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Hey guys,
Got XBMC running on Zotac MAG with Linux connected to a MyBook 500 GB media HD.
I will boot it up, select a movie and hit play (hit enter on my keyboard) and it locks up. Have to hard boot.
Repeat, select movie, hit play and...(if i am lucky) It plays!
This is a typical cycle. Last night though, it took me having to reboot my locked up machine 6 times before I could watch Inception.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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without a debug log (or any other worthwhile information...) it could be a problem with the external hard drive
try to copy a file to internal hard drive, then try playback
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Cool. I will give that a shot.
However, I am using just the command prompt version of Ubuntu so I have no clue how to copy a file from the external to internal HD haha.
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that's why XBMC has a built-in file manager. haha.
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Wow nice! I think that fixed it.
As I was going through the menus I discovered my resolution isn't set to 1920x1080 and it doesn't give me the option to select that. Uhh something else to figure out.
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so there's a problem with the external USB drive... what file format (NTFS/FAT32) are you using? please let windows do a scan of the drive.
as for the 1080p problem, we need FAR more technical information from you: how did you install XBMC (ubuntu/live/version), what graphics hardware, what TV, etc
most probably an EDID problem, or your display is only HDready and 720p is the preferred resolution anyways.
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I have this exact same issue as iDVB, my external drive seems to unmount itself while I'm playing files off of it. XBMC doesn't freeze itself, just the drive unmounts, and then remounts for some reason.
Bumping to see if there are any ideas here.
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I have exactly the same problem as iDVB and yrelekim.
Buffalo HD-LBU2 2TB external drive, Ubuntu 11.04, XBMC 11.0 (Git unknown? Compiled 24 March 2012)
Intermittent. Thought it had gone away for a week but now it's back with a vengeance.
Anyone?
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is there any tests I can do on the drive to check its ok?