 on a tighter release cycle. The XBMC 10.0 release announcement can be read at XBMC.org. There's also the 10.0 change-log file.