2011-09-07, 11:03
Just thaught i'd post with a success thread.
I built this last night and upon testing it i found XBMC rather unstable, crashing when navigating the menus and similar.
Turned out there was some bug (mentioned elsewhere on the forum) in the thumbnail loader, that was causing most of the problems.
I also had a few issues getting the pulseaudio output working, however this seemed to be related to my graphics card having 4 visible audio devices (3, 7, 8, 9) and Pulse was defaulting to 3 rather than the required 7. Prior to this build, i was running without pulseaudio at all, so that configuration had never been nailed down. Lots of messing to get the right configuration and quite a few reboots later and i had that working by adding a sink in the default.pa file and selecting the correct output in XBMC.
I did a git pull this morning which fixed the buggy thumbnail loader and rebuilt xbmc and thats now fixed, so i set to testing the passthru of DTS, and i'm pleased to say it worked perfectly. The Onkyo lit up with DTS-HD MSTR and seemed happy. I only played the movie for a few minutes for testing, but i'll probably watch it properly tonight and report back if there are any issues.
I need to get hold of a movie thats done in TrueHD and test that out as well.
The only problem i noticed, was that upon pressing stop, XBMC crashed. I tried playing an MKV and an AVI and those were fine, but as soon as i press stop on the m2ts file XBMC crashes.
Ofcourse this may well be nothing to do with the passthru, i'll need to do some more investigation as to whats going on.
For the record, my system specs are a Geforce GT220 (1GB), with a Sempron 3000 CPU and 1GB of RAM, and Ubuntu 10.04LTS
I built this last night and upon testing it i found XBMC rather unstable, crashing when navigating the menus and similar.
Turned out there was some bug (mentioned elsewhere on the forum) in the thumbnail loader, that was causing most of the problems.
I also had a few issues getting the pulseaudio output working, however this seemed to be related to my graphics card having 4 visible audio devices (3, 7, 8, 9) and Pulse was defaulting to 3 rather than the required 7. Prior to this build, i was running without pulseaudio at all, so that configuration had never been nailed down. Lots of messing to get the right configuration and quite a few reboots later and i had that working by adding a sink in the default.pa file and selecting the correct output in XBMC.
I did a git pull this morning which fixed the buggy thumbnail loader and rebuilt xbmc and thats now fixed, so i set to testing the passthru of DTS, and i'm pleased to say it worked perfectly. The Onkyo lit up with DTS-HD MSTR and seemed happy. I only played the movie for a few minutes for testing, but i'll probably watch it properly tonight and report back if there are any issues.
I need to get hold of a movie thats done in TrueHD and test that out as well.
The only problem i noticed, was that upon pressing stop, XBMC crashed. I tried playing an MKV and an AVI and those were fine, but as soon as i press stop on the m2ts file XBMC crashes.
Ofcourse this may well be nothing to do with the passthru, i'll need to do some more investigation as to whats going on.
For the record, my system specs are a Geforce GT220 (1GB), with a Sempron 3000 CPU and 1GB of RAM, and Ubuntu 10.04LTS
