[rmtucker]

I recently downloaded my first ever version of XBMC.
And i was very impressed,but have found the following problems to be turning me back to windows.

1.Installed camelot live to usb memory no problem at all.Hd Video runs smooth at default settings.Tvheadend works perfect,But no front end yet (Record,Epg,etc) so not much use.

2.Installed Ubuntu + Camalot.Video is choppy when watching hd.

3.installed Ubuntu + pvr testing.Video is choppy when watching hd.

I have spent hours trawling through this forum,only to find it is so complicated to vdpau set up correctly (When not using Live) it is just not worth it.

My question would be :
How long before full tvheadend functionality will be released.And why is vdapu so B***dy COMPLICATED?

Regards
Mark

[JumJum]

I'm sure for the vast majority of users VDPAU works right away!

I've done this on at least 5-6 machines:
1) install karmic
2) disable compositing and twinview in xorg.conf
3) enable vsync and disable "Force Full GPU Scaling" in nvidia-settings
4) install xbmc from ppa
5) enable vsync (resample audio) in xbmc

Voila! Perfect vdpau playback.

This is in my opinion easier than using xbmc-live.

[rmtucker]

I'm sure for the vast majority of users VDPAU works right away!

I've done this on at least 5-6 machines:
1) install karmic
2) disable compositing and twinview in xorg.conf
3) enable vsync and disable "Force Full GPU Scaling" in nvidia-settings
4) install xbmc from ppa
5) enable vsync (resample audio) in xbmc

Voila! Perfect vdpau playback.

This is in my opinion easier than using xbmc-live.

Ok Thanks for the reply

1)Install Karmic

Do i let it update (All 167 of them) and install the nvidia driver on offer (185 i think)
Which Nvidia Drivers do i install (When and how.)

2) disable compositing and twinview in xorg.conf

Where is xorg.conf?

Regards
Mark

[jonassw]

I did this to enable VDPAU in Camelot (after it upgraded from RC2 to Final, VDPAU stopped working, and it took until last night for me to realize it).

Add this repo: https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau (go to the url to get the lines for your sources.list) and:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-195 libvdpau1

[JumJum]

Ok Thanks for the reply

1)Install Karmic

Do i let it update (All 167 of them) and install the nvidia driver on offer (185 i think)
Which Nvidia Drivers do i install (When and how.)

2) disable compositing and twinview in xorg.conf

Where is xorg.conf?

Regards
Mark

1: Yes, let it update everything. After that, install the newest nvidia driver.
2: Open a terminal and type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

The twinview line is added to the device-section of the file. If the section does not exist, create one like below.
The composite line goes into the extensions-section. Same thing applies there.

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "nvidia"
        Driver "nvidia"
        Option "DynamicTwinView" "false" #twinview line
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "false" #composite line
EndSection

[rmtucker]

Thanks Guys

I have tried both of your advice,but still stuttering with hd movies.

The strange thing is,if i use the media player in ubuntu,it works fine so this is just an xbmc issue,even though xbmc live works perfect.

Sadly looks like i will have to go back to windows till they add the pvr functions in xmbc,tvheadend,xbmclive.

Regards
Mark

[prae5]

More info about your setup, content, network, gpu memory allocation, drivers, debug log, etc... needed.

If you are having difficulties setting it up through linux, why not install live and then setup your pvr stuff from there?

[MacUsers]

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-195 libvdpau1

Do you mean nvidia-glx-190 or am I missing something about that 195 bit? Cheers!!!

[rmtucker]

Ok just a small update.

I re-installed live to usb stick,and as usual no issues (hd works perfectly).

Tried installing pvr-testing over the top using this guide
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=62696

Only to find i was still running the original live version.
I think i have came to the end of my persiverance.

Regards
Mark

[uomiarz]

Pvr-testing branch is using vdr. If you are not familiar with it (vdr) you will not going to get to far.

My suggestion will be to install MythTV. It comes with nice GUI and it is relatively easy to configure. It has its own front-end to test. XBMC has mythtv support build in and there are also third party scripts for xbmc to test.
http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/

[petie74]

I've used Mythbuntu 9.10 and XBMC Camelot and all is good, I just shedule all my recording with the mythweb. I use the mythtv:// in the add sorce: http://szablony.freeware.info.pl/tagi.html and its working good with the Xperience/Confluence skin to.