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wsnipex: i did a clean install of Xbuntu 12.04 the iso on page 1. Installed XBMC xvba as explained.
I only got a problem with .srt subtitles. They are flickering. Not all rows but most are. Some kind of stutter within the start and end time of each row.
Video and Audio are fine. This did not occur with Ubuntu 11.10
Have you any idea what this can be?
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Good to see, no new error reports on the "final" Eden version :-)
Greetings from Spain, btw. - two more days without real internet to go.
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Wsnipex any chance of you compiling the tested versions with pulseaudio support enabled?
Or could you tell us how to do it ourselves? (Guess that would be a pain?)
I want to run this version of xbmc on my laptop but I want pulse audio to work on it as well as I use the ubuntu desktop for other things on the lappy aswell.
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sorry I cannot enable pulse, because then everyone would have to run pulse. Xbmc does not start without it, if pulse support was compiled in.
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It seems that the "edit /usr/share/xsessions/XBMC.desktop" step is no longer required -- mine was already set up by default.
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@sankeytm: You're right i noticed it too, i'd let it in my howto in case of, but the containt is the same and this step is useless, i'll correct
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@laric: just for information you can easily keep pulseaudio on the same system running xbmc (moreover if you are using one with audio engine, xbmc-xvba or testing)
To avoid issue and conflicts with pulseaudio, you should launch xbmc within a small shell script preceded by "pulseaudio -k" which will stop pulseaudio daemon before launching xbmc (to restart it after xbmc closed use pulseaudio -start)
I've made a lot of tests with dekstop versions,if your xbmc sound config is fine (xbmc Will use Alsa) and if you stop pulseaudio before launching xbmc, everything is ok.
Therefore for must users it's better not keep pulseaudio to avoid having to use this kind of thing
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2012-08-17, 06:31
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-17, 06:38 by jaychamp.)
Thank you for this how to, everything went pretty smooth and I have to just one question(so far)
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Any of the missing pieces in the new 12.8 drivers that came out yesterday? I mean getting the DTS-Hd etc to work on AMD?
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@laric:
No changes you would see while using it. It at least installs fine and no signature / control file hacks are needed anymore. The said, that suspend support did get a lot better - but i could make it hang within two tries ... not really what i expected.
The good: I don't think they broke anything xvba related, Level51 hack and the like still work.
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