Two XBMC (.deb) compiled/prepared for users + instruction

[limaunion]

Hi! I just wanted to thank Tomaz for his hard work making possible to use xbmc under raspbian, it's really amazing. Keep up your hard work! (updating it whenever possible).
LU

[smonkey]

Another thanks from me

Have there been any updates recently? I've been playing around with the version from a few weeks ago and it's great!

[Mertz]

Hi Mertz,
maybe XBMC doesn't support MPEG-2 ?
Tomaz.

Hello! Thank you for your excellent work, but I do when receiving channels of MPEG-2 from Tvheadend, only sound no picture. MPEG-4 channels, including HD, works fine. Who knows how to fix this problem?

Hi tomaz! XBMC works fine with MPEG-2 on Ubuntu 12_04_LTS.
I think the problem is that the Broadcom chip in the Raspberry-PI supports MPEG-4 only. Excellent play movies *. Mkv, but do not open *. Wmv and *. Mov in HD on Raspi

[dysplaced]

I'm also a user of this image, great work!

However, I have a problem with CPU usage when XBMC is idle: It is around 80%-90% and interferes, for example, with my samba server (only half of the transfer rate when XBMC runs). I have already disabled the RSS feed and made sure that dirty regions are active - is there anything else I am missing? And do others have this problem as well?

[r0nnie]

hello im using this deb but im trying to edit the automount letter and type

at the moment i have to ssh from laptop and type sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,users /dev/sda /mnt/xbmc1

ive tried editing /usr/bin/xbmc but not sure what else is missing cause its still not automounting

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#!/bin/sh
#idea of payneardo on http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=10$
#idea of tomaz, try to mount sda1 and sdb1 devices
#if you want to mount something else you can simply chang variable usb1 or usb2$
usb1="/dev/sda"
usb2="/dev/sdb"
if [ -e ~/.automountUSBforXBMC ]
then
 echo "Trying to mount $usb1 and $usb2"
  if  [ ! -d /mnt/xbmc1 ] ; then
     sudo mkdir /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1
  fi
  if  [ ! -d /mnt/xbmc2 ] ; then
     sudo mkdir /mnt/xbmc2 >/dev/null 2>&1
  fi
 sudo mount hfsplus $usb1 /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1
 sudo mount hfsplus $usb2 /mnt/xbmc2 >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
mode=`fbset|grep "mode "|sed -e "s/.*\"\(.*\)\"/\1/"`
ps=$PS1
export PS1=''
setterm -cursor off
clear ; sudo /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
export PS1=$ps
setterm -cursor on
xres=`echo $mode|sed -e "s/x.*//"`
yres=`echo $mode|sed -e "s/.*x\([0-9]*\)-\?.*/\1/"`
fbset -fb /dev/fb0 -xres $xres -yres $yres
sudo chvt 2
sudo chvt 1
if [ -e ~/.autoumountUSBforXBMC ]
then
 echo "Trying to unmount /mnt/xbmc1($usb1) and /mnt/xmbc2($usb2)"
 sudo umount /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1
 sudo umount /mnt/xbmc2 >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

thanks

[tomaz]

Hi r0nnie,

if it works like you wrote:
mount -t hfsplus -o rw,users /dev/sda /mnt/xbmc1

than change line:
sudo mount hfsplus $usb1 /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1
to:
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,users $usb1 /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1

Or use automounting as chochis has explained here.

Tomaz.

hello im using this deb but im trying to edit the automount letter and type

at the moment i have to ssh from laptop and type sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,users /dev/sda /mnt/xbmc1

ive tried editing /usr/bin/xbmc but not sure what else is missing cause its still not automounting
...

thanks

[r0nnie]

Hi r0nnie,

if it works like you wrote:
mount -t hfsplus -o rw,users /dev/sda /mnt/xbmc1

than change line:
sudo mount hfsplus $usb1 /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1
to:
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o rw,users $usb1 /mnt/xbmc1 >/dev/null 2>&1

Or use automounting as chochis has explained here.

Tomaz.

hello thanks for pointing that post out, at first i thought it was gonna be super hard but it was really easy!

just followed the list, didnt need to edit nothing !

thanks

[gabello]

Tomaz, thanks so much for the hard work on this project.

