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RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - wsnipex - 2014-06-30

the low fps issue is caused by wrong audio settings in combination with sync playback to display. Set audio channels to 2.0 and disable passthrough.

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - Michael.Heimann - 2014-06-30

Interesting - I can agree that turning off "sync playback to display" fixes the issue.

But I can't find wrong audio settings...
How should I setup audio? I've got a receiver that decodes DD, DTS and I only want sound over HDMI. Thus I want passthrough, isn't it?
I've set my speaker setup to 5.0 (which it is), enabled passthrough and enabled the checkboxes that the receiver can decode DTS and DD. I've selected HDMI as sound output (via pulseaudio).

When I play a movie, I can see my receiver shows an incoming DTS stream so I "guess" that works.

What am I missing?

Cheers,
Michael

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - fritsch - 2014-06-30

Quote:I've set my speaker setup to 5.0 (which it is), enabled passthrough and enabled the checkboxes that the receiver can decode DTS and DD. I've selected HDMI as sound output (via pulseaudio).

On kernel 3.10 there is no driver that can open more than 2 pcm channels on your AMD hardware. DTS, AC3 are compressed signals sent via 2 channels only.

Debug Log or it never happened.

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - Michael.Heimann - 2014-06-30

Sad to hear - so I guess I have the most incompatible hardware possible - AMD making it impossible to accelerate decoding, impossible to passthrough surround sound and crystalhd not being supported.

But I'm still wondering why my receiver insists that it's decoding DTS when it can't be ...

I've followed the link and uploaded the logs here:
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=238187

What would be the correct sound config in my situation then?

Cheers,
Michael

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - fritsch - 2014-07-01

DTS, AC3 are send via 2(!) pcm channels. So also old kernel with old drivers can play that.

Edit: And from the logfile that looks good, done via pulseaudio

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - Michael.Heimann - 2014-07-01

So that means my soundconfig is right and "sync playback to display" is broken?

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - fritsch - 2014-07-01

Nope - most likely again an fglrx driver issue ... works on all other platforms nvidia, intel, raden oss, windows, mac, etc. ...

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - Nihil - 2014-07-01

Hello. I'm new to XBMC and I need some help with getting it to work.
I had no problems with installing SteamOS on my newly built HTPC (CPU: i3-4130T, MB: Asus H87I-Plus, GPU: Intel HD 4400, RAM: 2GB), but when I tried to install XBMC on SteamOS following instructions from the 1st post of this topic I ended with this:

Code:
desktop@steamos:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:13.1~git20140609.0800-f2acae7-0) but it is n$

        Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:13.1~git20140609.0800-f2acae7-0.1~) but it is$

        Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Then I've installed SteamOS in VirtualBox (it wasn't that easy) and got the exact same error after "sudo apt-get install xbmc" command...

Any ideas how to solve this dependencies error?

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - Juppstein - 2014-08-20

I have SteamOS Update 126 (alchemist_beta) installed on my Intel NUC and I get the same error message as the previous poster

Code:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:13.1~git20140609.0800-f2acae7-0) but it is not going to be installed

        Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:13.1~git20140609.0800-f2acae7-0.1~) but it is not going to be installed

        Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have tried to add the libtag1c2a to the preferences file as indicated in a previous thread but apparently this does not fix the broken dependencies.

Code:
Package: libtag1c2a

Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org

Pin-Priority: 900

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - wsnipex - 2014-08-20

apt-cache policy libva-intel-vaapi-driver

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - Juppstein - 2014-08-21

(2014-08-20, 21:07)wsnipex Wrote: apt-cache policy libva-intel-vaapi-driver

Thanks for that tip. I already found another workaround yesterday. I'll put my steps below just for those that might have a similar issue and find this thread here:

I added the wheezy deb to sources.list since they are not enabled on a brand new SteamOS box

Code:
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

Then I added the deb to the pinning order

Code:
Package: *

Pin: release l=SteamOS

Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *

Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org

Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *

Pin: release l=Debian

Pin-Priority:-10

Then I did

Code:
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xbmc

and the magic happend. Perhaps it would be good to add a little side note on the first post that the procedure above might be required for some people.

Now I only have to find a way to bring a PVR addon into this build (tvheadend)

Edit says:

For those that struggle with installing the PVR addons:

Have a look at this page here and search for the PVR addon you need (i.e TVheadend)

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/steamos/pool/main/x/xbmc-pvr-addons/

In terminal you enter (in my example for TVH for x64)

Code:
wget http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/steamos/pool/main/x/xbmc-pvr-addons/xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts_1.9.27-16alchemist_amd64.deb

then go to where you downloaded the file and do

Code:
dpkg --install /xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts_1.9.27-16alchemist_amd64.deb

That's it, you should now be able to find and activate the Addon in XBMC.

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - wsnipex - 2014-08-21

pvr addons are in our repo.

and I'll check about the libva driver when I find some time. But it should be available in steam OS itself.

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - jazz1138t - 2014-08-26

Hi, Just wondering if a 13.2 update is planned for this repo. Should I be more patient or build my own?

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - wsnipex - 2014-08-26

its on my todo list, I might get to it in the evening.

RE: [SteamOS] Xbmc repository beta testing - jazz1138t - 2014-08-26

(2014-08-26, 08:48)wsnipex Wrote: its on my todo list, I might get to it in the evening.

Cool Thanks,

Also I just received SteamOS update 133 with the updated VAAPI. I had to turn off VAAPI acceleration as H264 videos output white blocks all over the screen. Not an XBMC issue but something to look out for for those using Nvidia hardware.