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Fancy_Lad posted:Does OpenElec have some sort of macro system? I'm interested in giving it a shot as I really want to treat my HTPC as an appliance, but that is the one thing that I do with my Windows based HTPC that I'm not entirely sure will work on it. It's probably doable if you hack together some scripts, but I don't see the point when you could then rather automate the whole process.
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Keito posted:I would rather start thinking about reforming my way of doing things than try to look for a way to map folder renaming functions to my remote on Linux. Fair enough. I want to be able to have category lists for things like 3d movies, my favorites, wife's favorites, kids, etc. I'm doing this right now by having separate directories on the file server and using a list of different sources on the videos view for each of them. After ripping and watching the show, we just hit the button on my harmony remote's screen for what category to put it in and it automatically renames the dir the movie resides in. I have a scheduled script that puts renamed movies/tv/home video in the right landing zone dir based on the name (and it scrapes off the keyword that I had placed on the dir during the process). The downsides to this are that I only know how to do the rename in Windows with Eventghost and moving the file on the drive also loses watched information. Everything else is easy and/or automated. What is the best way to accomplish something similar to this otherwise? I need setting the category/tag/whatever to be entirely from within XBMC so my wife can just hit the right button on the remote to put it in the correct category. I also have multiple clients. Last time I looked at this I figured the Tags functionality in the library was the best bet, but I couldn't figure out a way to tag movies directly - only by going to the tag, editing it, and then selecting from the giant list of all movies what to add. I decided to stick with Windows instead of dealing with that hacky mess  I know this all sounds rather spergy, and it is, but we have an embarrassingly large collection and need some way to segment it out so it is manageable.
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Godinster posted:Anyone have a suggestion for the resolution on XBMC being low when coming back from sleep? I use XBMC Launcher which works fine but the program still looks about 1/4-1/2 of the typical 1080p, making me reload the program each time. Have you tried pressing the \ key twice? It toggles the window mode, and usually fixes it when it happens to me. Depending on the order I turn off my TV and receiver, the receiver will default to 1024x768 when it loses the TV's signal, so XBMC resizes and when you turn the TV back on you have a window much like that. I've never figured out how to prevent it from not doing that without bypassing the receiver, but pressing \ twice will always fix it. edit - I also use an Onkyo receiver, rc260.
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Fancy_Lad posted:I want to be able to have category lists for things like 3d movies, my favorites, wife's favorites, kids, etc. I'm doing this right now by having separate directories on the file server and using a list of different sources on the videos view for each of them. After ripping and watching the show, we just hit the button on my harmony remote's screen for what category to put it in and it automatically renames the dir the movie resides in. I have a scheduled script that puts renamed movies/tv/home video in the right landing zone dir based on the name (and it scrapes off the keyword that I had placed on the dir during the process). The downsides to this are that I only know how to do the rename in Windows with Eventghost and moving the file on the drive also loses watched information. Everything else is easy and/or automated. I didn't realize you were running this kind of organizational system that can't be automated, sorry replying the way I did. For things like 3D movies I'd suggest a smart playlist, assuming the XBMC devs have added it as something you can easily filter in that way or the folders/file names are tagged in an easily identifiable way. As for "subjective" category lists, that's more difficult. I was first thinking regular playlists could be doable, but tags sound like they would've been perfect if they had only been added to the system in a more sensible way. Unfortunately, it seems that functionality had to step aside in favor of simplicity: Montellese, creator of the tags system posted:The reason I put all the "New tag...", "Add movies" and "Remove movies" into the tags node is because I didn't wanna put any more buttons/context menu entries into the movie view. There the context menu is already too full as it is. Considering they want to cut down the context menu to only a few buttons with everything useful hidden away in submenus for the upcoming next release of XBMC, it didn't really come as a shock. Personally I find it saddening that we've gotten to the point of the project's lifespan where the developers decide it's become too complicated and start dumbing down their software in a misguided direction. Tags should really be something you can just quickly apply to one item at the time by opening the context menu on it. They could have a minimal default context menu that users can freely modify themselves from within the program if they want to make it easy to use. In my case I don't need to make the system comprehensible for anyone but myself and barely use any categories outside of what's built into XBMC, so I unfortunately can't provide any better suggestion than to keep doing what you're already doing as long as it's working. 
