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I tried setting up a Pi for XBMC purposes at home but I could never get it to run smoothly, maybe a different memory card might have solved the issue?
Anyway, I just downloaded it onto the other half's Windows 7 laptop and run it as a program through there. Smooth as anything now.
Not sure if thats any help. 
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I have an old and I mean old PC with XMBC that I use to stream my movies on the remote hard drive connected to the router to my TV (the TV has DLNA, so XMBC just acting as server for it). It's running the now outdated Windows XP (and is so old I can't upgrade).
Previously I did the same with a Toshiba netbook running XP. However, this didn't really have enough uumph as over wireless. The old PC is better, hardwire connected via some powerline network plugs to make sure everything connected.
I really need to look into a Linux upgrade. My colleagues tell me that you can get bespoke XMBC incorporated into a Linux version for the Raspberry Pi. However, as I have something working I haven't seen the need to change (yet).
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I do more of less what Cansa does.
I have a couple of Pi's one 256, one 512. Both run very well.
I used to use an old laptop with a If you do go the PC route and want CEC adapter. If you want one I no longer have a use for mine. |
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| Phil. wrote: | I do more of less what Cansa does.
I have a couple of Pi's one 256, one 512. Both run very well.
I used to use an old laptop with a If you do go the PC route and want CEC adapter. If you want one I no longer have a use for mine. |
That CEC thing is neat.
I think I'll stick with the PC route for now and explore Raspberry PI at a later date. I'll have at least 2 more to build for bedrooms so the front room can be my tester. |
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Hmmm. I run it on anything that can run it.
I have an Acer Revo R3610 under the lounge TV which does surround sound via optical output, great for playing 1080p blu-ray movies and such. It runs XBMC and is controllable by a regular universal IR remote. Took a couple of months when I was jobless two years ago to tweak it 'til it made a good media centre, but now it's a powerhouse. Hooked up by HDMI, also 6TB of harddrives connected with loads of TV shows and movies there, I think I made a playlist once and it was something stupid like 4,500+ hours worth to watch before even considering streaming! Which is just as well because streaming plugins tend to break fairly regularly. YouTube plugin doesn't play VEVO videos for example, or it does for a while then it breaks again. I think it's on Frodo 12.2 or something. No point me upgrading as the skin I like (a modified version of PM3.HD) isn't supported, and none of the new features are of any use.
I also have it on my MacBook Air for playing stuff on the move so it saves me using iTunes, which is shit. It's very basic, not as tweaked as my media centre PC but it does what it needs to. It's running Gotham. Unlike the HTPC it doesn't have most of the content in a library.
I used the Android versions a few years ago but they couldn't hardware decode videos properly so I stuck with MX Player, which can. Probably it's improved now but I don't see the point of having fully fledged media centre on mobile devices, where running down the battery watching videos on the move is silly anyway.
There are other laptops and stuff I have it installed on. Mostly Windows stuff, the MacBook Air has both the OS X and Windows versions because I setup BootCamp and both work well.
So yeah. You got any specific XBMC questions, send them my way. I've been using it since the Xbox 1 days, where it used to run in a mere 64MB of RAM, total. It's a bit of a bloated mess these days cos it's trying to be all things to all people (the DVR stuff seems completely pointless to me) but it still whips most media centres because it comes with native hardware support options and plays almost anything. If you don't mind some tweaking it's a powerful beast.
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| CaNsA wrote: | It's not like there is a former xbmc dev on BCF who now actively participates in the dev of raspbmc.  |
Not disputing that. But real end-user experience can often differ from how a dev would test/use an XBMC rig. Hence my point.
Last time I checked, Rpi still can't do 1080p with DTS decoding. Makes it okay for a portable rig playing 720p content, not ideal for something that can play everything... not denigrating, just saying.
| CaNsA wrote: | Just because something has developed and evolved into something much more versatile does not mean it is a bloated mess. |
Yes it does when basic functionality suffers, or stuff that used to be simple four years ago is now a lot more complex for no particular reason. The fact that both Frodo and Gotham were declared "finished" then had .1, .2 and .3 subversions released to fix obvious bugs that end users found which devs didn't speaks volumes about the problems in the process.
