XBMC 11.0 Eden: Beta3 available now

Is it OK to simply install the Beta 3 over the prior Betas or is it recommended to first uninstall?

Fantastic that this is up! Thanks so much.

I have been using Night as my theme, and now my favorited smart playlists that used to show up as submenu choices under Movies and TV are coming up as black screens.

I've asked in the Night thread for help, but that skin may not be in active development.

Could someone recommend a nice, clean, simple skin that would allow me to have smartplaylists added as sub-choices under Movies and TV from the main menu?

mattchapman Wrote:Is it OK to simply install the Beta 3 over the prior Betas or is it recommended to first uninstall?

No issues with installing over - video db's may upgrade to v60.

I have a question.

I want to spend the time i have today to optimize and fix the 11.0 beta 3 release on my asus ion330 (currently running ancient 9.11 camelot).

My question is, if i reinstall everything to 11.0 beta 3, can i then upgrade easily to 11.0 stable once it comes out, or do i have to reinstall everything then again?

Thanks guys, really appreciate all the free shit you put out, love xbmc!

I too use an Acer Aspire Revo on 9.11. I run it from a flash drive instead of installing it on the mahine, once I'm afraid running XBMC on top of a very slow PC with a single core ATOM processor and Windiws XP won't work properly. And it should be easier to move from one version to the other - just format the flashdrive.
I've downloaded the beta 3 XBMCbuntu .iso file, used unetbootin to create a bootable usb drive and it worked fine. I can run XBMC without installing it on the Hard Disk. However, as apposed to version 9.11, the settings don't get saved on reboot. My weather location and network drives are reset. Any clues?

ojaca Wrote:I too use an Acer Aspire Revo on 9.11. I run it from a flash drive instead of installing it on the mahine, once I'm afraid running XBMC on top of a very slow PC with a single core ATOM processor and Windiws XP won't work properly. And it should be easier to move from one version to the other - just format the flashdrive.
I've downloaded the beta 3 XBMCbuntu .iso file, used unetbootin to create a bootable usb drive and it worked fine. I can run XBMC without installing it on the Hard Disk. However, as apposed to version 9.11, the settings don't get saved on reboot. My weather location and network drives are reset. Any clues?

Try remaking your usb key with this:

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/home

And enable some space on the key for persistence. (you'll see it as an option in the program)

whats the xbmc-live b3 new service name ? service xbmc-live stop/restart is not working ?

I find it hard to believe or even understand why users were still on Camelot!
I guess I have update bug more than some.

Why did you skip Dharma!?
Hardware Video Acceleration has been superb. Welcome back to XBMC!

Granted, Camelot was stable and impressive for it's time - 2 years ago.
But things just kept getting better... Shocking.

I've been holding back on installing the beta because of previous issues with betas and incompatibilities with stable, so if I install this beta will I be able to install the final release over it with no problems?

sourbob Wrote:Fantastic that this is up! Thanks so much.

I have been using Night as my theme, and now my favorited smart playlists that used to show up as submenu choices under Movies and TV are coming up as black screens.

I've asked in the Night thread for help, but that skin may not be in active development.

Could someone recommend a nice, clean, simple skin that would allow me to have smartplaylists added as sub-choices under Movies and TV from the main menu?

Try Cirrus Extended.