XBMC Media Center : Setup Guide, Knowlege Base & Support - Page 94

GreenEyez, thanks.. the issue is resolved. This is totally new to me. Never had to use WASAPI before. Only today after updating to Frodo.. and chaning the source to Wasapi denon engine works perfect. All Bitstreaming's been restored as well.
Thanks for the explaination.

Something new with frodo i see today is when you play a blu ray movie that has BMDV file structure... another popup opens up asking for select playback item..



What do you do in this case?

Also i wasnt able to update to the new mq4 2.7.4 skin. adding the zip file using the settings>plugin option does not update the skin. (does nothing)

The first one in the list isn't always the correct one, it uses libbluray and other logic to narrow down the selection, then its lists them in order of track number (Not longest like Eden)
In your screenshot it has narrowed it down to 91 and 100, and it just lists 91 first even though 100 maybe longer.

The new popup menu is very poor IMO, and not much thought went into it at all - No track length?

Edit - After looking again it seems like it sometimes does list the longest and other times not.
Edited by acejh1987 - 1/31/13 at 11:02am

There are no hot keys for this out of the box. (Those are located here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Global_keyboard)

You have to edit your keyboard.xml file:

Details here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Modify_keyboard.xml

True, the popup is kinda useless. I havent been able to see menus even after choosing in the pop up list.

Eyez, i am current on mq4 now. thanks for the tip, adding the repo worked.

I only run XBMC in "portable" mode (easiest way - set a shortcut with command XBMC.exe -p). In portable mode your user settings and data are are located within the XMBC folder-hierarchy. With path substitution I guess you could move the whole userdata elsewhere. But in experimenting with profiles, in Frodo, I've had no luck moving them away from the "masterprofile". In Windows environment, though, it is easy to create a junction link and that way the physical folder location is at a different place than the logical folder location that a program sees (and this lets XBMC special: protocol work without any interventions for masterprofile and profile).

I like portable mode because I can have multiple installs all independent (it is how I have been running Frodo while using Eden as the production setup). I haven't tried updating an Eden database (note AFAIK the actual Eden database remains unchanged, and new database files for Frodo are just created from it). I pretty much have local .nfo files and art for all media so doing a full scrape isn't that big a deal for me.

Biggest thing from a profile storage standpoint is the thumbnail cache. There's some changes in Frodo that affect that. I haven't looked too carefully at it yet as when I set up my production XBMC Frodo I will probably shift to MySQL setup so will have to sort it out then.

scott s.
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I have only played with NextPVR (NPVR) as a backend on Win8. The NPVR site has a reasonable guide to getting it up and running. My experience, though, is the PVR function in XBMC is a bit rough around the edges (and from following the forum seems like other backends are no easier). So now I have the "advanced program launcher" addon set up to call Win 8 MCE in guide, recording, and live TV mode from within XBMC. It just seems a nicer experience than the XBMC PVR.

scott s.
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Do you have a link to your setup info, or your advanced launcher config?

Does backing out bring you back to XBMC, or does Alt+F4 bring you back?

Do the old cli shortcuts work in W8 MC ? like

I have a bunch of avchd m2ts files from a sony camcorder that I'm having trouble streaming. Not sure if I need to install a codec or change a setting or what. I get audio but the video is just bands of color and weird patterns. Streaming my dvd/bluray rips works ok. Also, these same m2ts files stream fine to my Sony S590 blu-ray player.

Any advice? Running an i3 cpu.

I just upgraded to Frodo last night and I swear that my surround sound sounds better. The rear and side channels* are just alive with sound that I hadn't heard before... even on the Blu-ray which is the source of my files.

I'm curious about this because I don't know why it's happening. I rip my Blu-rays into MKV containers and include all of the audio tracks. I don't recompress the files after that. I have XBMC installed on a Mac Mini running OSX and using the TOSLINK output so I know that I'm not getting HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD.

Did AudioEngine just make a huge increase in quality of surround downmixing or am I fooling myself, or what?

*even though I have 7.1 speakers I have a 5.1 native system. The system is a Meridian 568.2mm that matrix encodes rears from the side channels in a 5.1 mix

The new MQ4 release resolved the fanart issue, but not completely, fanarts are still missing for movies stored in Windows Network file servers (SMB).

Placebo effect

Frodo is really a solid build. I am liking everything so far. The Movie Set issue is all resolved for every movie that stood out of the collection folder as well.

Guys, what are some of your favourite plugin's that you use other than the conventional ones used by all.

This is basically what I suspected. Thanks for the detailed explanation! It's obvious to me that YOU read my whole post before responding.

