xman10 Wrote:Hello All,

Thanks for this wonderful thread and it is very helpful. I was un-registered user of this forum for a while now. This is my first post.

I have Jetway mini-top with 64G SSD and 4G of ram running XBMC. I got it up and running and no complain about it. However, with the recent development of XBMC on ATV2, i am wondering what the difference between the jetway based xbmc and atv2/1 based xbmc?
Jetway is about $300 and ATV come to about $100. This save about $200 which can be used for other xbmc setup for other TVs. I am thinking about RMA the JEtway and get ATV2 or if ATV1 is better for watching Blu-Ray files/movies.
Please suggest me with my decision.
Thanks a lot in Advance.

javaman Wrote:There is also something to be said for doing this on a box where it is meant to be done rather than using an esoteric hack. But then again my xbox1 boxes have been the best for quite a few years now and these new HTPC boxes seem to have more annoyances.

xman10 Wrote:Hello All,

Thanks for this wonderful thread and it is very helpful. I was un-registered user of this forum for a while now. This is my first post.

I have Jetway mini-top with 64G SSD and 4G of ram running XBMC. I got it up and running and no complain about it. However, with the recent development of XBMC on ATV2, i am wondering what the difference between the jetway based xbmc and atv2/1 based xbmc?
Jetway is about $300 and ATV come to about $100. This save about $200 which can be used for other xbmc setup for other TVs. I am thinking about RMA the JEtway and get ATV2 or if ATV1 is better for watching Blu-Ray files/movies.
Please suggest me with my decision.
Thanks a lot in Advance.

javaman Wrote:I am going to call it a night now. Just got back from walgreens (they had an HDMI cable for $20 - cheaper than BB for $30). Got one on the way from newegg for $6. These retail jerks like to stick it to ya on cables. So far everything seems fine except for two things:

(1) Josh When I press the power button (which activates suspend), the unit seems to suspend, except I can't get it to wake back up. Tried the power button and several other buttons on the remote. I switched the script back to power. Takes longer, but at least I dont have to get my lazy arse out of bed.

(2) FF and rewind dont work. When I get to FF or Rewind 8x, it resets my movie to the beginning. My old xbox did not do this. My movies are all ISOs I run from a NAS share. Also when FF, then hit play, it just pauses, hitting it again does not resume it. (I can hit OK, then use the nav bar to resume it)

josh4trunks Wrote:1 I was messing around and found that you need S3 (not S1) enabled in the bios for suspend to work. It was frustrating till I remembered I changed it

jmcgee_jr Wrote:Yes but you still cannot wake it from any other device other than the remote control or power button.

fnc1 Wrote:Greetings all,

I have one of these boxes in route, along with 4gb ram and 32gb SSD...

I have a couple questions (the last time i installed xbmc was on the original XBOX) so yeah its been a while, I have a pretty large media library. which i server up over nfs from my 10tb raid...

My questions are probably for speed and josh.. or anyone running ubuntu 10.10 with an SSD..

1) Does setting up the minimal install iso (from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD) partition the SSD optimally?
Could someone paste the following:
cat /etc/fstab (im specifically wondering 1) if it sets noatime. and 2) if it automatically sets up tempfs (/tmp) )

2) Also wondering about if it properly aligns the erase block size?
could you paste the output of fdisk -lu (i believe)

3) Basically I'm wondering if i should partition the drive first then run through the install

4) Also im wondering with these ubuntu minimal installs are you able to run firefox?

5) does anyone happen to run mythfrontend with XBMC on one of these? if so what OS are you using.

6) My last question would be about blu-ray i started ripping those to ISO but have yet to play back one over the network.. (i can stream them if i just copy the disk so i can see the menu structure, but my goal is to have everything play from ISO like my DVDs) I am currently using a popcorn hour a110 so this box is replacing that - the sigma stuff looks really interesting. (if anyone happens to have one, there is a guy on networkedmedatank that has one running xbmc, but he hasnt released any real useful info to the public yet)

• Booted on a gparted live CD and set the entire SSD as EXT3 (As per OpenELEC)
  
• Booted up and quick installed the latest OpenELEC
  
• I was getting the "could not open framebuffer: no such file or directory" error at boot, so I SSH'd in and 'mount -o remount,rw /flash' then modified /flash/extlinux.conf adding vga=792 as per these instructions
  
• Created a asound.conf (below) then set my XBMC settings for custom 'plughw:0,7'
  

NuSkooler Wrote:Got my hardware last night and have it up and running now. Already loving this thing!

Here's what I did:

• Booted on a gparted live CD and set the entire SSD as EXT3 (As per OpenELEC)
  
• Booted up and quick installed the latest OpenELEC
  
• I was getting the "could not open framebuffer: no such file or directory" error at boot, so I SSH'd in and 'mount -o remount,rw /flash' then modified /flash/extlinux.conf adding vga=792 as per these instructions
  
• Created a asound.conf (below) then set my XBMC settings for custom 'plughw:0,7'
  

asound.conf:

Code:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "plughw:0,7"
}
}

pcm.hdmi07 {
type plughw
card 0
device 7
}

Everything is now working perfectly (1080p HDMI A/V including DTS, etc.) minus the remote that shipped with the device. I'll look at that later tonight or this week. I'd like to replace all my remotes with a Harmony soon, so I'm not too concerned. Also, I'm using the official XBMC remote from my Android and it works perfectly. Oh, and it's super quiet after boot!

If anyone has tips or a script I can cut/paste (!!) for the remote I'd love to hear about it!