XBMC Media Center rpm for Mandriva Linux 2010.0

The Linux version of XBMC also supports hardware decoding of video files or streams using VDPAU and a recent Nvidia GPU (8 or 9 series, the brand new 2xx series and Nvidia ION based systems).
XBMC is capable of playing back a wast array of audio and video formats, display photos (also in slideshow mode) and show the weather forcast for many parts of the world.

Click here to download:
xbmc-9.11-2.0plf2010.0.i586.rpm
(file size: 34 Mbytes, file md5sum: 1b8722233acda0898183def27a231422)

Install instructions:
1) Please make sure that in addition to the official Mandriva repositories, you also have the PLF repositories added as installation sources, as the XBMC package is dependent on a couple of packages from the PLF repositories, too.
Also if you had installed already a previous svn version of the XBMC package, remove it first by running the following command, as root user in a terminal:
rpm -e xbmc

2) Run the following command in a terminal, as root user, in the folder containing the downloaded file:
urpmi xbmc-9.11-2.0plf2010.0.i586.rpm

3) Once installed you can run XBMC either directly from the login screen in standalone mode (click on session selector icon, the 'pencil' icon in the lower right corner on the KDM login panel) or from the application launcher menu in KDE or Gnome under "Sound & Video"

Source code:
xbmc-9.11.tar.gz
Our spec-file used to build the Mandriva RPM is available here.

XBMC home page: xbmc.org

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions about this rpm for Mandriva, please post them on the dedicated thread on the Mandrivausers.org forum at:
mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=95223

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