2011-07-20, 09:15
Since apple is going to launch lion today, and no doubt a few of us will be upgrading, what is the recommendation from the devs, is it better to just wait until the new software has been out a while??
2011-07-20, 19:26
This dev recommends that if what you have works, why change. There's nothing in XBMC that 'changes' moving to 10.7 except for new headaches (smb, etc)
2011-07-20, 20:41
From a skinning point of view, is Lion supported? I.e. can I put it on my Macbook and without ending up in a dead valley :-)
2011-07-20, 21:08
Thanks Davilla, interesting what you are saying all my media is on a nas drive shared by smb works ok, if I download lion, will I have problems??
2011-07-20, 22:36
Hmm
I upgraded the iMac this afternoon and now the XBMC running Mac Mini in the living room cannot access any files over the network.
Not upgraded the mac mini yet but i was planning to do so tomorrow.
Cant troubleshoot it much now but will report back tomorrow, perhaps others will find a solution by then.
I upgraded the iMac this afternoon and now the XBMC running Mac Mini in the living room cannot access any files over the network.
Not upgraded the mac mini yet but i was planning to do so tomorrow.
Cant troubleshoot it much now but will report back tomorrow, perhaps others will find a solution by then.
2011-07-20, 22:41
I think they still have the same issue in Lion with the appleHDA.ktext that they introduced in 10.6.8.
XBMC ran fine for me on Lion accessing a NAS via SMB but switching between media with different audio types (DTS 5.1 on a movie then trying to play a stereo AVI) made the sound go away on HDMI. The only way to get the sound back was to put the Mac to sleep and wake it up or reboot the machine.
I rolled back to 10.6.7, since XBMC is all the machine I was testing with is used for.
XBMC ran fine for me on Lion accessing a NAS via SMB but switching between media with different audio types (DTS 5.1 on a movie then trying to play a stereo AVI) made the sound go away on HDMI. The only way to get the sound back was to put the Mac to sleep and wake it up or reboot the machine.
I rolled back to 10.6.7, since XBMC is all the machine I was testing with is used for.
2011-07-20, 22:49
Smb is all smelly in lion.
Leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone
2011-07-20, 23:13
jtclark Wrote:I think they still have the same issue in Lion with the appleHDA.ktext that they introduced in 10.6.8.
XBMC ran fine for me on Lion accessing a NAS via SMB but switching between media with different audio types (DTS 5.1 on a movie then trying to play a stereo AVI) made the sound go away on HDMI. The only way to get the sound back was to put the Mac to sleep and wake it up or reboot the machine.
I rolled back to 10.6.7, since XBMC is all the machine I was testing with is used for.
I've been experience the same sound problems, how do i roll back from the 10.6.8? or is there some workaround? Been searching for weeks now and this post is the first that describes my problem.
2011-07-21, 00:09
Was going to buy the new mac mini, but I think I will hold of as it comes with lion installed, hopefully there is s way round the smb issue 
2011-07-21, 04:17
garyi Wrote:Smb is all smelly in lion.
Leave well enough alone
Indeed. None of my XBMC installations can access SMB shares on a MacMini upgraded to Lion overnight:
Code:
09:06:42 T:2905461440 M:397115392 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 0.02ms (0.01 ms skin load)
09:06:43 T:2953850880 M:393998336 DEBUG: CFileSMB::Open - opened tv/Bones/Bones.S06E20.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi, fd=-1
09:06:43 T:2953850880 M:393998336 INFO: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://mnewman:king1066@bleach/tv/Bones/Bones%2eS06E20%2eHDTV%2eXviD%2dLOL%2eavi'
unix_err:'4e' error : 'Function not implemented'
09:06:43 T:2953850880 M:393998336 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [smb://mnewman:king1066@bleach/tv/Bones/Bones.S06E20.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi]
09:06:43 T:2953850880 M:393998336 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
09:06:43 T:2953850880 M:393998336 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
09:06:43 T:2953850880 M:393998336 DEBUG: Thread CDVDPlayer 2953850880 terminating
09:06:43 T:2954383360 M:393998336 DEBUG: OpenDir - Using authentication url smb://bleach/MOVIES/Shutter%20Island
09:06:43 T:2905461440 M:393981952 DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnStop from xbmc
09:06:43 T:2905461440 M:393981952 DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 1, from xbmc, message OnStop
09:06:43 T:2905461440 M:393981952 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [smb://mnewman:king1066@bleach/tv/Bones/Bones.S06E20.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi]
09:06:43 T:2905461440 M:393981952 DEBUG: Playlist Player: one or more items failed to play... aborting playbackAny workaround or do I just go back to 10.6.8 under which SMB was just fine?
2011-07-21, 10:02
I've got Lion 10.7 running on my macbook pro and I dont have any issues accessing the shares on my Windows 2003/2008 servers either through finder or within XBMC.
2011-07-21, 10:07
The problem is that XBMC cannot 'see' SMB shares hosted on a machine running Lion. After doing some searching I see it is a widespread problem, the only solution to which is to install SAMBA 3. Instructions are here:
Install SAMBA 3
Install SAMBA 3
2011-07-21, 10:09
brownn Wrote:I've got Lion 10.7 running on my macbook pro and I dont have any issues accessing the shares on my Windows 2003/2008 servers either through finder or within XBMC.
It's the other way around that's an issue. Sharing things from Mac to anything else using SMB. As in the mac is the file server.
2011-07-21, 10:10
Buadhai Wrote:The problem is that XBMC cannot 'see' SMB shares hosted on a machine running Lion. After doing some searching I see it is a widespread problem, the only solution to which is to install SAMBA 3. Instructions are here:
Install SAMBA 3
Edit: I take it back. We'll get more questions about how to get this to work.
