The development version of OpenELEC now includes work from the libaacs project on videolan.org

We want to wish all of our users, team XBMC, supporting manufacturers and developers a warm, lovely, healthy and joyful Christmas and that you will enjoy OpenELEC in the most useful way these days.

I think everybody have heard and seen the news ATI have released a new APU called Fusion. It is a relatively cheap solution to combine a CPU and a GPU together in one processor, while still having the power to do some nice tasks. But I'm not paid by AMD, so I'll leave the sales-talk to them.

As time flies by, OpenELEC has become more accepted than we ever expected. While at the first year we had only a small group of users, today OpenELEC is discussed at many forums over the Internet and used by even a larger group of happy users. Also the amount of supported devices has blown in size, while the builds are still around 100 mb in size.

It is a long time now after we have given an update about the status of our project, and in particular: “what have we done with your donations?”. So let's start giving you a list where all the money has gone.

A much requested series of addons is now available on the OpenELEC repository, combined in one package to make installation for them as easy as possible. We are happy to announce you that SABnzbd+, CouchPotato and SickBeard are now available for OpenELEC as a preconfigured add-on to work with the minimum possible configuration.

***Only works with the latest development builds, RC6 will have standard support for it***