[Michael.Heimann]

Hi there,

first - thanks for the efforts - xbmc and steam are the applications that I want on my HTPC.

I've been playing around a little and thus I have some questions:

1) Is there a way to easily switch what application/xsession appears after boot-up? currently I boot into steam and then select quit to desktop to start xbmc (/usr/share/xsessions -> copied xbmc into gnome)

2) I'm a AMD A8-3850 (llano) user and have a BCM70015 for anything that the AMD can't handle. Right now neither AMD hardware acceleration nor crystalhd(not selectable) work. Especially bad in combination with broken software-decoding:

3) I'm running software decoding and have a very strange behaviour: Videos don't play smooth. It looks like it would only play with 5 fps instead of 24. I first thought it's a limitation of my CPU but when I go to the xbmc menu (where music, programms, system etc shows) the movie that plays in the background runs nicely. So how can I not have enough horsepower to decode the video when I have enough to decode AND reder the GUI. Strangely just moving the mouse pointer to get the GUI where you can skip forward doesn't improve the playback. But then clicking on the top right X to get to the main menu results in smooth playback. WTF?
[EDIT: works when I disable "sync playback to to display", independent from the method, only disabling fixed it for me]

Cheers,
Michael