The Kodi/XBMC Thread - Watch things and stuff

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The Kodi/XBMC Thread - Watch things and stuff

Bogan Krkic: Oct 31, 2010; Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

Cawd Rud posted:

The Amazon Fire TV sounds like a pretty good fit for that.

I'll check it out, ta. I should point out that I'm in Australia, so any of the extra streaming apps or whatever on the Fire are of basically no use to me though.

# ? Sep 14, 2014 19:43

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 20, 2024 05:20

Gozinbulx: Feb 19, 2004

Bogan Krkic posted:

I'll check it out, ta. I should point out that I'm in Australia, so any of the extra streaming apps or whatever on the Fire are of basically no use to me though.

How about one of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JDCO22I?pc_redir=1410606182&robot_redir=1

Like 4 times better than a ouya

# ? Sep 14, 2014 21:56

visuvius: Sep 24, 2007; sta da moor

I've installed XBMC on an Asus laptop and its connected to my 1080p TV via HDMI. I've gone into Video Settings, adjusted the resolution to 1920x1080, selected HDMI as the default source and clicked "turn off other monitor". Everything works great until I turn off the system and it restarts. When it does restart, XBMC appears all hosed up, appearing cut off and disjointed in only the upper left 25% of the screen. I can see and control part of the menu but everything else is offset. The only way to fix this is to disconnect HDMI, restart so it resets to 1360x768, then redo the video settings and its fine again.

Any idea why this happens or what I can do to get it stick with the resolutions settings on reboot?

A second question is, if my laptop does not have a Wake-On-Lan option in BIOS, am I SOL on trying to turn the laptop on with a remote?

# ? Sep 16, 2014 23:52

Le0: Mar 18, 2009; Rotten investigator!

Is it possible to use Netflix on XBMC? I have Openelec and Netflix is releasing tomorrow over here.

# ? Sep 17, 2014 08:19

Hippie Hedgehog: Feb 19, 2007; Ever cuddled a hedgehog?

Le0 posted:

Is it possible to use Netflix on XBMC? I have Openelec and Netflix is releasing tomorrow over here.

Reported for not reading the OP.

(J/K)

But anyway:

the OP posted:

Can I get Netflix working via XBMC?
Yes, but you don't really want to. On Windows 7, it requires Silverlight and doesn't function very well. On Windows 8, you can launch the official app but controlling it with a remote will require some work on your part. I don't believe it's supported at all on Linux or OpenELEC. Most people in this thread will tell you to buy a $40 Roku if Netflix is the most important way to stream videos to you, or to use any of the gazillion devices that have Netflix support.

Unless anyone has new information?

# ? Sep 17, 2014 08:50

Le0: Mar 18, 2009; Rotten investigator!

Hippie Hedgehog posted:

Reported for not reading the OP.

(J/K)

But anyway:

Unless anyone has new information?

Oops thanks

I stumbled on the NetflixXBMC addon and was wondering if it works?
It is supposed to I think.

quote:

Hi,
this is an add-on for browsing Netflix content via XBMC. Video playback is done via a WebBrowser because of Silverlight DRM.
It works under Windows, OSX and Linux. Linux users need to install Pipelight for video playback. Linux/Pipelight/UserAgent instructions...

# ? Sep 17, 2014 11:01

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

visuvius posted:

I've installed XBMC on an Asus laptop and its connected to my 1080p TV via HDMI. I've gone into Video Settings, adjusted the resolution to 1920x1080, selected HDMI as the default source and clicked "turn off other monitor". Everything works great until I turn off the system and it restarts. When it does restart, XBMC appears all hosed up, appearing cut off and disjointed in only the upper left 25% of the screen. I can see and control part of the menu but everything else is offset. The only way to fix this is to disconnect HDMI, restart so it resets to 1360x768, then redo the video settings and its fine again.

Any idea why this happens or what I can do to get it stick with the resolutions settings on reboot?

