XBMC 是一款屡获殊荣的自由和开源（GPL）的软件、媒体播放器和娱乐中心，一款跨平台软件，支持 Windows、Linux、Android和iOS，具有一个用于电视和遥控器的用户界面。允许用户播放和查看大多数视频、音乐、播客和其他数字媒体文件从本地和网络存储媒体和互联网。
最新版本 XBMC 13.1 已经发布了。
精心推荐：Ubuntu 14.04安装XBMC中文版 http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2014-05/101525.htm
XBMC 移植到 Android 上，发布每日构建版本 http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2012-08/68157.htm
XBMC Romote:用 Android 手机控制 XBMC 媒体播放 http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2011-07/38166.htm
Ubuntu中安装XBMC 媒体中心11.0 http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2012-03/57519.htm
新版本13.1相比13的变化，一系列的修复：
- * 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.
安装，打开终端并运行下面的命令：
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
下载XBMC 13.1
