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Updated Gotham build (20 Jan), clone from newclock3 branch with one extra PR.

This is a test build with dvdplayer as default player, now with hardware acceleration.
It should improve DVD menus and playback, but it might behave differently for different content.

A word from popcornmix:

In my testing it appeared pretty responsive in starting/stopping/seeking compared to omxplayer which requires more buffering on GPU.
It is a little less efficient in CPU than omxplayer, but should play all 720p content, and modest 1080p content (no raw Blu-Rays).
It should work better with DVD images, including menus.
It may well work better with live TV issues (not tested by me so far).
If you have any annoying behaviour with subtitles/streaming/buffering/seeking/trickplay etc then it may behave differently.

Just try playing your normal content with dvdplayer, and report back what seems better or worse compared to omxplayer.

Depending on this testing we make make dvdplayer the default player in the future, and have omxplayer as an optional player for 1080p content.

Please note that I have set DVDPlayer as default video and dvd player.
To compare with omxplayer you can use context menu and ’Play using…’.
See below how to change default player back to omxplayer in advancedsettings.xml.

Info:
• XBMC master from Jan 20 (except this commit as I don´t know if it might interfere with testing)
• DVDPlayer with hardware acceleration
• DVDPlayer set as default player (see below how to change this)
• Fix for buffermode now in XBMC master
• Tamland´s PR for hls/https streams

Recommendations:
• Libdvdcss (see post #1), this might be required
• Dec update or latest firmware from master (see post #1)
• Fresh guisettings.xml if you come from Frodo or old Gotham
• Recheck all settings after install

To get passthrough with dvdplayer (and paplayer), add the following to config.txt:

Code:

no_hdmi_resample=1
hdmi_stream_channels=1

Make sure that Speaker layout is set to 2.0 (passthrough is still 5.1).

To install, SSH to Pi:

Code:

cd .upgrade
wget -O xbmc-13-20140120-nc3-dvdpl.tar.gz http://goo.gl/zgKJNv --no-check-certificate
mkdir -p xbmc-13-20140120-nc3-dvdpl
tar -xzf xbmc-13-20140120-nc3-dvdpl.tar.gz -C xbmc-13-20140120-nc3-dvdpl
cd xbmc-13-20140120-nc3-dvdpl/xbmc-bcm/xbmc-bin/lib/xbmc/system
cp /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.so.2.1.0 .
ln -sf libdvdcss.so.2.1.0 libdvdcss.so.2
ln -sf libdvdcss.so.2 libdvdcss.so

Activate new build in "Raspbmc Settings/Nightly…/Switch…”, choose new build + restart XBMC.

You can still use omxplayer for video either through context menu or by changing the default player in advancedsettings.xml:

Code:

<video>
  <defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
  <defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>