A second question is, if my laptop does not have a Wake-On-Lan option in BIOS, am I SOL on trying to turn the laptop on with a remote?

Have you tried running XBMC as a full screen window instead of Full Screen?

There is also an XBMC launcher app that someone recommended in this thread, but I forgot the name of it.

# ? Sep 17, 2014 13:38

Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

Le0 posted:

Oops thanks

I stumbled on the NetflixXBMC addon and was wondering if it works?
It is supposed to I think.

I tried using it on my win 7 htpc a while ago and it was horrible. Its just easier for me to switch inputs on my receiver and use Netflix on the PS3

# ? Sep 17, 2014 14:25

visuvius: Sep 24, 2007; sta da moor

Lowen SoDium posted:

Have you tried running XBMC as a full screen window instead of Full Screen?

There is also an XBMC launcher app that someone recommended in this thread, but I forgot the name of it.

I've installed it through OpenElec and I don't really even see an option to run it windowed. At this point I'm just leaving the laptop on 24/7 but I would really like to be able to turn the thing off sometimes and have it be okay when it turns back on.

# ? Sep 17, 2014 18:06

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

visuvius posted:

I've installed it through OpenElec and I don't really even see an option to run it windowed. At this point I'm just leaving the laptop on 24/7 but I would really like to be able to turn the thing off sometimes and have it be okay when it turns back on.

Oh, sorry. All my advise was windows centric.

# ? Sep 17, 2014 18:26

Chamook: Nov 17, 2006; wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

Have you tried sleeping the laptop instead of shutting it down? We're using an Acer laptop and that has weird issues when it restarts until we open and close the lid, but sleep works fine.

# ? Sep 17, 2014 19:53

visuvius: Sep 24, 2007; sta da moor

In the OpenElec version of XBMC, when I press the power down icon, I don't see an option to Hibernate or Sleep. I see Power Off, Reboot and one other option I can't remember now but no sleep. Is the option somewhere else?

# ? Sep 17, 2014 22:43

Dsmif: Sep 4, 2014

visuvius posted:

In the OpenElec version of XBMC, when I press the power down icon, I don't see an option to Hibernate or Sleep. I see Power Off, Reboot and one other option I can't remember now but no sleep. Is the option somewhere else?

If you are running Openelec from a USB stick you can't sleep. They purposely removed this option.

# ? Sep 18, 2014 03:26

Le0: Mar 18, 2009; Rotten investigator!

Bonzo posted:

I tried using it on my win 7 htpc a while ago and it was horrible. Its just easier for me to switch inputs on my receiver and use Netflix on the PS3

Oh okay, what I guessed... I have a PS3 actually so I might do it like that.

# ? Sep 18, 2014 10:22

visuvius: Sep 24, 2007; sta da moor

Dsmif posted:

If you are running Openelec from a USB stick you can't sleep. They purposely removed this option.

Ahh okay then that must be it. I guess I'll try to install it on top of Windows.

visuvius fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Sep 19, 2014

# ? Sep 18, 2014 21:12

Fillerbunny: Jul 25, 2002; so confused.

DarkSol posted:

I did, but its wouldnt save my configs and couldnt get sound to work.

Please post about it if you ever solve this problem with not getting sound from retroarch.

I was able to get sound to work, but in a really janky way. The details escape me, but basically I had to set XBMC to release the sound card after a period of inactivity, and then if I launched the emulator from the command line, sound would work. It would be much nicer to not have to wait for the timeout and simply launch it from the menu like a normal plug-in.

That, combined with my 360 controller disconnecting and the flashing lights discouraged me from pursuing it, but I'm all ears if there's an easy answer out there.

# ? Sep 22, 2014 02:09

DarkSol: May 18, 2006; Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.

Fillerbunny posted:

Please post about it if you ever solve this problem with not getting sound from retroarch.

