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Hello Everyone!

Just found xbmc two days ago and I am stunned! - I want to thank everyone involved for putting this great piece of software together!

I started ages ago with mplayer and lirc, since I always felt I needed a dedicated remote-controlled device to play my video-collection and not "a computer" with all it's litle problems.

For years I built new mplayer-boxes but they could never really satisfy me. For the last years I was looking for a simple tool to grab imdb-info based on my film titles and simply rename my files to contain at least some meta-information: NoGo!

Since Blue-Ray came out I tought my mplayer-box vdpau just to loose the menu for Blue-Ray content wich was very frustrating..

So finally I stumbled across xbmc and it does it alltogether! First I was very sceptic, since I came across quite some software that claimed to be a HTPC wich didn't work fluent or at all. So I installed xbmc and practically /everything/ works out of the box! And it looks good, has all the bells and whistles but isn't bloated at all!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! - At the moment I am retrieving covers and meta-information for 700 movies, making my movie-collection all shiny and new and fun to browse again!

If someone could please point me to a possibility to donate 50 €, I will happily transfer that money to the community to contribute what I can. Since it is already clear that I will use xbmc from now on, I want to give something of me to help it stay alive and develop on. I would have bought it, if it was a commercial product, since I am really convinced!

To bad, I am not a programmer, it would be great fun to take part in this project, I am sure!

Best regards,
Nico

[DonJ]

Glad you enjoy using XBMC as much as we do.
Donations are always welcome: http://xbmc.org/contribute/donate/

Best
DonJ

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Only Credit Cards or Payal. Both things, I don't have/use.. Isn't there any bank-account I could just transfer to?

[blittan]

Nico: first of all welcome, secondly.. there are lots of other areas not involving programming.. translating plugins/script/xbmc into yout native lanugage (if other than english), help out with the wiki.. try and answer (know it's not easy when you are new) questions on the forum..

[phil65]

Only Credit Cards or Payal. Both things, I don't have/use.. Isn't there any bank-account I could just transfer to?

You need to register at paypal, it´s free. then you can transfer the money to a bank account.

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@blittan: Yeah, I already offered my help with Linux-Tag, since I live in Berlin and have a car and work on my own (meaning I organize my own time).

@temmi: I once had a paypal account connected with an email-adress wich is no longer existent. I tried several times to update to my new data (mail, address and bank-account) but never really suceeded. Creating a new account is not possible due to my Name being already registered. it was never really important to me, so I didn't put a lot of work in it.. I might try and solve it once more.. I should do it, anway..

[Gamester17]

Loads of ways one can contribute:
http://xbmc.org/contribute/

Welcome to the community!