Time for a merge?

Up to the boss I guess ;)

This would take the legendary quarnster git to the most recent xbmc commit @the xbmc git repo, alpha10 to be precise.

Many add-ons broken due to the Phyton API bump, advised by the xbmc team that this is to be expected and must be addressed by the plugin authors. The difference to alpha9 is that its confirmed when you browse the addons as they state they are broken and do not allow installation.

http://xbmc.org/gotham-13-0-feature-freeze/

I have just tested the build and the GUI is rather snappy and video launch is improved vastly, (have they inadvertently fixed the blank video issue?).