2009-05-25, 20:57
Hi All,
As XBMC is running pretty smoothly here now, I wanted to list the change I had to do to make it work nearly perfectly.
No way to choose the partition settings
I installed XBMC from the LiveCD and I was very disappointed to be prompted to format the entire harddrive. No way to choose a partition here ?
At the end, I had two partitions, one for the system and the other for /home.
No sound through SPDIF
No sound at startup because I am using the SPDIF connector to an external amplifier. I had to create a $home/.asoundrc which contains something like !pcm.default spdif .
Gaps when playing internet streaming (shoutcast streams)
With the help of Billybig, I had to create the XBMC advancedsettings.xml file to set the resample settings to avoid gaps when playing shoutwast steams (see complete post)
Success
After the two previous changes, XBMC is running and running well. The remote (the Pinnacle MCE compatible one) is working a bit slowly but that's all I can find.
Thanks a lot to the XBMC team for providing so much effort on the project !
Regards,
Tom
As XBMC is running pretty smoothly here now, I wanted to list the change I had to do to make it work nearly perfectly.
No way to choose the partition settings
I installed XBMC from the LiveCD and I was very disappointed to be prompted to format the entire harddrive. No way to choose a partition here ?
At the end, I had two partitions, one for the system and the other for /home.
No sound through SPDIF
No sound at startup because I am using the SPDIF connector to an external amplifier. I had to create a $home/.asoundrc which contains something like !pcm.default spdif .
Gaps when playing internet streaming (shoutcast streams)
With the help of Billybig, I had to create the XBMC advancedsettings.xml file to set the resample settings to avoid gaps when playing shoutwast steams (see complete post)
Success
After the two previous changes, XBMC is running and running well. The remote (the Pinnacle MCE compatible one) is working a bit slowly but that's all I can find.
Thanks a lot to the XBMC team for providing so much effort on the project !
Regards,
Tom