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How to Install XBMC PVR Xvba for AMD/Nvidia/Intel GPUs
We need some help by some competent testers here (24p delay issue): http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1202745

Thanks in advance for helping us out.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
Any guide for installing the new 9.0.0 Quantal Version with String: 9.00.11-120920a-147436C-ATI Kernel-Module Date: September 20 ??
@golddk: No. It would confuse new users. a) Users running quantal will have it out of the box. Other reason is: b) it does not bring anything new (despite new xserver support which is in deed a))
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
Just upgraded my XBMC install with this little guide. Everything is workin except after a sudo lightdm stop / sudo lightdm start Audio is broken. After a reboot sound is working again...

ideas?
one time problem after upgrade, or permanent? i.e. do you still have problems after the reboot?
I did not upgrade, i did a complete clean new install of Ubuntu 12.04 minimal. After boot the sound works but if i stop the service lightdm via ssh and start it again the sound is not working.... after a reboot the sound is working again.

My system is a ION2 Nettop with GT218 GPU... a did all steps of the guide in the first post. Nvidia Drivers are latest xorg-edgers (304.51) and your latest xbmc-xvba build...
hmm, never heard of this, might be nvidia specific, maybe even the driver version, maybe other nvidia users can comment.

a debug log might also give a clue
remote communication server stops working too... wierd!

Code:
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - sink incompatible, re-starting
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device ""
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "" for playback
00:29:02 T:140370137876352   ERROR: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - failed to initialize device ""
00:29:02 T:140370137876352   ERROR: CAESinkOSS::Initialize - Failed to get supported formats, assuming AFMT_S16_NE
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - NULL Initialized:
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Output Device :
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Sample Rate   : 44100
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Sample Format : AE_FMT_FLOAT
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Channel Count : 2
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Channel Layout: FL,FR
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Frames        : 22000
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Frame Samples : 2
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO:   Frame Size    : 8
00:29:02 T:140370137876352   DEBUG: CSoftAE::Initialize - Using speaker layout: 5.1
00:29:02 T:140369851213568  NOTICE: Thread CSoftAE start, auto delete: false
00:29:02 T:140369851213568    INFO: CSoftAE::Run - Thread Started

And the wierdest thing is that after a complete reboot it is working sometimes and sometimes not...

Another issue is that i cant get usb wakeup via my remote to work. I did all things like in ubuntu 10.10 (enable USB Devices for wakeup etc) but the system wont wake up via the remote receiver. Only via keyboard connected to annother USB Port...
@John.cord:
Don't mix up issues, that makes us hard to follow.

1.) For the USB Wake-Up Issue:
pastebin cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
pastebin lsusb

2.) Startup
Code:
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "" for playback
00:29:02 T:140370137876352   ERROR: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - failed to initialize device ""

This looks odd. Do you have any custom .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf created? These should not be needed for AudioEngine anymore. If you copied them from your old 11.10 System, their might be something that has changed.


@all:
wsnipex has updated the xbmc-xvba ppa with the latest version from 09/28. This package will be updated the next few days again, cause we are missing approx three upstream patches, that will come in after the next rebase.

Issues so far: After the first start, it will complain that no PVR addon is activated. When you select your addon it will silently freeze. After a reboot though, it should work fine.

Important fixes in this version:
- TrueHD, DTS-HD transcoding to AC3 out of sync issues are fixed now.

Just for completion, here are the settings needed for a 5.1 Speaker Setup via hdmi on AMD Hardware (AMD can only do 2 real channels), so, DTS-HD, True-HD is transcoded to AC3 just fine:

Choose 5.1 Speakers
Enable AC3
Enable DTS
Enable Increase Volume on downmix.
Disable all the rest (no DTS-HD, no TrueHD, no LPCM).

Nvidia (>= ION-2) have enough channels and bitstream support, that you can select everything your AVR is able to do.

If you have problems with Menu Sounds, try to add the following to your advancedsettings.xml:
Code:
<audio>
  <streamsilence>1</streamsilence>
</audio>

This will keep the sink attached all the time.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
(2012-10-01, 08:04)fritsch Wrote: @John.cord:
Don't mix up issues, that makes us hard to follow.

1.) For the USB Wake-Up Issue:
pastebin cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
pastebin lsusb

2.) Startup
Code:
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
00:29:02 T:140370137876352    INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "" for playback
00:29:02 T:140370137876352   ERROR: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - failed to initialize device ""

This looks odd. Do you have any custom .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf created? These should not be needed for AudioEngine anymore. If you copied them from your old 11.10 System, their might be something that has changed.

The USB Wakeupissue is solved....

For AE Issue: I have no asound.conf or .asoundrc created. I copyd no files over from my old install except some xbmc userdata files (database, watched.xml and Thumbnails).
@John.cord:
Please update to the latest version from xvba-xbmc ppa.
Can you enable debugging and get another log from this AE stuff - seems an upstream bug.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
I udated yesterday and at the moment it is working but only after a complete bootup. If i stop lightdm via SSH and start it again it is still broken. I will post a log after stopping and starting lightdm via SSH asap!
@John.cord:
Make sure that xbmc.bin is not running after your stopped lightdm. Kill the pid manually if stopping does not work - this happens sometimes :-)
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
Ok... i thought stop lightdm stops xbmc too as it was in 10.10 with uxlaunch. Will check that too but if that is the reason for the broken AE why does it not allways work again after a complete reboot?

EDIT:

Funny! The updated xbmc seems to do the trick. Now i can stop lightdm and start it again with working AE!

But Remote Communication Server and Webserver are failing to start...
Hi all !

I've upgraded at very last xbmc-xvba update yesterday:

ii xbmc 2:12.0~git20120929.1627-4423385-0precise XBMC Media Center PVR Xvba Edition (arch-independent data package)
ii xbmc-bin 2:12.0~git20120929.1627-4423385-0precise XBMC Media Center PVR Xvba Edition (binary data package)

And i have a problem with Live TV, suddenly when you go into the Live TV menu, the screen is very dark, only the internal Live TV submenu (to select channels, EPG, and so on) has a normal light, all the rest of the screen keeps being very dark.
Therefore, when i valid a channel to start playing, screenlight is normal, i have absolutely no playback issues.

This problem came with last xbmc-xvba.

It's like if the Live TV was being kept on non focus...

Here is my debug log: http://pastebin.com/709U27E0

Has anyone the same problem ?
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