Comments on: New with Raspbmc

By: The6e

The6e — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:26:00 +0000

Is the sound syncing issue fixed?

By: Boe2

Boe2 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:24:00 +0000

I’m guessing it depends on your television. I have been scaling down xbmc to 720p from the beginning (raspbmc is a lot happier that way) and everything looks sharp on my 42″.

By: Ben Kevan

Ben Kevan — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:04:00 +0000

What level of customization is done to the Debian distribution? Do you have a rolling change log? of the distribution itself?

By: pum

pum — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:47:00 +0000

I think swap should be re-added. At least 128 MB, if not 256 MB.

I had problems, playing a MKV on my 256MB pi. XBMC crashed before playback started. I watched htop and it was obvious that xbmc.bin was eating up all memory and then disappearing.

Output of dmesg:

Out of memory: Kill process 1277 (xbmc.bin) score 702 or sacrifice child
Killed process 1277 (xbmc.bin) total-vm:325236kB, anon-rss:85840kB, file-rss:1388kB
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240×67

Additionally, I was not able to install xbmc, when it was connected to my TV (1080p). When I connected it to a smaller PC monitor (1600×900), it worked. Maybe there was more free memory with the smaller display? But even then, “dpkg-reconfigure locales” (in configure-pi-user.sh) crashed with an out of memory error while building the locales. I could work around that by disabling xbmc while doing that (initctl stop xbmc)

So please please, re-add swap. Yes i know it needs some boot-up time. But it will save us from a lot of crash reports.

By: ciantm

ciantm — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:26:00 +0000

HI Sam! Continued great work thanks!

Are the current nightlies/updates based on Alpha 7 still or have you moved to a Beta version (this is to enable alignment of mysql Databases in several instances, Raspbmc and XBMC)??

Thanks very much!

Cian

By: ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋ⤷╨ᵒᵘ

⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋ⤷╨ᵒᵘ — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:57:00 +0000

So ? 100% CPU load means you are using everything you are paying for

By: JackTR

JackTR — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:31:00 +0000

I keep getting 90-100% cpu load with the nightly builds. Anybody else experiencing this? Tried a clean install, same result. Also using de Quartz skin, which resulted in a 20% cpu load with the official release.

By: Bobek

Bobek — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:11:00 +0000

Broken or not, sound IS working on analogue but the loud cracks are still there (and still can’t ff or rew in videos).

The image/fanart showing is a lot faster.

Thanks Sam!

By: mth411

mth411 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:29:00 +0000

Awesome work. Navi-X is fixed (timer was broken, odd memory leak), Amazon Prime works, Hulu works, Crackle works(Project Free TV version), Pandora radio works. Thanks for everything.

By: Leah Dillon

Leah Dillon — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:49:00 +0000

This works great with my Panasonic TV’s remote. Very happy