[sig2segv]

hi,

i just installed xbmc on raspbian initially it worked just fine. but after a couple of reboots it stopped displaying video. when i start a video (for example youtube addon) it just plays the audio but no video is showing. this worked fine before and works with another sd-card with open elec on it.

xbmc.log (http://pastebin.com/i4c1TVdJ) shows some errors, but i dont know what is causing them.

thanks for your help!

[popcornmix]

What do you have gpu_mem set to?

[sig2segv]

hey, thx for the reply.

i set gpu_mem to 256MB and overclock settings to modest.

i can now play some videos (including an hd-h264) but others (like the southpark stream via plugin) does not work.

the weird thing is (as i mentioned before) that the southpark stream DID work before with stock settings (64M video) and now it just shows the first few seconds and then goes black. other online-tv-streaming add-ons are black from the start.

i included another log here (http://pastebin.com/gSn3J7NC)

[popcornmix]

It's not the latest version. Can you try updating:

11:20:18 T:3036577792 NOTICE: Starting XBMC (12.2 Git:Unknown), Platform: Linux (7.1, 3.6.11+ armv6l). Built on May 3 2013

also the firmware is newer than xbmc:

11:20:24 T:3036577792 NOTICE: Raspberry PI firmware version: Jun 17 2013 20:49:11

so I'm guessing you've manually updated. Note, there is a start_x.elf/fixup_x.elf and a start.elf/fixup.elf.
This former supports software codecs like VP6/VP8 used by streaming sites (the file you are trying to play is an flv). The latter doesn't.

Next time you update firmware use the "_x" versions and rename them to match the existing files if you want software codecs to work.

[sig2segv]

oh ok, that makes sense.

the problem is i cannot update xbmc, i use the repo from http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc

right now everything is up to date (i just did aptitude upgrade)

i dont want to build xbmc on the pi, is there a better repo for raspbian?

[popcornmix]

Using a dedicated distribution like openelec/raspbmc/xbian is recommended.
None of the deb packages get updated frequently enough to get the latest fixes, and there's quite a lot of manual configuration required to make xbmc run smoothly.

You can try adding
start_x=1

to /boot/config.txt. That will use the "_x" firmware files, and should allow software codecs to work.

[mirkochip]

You can try adding
start_x=1

Hi Man,
thank you very much: you made my day.

It was long time ago since when I started to try to make working well the youtube videos.

You left here a precious tip

Bye!