Official Pivos XBMC Alpha 073012 Discussion and Bug Report

[aasoror]

Do tell more!

Nothing much to add, I was simply confirming what he was "promised" by support in their reply to his bug report.

[thepolarbear]

Ok Great...I will eye the forum for the release of the linux port flash this week and try it out.

Thanks again sir

[davyuan]

Build: XBMC0730
Firmware: ICS-060412
Network: Ethernet
A/V Setup: HDMI to to TV
Playback Source: I'm using navi-x to play the stream: rtsp://my-video-server.com:1935/ts-rtp- ... eam-hd.sdp
Video Format: h.264.
Screen resolution: 720p

Issues: Video is very choppy and has lots of mosaics. Audio is dropping as well. XBMC running on a Windows laptop sitting side by side as the DS Play box plays the same stream fine.

[aasoror]

Build: XBMC0730
Firmware: ICS-060412
Network: Ethernet
A/V Setup: HDMI to to TV
Playback Source: I'm using navi-x to play the stream: rtsp://my-video-server.com:1935/ts-rtp- ... eam-hd.sdp
Video Format: h.264.
Screen resolution: 720p

Issues: Video is very choppy and has lots of mosaics. Audio is dropping as well. XBMC running on a Windows laptop sitting side by side as the DS Play box plays the same stream fine.

Have you done this (as per the OP of this thread) ?

For those having issues with Navi-X using dvplayer instead of amlplayer, you need to change the default player in Navi-X to 'auto' and THEN amlplayer will be used for playback and it will use hw decode. I suspect other plugin that explicitly choose 'dvdplayer' over 'auto select' will have the same issues.

[davyuan]

For those having issues with Navi-X using dvplayer instead of amlplayer, you need to change the default player in Navi-X to 'auto' and THEN amlplayer will be used for playback and it will use hw decode. I suspect other plugin that explicitly choose 'dvdplayer' over 'auto select' will have the same issues.

I did change the default player to 'auto' but it didn't make any difference.

also if I'm not mistaken, isn't the default player the amlplayer? Here is an excerpt from the xbmc.log where it dumps out the content of the advancesettings:

20:31:14 T:13090840 NOTICE: Contents of special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml are...
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultplayer>amlplayer</defaultplayer>
<defaultdvdplayer>amlplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
</video>
</advancedsettings>

I'm also seeing quite a few discontinuity error as well as too many reference frames. It almost looks like a bad stream if it is not for the fact that it plays fine in a XBMC on a laptop besides the Pivos box.

20:33:53 T:18927400 ERROR: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] mmco: unref short failure
20:33:53 T:18927400 ERROR: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] number of reference frames (0+4) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
20:33:53 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:557000.000000, should be:435291.667435, error:-121708.332565
20:33:53 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:679291.667435, should be:512000.000000, error:-167291.667435
20:33:54 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:687000.000000, should be:789333.333333, error:102333.333333
20:33:54 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:1280333.333333, should be:1386666.666667, error:106333.333333
20:33:54 T:18927400 INFO: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] concealing 2317 DC, 2317 AC, 2317 MV errors
20:33:56 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:3210666.666667, should be:3403500.001828, error:192833.335161
20:33:56 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:3763500.001828, should be:4278166.668495, error:514666.666667
20:33:57 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:4758166.668495, should be:5007166.668495, error:249000.000000
20:33:57 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:5263166.668495, should be:5484833.335161, error:221666.666667
20:33:57 T:18927400 ERROR: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] error while decoding MB 67 27, bytestream (-4)
20:33:57 T:18927400 INFO: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] concealing 1422 DC, 1422 AC, 1422 MV errors
20:33:58 T:19324280 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:6084833.335161, should be:6364833.335161, error:280000.000000
20:33:58 T:18927400 ERROR: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] mmco: unref short failure
20:33:58 T:18927400 ERROR: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] number of reference frames (0+4) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
20:33:58 T:18927400 ERROR: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] error while decoding MB 50 35, bytestream (-4)
20:33:58 T:18927400 INFO: ffmpeg[120CF28]: [h264] concealing 799 DC, 799 AC, 799 MV errors

[davilla]

CDVDPlayerAudio, that's your 1st clue that dvdplayer is playing the video and not amlplayer. Recheck your Nav-X settings, they are not correct.