I was able to get sound to work, but in a really janky way. The details escape me, but basically I had to set XBMC to release the sound card after a period of inactivity, and then if I launched the emulator from the command line, sound would work. It would be much nicer to not have to wait for the timeout and simply launch it from the menu like a normal plug-in.

That, combined with my 360 controller disconnecting and the flashing lights discouraged me from pursuing it, but I'm all ears if there's an easy answer out there.

Actually, I did get it figured out, but I had to guess at what ALSA settings to use.

Turns out mine was hw:1,7, but your milage may vary.

And I think I was getting impatient with the saving bit. I was hitting "save config", but didn't realize that escaping out of Retroarch was saving to the default config.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 03:02

Nam Taf: Jun 25, 2005; I am Fat Man, hear me roar!

Hey guys, xbmc uses bash, which means it's vulnerable to the new shellshock exploit.

Please for the love of god keep an eye out for a patch to this and patch it ASAP.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 11:12

r0ck0: Sep 12, 2004; r0ck0s p0zt m0d3rn lyf

Nam Taf posted:

Hey guys, xbmc uses bash, which means it's vulnerable to the new shellshock exploit.

Please for the love of god keep an eye out for a patch to this and patch it ASAP.

Anything we can do to mitigate risk in the meantime? What are the attack vectors? Blocking ports on the firewall, deny access to the internet for the entire application?

# ? Sep 25, 2014 18:11

Keito: Jul 21, 2005; WHAT DO I CHOOSE ?

Nam Taf posted:

Hey guys, xbmc uses bash, which means it's vulnerable to the new shellshock exploit.

Please for the love of god keep an eye out for a patch to this and patch it ASAP.

You have XBMC accepting incoming connections from outside your LAN? If so you should probably rethink your approach to computing.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 22:27

DarkSol: May 18, 2006; Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.

Just upgraded to the new 4.2 version of OpenELEC, and now my lightpack isn't working. Has anyone else had this problem?

# ? Sep 27, 2014 12:20

Webbeh: Dec 13, 2003; IF THIS IS A 'LOST' THREAD I'M PROBABLY WHINING ABOUT
STABBEY THE MEANY

DarkSol posted:

Just upgraded to the new 4.2 version of OpenELEC, and now my lightpack isn't working. Has anyone else had this problem?

I'll be updating shortly - I'll see if I run into the same issue as you.

I'm spoiled by Lightpack.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 18:29

DarkSol: May 18, 2006; Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.

Webbeh posted:

I'll be updating shortly - I'll see if I run into the same issue as you.

I'm spoiled by Lightpack.

If you don't have any issues, could I grab your config? For some reason, whenever boblight tries to run, it tries to run off of ttyACM0, even when it is set to ttyUSB0.

Edit: Downgrading didn't fix it, and I've been talking with the main OpenELEC devs about it too. I'm wondering if it is a boblight issue and not an OpenELEC issue. I'm using the same config that I've used in the past, and worked... and its not working now. :saddowns:

DarkSol fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Sep 28, 2014

# ? Sep 27, 2014 18:58

YouTuber: Jul 31, 2004; by FactsAreUseless

r0ck0 posted:

Anything we can do to mitigate risk in the meantime? What are the attack vectors? Blocking ports on the firewall, deny access to the internet for the entire application?

If someone has the ability to enter bash commands into your system you have bigger things to worry about.

# ? Sep 28, 2014 22:45

Webbeh: Dec 13, 2003; IF THIS IS A 'LOST' THREAD I'M PROBABLY WHINING ABOUT
STABBEY THE MEANY

DarkSol posted:

If you don't have any issues, could I grab your config? For some reason, whenever boblight tries to run, it tries to run off of ttyACM0, even when it is set to ttyUSB0.

Edit: Downgrading didn't fix it, and I've been talking with the main OpenELEC devs about it too. I'm wondering if it is a boblight issue and not an OpenELEC issue. I'm using the same config that I've used in the past, and worked... and its not working now.

Doesn't seem to be working for me either.

