XBMC LiveUSB (formerly "LiveXBMC") V1: an USB disk image

Hi,

I had some problems with booting the USB-stick.
1. formatting with HP-USB format program
2. Copying the files to the USB-stick
3. using Syslinux using -ma option in syslinux.exe (instead of -f)

C:\syslinux\win32\syslinux -ma I:

-m = install bootable MBR sector
-a = mark the partition used active
I: is my USB-stick

best regards

jarwha Wrote:Hi,

I had some problems with booting the USB-stick.
1. formatting with HP-USB format program
2. Copying the files to the USB-stick
3. using Syslinux using -ma option in syslinux.exe (instead of -f)

C:\syslinux\win32\syslinux -ma I:

-m = install bootable MBR sector
-a = mark the partition used active
I: is my USB-stick

best regards

I used syslinux in linux, which I've used to make dozens of bootable usb sticks... however I had a problem this time... after trying everything I could think of and then trying again with windows syslinux I started to think I had a bad usb stick... here's the thing, after formatting and reformatting and making a usb stick bootable many times, you can get a corrupt mbr..

I installed lilo and ran lilo -M at the device level /dev/sd* and it fixed it.

I'm new to Ubuntu but I was wondering if there was/could be a plan to include Unichrome drivers in the image? If not I suppose I could always put them there on my own...

http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,
Devan

No point in including VIA (unichrome) drivers. They don't have the 3d support required for XBMC.

althekiller Wrote:No point in including VIA (unichrome) drivers. They don't have the 3d support required for XBMC.

Am I incorrect in assuming that all 3d access is done through openGL? If that is the case I though that Xorg supported unichrome 3d after 6.9.

It would be nice to get XBMC running on one of VIAs embedded application boards.

http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki...e=3DStatus

Doesn't look too promising.

Admittedly I have not tried to use a VIA EPIA board in several years but I had thought that unichrome-3D-drivers allowed DRI access to MESA for OpenGL?

They do it here in this HOWTO
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_do..._id=102048

I believe that that the link you sent was to a driver that was a fork of this one centering on XvMC?

althekiller Wrote:http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki...e=3DStatus

Doesn't look too promising.

Or does it? (Twilight Zone music)

http://www.aselabs.com/singlenews.php?id=4532

"Over the following months, VIA will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to ensure the best possible Open Source experience on VIA Processor Platforms."

evilhomeruk Wrote:Or does it? (Twilight Zone music)

http://www.aselabs.com/singlenews.php?id=4532

"Over the following months, VIA will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to ensure the best possible Open Source experience on VIA Processor Platforms."

This is pretty exciting. I have a ton of SD content, and always like seeing more ways to play it back.

I have my videos on an smb share.

I play any video file and it plays at 2x speed, no audio.

I have audio in the interface.

Any ideas whats going on?

-goose