thnmnt Wrote:Thanks Sam - It turns out that my atv has a static IP (set it up so long ago). I loaded up the old atvos and was able to ssh in no problem. I then rebooted with the usb stick and tried to ssh to the same ip address and port (22) but got a network timed out error. I had confirmed that my atvos video output was set to 720pHD and as I may have said my atvos installation of xbmc works perfectly.

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It turns out that the SSH problem was because I had assigned a static ip - and linux was pulling one from my router - so it was obviously going to be a new one. I went to the router's DHCP table and saw an IP I didn't recognize, which naturally turned out to be the atv/linux box.

So thanks for this and now i'll go see about editing that file

tooshna Wrote:So the only code I need to enter to mount the usb is
"sudo mount /dev/sdb mnt/usbkey" correct? I don't need to substitute anything?

Hmmm is there anyway to tell which is the correct com.apple.Boot.plist? Or is it just a matter of mounting each one and checking? I did the "ls /dev/sd* and it shows up with the following: sda sda1 sda2 sda3 sdb sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdc sdc1 sdc2

noreason4nothin Wrote:Hi there,

just a quick noob question:

Can i install linux on the internal hard drive? Is there any way to get the oroginal ATV OS back?

What interface do i see if i use this stick? Is it the XBMC Version for Linux (aka i wont see any difference as long as i stay inside xbmc?)

thx!

pkolkkal Wrote:I have tried several versions, also r143, in the past weeks. r26 (1.0.3) is the one that works, but it also sometimes crashes, which makes me wish I could update that driver some day..

lsmod shows this
02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 1612 (rev 01)

defiler Wrote:Tonight I tried to update my ATV (again), starting with Pin's image on the internal HDD, and then following the instructions here. Well, it still starts up so that's a plus!

The downside is it's still choking on HD content. 2001 used to play fine before, but now it's jerky and in black&white. Star Trek is much jerkier than before. Other movies I've tried have video corruption every second or so. These are all Blu-Ray rips, using MakeMKV and AnyDVD-HD. No other processing done.

So, is this to be expected? Are we all in the same boat, cramming HD rips through HandBrake, or am I having an unusual problem?

Obviously this is still not a "release" version of XBMC, so I don't expect it to be perfect. I'm just wondering if I've made a pig's ear of it, or if this is indicative of a crappy CrystalHD card. Ideas anyone?

(For the record, SD seems to be just fine. So do HD rips that I've HandBraked to shrink, but that's a nuisance that I'd rather avoid.)

defiler Wrote:Tonight I tried to update my ATV (again), starting with Pin's image on the internal HDD, and then following the instructions here. Well, it still starts up so that's a plus!

The downside is it's still choking on HD content. 2001 used to play fine before, but now it's jerky and in black&white. Star Trek is much jerkier than before. Other movies I've tried have video corruption every second or so. These are all Blu-Ray rips, using MakeMKV and AnyDVD-HD. No other processing done.

So, is this to be expected? Are we all in the same boat, cramming HD rips through HandBrake, or am I having an unusual problem?

Obviously this is still not a "release" version of XBMC, so I don't expect it to be perfect. I'm just wondering if I've made a pig's ear of it, or if this is indicative of a crappy CrystalHD card. Ideas anyone?

(For the record, SD seems to be just fine. So do HD rips that I've HandBraked to shrink, but that's a nuisance that I'd rather avoid.)

bass63 Wrote:So, has anyone experienced such problems or is it just my TV glitch? Thanks for the help!

davilla Wrote:"and in black&white" -> change the render from auto to ARB.

Did you look at xbmc.log to see if crystalhd was being used for your problem content ?

defiler Wrote:Changed to ARB, but now it's really jerky (although in colour, as promised!). The picture and sound moves about once a second, and then only momentarily. That was the only setting I changed since last night. (I changed a couple of others and then put them right back.)

Here's a pastebin of my log. I started XBMC, played a few seconds of 2001 a couple of times, and then played a couple of minutes of Moon. Neither seems to be stressing the CPU greatly (looking at 'top' in an ssh session), and both appear to be using the CrystalHD card.

A number of BD rips were doing this digital noise on the picture every second before I updated, exactly as shown here, so the update hasn't caused this (but neither has it fixed it as I hoped it might).

If these are fleeting issues that are being sorted for the full release, then there's no point in me getting concerned about them - I'll bide my time until release day. But if they're new problems, or something I've done to my config, I'd love to hear!

Thanks!

davilla Wrote:Going right for the gusto with 1080p vc1 I see

Quote:Moon.mkv seem to play ok, lot's of
CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity with the other. Strange.

defiler Wrote:Yeah well... Shoot for the moon, and if you miss, you die a cold and lonely death of asphyxiation in the emptiness of space. Or you reach the stars. Whichever is more romantic!

The thing is that Pin's image will play the vc1 video no trouble at all. It's 2001 - there's never all that much movement until the second-to-last scene. It's only been since I put on those updates that it chokes, and now it's unwatchable.



Well, it plays at full speed, but with the artefacts on the screen it's simply unwatchable as well, and this seems to be the case for most of my BluRay rips. If I wring them through HandBrake for hours, I get a file that's finally playable / watchable / excellent. But I'd rather play the original stream, and in some cases (like District 9 with its forced subtitles) it's a real pain to convert, as well as holding up my movie joy for hours on new titles.

(District 9 involved recoding the whole thing on my server using HandBrake, and then using MeGUI on my desktop to extract the video stream from the recoded version, the audio stream from the original, and the forced subtitles from the original. I had to do some conversion on the subs, and then remux the whole lot into a new .mkv. It played in the end, but surely there's a simpler way!)

I know I'm moaning - I'm just tired. DOn't want to come across as a whining bitch, because XBMP/XBMC have always impressed me greatly, and XBMC is by far my media player of choice. My plan is to simply rip BluRays onto a Samba server, without any time-consuming processing before I can sit down and play them. It looks like XBMC with the CrystalHD will manage it, but it's not quite there yet.

Some things (like Life On Mars) will play just fine, straight from the BluRay rip. So it's not as if I've done something that's obviously broken everything.

Any ideas on where the problem might lie? Or is there any more information I can provide that'll help to nail down the source of the trouble? I'm using component video, in case that should make any difference.