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Hello,
thanks for a fantastic tutorial, which helped me setting up my revo-xbmc really fast.
Since i own a xbox with xbmc too i know the prog for a long time and I'm a big fan of the python scripts of the xbmc, especially the movietrailers one.
Unfortunately not a single script of the ones i installed is running.
It shows the message "running" for a short time but nothing happened.
After googling and searching in the forum here I couldn't find any information about the scripts.
Should the scripts work under Linux ?
Can anybody help me ?
Thank you very much
Dirk
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Does this tutorial also work if I want to install Ubuntu on my Mac Mini? Anything specific if I want to use bootcamp? Anyone has tried and confirm?
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Quick question guys.
My system now boots straight into XBMC. How do i get back to the GNOME desktop?
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I'm new to Linux and this is my first post. I recently bought a Revo - the 1 gb version with Linux installed. Before I installed XBMC Live, I played around with the Revo and could listen to music through headphone enabling the headphone jack. I then followed the instructions above for XBMC Live and installed to the hard drive wiping the previous instal. I connected to my plasma TV via hdmi and but have no audio. I have made sure that video render is VDPAU and the audio output is configured for digitial, device is hdmi, passthrough is hdmi and stereo down mixing is on. When the video is first started a box pops up with information that audio has not initialised and that I should check my configuration. The audio through the headphones also does not work. I've seen advice on checking things with alsmixer but I'm not familiar enough with Linux to know how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. As stated above, I'm new to Linux and finding my way around has not been easy but I'm learning.
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if anybody is having signal strength issues please run
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty wicd
this appears to increase the wifi signal strength and reliabilty.
wicd and wicd-client is a wifi management utility that allows the system to reconnect if it drops.
Hope this helps some poor sole as i had this issue.
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Is there a reason to use ubuntu and not windows 7? I am trying to make a box for my gf that does 1080p with no external player in windows (directly in xbmc) and wanted to know if this would work with windows 7 instead? And you're not using an external player in linux right?
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Win7 would choke on 1080P without hardware decode acceleration. That's not available on Windows XBMC, yet. You'd need an external player that can utilize DXVA under windows to get good 1080P playback. On linux with VDPAU which offloads decode to the GPU and makes 1080P playback possible on lower end hardware with a compatible nVidia chipse.
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In this 17 page thread is there any explanation as to why we would do this and NOT do an install from XBMC Live CD? Is this faster/better in some way?
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Updating and adding things are a little easier this way.