2013-12-27, 23:45
What things do you mean?
Why you have to change channels on your TV?
Why you have to change channels on your TV?
(2013-12-27, 23:08)smonkey Wrote: Hi all,
I got one of these (i5) about a week ago and have installed XBMC myself on top of Ubuntu server, using bits of info I've found on these forums.
I have one showstopping problem though, I believe it can be fixed and Intel are working on it. Everything works perfectly until I change channel on the TV (older Samsung LCD, 1366x768). When I change back to the NUC channel, I get 'no signal' on the TV and the only way to get it back is to reboot - restarting XBMC doesn't help. At first I tried Mint and OpenELEC and got the same, so eventually tried just going into the BIOS and testing it.... same problem. I don't get this problem on another TV (another Samsung) though.
I don't think there's anything I can do to get around this, especially as it happens in the BIOS.
Is there a decent up to date guide to installing XBMC on a barebones ubuntu or centos server install? I don't want to go OpenELEC because I want to use the box for other server related things. My current install works, but I'm not certain if everything is set up as well as it should be (things like vaapi were just installed by following instructions in other forum posts).
I'm happy to go for a desktop linux install if that would help and I've heard Mint is best for the NUC. I'm really just looking for a relatively up to date 'best practice' way of getting XBMC installed on the NUC.
(2013-12-27, 22:48)twinflower Wrote: Thanks for the info. Exactly which case did you shoot for? I did not find a model suited for D54250WYK in their product list.
Have you tried loading the cpu/hdd heavily and measured the temperature?
(2013-12-28, 01:08)smonkey Wrote: Thanks for the replies!
DDD - replacing everything with XBMC isn't really possible, I like to use it to playback downloaded content, but for watching live TV, it's easier for the family just to use Sky (plus games consoles etc..). The issue only happens on my main TV (other TV is fine), but I've been reading the NUC forums and apparently they will issue a BIOS update which will fix HDMI handshake problems. The problem also happens when I turn the TV off, so there isn't really a workaround.
quintixbox - thanks for the info, I'll probably just end up going for Mint. I won't really use the desktop but seeing as the chip is very powerful, it wont cause any performance issues by having it running in the background. OpenELEC is brilliant, but I'm a sysadmin so really want to be able to do things like use the NUC as a NAS (with external drives), possibly HTTP server, maybe hosting my own emails etc.. with postfix, dns server, maybe even VOIP with asterisk at some point.
How bad are the black levels, and are there any known fixes? I've only used it a few times with Ubuntu server but haven't really noticed any problems with that - I assume that the Mint deb would be the same.
Edit: One more thing, I really need to stick with 12.3 at the moment because a lot of the streaming plugins I use don't work in Gotham due to things like python versions.
I've skimmed through a lot of this thread, but to save me reading through 145 pages, can you point me in the direction of the xrandr tweaks?
Finally, am I right in assuming that in mint I just add the repo and install xbmc, with the dependencies taking care of the rest? No other drivers/tweaks needed?
Quote:which is gotham with a new method for intel deinterlacing. Check Video -> Playback.http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1581857
VPP has fooled us now since a long time and is barely usable especially on haswell. Therefore we chose the wooden hammer. With this version you can use the yadif deinterlacer for awesome quality.
(2013-12-28, 11:01)gamble Wrote: Oh and Here FYI, screenshots from my Audio / Video Settings...with those and the latest built from FritschSo according to your screenshots you disabled video hardware acceleration completely (VDPAU + VAAPI)? Does it mean all videos are decoded by the CPU or how does it work now?
i didnt encounter any problems yet...VDPAU seemed to f*** something up, since disabled i haven't had a problem.
Its in German but shouldn't be to big of a problem ..
(2013-12-28, 11:57)-DDD- Wrote: Why it doesn't work for you?
I mean the Build:
Quote:which is gotham with a new method for intel deinterlacing. Check Video -> Playback.http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1581857
VPP has fooled us now since a long time and is barely usable especially on haswell. Therefore we chose the wooden hammer. With this version you can use the yadif deinterlacer for awesome quality.
(2013-12-28, 14:41)devkid Wrote:(2013-12-28, 11:01)gamble Wrote: Oh and Here FYI, screenshots from my Audio / Video Settings...with those and the latest built from FritschSo according to your screenshots you disabled video hardware acceleration completely (VDPAU + VAAPI)? Does it mean all videos are decoded by the CPU or how does it work now?
i didnt encounter any problems yet...VDPAU seemed to f*** something up, since disabled i haven't had a problem.
Its in German but shouldn't be to big of a problem ..