XBMC Releases Version 9.11

On December 24th, XBMC Version 9.11 was released. It includes a variety of GUI improvements, and playback improvements, including support for RTMP video streams, which is the system that Flash Video players use.

Like Boxee, which is based on it, it doesn’t compile easily under Fedora(our primary operating system), easily, but has wonderful support under Fedora.

The most wonderful aspect of XBMC, which carried into Boxee are the plugins. A loyal community of scripters write plugins to pull in video and audio content from a variety of sites. The difference between XBMC and Boxee is that Boxee often gets cooperation from the content providers for their plugins…in fact, this is part of their goals.

So, give it a shot.