booker88 Wrote:You aren't rdp'ing in as the same user that xbcm is running as are you (the console)?
I'm running s2008 on my media box and xbmc runs ok while I'm rdp'ing in the background (as a different user).
Ahhah, yes I am. I have a "power user" set up for my main user on the server. Server autologs in as Macgyver (yeah, Macgyver), and auto starts XBMC.
I then RDP in as Macgyver. I'll set up another account and see if that improves things.
jhsrennie Wrote:XBMC works fine on Server 2003 and Server 2008 console sesisons because I use both platforms for doing development work on XBMC, though on Server 2003 you need to go into the advanced graphics settings and set the hardware acceleration to maximum because the default is to disable it (on Server 2008 the default appears to be acceleration on). However XBMC isn't supported in RDP sessions on any version of Windows.
Yes I have set the hardware options appropriately.
Quote:But I'm still not clear what you're doing. If you're running XBMC in a console session and you RDP in then unless you used the /console RDP option you should get an entirely separate session that doesn't interact with the console. If you'r RDPing in then attempting to run XBMC you can expect problems.
Not really sure how else I can say it;
kitsunegari Wrote:I'm not trying to run XBMC in an RDP session, I'm trying to access the computer.
When I log in via RDP, XBMC - which is already running - crashes.
Assuming a cold boot:
Server turns on. Auto logs in to power user Macgyver. Auto loads XBMC. So the server is running headless, xbmc is running, the video/audio is output over HDMI from my server upstairs to my TV downstairs.
At a random time in the future after this server has been running happily for
x amount of time, I want to check the status of my harddrives, or I want to manage my network backups, or I want to check the status of a torrent download so I RDP into my server.
I get the XBMC Fatal crash message, because the RDP session I've created can't load XBMC.
XBMC running on the computer, not in a console, that has been happily running for
x amount of time then crashes as well. Only way to resurrect it is reboot.
Bookers comment has given me the answer though, I think. As the user has XBMC.exe in a startup script, this is also called when I RDP in as the same user, thereby calling XBMC within the RDP session even though I don't want it too - I just didn't put a rather simple 2 and 2 together.
So, I'll test it tonight, but problem solved I do believe.