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Some files don't play sound, some do. I haven't tracked it down yet, the vast majority do have sound. The 1080p file listed earlier in this thread did not have sound.
Interestingly, as of today's SVN update configure fails with FTGL=true hardcoded in configure. I had to remove it to get XBMC to compile.
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I did a make clean today, so the change might have come in earlier. Or ftgl was defaulted to enabled somewhere else, or something.
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Indeed.
Actually, I've been building without external libraries, and if I'm not totally crazy, it looks like the base SVN releases have the improved WMV behavior. Maybe from spiff's changes or something.
By improved I mean that XBMC sees the full length of the video and no longer needs to buffer, and the executable doesn't constantly crash when trying to play. The majority of WMV files still cannot be scanned or fastforwarded at all, but some work 100% where previously they were seekable only after a lot of finagling to extend the buffer.
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2009-11-22, 04:40
(This post was last modified: 2009-11-22, 07:33 by p1nky.)
I've got another problem now: the build went through fine and the seeking DOES work fine now on the files that I tried, HOWEVER, and this is really bad: VDPAU is gone now!
I just tried again running the configure as described in this thread... I think I'll edit this in so we're sure what we're speaking about...
I used this for configure:
./configure --disable-debug --enable-external-ffmpeg --enable-external-liba52 --enable-external-libdts --enable-external-libmpeg2 --enable-external-libass --enable-external-libogg --enable-external-libwavpack --disable-pulse
also at the last attempt I added this to the line: --enable-vdpau
and at the end of configure it says:
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XBMC Configuration:
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Debugging: No
Profiling: No
Optimization: Yes
OpenGL: Yes
VDPAU: No
Joystick: Yes
XRandR: Yes
GOOM: No
PCRE Support: Yes
MID Support: No
ccache: No
PulseAudio: No
FAAC: Yes
DVDCSS: Yes
Avahi: Yes
Non-free: Yes
External Libraries: No
External FFmpeg: Yes
External liba52: Yes
External libdts: Yes
External libmpeg2: Yes
External libass: Yes
External libogg: Yes
External libwavpack: Yes
External Python: No
prefix: /usr/local
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anyone know why?
running this on some xubuntu btw and got all packages as described in 2 posts above with apt-get install lib...
...and for "normal" builds VDPAU had always worked without problems.
ah yes, and this is a Zotac ION board.
UPDATE:
got a step further, seems it moans about external ffmpeg not supporting VDPAU and thus it disables it...
UPDATE 2:
seems I did it, it's "making" now...
had to compile ffmpeg on my own, seems the package u get with apt-get does not support VDPAU (at least I have no clue how to get one...)
also on "make install" it moved it to /usr/local/libs so that still wasn't enough for xbmc's configure to give the green light, so i moved it to /usr/libs and finally it gives VDPAU a go.... linux cracks probably have a clue how to set where this crap moves the files and where xbmc's configure looks for them but anyway....
ah yes, you also need latest nvidia driver for ffmpeg to compile with VDPAU enabled...
UPDATE 3:
oh great, it built it but when i want to play a video it just crashes to the desktop...
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Just a small update on this. I tried several wmv files with the 9.11 beta1. When downmix to stereo is turned on I don't have any problems. When it's turned off I can only hear the background sound. The voices for example are gone. I hope this will be fixed in the final release!