Anyway don't get cocky, I've worked with former XBMC devs and people who still code plugins for XBMC up until last year. There are reasons people left the project, and there are reasons skins and plugins often need to be recoded between major releases. Bloat. Easiest way to distill to a single word the problem in ways most people understand.
| CaNsA wrote: | Don't even get me started on your use of an IR remote rather than Yatse or something similar. |
Oh no, by all means start my friend. Obviously I have no idea what these things are, despite the fact I have Yatse on all five Android devices used in my household, and the official XBMC remote (which is, about a year later, still crashy and horribly broken even for basic functionality, once again pointing to problems in the dev process) too. You take a few paragraphs meant to help people and turn them around to run me down, well that's not helping the OP of this thread one bit is it? Which is what you were trying to do a few posts ago, and what I was trying to do.
Don't bother to ask me what kind of IR remote or the sensor connected to the PC too, or how I threw it all together to fit my particular usage case perfectly. You know, stuff that might help regular users hoping to make a good media centre on a budget?
| CaNsA wrote: | Then there is your "this is broken, then working then broken" statement which is followed by "I'm not going to upgrade".
 Great job there genius. |
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Simple maxim, true here. XBMC 12 does everything I want it to, why would I want to have to re-do dozens of hours of work customising it to work properly on my HTPC when it already does? The extra functionality of Gotham doesn't warrant me re-writing my version of PM3.HD or redoing my entire EventGhost keymap to correctly shortcut me directly to YouTube or iPlayer, for example, because the pointers have changed for the sake of change.
But by all means, take my post meant to be readable by non-techie types and assume because I've dumbed down my whole customisation process to explain it simply to those who don't care to read pages of technical jargon, which as mentioned took months, and assume that I know nothing, and haven't been using computers for 25+ years since I was a 5 year old kid coding BASIC on a BBC Micro and so on. Have at it.
| CaNsA wrote: | Please tell me you have a shared library across all your devices, if not then you are just some punk who thinks he is a bad-ass. |
If you'd bothered to read what I wrote properly then you'd know I have no need for a shared library. The only thing that needs a library is my HTPC, why would I waste time making a shared library when most of the other devices I have are clearly run as standalones.
I suppose we could waste time with this type of written verbal sparring or we could concentrate on helping the person who made this thread. Personally I'll go for the latter. You seem hell bent on proving you can out-geek me so you carry on.
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| Quote: | You got any specific XBMC questions, send them my way. |
What makes you think you are the best person for the job?
How do you know that there aren't other end-users on this forum who are far more knowledgeable than you?
| Quote: | If it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
Well according to you, it is broke...
So why dont you fix it and stop bitching...
| Quote: | Anyway don't get cocky, I've worked with former XBMC devs and people who still code plugins for XBMC up until last year. |
Please stop, really please. I think I might piss myself.
| Quote: | Don't bother to ask me what kind of IR remote or the sensor connected to the PC too |
I don't intend to.
| Quote: | Rpi still can't do 1080p with DTS decoding. Makes it okay for a portable rig playing 720p content, not ideal for something that can play everything... |
How many people carry around a portable 5.1 surround sound system?
However, my r-pi setup handles media with a stupidly high bitrate and doesn't break a sweat.
If you want to know why NFS is the best method of streaming media across a network, and particularly when the r-pi is the client, I will gladly let you know.
In true BCF tradition, TL:DR.
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Nice job buddy, we've just derailed this whole thread, now it's a dick measuring contest between you and me instead of being a genuinely helpful thread about XBMC. Lol.
EDIT: You know what, I apologise for acting like a dick CaNsA. Half a bottle of good vodka and an open public forum don't mix. I would actually like to know how to set up NFS, I'm tired of the overheads on SMB/FTP, takes too long to open a HD movie across even a good gigabit/wireless N network.
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Over the years, tried them all, back in the day I had two original XBOX's purely for XBMC, then the quality of video rapidly outgrew the processing power of the box.
Now just DLNA capable tv or even better a Samsung Smart TV and run plex server on a windows pc as there is a native Plex app, backed up by Universal Media Server for the FEW things that don't play on Plex. Plex used to be a sack of shit, tried it again a few months ago, never looked back.
Chromecast £30 will allow this to work with ANY tv with an HDMI port. I now use the Plex app on iPad, turn it on and connect. Then TV turns on followed by A/V amp. It really is bliss. Obviously the TV and Amp play nicely together which helps.
I can watch my stuff from anywhere on iDevice/Android/Browser, the server software runs off a number of Nas devices too.
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| CaNsA wrote: | Raspberry-pi Model B connected by ethernet.
Raspbmc installed to 4gb Sandisk cruzer
Hooked into a pioneer VSX-S300 a/v receiver.
Media served over NFS from a NAS and a Server using the Hanewine NFS Server application running as a service on the server.
Shared library running from the NAS accessed by raspbmc and xbmc on an android phone and a couple of laptops.