I have only one minor issue with the xbmc installation. Sometimes when the movie is not the same resolution as the monitor, when it starts playing I see the background (lxde) desktop for some time (a few minutes) and after that the space turns to black (as expected). Note that in the mean time the subtitles appear on the are where I see the desktop, so it is not like xbmc player is opened in a window or smth.

[tomaz]

Hi gabello,

can you check with "ps", if you are running X?
or
are you running xbmc from X ? (I don't, know if this XBMC is working if you start it from X)

Tomaz.

Tomaz, thanks so much for the hard work on this project.

I have only one minor issue with the xbmc installation. Sometimes when the movie is not the same resolution as the monitor, when it starts playing I see the background (lxde) desktop for some time (a few minutes) and after that the space turns to black (as expected). Note that in the mean time the subtitles appear on the are where I see the desktop, so it is not like xbmc player is opened in a window or smth.

[gabello]

I'm connecting over ssh and start xmbc remotely. As for X

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ps aux | grep X
root      1547  0.7 10.5  48484 13056 tty7     Ss+  21:54   0:02 /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

[tomaz]

Hi gabello,
you don't need X for XMBC to work. Or you need X for something else?

Tomaz.

I'm connecting over ssh and start xmbc remotely. As for X

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ps aux | grep X
root      1547  0.7 10.5  48484 13056 tty7     Ss+  21:54   0:02 /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

[dante6913]

Hi Tomaz, first i would like to thank you four your work, but i have a question, are thinking to update yor deb pakages, with new builds?

[Mertz]

Hi! Maybe someone is interested, especially lazy , I suggest to download the image Raspberri Pi, including xbmc by Tomaz
http link: http://www.letayka.tv/2012-08-16-wheezy ... -tomaz.rar
Everything fine works us Plug-N-Play on the SD 2GB. Set time zone GMT +4 (Moscow). Can be changed via sudo raspi-config

[JollyRoger]

Thanks Mertz. I've downloaded and unpacked Tomaz's .rar file. I must say his version of XBMC seems to work pretty well - thanks Tomaz. My question is, there are a number of files besides the .img file included in the .rar (e.g. libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll). Do I need to do anything with these other files? So far I've ignored them and simply written the .img to an sd card which I've then successfully used on my Pi.

[Mertz]

Thanks Mertz. I've downloaded and unpacked Tomaz's .rar file. I must say his version of XBMC seems to work pretty well - thanks Tomaz. My question is, there are a number of files besides the .img file included in the .rar (e.g. libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll). Do I need to do anything with these other files? So far I've ignored them and simply written the .img to an sd card which I've then successfully used on my Pi.

Hi JollyRoger! All files, except the image is intended to record the SD in Windows, I wrote earlier that this is for the lazy and do not have something to look elsewhere ... Maybe someone has some pieces Raspberry, then you can clone OS. After recording the image, go start raspi-config and run the "Expand root patition to fill SD card"
Sorry for my English

[alias_neo]

Hi, nice work.

Quick question, did you compile this with CEC support?

I was running Raspbmc and OpenELEC which both support CEC so I could control them from my TV remote, but I wanted Raspbian, so when I switched I found an XBMC package elsewhere on the forum but it doesn't support CEC.

I really don't want to have to try compile this myself, it takes 12+ hours I believe on the Pi.

[Mertz]

Hi, nice work.
Quick question, did you compile this with CEC support?
I was running Raspbmc and OpenELEC which both support CEC so I could control them from my TV remote, but I wanted Raspbian, so when I switched I found an XBMC package elsewhere on the forum but it doesn't support CEC. I really don't want to have to try compile this myself, it takes 12+ hours I believe on the Pi.

Hi! I have no control. Maybe you forgot to include support for CEC in XBMC?
Go to System = Settings = System = Input devices = Remote control sends keyboard presses = ON

[alias_neo]

Hi, nice work.
Quick question, did you compile this with CEC support?
I was running Raspbmc and OpenELEC which both support CEC so I could control them from my TV remote, but I wanted Raspbian, so when I switched I found an XBMC package elsewhere on the forum but it doesn't support CEC. I really don't want to have to try compile this myself, it takes 12+ hours I believe on the Pi.