Logs aren't showing anything.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 03:48

The Gunslinger: Jul 24, 2004; Do not forget the face of your father.; Fun Shoe

I upgraded OpenELEC to 4.2 and now Trakt isn't working again. I hate this plugin

Edit: got it working again by uninstalling and reinstalling it, same settings but oh well!

The Gunslinger fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Sep 29, 2014

# ? Sep 29, 2014 04:29

Webbeh: Dec 13, 2003; IF THIS IS A 'LOST' THREAD I'M PROBABLY WHINING ABOUT
STABBEY THE MEANY

Scratch that - restarting OpenELEC fixed Lightpack. Woo!

# ? Sep 29, 2014 16:53

DarkSol: May 18, 2006; Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.

Webbeh posted:

Scratch that - restarting OpenELEC fixed Lightpack. Woo!

I figured it out and I was doing something so boneheaded. There are two locations of boblightd.conf. I was editing the wrong one. :saddowns:

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:05

fletcher: Jun 27, 2003; ken park is my favorite movie; Cybernetic Crumb

YouTuber posted:

If someone has the ability to enter bash commands into your system you have bigger things to worry about.

From my understanding, that's not really how it works. The risk is that if you are using some software that relies on passing user supplied data via environment variables (like CGI scripts) then arbitrary commands can be injected into these environment variables. You don't need shell access to perform the attack.

# ? Oct 2, 2014 18:59

Ixian: Oct 9, 2001; Many machines on Ix....new machines; Pillbug

fletcher posted:

From my understanding, that's not really how it works. The risk is that if you are using some software that relies on passing user supplied data via environment variables (like CGI scripts) then arbitrary commands can be injected into these environment variables. You don't need shell access to perform the attack.

This is true, but it still relies on your XBMC machine exposing itself outside of your local network - like if you were hosting a web server on it, or for some reason decided to open up XBMC's web services to the outside. Which is dumb, and I think his real point.

Not that there aren't people doing it I am sure.

# ? Oct 3, 2014 04:56

Hippie Hedgehog: Feb 19, 2007; Ever cuddled a hedgehog?

Ixian posted:

This is true, but it still relies on your XBMC machine exposing itself outside of your local network - like if you were hosting a web server on it, or for some reason decided to open up XBMC's web services to the outside. Which is dumb, and I think his real point.

Not that there aren't people doing it I am sure.

Probably plenty of them. And probably plenty of people reading this thread who are now scratching their head and going "Surely, my router blocks that. Or does it?"

As I understand it, if running xbmc on Linux, patching Bash should take care of it, right? Whatever distro has surely issued an update by now.
If running openElec, I guess you'd have to wait for a patch from the developers?
Windows should be safe, right?

# ? Oct 3, 2014 09:40

Ixian: Oct 9, 2001; Many machines on Ix....new machines; Pillbug

Hippie Hedgehog posted:

Probably plenty of them. And probably plenty of people reading this thread who are now scratching their head and going "Surely, my router blocks that. Or does it?"

As I understand it, if running xbmc on Linux, patching Bash should take care of it, right? Whatever distro has surely issued an update by now.
If running openElec, I guess you'd have to wait for a patch from the developers?
Windows should be safe, right?

You'd have to explicitly set up a rule on a router/firewall to forward web or other traffic from outside your network to your XBMC box. If you've done that, as someone said earlier, you have bigger problems.

Windows is safe unless you are have Cygwin with BASH installed (it's one of those things where if you do, you'll know), and even then there's not a lot of evidence a Windows system is exploitable that way.

Ixian fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Oct 3, 2014

# ? Oct 3, 2014 15:22

Keito: Jul 21, 2005; WHAT DO I CHOOSE ?

Hippie Hedgehog posted:

If running openElec, I guess you'd have to wait for a patch from the developers?

Nah, they use busybox.

# ? Oct 3, 2014 18:31

Corin Tucker's Stalker: May 27, 2001; One bullet. One gun. Six Chambers. These are my friends.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious because I am a big dumb moron.

