vikjon0 Wrote:He has screen shots and explain what he is doing. Mine is just a log of the commands to use...but it is more complete.
OK, thanks for the quick reply. I'm a long-time XBMC on classic XBox user and have been experimenting with various installs for my Revo. I first installed XBMC Live onto a USB stick and that seemed to work really well after a couple of tweaks. A 1080p .ts file I tested with seemed to play very smooth. But the USB stick kept getting corrupted. I didn't want to lose the XP partition, so I couldn't use the XBMC Live disc to install to my hard drive.
I tried an Ubuntu Desktop install and then followed the XBMC wiki for installing XBMC thru the GUI, but that didn't work well. So then I tried following other guides which fixed some things but broke others and left me with a buggy mess.
I then installed XBMC onto Windows XP and that was easy, but of course, it isn't optimized for the NVIDIA GPU. MPC-HC plays my .ts file very well, though.
So then I reinstalled Ubuntu Desktop and followed your guide today. Everything went very, very well. You did an excellent job detailing the steps.
vikjon0 Wrote:This is probably because I don't know that much linux. If there is a good way to mount it directly that is fine. My point is that I do not want to mount this partion as part of the OS. I want it be an empty folder in the root.
The first time I did the Ubuntu Desktop install, I typed in /storage for the mount point, but I don't know enough about Linux to know if that had the desired result, and I've since reinstalled according to your guide, so I can't look at it any more.
vikjon0 Wrote:Thats fine...but do you not get a timed login if you check that? If so you still have to go to this dialog and removed the timed function.
I don't believe you get a timed login for the initial bootup. Only when I "Log off" from Gnome do I see the login screen with the timer.
Anyways, like I said, great write-up. Unfortunately, I had some problems...
When I went to play my .ts file, it was horribly choppy. It would later be discovered that the problem was that, for some reason, my Revo ended up connecting to the router at 10Mbps (previously, with XBMC Live and Windows XP it was correctly connecting at 100Mbps). Not sure of the reason for that, but before I diagnosed it, I assumed that it was a problem with this install, so I then tried upgrading to the latest svn, messing around with a bunch of settings, and wasting a lot of time Googling for answers. After figuring out the ethernet issue, I attempted to get it all working again, but I'm stuck with the following problems:
1) xbmc-standalone seems to cause me video problems. I get mostly green and lots of blockiness. It never seems to settle down. Someone replied in a thread I was following that having only 1GB (which I do) can cause green screen issues, but I've successfully played my .ts file in XBMC Live. And if I uninstall the xbmc-standalone piece, boot into Gnome, and then run XBMC from there, I can play my .ts file OK. I would have thought that using xbmc-standalone would have resulted in less resources being used up since Gnome wouldn't be loading in the background (right?). Any ideas on this?
2) The stop button on my remote is exiting XBMC (bumping me back to Gnome). I don't think it was doing this the first time I followed your guide, so I think it somehow got screwed up in the process of me uninstalling/reinstalling things, though I don't know why. I don't know if this is a problem with the remote mapping data or if its a byproduct of XBMC being taxed when playing my video files, but it happens with a DVD .iso file as well, so I don't think that's the problem. In any case, any ideas for how I could fix this?
3) While video playback (without xbmc-standalone installed) is *very good*, it's not perfect. I see some very subtle choppiness. It's very slight, such that audio is unaffected and, at a casual glance, you might not even notice it. But it's not silky smooth. And, yes, I have the "Composite" "Disable" option set. I am thinking that maybe I'm taxing my 100Mbps network (which is likely not delivering a full 100Mbps), but MPC-HC on Windows XP seems to play back my .ts file perfectly smooth. Still, I've got an 8-port gigabit switch being delivered tomorrow, so hopefully bandwidth turns out to be the issue and it gets solved once I put that in place.