Hi! I have no control. Maybe you forgot to include support for CEC in XBMC?
Go to System = Settings = System = Input devices = Remote control sends keyboard presses = ON

Actually, I don't think this will help, when compiled with CEC support, XBMC detects the TV on start and shows a toast at the bottom. I manually compiled and installed libcec but still no joy since XBMC is compiled without support for it, I haven't tried this version here yet, but unless Tomaz explicitly enabled it, the instructions he followed default to building without it.

[tomaz]

Hi,

I don't know about CEC. I have followed this LINK to compile XBMC.

dante6913 you can upgrade it of course. If you prepare new .deb I will put it on github or even better I will give you write access to this github.

Now I'm working on internet wifi radio for Raspberrypi and rarely use XBMC...

Mertz nice


Tomaz.

[JollyRoger]

Thanks Tomaz, your XBMC works really well, and it's great to have both XBMC and the LXDE desktop on the same SD card. Really useful.

One slight problem I have with this LXDE desktop: it asks me for a password when I use the file manager to mount a USB drive, and it asks me for a password when I try to shutdown or reboot (and then the dialog box disappears before I can enter one). The only way to shut down or reboot is from the command line. My previous Raspbian LXDE desktop didn't behave like this, and I don't know why it's happening now. Does anyone know how I can stop it asking for a password?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[gabello]

Hi, I manged to break the xbmc install (i did a apt-get upgrade as well as installed/removed a few packages). Now, when I try to run xbmc I get:

/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libEGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo find / | grep libEGL.so
/root/.rpi-firmware/vc/hardfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
/root/.rpi-firmware/vc/softfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so

I tried reinstalling, but I get the same error.

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pi@raspberrypi /usr/lib/xbmc $ ldd xbmc.bin | grep "not found"
	libEGL.so => not found
	libGLESv2.so => not found
	libbcm_host.so => not found
	libvcos.so => not found
	libvchiq_arm.so => not found

[alias_neo]

Hi, I manged to break the xbmc install (i did a apt-get upgrade as well as installed/removed a few packages). Now, when I try to run xbmc I get:

/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libEGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo find / | grep libEGL.so
/root/.rpi-firmware/vc/hardfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
/root/.rpi-firmware/vc/softfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so

I tried reinstalling, but I get the same error.

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pi@raspberrypi /usr/lib/xbmc $ ldd xbmc.bin | grep "not found"
	libEGL.so => not found
	libGLESv2.so => not found
	libbcm_host.so => not found
	libvcos.so => not found
	libvchiq_arm.so => not found

Make the symlinks again, that will fix it. Just copy paste them all into a terminal, might have to hit enter on the last one.

[gabello]

I'm sorry,but to which libraries should I create the symslinks to? I see that the files are diffrent:

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root@raspberrypi:/opt/vc/lib# ls -ltra /root/.rpi-firmware/vc/softfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205336 Aug 18 13:43 /root/.rpi-firmware/vc/softfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so

root@raspberrypi:/opt/vc/lib# ls -ltra /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205372 Aug 22 02:39 /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so

Also I'm not sure how exactlly to create the symlinks.

[alias_neo]

I'm sorry,but to which libraries should I create the symslinks to? I see that the files are diffrent:

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root@raspberrypi:/opt/vc/lib# ls -ltra /root/.rpi-firmware/vc/softfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205336 Aug 18 13:43 /root/.rpi-firmware/vc/softfp/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so

root@raspberrypi:/opt/vc/lib# ls -ltra /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205372 Aug 22 02:39 /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so

Also I'm not sure how exactlly to create the symlinks.

They're in the the wiki. Give me a half hour to get to work and I'll paste them here.

[sammybarlow]

I had the same problem with the symlinks...from the wiki you need to run

sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/libEGL.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so.1
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL_static.a /usr/lib/libEGL_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL_static.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so.2
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2_static.a /usr/lib/libGLESv2_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2_static.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libbcm_host.so /usr/lib/libbcm_host.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libbcm_host.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbcm_host.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.a /usr/lib/libvchiq_arm.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvchiq_arm.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.so /usr/lib/libvchiq_arm.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvchiq_arm.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.a /usr/lib/libvcos.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvcos.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so /usr/lib/libvcos.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvcos.so