[LINUX] Acer Aspire Revo (NVIDIA Ion) with XBMC for Linux performance and stability?

coalfield Wrote:This is very interesting, becuase I too have an issue with my amp / tv compination that when running in a full resolution 1360x768, i get the screen in green. In windows I fix this by forcing the resolution down to 720p and it works perfectly. Since the display is automatically found as max res 1360x768, I cannot change it do 720p. If i do this in xbmc it simply does it by scaling not actually changing the resolution output.

I need to force the output to 720p, but I cannot dump my TV bin file since its actually 1366x768. Any ideas....

You can change X resolution with 'xrandr' to list available resolutions, then 'xrandr -s <RES>' when you have picked a <RES> from the list.

I have found that the Revo cannot output 1360x768 over HDMI (and that my Sony Bravia doesn't like receiving other resolutions). I'm using the VGA-out, and running at 1280x768.

rebaker501 Wrote:How does the Revo 230 handle xvid/divx encoded files? on Linux? on Windows 7? I am replacing an old xbox but only have $200 in the budget.

Perfectly. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 on the 1GB model.

I am running the exact same build as this installation (page 1) on my Revo, but I can't seem to be able to add TV shows... Well.. it is extremely hit or miss. I have a folder full of .AVI's (fully loaded into XBMC) but then delete them and swap it for a folder full of .MKV's with the exact same naming convention and all of a sudden XBMC can't seem find them. The folder names and file names are identical - the only difference is that they are .MKV's instead of .AVI's...

Does anyone else have this problem with TV shows on this build of XBMC? (Movies seem to be loading fine, it's just TV shows)
Thanks!

I running the Revo as well without that issue so I can't help but you'll probably get a better response from a new thread - I only looked because I was bored.

Hi all! At the moment I am using my desktop pc with windows7, Dharma RC2 and it plays flawless with dvxa2 on. I would like to have a computer just dedicated to my HDTV for playing the media content so I can still surf the net on my pc

Been thinking of buying a Revo. I am just confused if I run live do I need a OS in the hard drive or not?

Also the external Hard drive im using would love to share it between both computers so does that mean I need to have win 7 on both?

Thank you for this wonderful program.

Beer40oz Wrote:Been thinking of buying a Revo. I am just confused if I run live do I need a OS in the hard drive or not?

Also the external Hard drive im using would love to share it between both computers so does that mean I need to have win 7 on both?

Thank you for this wonderful program.

Although you can run live from a USB stick, I think you'd be much better off installing XBMC live to the actual hard drive. In addition, I think there are some things that you actually can't do while running it straight from the USB, although I can't name specifics.

Regarding sharing the external hard drive, there are two ways to do this. One way would be to keep it plugged into the Windows 7 box, then do the standard folder sharing through Windows 7. On the other hand, my girlfriend has a very similar setup at her place and she keeps her hard drive hooked into the Revo and shares it through XBMC, thereby making it available to her Win7 machine on the network. See the following thread for more details on how to do this:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=85022