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Darpz
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been a long time user of xbmc on my xbox, and finally decided its time to move to HD so I thru together a cheap HTPC and loaded up ubuntu.
Specs:
Opteron 144 @ 2.4ghz
1.25gb Ram
Nvidia 6100 based MB
AV710 Soundcard
the interface seems to work fine, had some issues with slowness at first but got the latest nvidia drivers and that cleared up that issue. but the lingering issue I seem to have is that audio/video seem to be running in slowmo like 80% or something. can't figure it out. anyone have any experience with this issue?
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can't figure out why I can't edit the above post but forgot to add an issue, might be more related to the linux system itself than a XBMC issue but I seem to be having issues streaming files that were no problem when the box was running windows (constant buffers on 720p stuff)
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I started playing with this this morning and got most it working ok. Have a few issues:
making it run fullscreen. the -fs switch doesn't work, and it reverts back to windowed after a video finishes.
Getting emulators to run.
Occasional crashes here and there.
First run had silly CPU usage in the menu. though it appears to have evened out now.
Probably a few other things that I haven't noticed yet.
I put most of these down to still being in development, though.
I got the remote working fine, and the whole thing is pulling images, videos and music from a NAS on my network.
When playing a video, I get around 20-30% CPU. In the menu it is a little higher. FPS for videos is correct (24-30fps). Menu is 100+.
I'm running on an Athlon64 3000+ and an ATI 9800 pro.
Congrats to the developers. I shall continue to search for solutions to the issues above, if there are any.
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just to let you know, setting up the resolution sorted the fullscreen problem.
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Took an old Athlon XP 200 system with onboard graphics/sound/lan. Loaded Ubuntu 7.10, followed the instructions for XBMC compile. To my surprise, it worked first try. It plays XVIDs fine but seems to run at about 80% speed on X264 content. I chalk it up to CPU/GPU being too slow. But for right now, it's seems to be at least as capable as my soft-moded XBox.
Now I'm working an a P4 3.0 Ghz platform on a Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H with onboard HDMI and HD Sound. Currently it's running Vista Ultimate MCE but I've installed a second drive just to test XBMC Linux. So far, I've got all the drivers working in Ubuntu but after a compile with no errors, when I launch XboxMediaCenter all I get is a black screen.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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This is something weird, i got XBMC working just fine on my USB hard drive Ubuntu install, but yesterday i installed Ubuntu on my 4 gig i bought USB stick (so i can travel with it, and XBMC) and for some reason i did the same steps in the process, but on my USB stick install (which to my computer is just seen as a hard drive.) when i try to run, it says something like "XBMC_HOME not defined" and in the XBMC window is all black and have to 'Kill Process' just to quite XBMC.
I tried different things like "# XBMC_HOME=/HOME/XBMC/" and "# XBMC_HOME=/HOME/XBMC/BUILD/" (as i realized Build.sh is much easier to update/make and all in one command, verses doing updating commands, then make. But i do have it working perfectly on my usb hard drive external, i'm just having this problem on my usb key stick. I think a few weeks ago i had the same issue on my usb hard drive at first though as well, but don't remember what i did to fix that. Anyone please? Thanks guys.
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great work Spite. Excellent blog which will hopefully ease the process for some other early adopters. Hope to see it updated as you discover new tricks.