I've been doing this long enough to go into things with no expectations... I wonder if I was hearing a rip for the first time vs. hearing it from my Blu-ray player. I wonder if I have the two different TOSLINK inputs on the Meridian configured differently. Maybe one defaults to a different rear-channel matrixing mode than the other.

using:

for TV

for recordings

for TV Guide

Alt-F4 to exit back to XBMC

scott s.
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For video I use the Hulu and Amazon Prime plugins (from Bluecop's repo) as well as plugins for YouTube, the TWiT network, and Revison3. The Hulu and Amazon ones are really nice because you can integrate them directly into your XBMC movie/TV libraries.

I also use Cron XBMC (which is in Alpha but stable if you're willing to edit XML files) to schedule XBMC to do some things (like move Hulu shows into my library once a day), Artist Slideshow (downloads artist images to show while playing music - must have supported skin), and SpeedFan Info (only good on Windows, give you a display of temp and fan info parsed from the SpeedFan log).

All the addons I mentioned except Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Cron XBMC are available from the main repo.

Full disclosure. I maintain ArtistSlideshow and wrote SpeedFan info from scratch. They're still both good addons though.

Grrrreat pkscout, i am gonna try these plugins today, specially speedfan, already using artistslideshow.. its a must have.

Hi,

I am trying to sort out what I need to do to get my 7.1 Channel Home Theatre System working...

I have the following...

1. Samsung UA55D7000 55” Series 7 LED. UA55D7000LMXRD
2. Samsung HT-E6750W (home Theatre) hooked up the the ARC HDMI input on the tv.
3. GeForce GT 220
4. Software Player = XBMC Frodo (v12)

I have been told that I cannot play HD audio with this set-up... best I can do is LPCM to Home Theatre System. Is this correct?

1. Will the Geforce GT 220 decode DTS to LPCM? or What video card do I need to decode DTS to LPCM?
2. What sort of files should I be using AC3, AAC, DTS? What is better?
3. Do I need to plug the HTPC directly into the Receiver? or will ARC do?
4. What will my receiver work with from my HTPC... I see the following in the specs... SO what does DTS mean under "Audio Features"?

Decoding Formats = AAC, AVCHD, HD JPEG, JPEG, LPCM, MKV, MP3, WMA, WMV(1/2/3/7/9) ,DivX, DivX HD

Audio Features
# of Sound Modes (DSP) 8
Auto Sound Calibration (ASC)
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital Plus
Dolby Pro Logic II
Dolby True HD
3D Sound Plus
DTS
DTS 96/24
DTS HD
MP3 Enhancer
Power Bass
Smart Volume
Vertical Surround
User EQ

Any help greatly appreciated....

I'm no expert, but my understanding is to get HD audio from any PC player, you need HDMI out, or maybe in some instances DVI out (computer) to HDMI in (AVR) can be made to work.

For AC3 or DTS, audio SPDIF (optical) out (computer) can passthrough to your AVR.

Otherwise, the computer needs to downsample to LPCM.

I haven't explored using ARC, but on the sufarce it seems better to connect PC direct to AVR, not go through the display.

File formats is immaterial because your computer will take care of that. The exception would be using XBMC as a DLNA server, but looking at your AVR specs I don't see that it can be used as a DLNA render target.

scott s.
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Edited by scott967 - 2/2/13 at 2:32pm

I'm trying to setup the mysql library sharing thing...
Does anyone know which "advanced_settings.xml" file is actually used in a standard windows 7 install?

I think that this is the good one:

c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\XBMC\userdata


I just realized I have a second copy of advanced_settings.xml in:

c:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\system

Thanks GreenEyez. I am still fighting with the mysql setup. I remember setting this up years ago following the lifehacker guide, and it worked fine.

This time around, I have been following the new wiki pages (Heidisql etc) and there seems to be something I'm missing... Namely what is the step needed to populate the mysql dbs?

using frodo.

i like the enable movie sets options. however i have added main menu buttons using aeonmq4 and separated kids from regular movies, documentaries, stand up etc.

i dont want documentaries or stand ups to be in sets. any way to create an exception for those, or would i have to disable that option then use tags to create the sets i do want?

I tried a different skin for the first time, called Transparency. My "Movies" option on the home screen disappeared. I switched back to Confluence and Movies is still missing. What happened and how do I fix it? I also ran Clean Library in Settings, did that mess me up?

if you dont care redoing the skin configuration and xbmc settings, you can delete the guisesettings.xml file. it wont delete your library info. some people back it up or rename it in case they want to go back, but when the file is not there, it goes back to full defaults with confluence skin.

Should be a "hide" option under Settings -> Appearance -> Skin -> Home Window Options. Select/deselect your home screen items there

If you happened to delete your library, the movies option will disappear also.

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