XBMC PKGBUILD for raspberry pi

[tgc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('guisacouto', 'C')an anyone please test some x264 video with 720p or 1080p(preferably) and tell me if there is any flickering?
My entire screen flickers with black screens while playing:S

best regards

[guisacouto]

I've just tested with big buck bunny and I get a lot of flickering.
Is there any changes in the firmware or that could inflconfiuence this? I don't have a config.txt, never needed it, but with new updates I don't know if I now need one.. either way, I have no idea what parameters should I set to try solve this..

Are you using any config in xbmc, or in advancedsettings.xml?

best regards

[tgc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('guisacouto', 'I')'ve just tested with big buck bunny and I get a lot of flickering.
Is there any changes in the firmware or that could inflconfiuence this? I don't have a config.txt, never needed it, but with new updates I don't know if I now need one.. either way, I have no idea what parameters should I set to try solve this..

Are you using any config in xbmc, or in advancedsettings.xml?

best regards

[guisacouto]

Before I did this fresh install I did try with omxplayer and I had flickering.

This doesn't seem to be specifically related with xbmc, probably with omxplayer or something, but while I was trying to figure out what was going on, I discovered that if I was navigating the tv menus I could see the tv hdmi saying 'connecting..' when the flickering appears, so I what I thought was that I was having bad signal.

Then I tested with tvservice and I had the confirmation:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
guilherme:~$ /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -M
Starting to monitor for HDMI events
[I] HDMI in standby mode
[I] HDMI in standby mode
')

When I started playing big buck bunny the first '[I] HDMI in standby mode'. Then I waited a few seconds to see if I could get more output, but nothing..and so I stopped the movie and started it again and got the second '[I] HDMI in standby mode'.
Basically I don't know why but everytime I start an x264 movie my hdmi enters in standby.

This does not happen in openelec so it's not an hardware problem with the raspberry pi, or the tv..

If any one has any suggestions I would appreciate it:)

I've tried 'config_hdmi_boost=7' and 'hdmi_force_hotplug=1' in config.txt without any success.

EDIT:

SOME PROGRESS!!! I'm sorry if I'm spamming the topic but I think this might be helpfull for somebody else.
I can get rid of the problem whit this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
/opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o //this turns of the hdmi
/opt/vc/bin/tvservice -p // this turns it on back again
')

Does anybody know if xbmc has any kind of configuration that enables me to run this commands before when starting playback of something?

FINAL SOLUTION:

Well.. it seems that if i do this hack of turning off and on before xbmc starts everything works as expected; so if anyone experiences the same thing as me just do a simple script to turn off and on and then run xbmc and it will work just fine.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
/opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o
/opt/vc/bin/tvservice -p
xbmc
')

[Onyros]

Received my Raspberry Pi this morning, I have almost everything to my taste, video plays well with omxplayer, have audio working pretty well, but I really wanted to try XBMC. Didn't actually try compiling (yet), but the binary (also) segfaults on me. Copied the vc libs to /usr/lib, tried booting with the 128MB start.elf too... close, but no cigar.

Strangely, though, the error log file has very little information. I'll keep posted with any findings on this one

[tgc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Onyros', 'R')eceived my Raspberry Pi this morning, I have almost everything to my taste, video plays well with omxplayer, have audio working pretty well, but I really wanted to try XBMC. Didn't actually try compiling (yet), but the binary (also) segfaults on me. Copied the vc libs to /usr/lib, tried booting with the 128MB start.elf too... close, but no cigar.

Strangely, though, the error log file has very little information. I'll keep posted with any findings on this one

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tgc', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Onyros', 'R')eceived my Raspberry Pi this morning, I have almost everything to my taste, video plays well with omxplayer, have audio working pretty well, but I really wanted to try XBMC. Didn't actually try compiling (yet), but the binary (also) segfaults on me. Copied the vc libs to /usr/lib, tried booting with the 128MB start.elf too... close, but no cigar.

Strangely, though, the error log file has very little information. I'll keep posted with any findings on this one

[bgulla]

what dock are you using?!!?!?

[Onyros]

It's wbar, I've used it for years, doesn't require compositing (which is what drew me first to it).

I will probably have some sort of Exposé/Scale like effect working in a few days, too. I will tell you all about it.

Just as a sidenote: buy *quality* SD cards. I can't stress this enough. I dd'd my last 8GB installation (stretched the original ARM img with gparted to use a full 8GB SD card, after installation), but the first one... completely borked courtesy of a badly manufactured Chinese SD card.

I'm back up and running, but had to reinstall everything last night, again. It was a learning experience.

After you have a satisfactory installation, just back it up. Trust me.

In Linux, you have dd

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd if=/dev/sdX of=archlinuxarm.img bs=1M')

Where sdX = your SD card.

[CrassPants]

Anyone able to change audio from HDMI to analog using this build? XBMC freezes each time I try under Settings -> System -> Audio