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Fancy_Lad posted:Fair enough. You could do this via LIRC and some shell scripts, but in the end after reading that I thought "yes, he has a reason to use Windows". I mean, it could be done but you will almost certainly find it to be far more trouble than it's worth.
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Is there anyway to get XBMC to output dummy audio or something of the format (Dolby D, PLII, etc) that the video I select is on? My PC sends to my Onkyo TX-NR509 by default Multich Stereo, but it takes a few seconds to switch over to Dolby D, etc. Which makes me miss the first few seconds of shows. Everything is output via HDMI on a 5770. Windows 7 pro (which might go to windows 8.1 soonish)
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Tedronai66 posted:Is there anyway to get XBMC to output dummy audio or something of the format (Dolby D, PLII, etc) that the video I select is on? My PC sends to my Onkyo TX-NR509 by default Multich Stereo, but it takes a few seconds to switch over to Dolby D, etc. Which makes me miss the first few seconds of shows. Only way I can think off off-hand - which would probably do exactly what you want - is to use the Cinema Experience addon (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=87563) which can play whatever content you want before a movie or show starts. Probably take some doing configuration wise to map it to your situation but you are going to have that regardless.
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Tedronai66 posted:Is there anyway to get XBMC to output dummy audio or something of the format (Dolby D, PLII, etc) that the video I select is on? My PC sends to my Onkyo TX-NR509 by default Multich Stereo, but it takes a few seconds to switch over to Dolby D, etc. Which makes me miss the first few seconds of shows. I used to use a program called "Continuous Silence" that would just constantly poo poo out silent audio to keep my crappy receiver (Logitech z-5500) thinking there was a digital signal. I was having the exact problem you're having and it worked like a charm. I can't find it anymore however. If you search for 'continuous silence z5500' on Google you will find mention of it. Maybe somewhere buried there is a working link.
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Keito posted:In my case I don't need to make the system comprehensible for anyone but myself and barely use any categories outside of what's built into XBMC, so I unfortunately can't provide any better suggestion than to keep doing what you're already doing as long as it's working. Ixian posted:You could do this via LIRC and some shell scripts, but in the end after reading that I thought "yes, he has a reason to use Windows". Thanks for trying... My current system works fine except for EventGhost having a tenancy to be a bit crashy. About once every couple weeks on my main box the program itself crashes and all the MCE remote plugins I have tried for it also tend to crash multiple times a day if it is heavily used. I'm to the point where I just keep a script running in the background that loops attempting to restart the MCE plugin service every 3 seconds so when it does crash at least the remote is only unresponsive for a couple seconds. Perhaps I should just look for an Eventghost replacement instead... I used to use Girder back in like 03 and that was solid, but it has gone paid now. If anyone has suggestions, let me know.
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Is there a tried and true formula for getting the most compatibility out of rtmp streams in XBMC? Like the constantly updated ones in Navi-x? I've learned about librtmp, and have (I think) updated it to RedPenguin's latest build, but I keep on hearing about the actual rtmpdump binaries, but I don't know how those are incorporated into XBMC beyond the aformentioned librtmp.dll. Is there something I'm missing?
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status posted:I used to use a program called "Continuous Silence" that would just constantly poo poo out silent audio to keep my crappy receiver (Logitech z-5500) thinking there was a digital signal. I was having the exact problem you're having and it worked like a charm. I can't find it anymore however. If you search for 'continuous silence z5500' on Google you will find mention of it. Maybe somewhere buried there is a working link. Not quite my problem. It's more needing to output audio in silence in the correct format per video, while my receiver catches up.
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Tedronai66 posted:Not quite my problem. It's more needing to output audio in silence in the correct format per video, while my receiver catches up. I believe this will be a built in feature for Gotham (if it's not already available), I know there are various Gotham builds for the RPi around that have this feature included. You could also try using the advancedsetting.xml <streamsilence>1</streamsilence> (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Advancedsettings.xml#.3Caudio.3E) and just pausing when you start playing something (it will stream silent audio in the format of the media while paused).
