[evilsephiroth]

Thanks a lot fritsch.

My only reason for switch to intel was for hi10p decoding so I hope I can fulfill my objective with this build

[fritsch]

hi10p is not done on the GPU at all. But we do multi threaded decoding and your celeron should be fast enough to handle it.

[Frank-NL]

Fritsch, what are the recommended settings for Gotham?

With Frodo you recommended this (or at least it's what I have since Frodo)

Adjust display refresh rate - On start-stop
Sync playback to display - enabled
AV sync method - drop/dupe audio

Still the best?

[fritsch]

Yes. If your TV supports the fps of course. The howto is now complete, I added the kernels.

[Frank-NL]

I have 50, 59.94 and 60fps which is working fine for me. Thanks.

[fritsch]

Be careful when playing 24p/24 content. That would be pretty bad to sync to 60hz while doing so.

[tutu]

Thanks! Guide worked first time on my Intel Haswell NUC. Just need to get my MCE remote working with the built in IR receiver, it was working under openELEC before. Then I can install advanced launcher and some EMUs

[fritsch]

can you get me - just out of interest:

dmesg | pastebinit
and lsusb -v

We also need to workaround that IR for OpenELEC, therefore that information is highly needed.

[tutu]

Yep no problem! Out of interest I have gotten advanced launcher installed (manually as it doesn't work in gotham yet) to launch Dolphin Emu. It works! But the issue is, a lot of the emulators require you to set various options for the emu first using the GUI that comes with the emulator. I can't exit XBMC as it just relaunches itself, and if I manage to kill it I just see a cursor and no terminal.

I can see the GUI for the wii emulator, but unable to use it as my mouse is locked to the game itself. Any ideas?

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can you get me - just out of interest:

dmesg | pastebinit
and lsusb -v

We also need to workaround that IR for OpenELEC, therefore that information is highly needed.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6677671/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6677683/

[wsnipex]

"sudo service xbmc stop" will stop Xbmc.

But since you want to use external applications you should enable a window manager.
uncomment this in the init script and make sure you have fluxbox installed.

Code:

#   exec su -c "xinit /usr/bin/fluxbox :0" $USER

After a reboot, you should be able to switch Xbmc to window mode(\ key) and run any program you want.

[tutu]

"sudo service xbmc stop" will stop Xbmc.

But since you want to use external applications you should enable a window manager.
uncomment this in the init script and make sure you have fluxbox installed.

Code:

#   exec su -c "xinit /usr/bin/fluxbox :0" $USER

After a reboot, you should be able to switch Xbmc to window mode(\ key) and run any program you want.

Excellent. Installed fluxbox and if I uncomment that line I get fluxbox but no longer xbmc auto booted. Is there a way to start xbmc with fluxbox underneath?

Also I'm getting no audio from my emulators - any ideas? Thanks!

These are my devices:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

As far as I can tell.. they are unmuted!

I do get the error: ALSA lib pcm+dmix.c:1022snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

[fritsch]

You need an asound.conf to select the Default Device. Not topic of this howto. You can let xbmc also auto start by editing a fluxbox config.

Quite easy, create /etc/asound.conf and reboot

Code:

pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave {
    pcm "hw:0,3" #delete the first hash for sound over hdmi
    rate 48000
  }
}

for fluxbox, a short google should help you :-)

[tutu]

Great thanks - I used 7 as I'm using DP to HDMI - and this works in all emulators except retroarch

retroarch [ALSA] failed to initialize

Edit: It works when launched from fluxbox but not from XBMC
Edit 2: If I disable GUI sounds in XBMC, audio in emulators work again.. perhaps XBMC is locking the audio down

[fritsch]

Make sure AE gets suspended prior to running the emulator. xbmc locks the audio for the time you have set it in System -> Audio Settings. If the emulator does not call AE Suspend prior to running, it won't work.

[evilsephiroth]

any chance to adapt the how to to a debian live installation?