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Any update on this?
I have a powerpc mac mini with Ubuntu 10.10 installed and can compile xbmc successfully, but it consumes almost 100% cpu for the standard skin in idle and it crashes when trying to see a movie. ffmpeg from the Ubuntu repos work fine.
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2011-01-04, 23:54
I'm looking into this now. I previously managed to get XBMC compiling on the Mac Mini but didn't pursue it at the time because I didn't want to try to diagnose the slow interface (I didn't bother trying to play content). I'm going to try investigating it now since, given the recent break in PS3's chain of trust, it seems like PowerPC as a target platform might heat up again.
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I know this thread has been dead for a while, but I'm working on setting my G4 tower up as a HTPC. The machine is heavily upgraded (dual 1.8 ghz, 1.5 gb ram, Geforce 6200), and I'm building XBMC right now (v11 beta 3.1). I'll report back what my results are...I kind of skimmed this thread, and I think my setup is the most powerful PPC/Linux setup to try XBMC...
FWIW, in OS X, I can decode 720p no problem, anything from there up gets iffy, depending on format.
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Alright. I've got Eden Beta 3 compiled, installed and running on my G4. The menus are smooth. The issue I have right now is that I think I need to force XBMC to use Mplayer. I remember seeing this as an option on whatever build is on my Xbox, and I know Mplayer is what is used as the "standard" player when I open a video outside of XBMC.
How do I force XBMC to use Mplayer?
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davilla
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xbmc has not used mplayer since the xbox days.
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2012-02-22, 08:42
(This post was last modified: 2012-02-22, 08:49 by svtguy88.)
But my question is can it?
Some googling reveals some old threads of people asking simliar questions (linux machine looking to use mplayer)....
The reason I ask is because video playback is terrible, but the menus are fine. I have no sound right now, but I suspect that to be an unrelated issue.
Mplayer can play all of my content perfectly fine. I know this because that's the process that is used when I play my video files outside of XBMC. I *think* XBMC uses PAplayer and DVDplayer by defalut, right? I don't know what PowerPC support is like with either, but if Mplayer works, why not use it?
Again, maybe I'm way off here, but XBMC behaves for me except for video playback. Music playback works (or so it seems to - I have no audio, as mentioned, but playing a song doesn't crash XBMC), so I think DVDplayer is my problem...
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Well, I sort of answered my own question. I craeted a playercorefactory.xml and added /usr/lib/mplayer to it. I can now open videos in Mplayer by right clicking and going to "Play using..."
Just as I suspected, Mplayer plays my files fine, though the transition from XBMC to MPlayer is less than smooth. Also, I've learned that the crashes I was getting also seem to be due to DVDPlayer. My log files show DVDPlayer as some of the last activity each time before it crashes.
Does anyone have information on what exactly is incompatible? Can I default to MPlayer, and avoid this problem entirely?
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Hello, I found myelf in this forum trying to compile boxee on Linux using a ppc platform. The build process seems to fail when it enters the xbmc part of it with the following error:
checking if we have SIMD optimisations for cpu type... no ("powerpc")
configure: error: CPU is not supported
~/Downloads/boxee-1.5.0
configure: error: Submodule xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/jpeg-turbo failed to configure
I assume that cximage-6.0 has no support for powerpc architecture. Is there any work around or any ports of the source code for ppc linux platforms?
Kind regards and apologises if this question is out of date or repeated.
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Maybe you should ask boxee in that case? ^^
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