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Great to see the MPEG2 hardware acceleration - can nearly put my old Xbox with XBMC to sleep.
I record (from PC) from UK Freeview (DVB-T) and have seen that .ts (transport stream) recordings have problems - in that the subtitles are always shown (tested using Raspbmc).
These are subtitles embedded in the content and not via external subtitle file.
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I have seen after reading this thread that I'm not the only one with ISO issues. I have tried to play the normal VOB and MOV files that I have as well, and neither of them will play either. I do get audio, just no video. I have purchased both of the codecs, and made the changes to my config file. Shouldn't I be able to play both of these files with the current codecs?
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2012-08-29, 11:29
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-29, 11:32 by slicemaster.)
For those of you that haven't checked out the rasbmc forums, I'd reccomend it. A discussion has progressed on just this very topic, and more information has been made available by a dedicated user over there. Anyways, it would seem that much of the heavy lifting has been done already by Gimli and the crew working on omxplayer. All the functionality to playback DVD video in either folder form or ISO appears to be in place along with a little gem(it appears that DVD nav might be hw accelorated, the menus look too smooth to be done in software on the pi). Anyways, I don't want to go into it too much but the implementation appears solid with the exception of both subtitle and nav overlay allighment issues, but I suspect this could be fixed if a little time was put into it... In either case, jump over to the forums overthere and take a look at the youtube video showing omxplayer's DVD features in action (shows the current issues with overlay)
Cheers,
Slice
P.s. sorry but I'm posting this from my phone so no hyperlinks to vid or raspbmc forums...
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I'm sorry you feel that way Gimli, but I don't think users are going to be coming here asking for support on a feature that isn't even finished yet... I doubt anyone over at rasbmc (or openelec) will merge the changes into their nightlies because as you said, the feature is not ready for prime time. The current issues with the current feature state have been made clear to everyone following the topic here or over at rasbmc. The build with the feature enabled was done for curiousity's sake (the video was posed for the same reason, people were curious), and frankly the results look promising, and I for one await the finished version of DVD support...
Thanks for all the work you do Gimli, you really have done a ton for the Raspberry Pi users running XBMC, not to mention the comunity here in general.
Cheers,
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Personally I'm thankful it's possible to re-enable, as half-working functionality is exceptionally more useful to me than zero functionality.
Especially considering RaspBMC is only in a Release Candidate state.
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Confluence vertical, just so I could change it!
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Hi,
I'm using XBIAN on the Raspberry Pi which works quite well although live-TV via UPnP is a bit cumbersome. I hope my Backend (DVBViewer) will be supported soon so that I can use real live-TV with PVR and everything. Or maybe SAT>IP will be included in XBMC, that would also help.
One thing I haven't been able to figure out though is how to get IPTV (T-Home Entertain) to work with XBMC. I've got the FTA channels as m3u playlist, but they won't start. VLC plays them fine. Is there anything I can to to make this work? I could not find anything about this on google...
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I use tvheadend with IP TV. Our provider uses udp streams.