After a year of hard work, improvements and testing since the release of version 12.0, today we have the Beta release of the upcoming XBMC 13.0, codenamed “Gotham”.

Download Android-ARM version from here.
Download Android-x86 version from here.

XBMC 13.0 Gotham Beta1 features
  • Android Hardware Decoding
  • Raspberry Pi  and Android speed improvements
  • Stereoscopic 3D Rendering
  • Improved Touchscreen Support
  • Improved UPnP capabilities
  • Dramatic Audio Engine Improvements
  • Settings Improvements
  • Making Subtitle Search Better
  • An Extended Python and JSON-RPC API for developers 
  • Update to FFMPEG v1.2 which we use for audio/video playback
  • Stereo audio can now be upmixed to 5.1 and sent through optical/SPDIF devices
  • Various visual changes throughout the skin which should improve usability and logic.
  • Improve the handling of subtitle downloading and selection
  • Extend and improve the User-interface Engine which developers use to create a variety of skins to be used.


More details in the original article.

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