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Sendo posted:I believe this will be a built in feature for Gotham (if it's not already available), I know there are various Gotham builds for the RPi around that have this feature included. I'll try this when I get back home, thanks!
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This thread moves faster than the Raspberry Pi one so I'll ask here Anyone with experience with Raspbmc able to tell me if you can drop out of XBMC into the Debian session like you would with XBMCBuntu? I like OpenElec but I'd really like to be able to use things like Nuvola Player http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/home.html so I could listen to Google Music. For that matter does the Raspbian build use PulseAudio? I could just stream directly from my current computer to the Raspberry. Airtunes doesn't recieve from any RAOP sinks I create on my Linux session when running OpenElec on the RaspPi. After installing paprefs on Linux Mint it certainly recognizes the OpenElec build as an Airtunes target but nothing ever happens when I stream to it. The Media player just doesn't play songs, it stops at the current time. I believe this is because the RaspPi uses OSS or Alsa but I'm not positive on this. YouTuber fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Nov 6, 2013 |
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Hey so since Google Reader shut down I don't spend hours a day reading RSS feeds, and I miss stuff like this: XBMC 13 Gotham September/October quote:Because of our Devcon 2013 meeting we were to busy to put up a decent monthly blog post. So let’s sum up the changes done so far after the September cyle. I also missed that Gotham is now feature frozen (freezed?), and they're predicting betas to start being released sometime after December 10th. Finally, there's an interesting breakdown of platform usage here, although it isn't a surprise that Win7 64bit is drastically in the lead. More interesting is that based on their add-on usage, they estimate around 1.9 million total installs out there. Pretty good!
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EC posted:Hey so since Google Reader shut down I don't spend hours a day reading RSS feeds, and I miss stuff like this: Given that they are feature freezes, I take it the following features didn't make it: UPnP based shared library Game Console Emulation via RetroLib Binary plugin/addon support
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Lowen SoDium posted:Given that they are feature freezes, I take it the following features didn't make it: Looks that way. There's always....Hogwarts?
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Lowen SoDium posted:Given that they are feature freezes, I take it the following features didn't make it: Was binary plugins actually going to be a thing? I thought they were adamantly against them because they wouldn't work on all systems or something.
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redhalo posted:Was binary plugins actually going to be a thing? I thought they were adamantly against them because they wouldn't work on all systems or something. I have heard that and I have heard that they were working on some kind of support for closed sourced addons for mainstream content providers. Their best bet at this point might be to include Webkit as an HTML5 renderer and hope that more streaming content providers use HTML5 in the future.
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I am going to cross post this in the HTPC thread because it was a huge help for me. I had built a low-end, low-powered HTPC that was capable of running 1080p movies in XBMC just fine, but I always had weird issues like having to press the IR remote numerous times for a button to register, random lockups, videos all of a sudden running at 5fps, etc. I was about to give up and go Roku or something when I decided to do a bit of research. Turns out that though Confluence is considered the "fastest", all of my problems were solved by switching to the "Amber" skin/theme. It makes absolutely no sense to me that it would fix all of my issues (especially the IR remote issues  ) but I just wanted to recommend it to people, especially if you are using one of those Zonet or low-powered HTPCs.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Turns out that though Confluence is considered the "fastest" PS. Did you catch the COBRA 7.00 news I posted over in the PS3 CFW thread? I think you'd be interested.
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Keito posted:I have never heard that before, Confluence ain't a heavyweighter but there are definitely lots of lighter skins available. Amber is my favorite as well on weaker hardware, you made a good choice. It's weird that you'd get that many lockups, but if your hardware is really low-end I guess the rendering could have slowed it down considerably . You might want to try setting an even more aggressive dirty regions mode to make it snappier. I kept reading on XBMC that Confluence was considered one of the best for low-end systems. I guess I never tried another skin because I could have never imagined it would result in such odd behavior (especially the IR remote lag). The strangest is I'd get slowdowns and lockups right after a 1080p video flawlessly played. Such a strange thing to lock up a system constantly (I am talking like 3 times per week, easy). It's an Atom 230 (1.6ghz) with 2GB of RAM and an SSD. So yeah it's a pathetic system (don't care about games or emulators, just want it for movies/TV shows from an NAS), but it definitely seemed like it was enough to run XBMC perfectly when I built it. Turns out it apparently is fine; and Confluence was screwing everything up. In all fairness though I turned off a bunch of other stuff too like RSS feed and Weather (two features I didn't know slowed the system down). I will give "dirty regions" a try because I never heard of it before and I never, ever use subtitles or any on-screen stuff. Thank you so much for posting that. Keito posted:PS. Did you catch the COBRA 7.00 news I posted over in the PS3 CFW thread? I think you'd be interested. I did not! Thank you x100 for mentioning it! 
