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I had encountered that problem and fix on my on search already. But alas that's not what's going wrong.
The directory was capitalized already. But just to make sure I did make the link with ln -s so there's both a capitalized and uncapitalized version with the same file.
It doesn't solve the problem though, still the same result.
I noticed now that also the navi-x plugin crashes with the xbmc log complaining about the same issue. XML window file missing. I switch to confluence, and it works fine again.
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Just did a clean install and tried xbmc-nightly, aeon nox git and cinema experience git, same issue.
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cinema experience-git doesn't work with xbmc-nightly, not even with another skin. so it's back to repository versions for both and aeon mq4
and back to the original problem
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2013-11-14, 07:37
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-14, 07:43 by senjinthedragon.)
Tried the whole thing on windows today, and it runs fine there. Same cinema experience version, same aeon nox.
Which means I can only come to the conclusion that it's not a problem with the addons at all but with the addons and the xbmc version that linux Mint 15 puts in their distribution.
I have tried other verions from the ppa's. Nightlies and team-xbmc repository versions. But those don't work either so it could be any 3rd party things it uses. Eg. python incompatibility etc.
Using Aeon MQ5 on linux now, which also works well with the addons and I'm liking it so far. In looks it's fairly similar to Aeon Nox. So I'll stick to that for now.
Aeon Nox only on windows.
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Linux Mint 15 is an ubuntu-raring based flavor of linux and uses the ubuntu raring repositories as well as it's own.
I assume when I install xbmc from the default repositories, that it's installing the same version you have when you install it in ubuntu.
It does say 'git' though in the package description and in the xbmc system info. But it's from the stable repositories.
If it's a capitalization problem it's going to be hard to track down for me. There's no info in the debug log which points me in that direction and the 'fix' described above for the default<->Default folder doesn't work.
It's odd that there's no issues when I try it in Transparency or Aeon MQ4 and 5 That would indicate it's a problem with Nox. But the same Nox runs fine on windows with CE enabled. Again making capitalization seem a likely culprit.
I gave up on the linux xbmc for now and settled with the windows version. I have more issues with xbmc on linux and I now just want to enjoy movies and am done fiddling.
There's problems with that when it starts a video file, it glitches/stutters after 2 or 3 seconds, just for a second or so and after that it plays perfectly fine. Not a big deal you might say but when you play lots of little theater intro's and ads in succession it does become irritating because I want a smooth experience. Also I still can't get xbmc to vsync properly with the nvidia xorg. There's always some tearing going on, especially on HD footage. (I tried plenty of options to get it to sync up in the system video settings, xbmc video settings, xbmc syncing to audio clock etc, driver settings, hand-editing the xorg.conf etc etc etc)
The windows version of xbmc solves all of that for me right out of the box, plus no issues with capitalization and failing addons.
I like having things run well on linux and love using linux. But for now I'm just going to be practical. I might look into xbmc on linux again in half a year or so. Maybe things are fixed by then.
Thanks for the help.
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You often have to watch using the Master Branch of any thing(XBMC, addons). This is where a lot of the work gets done and though efforts are made to have it functional, you might have grabbed when a bad change is pushed.
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2013-11-19, 09:27
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-19, 09:36 by senjinthedragon.)
Will try next time I go looking into it. I tried several versions, not just git-versions. With the git version I usually went for the frodo-branch and not the master-branch as I didn't know how to turn the master-branch into a working addon.
I don't recall now if it was xbmc, the cinema experience addon or aeon nox that I got from git. But I tried different combinations and variations of each.
I blame the linux-distribution I used since it works fine on windows with the same versions of the software and addons. (It also runs a lot more smoothly on windows, without tearing issues and stutters at the start of each new video)
Oh and maybe an idea for the cinema experience addon, I know it's not the place but since the creator is reading along...
Why not make it so that it's just a list of intro/outro/slide folders that it goes through in succession, with arbitrary selection if it has to be 1-5 random or specified videos etc from the folders.
Eg, as it is now but without specifying if it's theater-intro or feature-intro's etc. Just a list you can expand on and add folders to.
That way people don't have to jump through odd hoops to get certain things to play that aren't supported by the plugin.
I have a cartoon section for example that I now have to put down in the slides-outro section
And I can't do a cinema-advertisment slides + after that the movie quiz/slides. (eg 2 slide sections with different content)
With a non-specified setup it'd be much more flexible, plus it's a lot easier to maintain I recon. You'd just need a video folder player, a slides folder player and a queued feature player. Each of which the users can add as many as they like in a list. You'd only need to specify intermissions seperately then because they're not always in the flow, depending on how many movies you queue.
It's not a complaint, just a thought.
