XBMC is a free and open-source entertaining multimedia software works on major platforms and gaming consoles such as Xbox and on PS3 compiled through Ubuntu. XBMC 11.0 with code name “Eden” Beta released few weeks ago. Check what’s new in XBMC 11.0 Beta and installation instructions on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot using PPA.

This release brings many improvements to the user interface with the new enhancements to Confluence theme by Jezz_x. The navigation bar for the home screen is titled horizontally and it gives more space to show recently added or played movies on the home screen, also addons links can be accessed through the home screen.

XBMC 11.10 Eden improves the ARM processor architecture support, and AMD devices are supported for GPU video decoding in Linux platform. Brings better support for video acceleration for Apple devices. All addons able to provide their own web interface. Efficiency improvements to reduce the CPU and GPU usage. Added support for MP4 embedded subtitles. Upgrade  FFmpeg (libavformat and libavcodec) audio/video codec and demux library. Download the changelog file for further information.

XBMC playing a movie in the background.

Download XBMC 11.0 Eden

Download link includes the source code for XBMC 11.0 Beta and the stable release XBMC 10.1 “Dharma”.

Install XBMC 11.0 Beta Eden On Ubuntu using PPA

For Ubuntu users you can install the beta release of XBMC 11.0 using the unstable repository by XBMC team.

Run Terminal “Ctrl+Alt+t”, then type

source “XBMC 11.0 Beta announcement”