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2014-04-09, 18:23
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-09, 19:38 by fritsch.)
Lol.
xbmc builds internally on its own ffmpeg fork. You won't win anything when you install that external one. The bumped ffmpeg based version of fernetmenta brings a lot of improvements: VC-1 interlaced runs without artifacts in software, HEVC (h265) is accelerated multithreaded.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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multithreaded I meant of course.
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oki, and more importantly - it actually works, while it doesn't with mainline
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Wait for trusty. See the op.
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Visited the first post in this thread after a long absence and noticed that the instructions have moved from raring to trusty. I am still running the old raring version and it is relatively stable. Is there any reason to erase and start over with trusty, or should I just wait until the release of gotham to sort of get back into the mainline distro? These changes are being included in gotham, right? Will I have to compile from source or just add an alternate PPA to get it? Thanks!
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there are zero updates for raring since a few months. Its deprecated.
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ok, so the question is, should I install this new trusty version or the beta of gotham? I think it was mentioned earlier that these changes are already in gotham, no?
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Hi,
I've just checked Lubuntu 14.04 beta2.
Both my computer and my htpc are lubuntu as I need a real desktop.
Lubuntu 14.04 b2 comes with kernel 3.13.0, I guess it's quite useless.
What about the mini iso you are soggesting? Has it the same obsolete kernel?
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Yes, but why don't you simply update it to 3.14?
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Hi,
I've got a xbmc crash from time tot time when switching channels using vdpau for radeon.
I'm using OE 4.0, Is there any way to gather the xbmc crash logs?
I know it was not possible in 3.2,but a lot has changed under the hood of OE apparently.
system:
-AMD radeon 6350
-OE 4.0 nightly from 3 days ago
-vdpau video mixer and mpeg4 decoding enabled