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Here's the Wiki XBMC Users Manual ... Happy Reading

http://wiki.xbmc.org/

Thank you very much for your help!
Now I can see the movies and series information (plot, covers, etc) but I have some problems playing videos and I don't know what the problem is.

If I sort files with "list" option I can play videos without problems.
However, if I sort the files with "Fanart" and other options, movies are not played correctly, the screen is black and there is no sound, but I can see the movie progress bar showing video playing time and video duration. I can pause, resume it but the screen is always black and there is no sound.

Do you think that It's a bug of XBMC or a configuration problem?

Has anyone here got xboxdrv working with a wireless Xbox 360 Controller on an Xbian install? I've spent over 6 hours googling and reading every thread known to man and I cannot for the life of me get it to work. I'm desperate here for any guidance.

Where I'm at:

With a start command for xboxdrv in my rc.local, the xboxdrv will freeze at "ctrl+c to quit" unless I put a "&" at the end of the .sh line. However, if I do that, xboxdrv tries to initialize twice, once when it should, then another time right before it kicks into XBMC, thus removing the initialization. If anyone wants more specifics I'll be glad to help...

I don't want to make anyone upset responding to my own post, but just making sure it didn't get lost in the cracks. I'm trying to give a couple friends Pi Media Centers so this is a crucial feature.

Have you tried running it from the .login file instead? I was having problems starting a wii remote and that did the trick

Nice, that will work great. Also works if you put it in the /etc/profile file as well! Thanks!

Nice, that will work great. Also works if you put it in the /etc/profile file as well! Thanks!

Just to respond to myself here... this works, but Xbian launches before .profile or .login kicks in, so I had to add the line to start Xboxdrv into /etc/init.d/xbmc in the for loop for starting the daemon. I have a feeling this is a horrible spot for it, but I am not sure where else to put it.

Putting it in rc.local works too, but for some reason xboxdrv is launched twice and I don't like seeing an error message.

Hello,

I'm having some problems with Xbian 1.0 alpha 4.
If I want to add a subtitle on a movie, I can't do it. Basically I'm going to the icon for subtitles, I can see that there are no subs provider yet, so I try to add some, but the application just close herself...

any suggestion?

Then sometimes happen that a movie that just 1 hour before was reproduced perfectly, now is just with audio!

Hello,

I'm having some problems with Xbian 1.0 alpha 4.
If I want to add a subtitle on a movie, I can't do it. Basically I'm going to the icon for subtitles, I can see that there are no subs provider yet, so I try to add some, but the application just close herself...

any suggestion?

Then sometimes happen that a movie that just 1 hour before was reproduced perfectly, now is just with audio!

Hi,check http://forum.xbian.org/thread-168-post-1498.html#pid1498 there are some bugfixes,maybe it can solve your problems.

Hi all, looking for some help.
Started tinkering with Xbian on a Raspberry Pi B recently and so far everything works as expected. I've managed to mount a shared folder on my Mac that contains all my films on the Pi and have been able to add that folder as a source for XBMC.

The problem I have is that following a system reboot of the Pi, the media source is no longer listed under Videos and I have to add it back in manually. I've checked that the mount still exists following the reboot and it does (I added the line to mount the shared folder to /etc/fstab) but I still have to manually add the source back in XBMC

Is this a known issue or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Pete

This is a known and fixed issue.

From the bugfix-thread on the Xbian-forums:
(http://forum.xbian.org/thread-168-post-1498.html#pid1498)

#2 - Incorrect permission on sources.xml
Symptoms: XBMC not saving media sources.
Fix: SSH in and execute these commands:

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sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc stop     #default password = 'raspberry'
sudo chown xbian:xbian .xbmc/userdata/sources.xml
sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc start


This is a known and fixed issue.

From the bugfix-thread on the Xbian-forums:
(http://forum.xbian.org/thread-168-post-1498.html#pid1498)

#2 - Incorrect permission on sources.xml
Symptoms: XBMC not saving media sources.
Fix: SSH in and execute these commands:

Code: Select all

sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc stop     #default password = 'raspberry'
sudo chown xbian:xbian .xbmc/userdata/sources.xml
sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc start


Ah thanks for that! I did have a look on the XBian site but must've missed that, much appreciated

Pete

You're welcome.
Glad to help.