While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available.

Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

This 13.1 release contains the fixes compared to previous 13.0

• Fix resume point of certain PVR items begin stale on playback.
• Fix weirdness when certain TVs query XBMC’s UPnP server and it starts running a bunch of add-ons which cause popups on the XBMC machine.
• Fix crash at exit while airplay is playing
• Better recovery of VDPAU on errors.
• Fixes for cropping of interlaced content using VDPAU.
• Fix for FLAC tracks with large embedded images not playing.
• Fix for crash if librtmp wasn’t available.
• Fix for ffmpeg building on linux using later versions of librtmp.
• Fix for broken m4a, mp4 playback with paplayer.
• Fix for the hint text not being shown in editcontrols once unfocused.
• Fix minor memory leak in PlayMedia builtin function.
• Fix albumartist use in song smartplaylists.
• Use unique client broadcast UID in the PVR api.