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Took me a while to get the library mode running, here's a list of the shortcut keys which helped me a lot to enjoy xbmc: http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Keyboard_and_Mouse
I'm having some problems with this guide. When I start xbmc via GUI or via terminal, it gives me a segmentation fault. I've installed it with your repository and I'm not properly a newbie. Am I the only one? I'm on Ubuntu intrepid 8.10 with a Dell XPS m1330 machine.
Thanks for all!
It's native to Ubuntu and looks way better.
Absolutely Beautiful!
http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/mediastream.html
However using Ubuntu 8.10 was a no go for me, i had audio freezing, frame skipping and general instability
Running it under 8.04 has been perfect! Even for HD movies (X2 3600, 1g ram, audigy 1)
I Experience some problem reading some Video and Audio file (corrupt files). It's seams that XBMC are less permissive for files with error. But well, I cannot complain. I didn't retrieve the file from a save source.
Also, I really suggest to use it with Hardy and not avoid using it with Intrepid.
Last time I tried vanilla XBMC (maybe 6 months ago) access to web-based content like this was very iffy, and based on user scripts (none of which worked for me).
I highly recommend Boxee (which is XBMC-based), unless XBMC has recently added this functionality.
i dont see any transformation
Want a two column view to browse through movies, with a full-height portrait-oriented poster in one column and all the detail in the other column? Sounds like a nice way to browse huh? Not possible with the default skin at least.
Hoping to get XBMC to tear through your media collection and assign meta data a a reasonable speed with your superduper broadband connection whilst not making any errors? Not likely unfortunately. However it also has to be said that with the fan art and so on, XBMC does do a the best job (eventually), of current HTPC software, at getting good meta data.
Also, don't try to view some of the meta data gathering results before it's finished that loooong harvesting process. You'll freeze the application (not crash, freeze).
Somethings that are great:
* Interface
* Automatic Artwork finding for media
* On screen settings
Somethings that are not so great:
* Video settings don't save correctly and need to be set each time.
* No "just shuffle play all the mp3 in this dir function"
* Sometimes the mini web server is there, some times no...
#! /bin/bash
pulseaudio -k
xbmc
dave: i've used elise too, imho its nowhere as good as xbmc
Mohan: how do we even get boxee?? I signed for it weeks ago and heard nothing from them.
http://www.aeonproject.com
An eye candy galore feast when used together with Fan Art:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=FanArt
* Set System-Preferences-Appearance-Visual Effects to None.
* Disable and Remove PulseAudio.
1. Goto System-Preferences-Sound and set all three of the Sound Playback settings to ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
2. Run the following terminal commands:
sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound
I finally solved the problems. I discovered that the nvidia driver wasn't loaded so XBMC wouldn't start.
I have one question for you all, is there any way to remap the keys ? My Dell XPS m1330 comes with a little remote control, hardcoded in hardware, and the only key not assigned is ESC to go out from a menu. I would like to set it ... Any ideas?
Cheers from italy
quite impressed with all the things here!
its really nice :)
but i got a problem connecting internet, its not fetching album art n library from net..
The main reason to use XBMC over Elisa is probably the DVD support. Elisa still has none (at least offically).
The latest release of XBMC is pretty much incredible. If they can bring Compiz and Pulseaudio integration to the table in the near future, you will not want for a better experience - on ANY platform.
XBMC for Mac is called "Plex" by the way. Dunno why. And you can install it on AppleTV too now.
Sorry for the rave - I'm not associated with the project, but having tried to use Windows MC, FrontRow, MediaCentral, Elisa and MythTV (and others!) in the past, it was a breath of fresh air finding this project. Amazing work.
Same here, its usually at the end of a video, and then horrible static looping and it wont close and i have to reboot. I guess it has something to do with pulseaudio but im not sure. I couldn't tell from the debug log. Hope they get this worked out soon, as the program seems quite slick, but currently unusable on 8.10
killall pulseaudio
before running XBMC so it uses ALSA instead. That fixes the lockups/freezes and sound loops.
installed this one here on my laptop. it doesn't work with compiz at all, get the flickering window thing. when i turn off compiz it works, but doesn't play any video correctly. would like to use it as mediacenter on my pc also, but not like that.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900
install the intrepid version of XBMC
works ok for me
DV_COOL_FUEL
So partly falling back to mythbuntu....
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