[jdosher]

I'm having problems with low frame rates and subsequent "surging" video - the video speeds up every half-second or so to "catch up" with the lagging video rate.

I've been having this problem for months now, and sadly haven't been able to even use XBMC for some time now. I've tried building from source with the same result, and I've tried several different versions of pre-build binaries. I'm currently using 12.3 installed via apt-get. Machine is running Debian 7.1, kernel is stock (3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64). In menus I'm getting around 60fps, but when watching video it drops down to about 20fps.

I've posted a log file here:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6952490/

Edit:
I seem to be able to play some files successfully. So far I've been able to play some mkv and mp4 files just fine - this may by an issue playing (some) avi files only. I've tried several avi files will similar results, while all the mkv and mp4 files I've played so far seem okay. I see lots of DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity1 log entries.

I never had this problem in the past (back with Debian 6). I also don't have a problem playing any video files with other players (generally VLC) - I really miss the xbmc interface though.

[wsnipex]

read this please: http://balintreczey.hu/blog/introducing-...om-debian/

[jboehm]

Sorry, hope I'm not hijacking here.

Does this solution apply to Ubuntu too? Recently upgraded my 12.04LTS with all the latest patches and now I'm having the problem described above too.

In addition to the problem above. DTS-MA only work occasionally and A/V sync method is completely broken (audio is 3+ seconds behind the action.)

[jdosher]

My xmbc (from apt) doesn't say 'Debian xbmc' like the above article suggests, so I'm not sure how applicable it is - except I do understand the issue of linked vs built in libs...so I figured I'd try the latest source . But I'm finding issues now.

With libkrb5-dev installed I can run config just fine, but get build errors:
LD xbmc.bin
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi.so.3: undefined reference to `krb5_ntlm_init_get_challange@HEIMDAL_KRB5_2.0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [xbmc.bin] Error 1


with it removed (per one person's suggestion) I get a config error:
checking for curl/curl.h... no
configure: error: Could not find a required library. Please see the README for your platform.

[wsnipex]

you are missing (probably lots of) dev packages. As the error suggests: read docs/README.linux

[jdosher]

I've run apt-get build-dep xbmc after adding the team-xmbc ppa and I'm still getting:

LD xbmc.bin
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi.so.3: undefined reference to `krb5_ntlm_init_get_challange@HEIMDAL_KRB5_2.0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [xbmc.bin] Error 1

Though I'm not not sure sure the ppa addition worked, since apt-get update warns:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/p...4/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/u...4/Packages 404 Not Found

I wish the dependency list in docs/README.linux wasn't comma delineated; it makes it hard to cut and paste the list and do an apt-get install in one fell swoop.

[wsnipex]

PPAs are ubuntu only, you cannot use them on debian.