Here’s another version of XBMCbuntu. The packages in used in this version come from Mario Sitz. These are the latest packages and should be more stable than beta 1. The issue with the small fonts and installer on Nvidia ION systems and televisions is still present in this release.
Update 13 January 2012, version v27 with the following fixes/changes:
- Latest package from master, pre beta 2.
- Fixed “ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer” on most of the systems, due to new XBMC package.
- Libmpeg2 added to fix dvd menu playback.
- ethtool added.
- Pink background on openbox fixed.
Problems after installing this from a USB with unetbootin, I can not startup and get something like . Hardware is a MSI-E350 and 3 X 2TB Samsung HD’s which was previously installed as a Freenas with ZFS-RAID.
Problems after installing this from a USB with unetbootin, I can not startup and get something like . Hardware is a MSI-E350 and 3 X 2TB Samsung HD’s which was previously installed as a Freenas with ZFS-RAID.
@Sjors
It is 32 bit.
OK. Tried v27 now and it opens on my P4.
hmmz, that’s bit of waste for my 8 gb ddr3 ram.
Will there be a way to upgrade it to a 64 bit version? Or use the packages of this xbmcbuntu with a 64bit ubuntu version?
like it so far. The ion installer on a tv isn’t legible but by version 27 you remember what the questions are
acer revo 3610
ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer
although i have sound and navigation noises.
ERROR: special://profile/keymaps/noBS.xml Doesn’t contain
not sure what the purpose of that file is can it be deleted or should i be editting custom settings into it. If I add my custom keyboard.xml file it doesn’t work I’m actually editting the /usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps/ one instead to work with my MCE remote.
Hey.
I think ive found a bug, its a weird one and i hope someone else is gonna see it.
When i watch a series lets say “Ringer” the logo for the channel displays in the right lower corner of the screen like it always does.
Now to the weird part .. if the camera is following someone or if someone walks past the camera the logo flickers, same if the camera panoramas quickly. I have tested with 9.11 and it don’t have this problem, tested different nvidia drivers same problem. I dont thinks its the nvidia driver so it must be something in xbmc/ubuntu.
@Sjors
The whole point of xbmc is that you don’t need a high spec to run it. 8 gb of ram is serious overkill, and xbmc will run easily with 2GB to 4 GB of RAM as long as you have the correct video card, that does hardware acceleration.
Hurrah! v27 works on my ASROCK ION330HT w TeVii S660 USB-DVB-S2
It’s still a bit tricky as the “Weiter” buttons are still “outside your view” on my Samsung TV during install (I even don’t know it’s “Weiter” as I just see a small portion of the button – anyway).
However another somewhat OT question: I’m having trouble with HTS TVheadend. Is this an 11.10 issue?
I set it up and it created a user “hts” and the initial file at /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/superuser.
I does not create a default pwd for “hts”? Nor does it add “hts” to the group “video”?
To get a bit more output I added a debug flag to “DAEMON_ARGS=”-d -f -u hts -g video”" in the start-stop-script /etc/init.d/tvheadend.
When I boot the system tvheadend starts, but I can’t connect as as can’t find its config:
xbox@XIon:~$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep tvheadend
Jan 16 20:43:31 XIon tvheadend[1056]: START: No configuration path set, settings and configuration will not be saved
Jan 16 20:43:31 XIon tvheadend[1056]: dvb: Found adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0 (Montage Technology DS3000/TS2020) via USB (480 Mbit/s)
Jan 16 20:43:31 XIon tvheadend[1056]: dvr: Creating new configuration ”
Jan 16 20:43:31 XIon tvheadend[1056]: dvr: Output directory for video recording is not yet configured for DVR configuration “”. Defaulting to to “(null)”. This can be changed from the web user interface.
Jan 16 20:43:31 XIon tvheadend[1056]: CSA: Using SSE2 128bit parallel descrambling
Jan 16 20:43:31 XIon tvheadend[1056]: START: HTS Tvheadend version 2.12 started, running as PID:1056 UID:1 GID:44, settings located in ‘No settings dir’
Jan 16 20:43:32 XIon tvheadend[1056]: AVAHI: Service ‘Tvheadend’ successfully established.
If I restart it, it works, however it reads its config file from /home/xbox rather than /home/hts ?!?
xbox@XIon:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/tvheadend restart
[sudo] password for xbox:
* Restarting HTS Tvheadend tvheadend [ OK ]
xbox@XIon:~$ tail /var/log/syslog | grep tvheadend
Jan 16 20:46:08 XIon tvheadend[1056]: STOP: Exiting HTS Tvheadend
Jan 16 20:46:09 XIon tvheadend[1662]: dvb: Found adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0 (Montage Technology DS3000/TS2020) via USB (480 Mbit/s)
Jan 16 20:46:09 XIon tvheadend[1662]: dvr: Creating new configuration ”
Jan 16 20:46:09 XIon tvheadend[1662]: CSA: Using SSE2 128bit parallel descrambling
Jan 16 20:46:09 XIon tvheadend[1662]: START: HTS Tvheadend version 2.12 started, running as PID:1662 UID:1 GID:44, settings located in ‘/home/xbox/.hts/tvheadend’
Jan 16 20:46:09 XIon tvheadend[1662]: capmt: got connection from client …
Jan 16 20:46:10 XIon tvheadend[1662]: AVAHI: Service ‘Tvheadend’ successfully established.
Anybody got WIImote working with this version ?