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:I kept reading on XBMC that Confluence was considered one of the best for low-end systems. I guess I never tried another skin because I could have never imagined it would result in such odd behavior (especially the IR remote lag). The strangest is I'd get slowdowns and lockups right after a 1080p video flawlessly played. Such a strange thing to lock up a system constantly (I am talking like 3 times per week, easy). I was about to say that my XBMC system was about the same and runs heavy skins without an issue, but then I checked. Mine is an Atom330 1.6Ghz OCed to 2.0Ghz with an Nvidia ION GPU. with 4GB of ram. So it's pretty much 2x the specs as yours with a better GPU. It's also over 4 years old now. Wow...
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Lowen SoDium posted:I was about to say that my XBMC system was about the same and runs heavy skins without an issue, but then I checked. Mine is an Atom330 1.6Ghz OCed to 2.0Ghz with an Nvidia ION GPU. with 4GB of ram. So it's pretty much 2x the specs as yours with a better GPU. Well, I never told you what my GPU was.  (It is also an NVidia ION like yours). I never thought about overclocking this thing; I figured it being such a small motherboard with the CPU built in that it wasn't even an option. I would have upgraded the RAM but XBMC reports ~50% RAM is free (but the CPU is under 99% load).
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Well, I never told you what my GPU was. Mod the case slightly, throw in a bigger fan, and overclock the hell out of it. Sounds like a perfect project for you.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Well, I never told you what my GPU was. True, you didn't. I just figured that since you didn't list it and you were having problems that you were using the intel video. Miyamotos RGB NES posted:I never thought about overclocking this thing; I figured it being such a small motherboard with the CPU built in that it wasn't even an option. I would have upgraded the RAM but XBMC reports ~50% RAM is free (but the CPU is under 99% load). G-Prime posted:Mod the case slightly, throw in a bigger fan, and overclock the hell out of it. Sounds like a perfect project for you. I am actually overclocking mine with the little stock CPU fan and heat sink that it came with but... The little wooden case that I made for it out of a jewelry box has a larger 100mm fan blowing air through the case, so it gets pretty good air flow. I will warn you before you try to overclock. My wife's PC is similar specced computer in a premade small form factor case. Her PC DOES NOT have a clear cmos jumper, pad, or other way to reset the BIOS settings. I overclocked hers from 1.6Ghz to 1.8 and the machine would not POST. I had no way to reset it so I spent the next two hours shorting pins on the CMOS while booting it trying to get it to come up with stock values. I finally got it. In short, if you are going to try overclocking, make sure that you have a method to reset the BIOS before you try it.
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Thanks guys. I will consider it if I have mysterious lock up or slowdown issues, but as it stands, simply switching to the amber theme has fixed everything!
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So I needed to manually update Openelec, which I did, but I had no space on my thumbdrive. The only thing I could find taking up space was all the art and thumbnails, so I deleted them and did the update, which went fine. Trying to restore the thumbnails, however, has not worked out. The "hide movies button" option in settings is not checked, and is in fact completely greyed out as an option. Ok nevermind. Turns out I just wasn't properly scraping the directory so it was assuming I didn't have any movies. I was able to reimport everything, but now it only scraped artwork for half my shows. All the movie art is there. Elysium fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Nov 9, 2013 |
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Anyone have a nice little script that will update XBMC libraries that I can put as a part of the SABNZBD post processing? For a windows setup. I saw some but they either seemed outdated or to be for linux.
