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2011-04-03, 22:50
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Currently I have the blinking questions mark, waiting on update. Thanks for releasing* the great installer.
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I just DD'd the USB image onto my internal hard drive. Still only a 4GB image, but my database is on MySQL on my linux server, and my Thumbnails folder is on an NFS export on my linux server. I just need space for updates - wheee!
One issue I'm still having, though, is that any BluRay rips with VC1 encoding don't play. They just flicker between the menu screen and black, although sound plays just fine.
Should I be able to play VC1? I've not tampered with anything except setting it for component output, but that works fine with H264. I have the CrystalHD 70012 - had it about a year. I've not been able to play VC1 since SVN 28256 or something, but I just guessed I'd screwed my install at some point.
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Oh, and another thing (that's a separate issue, and something of a feature request). Is there a way to have XBMC restart as/when it crashes?
Otherwise, good job, Sam. Nice, light distro - it seems to use less RAM (and certainly uses less drive space) than my old installation on Pin's ubuntu image.
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I tried installing again and it worked fine. XBMC booted up. I the rebooted and it took me to the text based login.
apptetv-ubuntu login:
A few lines up I get cd:14 can't cd to /home/atv/scripts
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I am enjoying this complete XBMC solution. Thanks again Sam. I tried to enabled DDS by executing the following over SSH (as recommended on your the Google Project page):
cd .xbmc\userdata
sudo touch advancedsettings.xml
[Here I get the error "no such file exists"]
Still it seems to have created the file. I then use:
sudo nano advancedsettings.xml
and edit the advancedsettings.xml to include this:
<advancedsettings>
<useddsfanart>true</useddsfanart>
</advancedsettings>
All seems happy, but nothing happens. I have viewed each fanart image onscreen (which I believe should prompt XBMC to create the DDS version) but nothing happens. There is no drive activity, I cannot find any DDS fanart and it does not load in that lovely snappy way that DDS normally allows.
Does DDS work with your new image? Is there a way to check the logs or something?
Thanks again Sam.