Can’t get it installed…
Any possibility that WiFi will work out of the box on this version of XBMCUbuntu? Just by filling in your wifi stuff in XBMC and by not having to work in Linux? I have never succeeded in getting my WiFi work…
Hello , when i try to use this with my ati hd 6450 it fails to install , i can run it live but i want it to install ..Says something about fallback of vga driver .. Hiw to fix this ?
Wake from USB using my MCE remote wasn’t working even adding the USB devices into /proc/acpi/wakeup. However, this worked for me:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1820407
I a using a ASrock ION 330. I hope this helps someone else.
I’m on version 23 (New Years Edition). Is there a way to upgrade to this version using apt-get update, apt-get upgrade or apt-get install xbmc?? Or… do I have to install a fresh copy of this version 27 edition??
Thanks.
Hi,
I installed this on my Zotac AD02 but I dont get any sound. Can someone please tell a noob like my how I do.
Thanks for a awsome release!
Best regards JoJo
I though Eden was able to mount Bluray .iso files but I can’t seem to get the latest XBMCbuntu build to play a bluray .iso. any ideas?
Is this version already able to play h264 with 5.1 profile?
I get a lot of artifacts on my system.
Gisteren dacht ik maar eens m’n Freak Dharma te vervangen door een Eden release. Ik heb uiteindelijk na een dag stoeien maar weer m’n Dharma image teruggezet.
Ik ben er achter gekomen dat er wat goed fout zit in de recente januari XBMC builds. Het is niet alleen XBMCubuntu gerelateerd want ook de laatste build van OpenElec heeft hier ook “last” van:
>50% onverklaarbare CPU load when idle en torenhoge CPU waardes bij het spelen HD content. Zo erg dat m’n PC uit zelfbescherming er maar mee stopt.
Bij het afspelen van HD leert de “o” toets me dat VDPAU wel gebruikt wordt maar dat m’n CPU rond de tachtig tot 100 procent staat te springen, alsof er geen gebruik wordt gemaakt van de video kaart (Geforce 210) voor het renderen.
Iets wat heel vervelend is en wel alleen op de laatste freak release is te merken is dat:
Het systeem niet meer uit standby kan halen met m’n MCE remote. Ondanks dat in /proc/acpi/wakeup de USB poorten op enabled staan.
Als het systeem uit slaap komt, de remote dus niet meer werkt (lirc proces is verdwenen)
Bovenstaande diverse keren getest met fresh install van Freak en OpenElec.
Na het restoren van de Dharma image werkte alles naar behoren.
@DragonFly
Ik heb precies het zelfde met betrekking tot 50% onverklaarbare CPU load when idle en torenhoge CPU waardes bij het spelen HD content. Bij het afspelen van HD knalt de cpu naar 100%. (ASRock ION3D 152D / NVIDIA® GT218-ION)
Ik kwam dit comment tegen van newphreak (1 van de stafleden) op Openelec forum
“This should be an issue with all linux distributions. On live you can change drives backwards and forwards and try to change things.
But on another note, this is currently being worked on, FernetMenta has started a complete re-write of VDPAU. This will most likely solve all these problems. But we have no clue when it will be ready for testing, or even better, stable. It’s a really big job, and will require allot of work.”
Misschien kan Piethein hier iets meer over vertellen
Bedankt voor je info Mitch. Ben blij dat ik niet de enigste ben met een zo’n probleem.
Als het werkelijk een VDPAU probleem is zou ik nVidia gebruikers zeker afraden recente builds van wat voor maker dan ook te gebruiken. Het brengt (als je niet de boel goed in de gaten houdt) je computer behoorlijk op temperatuur. Met alle gevolgen van dien……………..
ASROCK ION330HT
Installation:
Installation of v27 went well. Installation menu perfectly readable on Philips LCD TV through HDMI. Scary ‘blackout’ somewhere halfway the process though. Resisted the urge to restart and it came up again by itself.
First impressions
). Videos (SD VOBs, MKV’s) stopped playing randomly after only a few minutes after which XBMC restarted (fast).
First impressions very very impressive in terms of speed and new features. No overkill, just the expected improvements to Dharma.
Sound over S/PDIF works out of the box, with system sounds as well. Sound over HDMI not tested.
Only thing not working immediately was playback of any video file (rather important feature
Also got error messages indicating loss of network connection. Obvious measures did not work (checking cables, shares).
sudo apt-get upgrade finally did the trick. Now I am one happy puppy as everything works fine and better than Dharma Live.
SD movie image quality has improved quite considerably, with more saturation, blacker blacks (might be my imagination, but anyway I have nothing to wish for now).
And this is the first Live version which I can power up and shut down with my remote!
Mine is an Asrock ION3D too, not 330HT as mentioned. I will check for the CPU load problem when playing HD.
I have Eden running on Asrock ION330 and on ION 3D 152D.
On both systems CPU load never goes high (highest I have seen is 8% before dropping back to 2-3% on the ION3D) with any SD or HD content. Tested up to 1920×1080 with 5.1 DTS Bluray ripped movie and no high CPU load.
@adgr
Als een nieuwe versie uit ( v28 of versie van Eden Beta 2) is, zal ik het nog eens gaan uitproberen.
I’m still running XBMCFreak Maverick (V2). Is it possible to upgrade to this build? I tried the standard “add unstable XBMC PPA” but was left with a blank screen.
Hi!
Can anyone confirm for me problem with VAAPI and vsync always on option in XBMC?
If I enable vsync I get a kind of video stutter on my ATI 5450 rig. When vsync is off then everything is smooth but I get picture tearing sometimes…