[davyuan]

CDVDPlayerAudio, that's your 1st clue that dvdplayer is playing the video and not amlplayer. Recheck your Nav-X settings, they are not correct.

I tried to set the default player in the navi-x settings to "auto" but it wasn't persisting. So thought there might be some bug there and it wasn't saving my change. anyway I checked their code and decide to change the configuration file directly.

In the addon/navi-x folder there is this file called settings.dat and based on my reading of their code the deafult player is saved there. I changed the number 2 (mplayer) to 0 (auto) and restarted XBMC. And this time it appears "auto" is set to be the default palyer.

Anyway this is how I ended up doing to change the default player. If I'm doing it wrong or if there is a "correct" way to do it, please enlighten me.

[Jaemlllz]

if i flash the xbmc linux port when i revert back to ics do i need to reinstall all my apps or all my settings. also how can i make a nand backup?

[aasoror]

if i flash the xbmc linux port when i revert back to ics do i need to reinstall all my apps or all my settings. also how can i make a nand backup?

You can use TB to backup your apps/settings before reflashing.
Current recovery console doesn't support nand backups.

[chindizzle]

Biuld: XBMC0730
Firmware: ics 4.0.3
Network: xbmc with library over SMB
A/V Setup: (Insert your AV setup)
Playback Source: SMB
Video Format: avi, mkv, etc

Got the device yesterday and am pretty happy with it. Here are my first impressions of things that work and dont work. Some have been addressed earlier in the thread. First i tried exporting my current xbmc library and copying it to the microsd and importing it. That crashed the device(froze xbmc). Next i tried letting it scrape my drives over smb. Took way way too long. Next, i tried copying over my userdata folder(databases and thumbnails). That worked fine.

1) Import library doesnt work at all and seems to crash xbmc and therefore the device(tried 3x) separate and single file.
2) Volume within xbmc for video doesnt work on the remote. Kind of a big deal for me also makes volume control on the remote useless. I saw it was addressed earlier in the thread and seems to be an ics issue.
3) update library(scanning for new content) seems to take a very very long time. What takes 2 minutes on my other xbmc 2007 mac mini takes 50 minutes on the xios? Not sure why it takes longer specially when it's not picking anything new up.
4) going to show information(hangs badly) and then refreshing the show crashes/lags.
5) cant set time within xbmc. Not a big deal but kinda annoying.
6) cant use other skins without major lag(aeon nox which id prefer). Saw it was mentioned in another thread.
7) no DTS/AC3 passthru. Saw it's in licensing stages so should be soon hopefully.
8) No pivos xios ds nightlies for xbmc to do more testing on. Id love to help more if i could.
9)* No way to jump forward more than 30 seconds using remote.(not really an xbmc issue but just annoying). Keybindings xml doesnt help given the remote has so few buttons.
10) a way to force quit xbmc from the remote when it freezes/lags would be great. RIght now i have to cycle the power which takes a while.
11) thumbnail art seems very slow to load for tv shows
12) returning to homescreen from tv shows/movies seems to stall for a few seconds before loading.

updating the video library seems to be the biggest issue i have with the amount of time it takes trying to scrape new content. I turned off update altogether and let sickbeard send notifciations and ill just add movies and new shows manually.

*Is there a way to remap the useless remote button i(bottom middle) to big step fast forward? Right now all it does is bring up ics notificaitons. I couldnt find a keybinding for it. Maybe i missed it?

Note: none of these are complaints. I recognize this is an early alpha. This is just what ive noticed after using the device for a day. Might help others who are thinking about buying.