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The issue with losing the signal is almost certainly something to do with the EDID. I used to have this issue booting XBMC with my tv turned off with an older receiver. I now have a receiver that passes EDID thru. There are ways to dump the EDID data to a file and point to it but I never got so far as to implement them. I'm not sure how you can best troubleshoot this but this sounds most likely to me so you may want to research it as well.

I'm running Mint 16 on my i5 NUC and OE on my i3. I did have to install daily ALSA on my i5 and didn't do the xrandr tweak, it works great and I update daily - compiles fast! The ALSA from the 23rd fails on my box and I'm using one dated from the 17th that works great.

My i3 with OE is running the latest from Fritsch on Gotham and won't play my ripped\compressed bluray videos but has zero issue with other media. Not sure what's up and will be copying something local soon to make sure it's not the server although I've never had an issue in the many years I've run XBMC. Video plays for about 7 seconds and fails consistently with only sound being heard - no video displayed. All of these videos are h.264 encoded by me with handbrake so it's a real puzzle and I've heard no suggestions for a fix. I'm getting close to switching to Mint on this as well which is a shame. :-(

Edit: This might help! http://openelec.tv/index.php?option=com_...7&id=14675