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Worked fine for me for months on Gotham 13.2.
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roveer
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2014-11-12, 06:24
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-12, 06:32 by roveer.)
Running Gotham 13.2
Just put it on my g Box Midnight MX2 and for some reason on one of the channels within 30 seconds the audio has jumped ahead of the video. Seems like the longer I let it run the further ahead the audio gets. On the other channels the audio seems to stay in sync just fine.
gBox Midnight MX2 too slow to consider. 3-5 seconds between selections before you see anything happening. Will fail the WAF.
Guess I'm going to throw my rPI at it and see what it does.
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On the hardware acceleration side sure you have mediacodec disabled and libstagefright enabled (you will need to restart xbmc for the change to register).
I am running SPMC which is based on Gotham 13.3.3.
Works great for me - only issue is the lack of deinterlace but it is tolerable and a known issue.
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I've been pounding on this setup with the windows XBMC and I'm not seeing any any of the problems that I'm having on the Android ARM version. It hasn't crashed once and besides being slow, it's doing everything it should.
I'm still not sure that I'll be able to use this setup in my household. It's a little too feature rich and as such complicates navigation. It's also just a tad too slow which causes people to think that it's frozen up.
My goal was:
Replace (3) 8+ dollar / month STB's from Verison
Provide PVR service (losing their DVR, another 19.99/month)
I've been pretty satisfied with XBMC for my NAS stored movies & TV shows as I've managed to hide just about everything and all they have to do is to select the movie and it plays. It's very simple, 1-2 menu's deep, select and go. On AFTV it's center button to select and back button to go back. No other features to mess with. The whole family get's it and it works great. With the Live TV there's still too many menu's, menu bar's, selections, side scrolling to make it simple enough for my wife & kids. Example, watching a tv show in live TV you hit the select button it brings up a menu bar at bottom with up arrow, down arrow, rewind, pause, stop, forward, picture of a tv screen, button that says epg, button that says txt, button with movie reel, button with speaker, button with circle. Problem with all these options is 1 their confusing for simple users, daunting. Some features rarely if ever used, but the biggest problem is behind almost every options (because of the way live tv works in a SERVERWMC, PVR.WMC setup) is the lag associated with doing just about every option. It's just too far away from the STB experience to expect someone to accept it. After about an hour trying to navigate with it, you decide it's easier to scrape up the 8 bucks for a STB. Wish it wasn't true, but it is.
Still looking for a way to achieve my 2 goals above, but with the problems I'm having, I don't think this is the answer.
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Pressing select while watching a movie brings up the exact same osd as in live TV so how come that isn't an issue too? You might be able to change key mappings for liveTV screen so it doesn't pop that up if you really want.
Can you explain what you mean by lag whenever you select anything? Is this on the windows client? Personally I have Intel nuc based clients and they are very good. Low powered devices like ftv atv rpi seem to need more effort/tuning due to lower processing ability.
But just because it's talking to a backend doesn't mean there is much latency. Post a server WMC log and XBMC debug log and we could see if we spot any strange issues?
How many channels and recordings do you have? If you trim those down to what you actually require it may help slower devices be more responsive
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Try switching your hardware accelerators(MediaCodec vs. libstagefright) and let me know if that fixes the issue. If switching to MediaCodec fixes it, then switch back to libstagefright and use the below logic in the advancedsettings.xml to not use libstagefright for MPEG-2 videos. This is what I had to do for my FireTV to get it working correctly with recordings.
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<stagefright>
<!-- -1 is default, 0 is never used this codec, 1 is always use this codec, bypassing blacklist -->
<usempeg2codec>0</usempeg2codec>
</stagefright>
</video>
</advancedsettings>
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@roveer: It sounds like you and I are following the same path to get rid of all those FIOS STB rental fees. I've had great success building a central HTPC with Ceton Infinitv6 running ServerWMC and XBMC on multiple AFTVs. I agree with you the confusing interface for watching live TV is the biggest hurdle for getting the whole family on board with the system. I've had some success using CEC to control XBMC using the TV remote. My next step is going to be trying to modify the XBMC remote key mappings to be a little more intuitive. If this doesn't work I may try FLIRC or even develop a Skin for kids.
Good luck!
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merschdawg06,
I was wondering why you said "If switching to MediaCodec fixes it, then switch back to libstagefright and use the below logic in the advancedsettings.xml" Why not just leave the settings switched? Does the advancedsettings.xml do something different?