OpenELEC 3.0.0 is here!

It’s been a bit of a month for media player news – we just featured the arrival of Plex for the Pi last week, and we were really pleased to see a new book by Sam Nazarko on setting up Raspbmc on your Pi has just been put out by Pakt Publishing. Today, there’s more good news for OpenELEC fans. We’re really grateful to the OpenELEC team, who have worked themselves to the bone on getting things running on the Pi; they were the first XBMC distro to be demonstrated on development Pi hardware back in February last year, were the first ever HardFP distribution (that appeared in March 2012). Stephan Raue says: OpenELEC 3.0 is built to support XBMC Frodo 12.1 and almost every part of the core OS has been updated and improved since the 2.0 release. The project now supports a broader range of mediacentre hardware than ever before, including dedicated OS images for the budget friendly Arctic MC001 and ultra-low-cost Raspberry Pi systems.   Raspberry Pi deserves a special mention as it's been a labour of love for the OpenELEC team. OpenELEC's leading position was made possible by our close working relationship with the XBMC team and many other upstream projects. From the OpenELEC website: What is OpenELEC? Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center, or OpenELEC (http://www.openelec.tv) for short, is a small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a complete XBMC media center (http://www.xbmc.org). OpenELEC is designed to make your system boot as fast as possible and the install is so easy that anyone can turn a blank PC into a media machine in less than 15 minutes. It’s completely free A full install is only 80-125MB Minimal hardware requirements Simple install to HDD, SSD, Compact Flash, SD card, pen drive or other Optimized builds for Atom, ION, Intel, Fusion, RaspberryPi and more Simple configuration through the XBMC interface Plug and Play external storage File sharing out of the box OpenELEC 3.0 highlights and changes XBMC-12.1 (Frodo) – features include: DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD via XBMC's new AudioEngine (not on AMD and RPi) Greatly improved Live TV and PVR support Improved image support, allowing the database to use additional image types. Support for the Raspberry Pi Better Airplay support across all platforms Advanced Filtering in the library Advanced UPnP sharing For more on AudioEngine support, PVR support and more, visit the OpenELEC site. Huge thanks to all the developers who have put so much work into the OpenELEC on the Pi; we’re very grateful!

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