XBMC CrystalHD branch on a USB stick

mattiask · 2009-12-20 22:47

Well, found my boardcom card, and it works perfect with hdmi! Smile

but my projector at home wants componet, and that dosent seem to work, just black screen.. (when booting grome) Any ideas?

Looking forward to hear about dannyv45 project to use a HD insted, the usb takes some time to load, and the menys could maybe be faster.. But overall great!

cck197 · 2009-12-20 23:09

Bender222 Wrote:im running this on a mac so i have to use vmware fusion to download the bz2 and run he command. I get "dd: opening '/dev/stdin': no such file or directory" when I try to run the command

I'm not familiar with the Mac but I think you can solve your problem like this:

Code:

bunzip2 xbmc_crystalhd_r25841_hardy.img.bz2

sudo dd if=xbmc_crystalhd_r25841_hardy.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4096

Again, don't forget to replace /dev/sdX with the actual USB device. I think it will be /dev/sdb but I'm deliberately making you check just in case.

cck197 · 2009-12-20 23:14

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Here we go:

http://pastebin.com/d17b0ad90

None of the BBC-HD samples from x264.nl work and even a SD tv episode failed

I know CrystalHD is good because of a little file Davilla once sent me to test it in frontrow.

Oh and I must reboot every time to get the remote going. Takes a couple of reboots each time, dunno what's up with that.

To be honest there's nothing obvious in your log I can help you with. You'll need the help of one of the XBMC devs. The subversion branch I've used is so cutting edge I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't want to support it right now.

I also have some HD content that doesn't play correctly, I'm a software engineer by trade so I'm planning on digging deeper.

Sam.Nazarko · 2009-12-20 23:19

I think it might be my card. Thing is though Davilla sent me a driver (no lib unfortunately) so I could see if it would work in frontrow. It did. So that is mighty odd. I've made no mod to your live distro and have tried it all OOB.

@Davilla you say there is FW downloaded each time. Is it large? Perhaps I could use the HOSTS file to redirect calls to this and have one of the webservers on my intranet serve the aTV.

dannyv45 · 2009-12-20 23:20

davilla Wrote:The lag at video play is due to always downloading the firmware each time, this will change soon. Video startup trainwreck, as we devs call it, will also get resolved soon. A mediainfo output from the 1080p files that crash and die would be nice to see.

Thats good to here. I though it was due to using an extreamly slow thumb drive. I'm in the process of cloning the thumb stick to a spare ATA 20GB drive at the moment but as soon as I get it installed I'll re-test and attach the problematic 1080P mediainfo.

Great job with the crystalHD branch Davilla.

cck197 · 2009-12-20 23:24

mattiask Wrote:Looking forward to hear about dannyv45 project to use a HD insted, the usb takes some time to load, and the menys could maybe be faster.. But overall great!

My image can be written to any read/write media, it doesn't have to be a USB stick. If you've got a old IDE drive lying around get yourself a USB IDE adapter, plug it in and dd my image onto it, the commands remain the same.

I'm amazed how quickly Linux boots from my USB stick, remember that once everything has been loaded into main memory it won't have to keep going back to disk.

cck197 · 2009-12-20 23:34

davilla Wrote:The lag at video play is due to always downloading the firmware each time, this will change soon. Video startup trainwreck, as we devs call it, will also get resolved soon. A mediainfo output from the 1080p files that crash and die would be nice to see.

I've got one here. It's progressive scan and five reference frames so I don't think it's of the type you've mentioned previously as problematic. xbmc.log here.

nerpissad · 2009-12-21 01:57

thank you so much, cck197! this works perfectly. now I just have to wait for the crystalHD card to arrive...
I also would like to find a way to conveniently copy the image files to the internal HD. I could also then upgrade to a newer build once there are more stable builds available.
I suppose copying the .bz2 file onto the patchstick and run the commands after booting the aTV with it is not feasible?

cj43 · 2009-12-21 02:16

mattiask Wrote:Well, found my boardcom card, and it works perfect with hdmi! but my projector at home wants componet, and that dosent seem to work, just black screen.. (when booting grome) Any ideas?

I was able to get 1080i over component by using the /etc/X11/xorg.conf settings sDavilla has here. I used the one from section b and changed the HD480i to HD1080i. Please note it does go to a black screen for a couple minutes before xbmc shows up. Hopefully it will work for you also.

cck197 · 2009-12-21 02:18

nerpissad Wrote:I also would like to find a way to conveniently copy the image files to the internal HD.

The internal drive is accessible at /media/pata

You can use scp or rsync to copy files.

If there's call for it I can easily build later revisions of the crystalhd branch and make them available.

mattiask Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: Dec 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-12-20 22:47 Post: #41 Well, found my boardcom card, and it works perfect with hdmi! but my projector at home wants componet, and that dosent seem to work, just black screen.. (when booting grome) Any ideas? Looking forward to hear about dannyv45 project to use a HD insted, the usb takes some time to load, and the menys could maybe be faster.. But overall great!
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cck197 Junior Member Posts: 34 Joined: Oct 2006 Reputation: 0 Location: Oakland, CA	2009-12-21 02:18 Post: #50 nerpissad Wrote:I also would like to find a way to conveniently copy the image files to the internal HD. The internal drive is accessible at /media/pata You can use scp or rsync to copy files. If there's call for it I can easily build later revisions of the crystalhd branch and make them available.
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