2013-03-05, 01:03
(2013-03-05, 00:49)MilhouseVH Wrote: No, it won't, that's why I've been banging on about updating firmware too! ;-)
Once you have updated your SD card with the rbej kernel (which includes a working NFS/SMB/USB auto-update process - do NOT attempt to auto-update NFS/SMB/USB systems when booting with the stock kernel) you should drop the rbej SYSTEM+KERNEL+MD5 files in your Update/.update folder and reboot, and the rbej auto-update process will update your firmware too.
If you suffer from corrupted SD cards, even while booting from NFS, then enable the "media check" feature to avoid corrupt firmware/kernel.img being written to your SD card (add iotimeout=5000 in cmdline.txt).
Yep, same folder. Just include the two MD5 files long with KERNEL and SYSTEM (total of four files), and once they are there you can reboot the Pi and the files will be extracted and applied to your system (firmware and kernel being written to SD card, SYSTEM to NFS).
Cool, thanks. I thought there must be a reason someone hadn't suggested doing it my way already
I've not suffered any SD corruption yet (touch wood) but I've enabled the "media check" thanks, just to be safe.
EDIT: Awesome! Now I've updated properly, no more audio pops
I have another problem with audio levels however. I haven't tested enough previously to know if it's always been like this. When I play Movies it's very quiet but when I stream from iPlayer it's quite loud/normal, although that varies as Mayday episode 1 is loud/normal whilst The Sorcerers Apprentice is very quiet like my Movies. This is a film rather than a TV Programme so maybe that's relevant but I'm not sure if iPlayer content is all stereo or if some things have multi-channel audio. I tried enabling the Boost Volume on Downmix option but that hasn't made any difference. Playing Recorded TV is quiet as well. I know the RPi analog output is relatively quiet anyway but if one programme can be loud enough I'd think everything else should be able to reach the same volume.
I also have a problem with LiveTV. Before my semi-upgrade (i.e. without doing the firmware) XBMC restarted whenever I selected a channel. After my semi-upgrade, it started working and I could watch TV. After the full upgrade (i.e. including the firmware) it's gone back to restarting XBMC every time. I can play Recorded TV fine, so it's obviously not a GPU/codec issue. I'm using the Mediaportal PVR client addon. This worked on Raspbmc when I tested (although that had it's own problems, such as rebooting whenever I tried to stream from 4oD or ITV player, both of which work fine on OpenElec). It may well just have been a co-incidence that it started working in between upgrades. I'd love to capture some logs to upload but as they're overwritten each time XBMC reboots I'm not sure that I can.
EDIT2: Poweroff (from the Shutdown menu) is a bit hit and miss for me as well. Sometimes it just restarts XBMC.
EDIT3: The volume problem may be because iPlayer "normalises" the volume on it's programmes (but maybe not on Movies it lists, such as The Sorcerer's Apprentice), which makes sense as I recall it being loud when I used it on MediaPortal. So I guess I'm hoping that some way to "normalise" everything will be added to XBMC/RPi so that I can hear everything without having to crank the volume, risking deafening myself/damaging my speakers when using iPlayer or other equipment with my amp.