XBMC 11.0 Eden: RC 2 available now

"Lastly, we’re still a few days away from being ready for the next round of XBMCbuntu, but, as always, we’ll update you as soon as possible. Thanks for bearing with us! With your reports, we’re getting closer every day!"

what is this referred to ? i use XBMCbuntu...any new releases i just use the update command to update to latest xbmc.

What "next round" update is referred to?

The overscan position issue is definitely fixed here on my AppleTV Gen1 units. I've upgraded both now to RC2.

Issues I've encountered so far in RC2 (may or may not be related to RC2 as some were found when I updated my movies database):

1> A few movies (I think around 3 out of 600) are not showing the "SD" logo when added to the database and show NO VIDEO when they are played in XBMC. They play fine with the AppleTV interface itself and are .M4V H264 files with stereo and Dolby 5.1 tracks.

Two I know for sure offhand were The Disney remastered version of the Black Hole (converted with Handbrake 0.9.3 and 867x368 resolution) and Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood) (862x368 also with Handbrake 0.9.3. Both were converted in the same month (weeks apart). Other than that, I'm not sure what else they have in common. Other movies were converted in the same batches and all are fine in AppleTV's own interface and iTunes. For example, Death Race (from 2008) has the exact same resolution and specs as The Black Hole and was converted the same day in the same batch. It works fine in XBMC.

Anyone else have this issue happen with some of your movies? I'm talking like 3 out of almost 700 movies so it's rare, but they do work fine in other programs.

2> Movies previously scanned into the database from an earlier XBMC version (at least as far back as Dharma, maybe earlier) show "2.0" for audio when they actually have both 5.1 and 2.0 (to be able to play on AppleTV's own interface), but if you "refresh" them in Eden, they then show "5.1" instead, which makes more sense.

Is there a way to "refresh" the entire list short of deleting the entire database and starting over? (i.e. I have lots of manually corrected title entries). Doing a startup "update" or manual scan for new titles or "cleanup" doesn't do the same thing as refresh, but I've only seen the "refresh" option on single movies when selected for more information.

3> It seemed like "Pictures" loaded many extra large photos incredibly fast compared to Dharma in previous beta versions. Sometimes they now seem to load as slow, if not slower than Dharma. The icon list definitely scrolls slower and seems to default to a much more expansive view to fit more on the screen at once so that may be why it scrolls slower, but that is the same as previous betas. I don't know if Eden might be doing some kind of updating or loading in the background that's only giving me the impression that it slowed down. I have Weather Plus working again one one unit and it does update a lot more information so it could be responsible for all I know.

4> One of my two Gen1 AppleTVs were updated through most of the recent betas to try them out and the other one was updated straight from Dharma with no betas in-between. The latter unit did not have Weather Plus installed by default like the other AppleTV and when I try to add it, I get an error notice that it failed to install with no other explanation given. I assume the one that does have it had something installed in a previous version that worked with the update whereas the straight Dharma to Eden RC2 install missed something somehow, but I don't know what.

5> Lyrics still don't work here on AppleTV. All my music files have lyrics already installed in the file itself as an ID Tag. As near as I can tell, the lyrics add-on doesn't read that but tries to look it up on some Internet site as a scraper and it mentions something about having some option activated in order to use it. I'm not sure what that is on the AppleTV. I don't know why it would have to look up anything when the files already have the lyrics embedded within them using proper IDTags. ITunes and even my IPod Touch can read and display them just fine.

nero12 Wrote:"Lastly, we’re still a few days away from being ready for the next round of XBMCbuntu, but, as always, we’ll update you as soon as possible. Thanks for bearing with us! With your reports, we’re getting closer every day!"

what is this referred to ? i use XBMCbuntu...any new releases i just use the update command to update to latest xbmc.

What "next round" update is referred to?

This refers to the .iso file which can be burnt to a CD or used to create a USB stick to install XBMC Eden on a computer.

Timse Wrote:when i try to watch a tv stream (live tv) in full screen, there is no video, but in the menu's i can see the video in the background.
any ideas what to do? i't happens in eden beta 3, rc1 and rc2. didn't try with beta 1 and 2
i'm on a win7 msi, i5 hm-55 chipset.

hope you will help, i'm new with xbmc..

i've had this occasionally with beta 3? is the same for some video streams playbeck as well ie iplayer 4od - i just go to 'now playing' and it is there.

what skin do you use? what live tv? is it tvcatchup? i think the addon prob needs a little updating.

Has anyone found that after updating to RC2 that the audio would fail to initialize? It was working fine on beta 3, but something went awry with the release candidates.

Oracy Wrote:Has anyone found that after updating to RC2 that the audio would fail to initialize? It was working fine on beta 3, but something went awry with the release candidates.

I've had this once, all I could do was restart to fix. It never happened in B3 or RC1, but RC1 was so short lived it may just have not had the chance to crop up.

I have a Zotac ION-ITX-A

Eden has allowed me however to use audio through hdmi, which I've never been able to achieve before, even using all the little hack out there, so thanks.

Oracy Wrote:Has anyone found that after updating to RC2 that the audio would fail to initialize? It was working fine on beta 3, but something went awry with the release candidates.

Pls post a debug log via http://www.pastebin.com

Read up if you're not sure how.

Good day
from a newbie. running windows7
just spent hours going around the forum with my question and not come up with the answer.
please can you tell me how to upgrade to 11.0 rc from beta 3 on windows7.
thank you so much

plendil Wrote:just spent hours going around the forum with my question and not come up with the answer.
please can you tell me how to upgrade to 11.0 rc from beta 3 on windows7.
thank you so much

Just download xbmc eden rc2 from here: http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/win32/x...en_rc2.exe and install it to the same path.

I guess you spent hours to find the answer because nobody ever asked it *g*

Hey, good version. Password Protected RAR Archives working fine now on ATV2, thanks again to Memphiz!! I found a few other Bugs while playing/testing around with .strm files. Posted them on BugTracker.

moviestacking not supported for .strm files !
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12761

.strm files with multiple entries not scrapable
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12762

xbmc is not flagging .strm files in movielib as seen after watching
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12763


Go on with your great work and this great product!!!