Hello.
I'm a long time xbmc/xbox user/lover, and a bit of a dabbler in xbmc for windows/linux.
(you don't need to read this next paragraph)
I purchased a nice 46 inch sony hdtv a few months ago and have been trying to find a way to watch my HD content on it. Unfortunately my old xbmc/xbox isn't up to the task anymore. For a while I was converting my mkv's to mp4's with gotsent and watching them through my 360, which became quite a chore. So then I purchased a Popcorn Hour Media Player A-110, which delivered all the promises in the world, but delivered on very few. I miss the look, feel and versatility of xbmc, and how everything "just worked". So I'm purchasing an Acer Revo Nettop and putting XBMC Linux on it.
(you can begin reading from here)
I've been playing around with XBMC Live (v9.04) on one of my PC's and although the PC was too big and loud for my lounge room, everything seemed to be in order, except for playing back a rar set that was downloading.
Let me give you an example, back in my xbmc/xbox days I could start downloading a movie/tvshow from an ftp or newsgroups, provided that I started the .rar file first and then let it download a couple of files after that (.r00, .r01, to build up the cache/buffer), I could essentially "stream" the movie/tvshow whilst it was downloading. Although I lost the ability to skip forward & jump back, I could still pause and most importantly actually start watch it before it had completed downloading the entire thing. Sadly though, this ability seems to have been lost in translation to XBMC/Live. I can still watch movies from rar sets that have completely downloaded, no issues at all.
Did I miss a setting or something? I looked throughout XBMC and couldn't find anything, and I've searched the message board and was unable to find a solution to this.
Thanks
I'm a long time xbmc/xbox user/lover, and a bit of a dabbler in xbmc for windows/linux.
(you don't need to read this next paragraph)
I purchased a nice 46 inch sony hdtv a few months ago and have been trying to find a way to watch my HD content on it. Unfortunately my old xbmc/xbox isn't up to the task anymore. For a while I was converting my mkv's to mp4's with gotsent and watching them through my 360, which became quite a chore. So then I purchased a Popcorn Hour Media Player A-110, which delivered all the promises in the world, but delivered on very few. I miss the look, feel and versatility of xbmc, and how everything "just worked". So I'm purchasing an Acer Revo Nettop and putting XBMC Linux on it.
(you can begin reading from here)
I've been playing around with XBMC Live (v9.04) on one of my PC's and although the PC was too big and loud for my lounge room, everything seemed to be in order, except for playing back a rar set that was downloading.
Let me give you an example, back in my xbmc/xbox days I could start downloading a movie/tvshow from an ftp or newsgroups, provided that I started the .rar file first and then let it download a couple of files after that (.r00, .r01, to build up the cache/buffer), I could essentially "stream" the movie/tvshow whilst it was downloading. Although I lost the ability to skip forward & jump back, I could still pause and most importantly actually start watch it before it had completed downloading the entire thing. Sadly though, this ability seems to have been lost in translation to XBMC/Live. I can still watch movies from rar sets that have completely downloaded, no issues at all.
Did I miss a setting or something? I looked throughout XBMC and couldn't find anything, and I've searched the message board and was unable to find a solution to this.
Thanks