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Gozinbulx posted:Anyone have a nice little script that will update XBMC libraries that I can put as a part of the SABNZBD post processing? For a windows setup. There is an addon in the XBMC repository that automatically updates on intervals. I have mine set for 6 hours but you can set it to shorter time periods and not have it update when a movie is playing. Couchpotato and Sickbeard both use Growl to send an update notification to XBMC but it was too unreliable for my tastes.
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Gozinbulx posted:Anyone have a nice little script that will update XBMC libraries that I can put as a part of the SABNZBD post processing? For a windows setup. I've had good luck with XBMC updates coming from Sickbeard. You can test it out pretty easily (sending a test notification from Sickbeard to XBMC). Plus there's also a setting that will update only the new file that Sickbeard added, instead of scanning the entire disk.
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YouTuber posted:Couchpotato and Sickbeard both use Growl to send an update notification to XBMC but it was too unreliable for my tastes. Both trigger db updates and send notifications with the functions built into XBMC's webserver. Shouldn't be any more unreliable than your XBMC install is.
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I appreciate the responses, but I specifically don't want to use cp or sickbeard. I want it to be in the drop down list for sabnzbd post processing in the categories panel. That said, I may use either the http command or cURL command and just write it into an ahk script.
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Gozinbulx posted:I appreciate the responses, but I specifically don't want to use cp or sickbeard. I want it to be in the drop down list for sabnzbd post processing in the categories panel. Then just use the add on updater addon
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Anyone have any tips or seen a guide for migration from a Windows 7 based XBMC setup to a XBMCUbuntu one that preserves things like my settings for SABNZBD and Sickbeard? Lots of weird stability issues crop up from leaving it on for too long or resuming from sleep (aspect ratios get messed up, sound stops working, etc) that I'd like to leave behind but really don't want to have to go through the hassle of starting from scratch on the automated stuff.
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bam thwok posted:Anyone have any tips or seen a guide for migration from a Windows 7 based XBMC setup to a XBMCUbuntu one that preserves things like my settings for SABNZBD and Sickbeard? Lots of weird stability issues crop up from leaving it on for too long or resuming from sleep (aspect ratios get messed up, sound stops working, etc) that I'd like to leave behind but really don't want to have to go through the hassle of starting from scratch on the automated stuff. Xbmc backup addon Last 2 replies have been pretty low content but something pretty exciting I saw this weekend is mediabrowser3 relating to xbmc. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=173372 The link pretty much spells out what is going on but essentially this looks like it provides what plex does - centralized database and transcoding are the big ones. I have been trying it out, and it looks really fantastic, what plex should have been really. There looks to be a xbmc plugin based on plexbmc, and it looks like they are almost ready to release their client for windows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw29LTGagDY The best part is the project is open source. https://github.com/MediaBrowser kri kri fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Nov 11, 2013 |
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bam thwok posted:Anyone have any tips or seen a guide for migration from a Windows 7 based XBMC setup to a XBMCUbuntu one that preserves things like my settings for SABNZBD and Sickbeard? Lots of weird stability issues crop up from leaving it on for too long or resuming from sleep (aspect ratios get messed up, sound stops working, etc) that I'd like to leave behind but really don't want to have to go through the hassle of starting from scratch on the automated stuff. Let me know if you find anything. I'm in the exact same boat; spent forever setting up automation in windows / now getting stability problems / need to move to linux.
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What's the best keyboard/remote solution at this point? I got a mini bluetooth kb, but it would randomly start bugging out like a key was being held down, so I went back to a regular keyboard/mouse. I was looking at remotes, but I'd like something a lot simpler (at least for the moment) then the logitech harmonies.
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Finagle posted:What's the best keyboard/remote solution at this point? The HTPC thread recommended the Logitech K400 to me when I asked, and it's been great. It feels a bit light, but the range seems to be fine and it installed with no trouble. I don't use it much, but it's nice when we get a bit tipsy and the wife wants to watch a bunch of YT videos. XBMC would always freeze after using Airplay three or four times, so now I just boot up Chrome and hand her the keyboard. Edit: also, Harmonies (and other activity based remotes) are a loving godsend if you have multiple components and a HTPC. Using something like EventGhost on Windows gives you a lot of flexibility in what you can do. I had different profiles setup for different emulators at one point, so I could take screenshots, quit the emulator, save/load state, all that poo poo.
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