[StuartQF]

Hi, I just found this last night and I have the same issue.
I'm running Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63 on xbmcbuntu. Latest versions of Chrome Launcher, NetfliXBMC and pipelight, and nvidia drivers version 304.88 (GeForce GT 430). In the pipelight-silverlight5.1 config I've changed embed=true to embed=false and the video plays, but without audio and without being full screen.

The script I'm using in Chrome Launcher is:

#!/bin/bash
openbox

Some suggestions indicated the ttf font package may have needed reinstalled and I tried that - no luck.. I did read somewhere (maybe on the pipelight launchpad page?) that using Unity rather than openbox might work. That'll be my next step.

Audio is resolved now - XBMCs AudioEngine was hogging the audio device it seems. Changed sound settings to release audio immediately and configured audio for my device in alsa.

I had to add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

Code:

#for HDMI
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0x108

and this to /etc/asound.conf

Code:

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

Once I figure out the black screen when using pipelights embed option and map controls for my remote this will be very nice.

Also, when I was exiting I used killall chrome as the command mapped to 'Stop', and I was getting a message about Chrome not exiting cleanly.. So I opened ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences and modified these two lines:

"exit_type": "Crashed",
"exited_cleanly": true,

then chmod -w that file so it can't change even when it doesn't exit cleanly (Although it does occur to me now that using xdotool key Alt+F4 would have been a cleaner solution...)