I made a custom home menu item. Most of it is pretty straightforward, but under Default Select Action I can't find the option to do what I want. Basically, when the menu item is selected it should display the files in a specific source folder (since they aren't tv shows or movies, just videos from Giant Bomb), like you'd see if you navigated to that same folder with the Files view.

# ? Oct 4, 2014 15:42

r0ck0: Sep 12, 2004; r0ck0s p0zt m0d3rn lyf

Anyway to get gifs working in xbmc? I've already tried this and it didn't work.

quote:

This might break non-animated gifs, but you can turn animated-gif support on by creating a plain text file called advancedsettings.xml and saving it in your userdata folder with the following:
code:
<advancedsettings>
<videoextensions>
  <add>.gif</add>
</videoextensions>
</advancedsettings>

edit: this is on windows

r0ck0 fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Oct 6, 2014

# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:01

jonathan: Jul 3, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

What is the best bang for the buck simple xbmc box on the market right now ? Got a friend who uses xbmc off her laptop through hdmi to her tv and is always having issues. Going to get her a better solution for her birthday.

There are some Pivos models, and these Minix Neo Arm Cortex A9 based devices over at Ncix
http://www.ncix.com/category/media-players-7d-1331.htm

Amazon.ca have a few devices,
Fire TV
Various G-Box android devices
Some "Armada MAch 8 fastest xbmc device in the world"

She will likely be playing media from a usb harddrive.

Any suggestions ? I need to order by tonight, although i'm in Vancouver right now so I can pickup from ncix directly. Amazon.ca will be a couple days to ship.

# ? Oct 6, 2014 21:08

Ixian: Oct 9, 2001; Many machines on Ix....new machines; Pillbug

jonathan posted:

What is the best bang for the buck simple xbmc box on the market right now ? Got a friend who uses xbmc off her laptop through hdmi to her tv and is always having issues. Going to get her a better solution for her birthday.

There are some Pivos models, and these Minix Neo Arm Cortex A9 based devices over at Ncix
http://www.ncix.com/category/media-players-7d-1331.htm

Amazon.ca have a few devices,
Fire TV
Various G-Box android devices
Some "Armada MAch 8 fastest xbmc device in the world"

She will likely be playing media from a usb harddrive.

Any suggestions ? I need to order by tonight, although i'm in Vancouver right now so I can pickup from ncix directly. Amazon.ca will be a couple days to ship.

Normally I'd say the FireTV by a mile but USB storage means you'd have to root it, then stop updates, and basically do a bunch of poo poo that your friend probably isn't going to want to do or keep up with. The rest of the Android devices out there are pretty firmly in tweaker hell; you might want to wait for the new Google TV thing though.

# ? Oct 6, 2014 22:38

Gozinbulx: Feb 19, 2004

Nah, the android boxes are pretty set it forget after a good initial setup. Get a quad core based one, either Rk3188 or S802. Don't get gbox bullshit, its dual core crap. MINIX is just a popular (over priced) brand for these boxes. Get an M8 if its s802, or a Cs968 if its rk3188.

You can get a cs968 for like 77 on amazon with prime. M8 is a bit more.

Edit: get a cs968 and I can walk you through exactly what you need to do to make it fucktastically awesome.

Edit2: this one
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FDOPNT6?cache=10f0b10cfaf906f80d99e37008683c9f&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&qid=1412645086&sr=8-4#ref=mp_s_a_1_4

Gozinbulx fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Oct 7, 2014

# ? Oct 7, 2014 02:18

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Wait for actual android tv devices.

# ? Oct 7, 2014 03:20

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 20, 2024 05:20

sellouts: Apr 23, 2003

Use plex. I find it to be best for anyone that needs stuff like this set up for them and almost everyone has a small PC somewhere that can run the server.

# ? Oct 7, 2014 06:44

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The Kodi/XBMC Thread - Watch things and stuff

«‹›141 »