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I have now testet #0803 and #0803b (newclock4).
And I see some problemes, when I playback MPEG2/DVD/ISO on each chapter shift.
When the chapter change, the video is moving fast forward 1-2 sec.
I have allso seen thin on older Helix and Gotham builds, but only 1 or 2 times, on each movie. But on #0803b, the issue is constant on each chapter change/shift.
I use omxplayer:
<video>
<defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
<defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>
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read one post ahead - advancedsettings are not working in newclock4. But if you haven't changed the settings under Video -> Acceleration you'll be using omxplayer
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Loving newclock4, though three problems with it so far.
To be clear, all of these are with OMXPlayer disabled (I've always despised its habit of seeming to apply volume amplification, when I have a TV which does this far better), and all with live/recorded tv which is all I've had time to test it with so far.
1. Skipping forward and backwards is far far quicker with newclock4, but both result (Wmc.pvr/Mpeg2) in a grey screen for a moment. Not an issue, as the faster fastforward/rewind is greatly appreciated!
2. Subtitles appear broken (UK Freeview DBT). They never worked anyway on live tv, but now no longer work on recorded tv either. Subtitles are now always recognised as "Unknown language", and don't actually display.
3. Not an issue at all, because browsing the library now works perfectly and, from quickly reading previous replies this seems to be expected with DVDPlayer, but when playing media there's now a slight pause when bringing up the OSD - and, more often than not - a brief glitch on the video stream. Very liveable with, though.
Overall, the improvements in newclock4, even when causing the grey screen, are such that this is a great improvement over the already suberb previous, and thankyou to both popcornmix and Milhouse for a great upgrade to the system.
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2014-08-05, 11:33
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-05, 11:34 by FattyMcDirty.)
Got some weird boot-issues with the last handful of releases. I've set it up once, in my setup, boot from SD and storage on an usb-thumb. so far so good, freshly installed and configured - working. watched some series the other evening and did shut down the device in the night. next day, booting up the rpi does not work (led stays simply red). switched the hardware to another pi of mine - same thing. re-created the sdcard (deleted all partitions, copied the relevant files ot it) - WORKING! ... eh?! ok then.. back working. watched some tv-series and did shut down the device at night. next day - SAME THING! pi not booting up. i then cloned the SD to another one (with minitool partiton master) - and? WORKING! ... eh?!?!?!?
any1 got a clue?
got the model b with 512mb, a 2A powerplug, cpu @900, core @400, ram@400, class 10 uhs1 transcend 8gb sd with an usb 3.0 transcend 8gb thumb drive.
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You posted in the Raspbmc thread too, are you getting this with both OE and Raspbmc?
With OE (maybe Raspbmc too) you don't need to reformat the entire SD card if the Pi isn't booting, just try restoring the boot files and only reformat the FAT partition if the filesystem is hosed (which happens hardly ever, but is possible).
Sometimes it can be a physical connection issue due to a broken SD card. Check the card hasn't cracked and is now flexing, resulting in intermittent connection.
If the card appears to be physically OK, try using a different card and if the problem continues try to identify the build where the problem starts.
Texture Cache Maintenance Utility: Preload your texture cache for optimal UI performance. Remotely manage media libraries. Purge unused artwork to free up space. Find missing media. Configurable QA check to highlight metadata issues. Aid in diagnosis of library and cache related problems.
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Thanks for your reply - I really think that it could be the sd-card by now. The sd-card i far away from being corrupted, all files are ok, non of em are missing.
So it could really be a connection issue. I've got the same problem with bot, OE/RaspBMC, yes. I initially used OE and then switched to RaspBMC, because I thought it would be an OE issue.
But one more question then, regardings both systems - I noticed, that RaspBMC in its current version seems noticably faster with the same cpu/gpu/core/ram OC settings and the same skin, etc. How could that be?
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just a minor thing that I noticed. I think the the amplitude of the waveform viszalization is way to high/extreme on the PI compared to my Windows setup. Looks like it's something like 200% (curve exceeds canvas massively instead of having it's peak somewhere near the screen borders)