Current config.txt
arm_freq=1000
core_freq=500
gpu_freq=500
sdram_freq=500
over_voltage=6
disable_overscan=1
gpu_mem=256
force_turbo=1
Rock solid, no reboots, no buffering. |
My current config text has this:
# default GPU memory split (do not change if you do not know what you are doing)
gpu_mem=128
# SDRAM size based GPU memory split, uncomment and setup to override 'gpu_mem'
gpu_mem_256=100
gpu_mem_512=128
Should I leave as is?
The rest of your setup - is that just for playing stored content from a hard drive i.e torrented video files or whatever? I only bother streaming stuff as its mostly non-problematic - although HD video can stream slowly, so sometimes have to pause video to allow buffer to catch up, not sure if this is more to do with speed of streaming from whatever server the video is being streamed from though....
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Phill, if you want to speed your up chuck this in your config.txt.
| Code: | arm_freq=1000
core_freq=500
gpu_freq=500
sdram_freq=500
over_voltage=6
disable_overscan=1
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
force_turbo=1 |
Use notepad++ to edit/create the file.
There are reasons why you should use notepad++ and not notepad, but i wont bore you with them.
Now, you shouldn't get any data corruption on your sdcard but there is always the risk.
If that happens then you need to re-install Raspbmc.
This is why i run it from a usb stick, it can handle the speed. |
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| rideslikeanob wrote: | Nice job buddy, we've just derailed this whole thread, now it's a dick measuring contest between you and me instead of being a genuinely helpful thread about XBMC. Lol.
EDIT: You know what, I apologise for acting like a dick CaNsA. Half a bottle of good vodka and an open public forum don't mix. I would actually like to know how to set up NFS, I'm tired of the overheads on SMB/FTP, takes too long to open a HD movie across even a good gigabit/wireless N network. |
Yes, you are a massive bellend.
However,
The bastard aceofclubs posted this 3 days after i had finished documenting the Hanewin NFS server setup guide, that I was going to submit to STMLabs.
https://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=6285&pid=50982#pid50982
Disable a/v before downloading for obvious reasons.
Run everything as admin.
https://mega.co.nz/#!JBdXQLrK!CJcicDBuKg4JQkygIlQHRvhNOeNpXAYSEuqp5LEdJ8o
My NAS doesnt have NFS built-in so I have mounted the NAS directories I use for the pi onto my server (NobCat) and share them from there.
Below is my config file for the NFS server, the program calls it a "Exports file"
| Code: | \\NippleBiscuits\XBMC\Telly -public -name:TV
\\NippleBiscuits\XBMC\Video -public -name:Vids
\\NippleBiscuits\XBMC\Music2 -public -name:Music
\\NippleBiscuits\XBMC\Pics -public -name:Pics
E:\Films -public -name:FilmsE
i:\films -public -name:Films
# exports example
# C:\ftp -range 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.10
# c:\public -public -readonly
# c:\tools -readonly 192.168.1.4 |
The main gripe I have with the pi is that the eth0 and sdcard slot are just eth0-usb and sdcard-usb adapters.
They both run on the USB pipe.
You will never get anywhere near eth0 speeds on USB2.0.
With a setup like that you have to be very efficient with the limited bandwidth that is available to you.
All network overheads are there for the system, obviously, but are of no great use to the end user.
NFS is the most efficient way of streaming as it has tiny overheads and is very reliable.
The more bandwidth you can use for actual data the better. |
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| rideslikeanob wrote: | I don't have as much time I'm hoping this can be done in an hour or two, any suggestions? |
No need for a dirty hack, do it the right way and put a shortcut to xbmc into the startup folder within the start menu.
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Start Regedt32.exe, and then locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Using your account name and password, double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type your user name, and then click OK.
Double-click the DefaultDomainName entry, type the domain name, and then click OK.
Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type your password, and then click OK.
Note If the DefaultPassword value does not exist, follow these steps:
Click Add Value on the Edit menu.
In the Value Name box, type DefaultPassword, and then click REG_SZ for the Data Type
Type your password in the String box, and then save your changes.
Also, if no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon key from 1 (true) to 0 (false), which disables the AutoAdminLogon feature.
Click Add Value on the Edit menu, enter AutoAdminLogon in the Value Name box, and then click REG_SZ for the Data Type.
Type 1 in the String box, and then save your changes.
Quit Regedt32.
Click Start, click Shutdown, and then click OK to turn off your computer.
Restart your computer and Windows. You are now able to log on automatically. |
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