XBMC-Linux Beta 082412 Discussion and Bug Report

[sensite]

whats the trick to set the time : / driving me nuts

I thought the time issue was fixed in the 8/24 image?

[screamer]

What about .rar support?
I've read somewhere that its som licence issue but seem like some people can compile it with .rar support.
Thats one of the best things with XBMC i think.

[aasoror]

whats the trick to set the time : / driving me nuts

System -> Settings -> Appearance -> International -> Timezone

[sweep]

Here is one thing I noticed, I don't think I was doing anything wrong but the repeat function on playlists doesn't work for video.

If you queue a video, go to now playing and set repeat to all it stops the video after one play. Even if you save it as a playlist it still only plays the video once.

XBMC on PC seems to have no problem with this.

[chewie]

OK I have found something that is rather frustrating. Network settings seem to not be held by the system. I connect to a wireless network, set which network I want, then I cannot set a static IP. In order to search for my shares and such on my Windows network I have to edit the /etc/resolv.conf which then gets reset every few hours when DHCP renegotiates.

Anyone have any thoughts?

[gsimmons3371]

OK I have found something that is rather frustrating. Network settings seem to not be held by the system. I connect to a wireless network, set which network I want, then I cannot set a static IP. In order to search for my shares and such on my Windows network I have to edit the /etc/resolv.conf which then gets reset every few hours when DHCP renegotiates.

Anyone have any thoughts?

If I ssh in and use ifconfig to set ip, mask and broadcast XBMC then lists the connection as manual and I can edit DNS. The problem remains that it resets the DNS setting to 127.0.0.1 after a reboot.

[aasoror]

OK I have found something that is rather frustrating. Network settings seem to not be held by the system. I connect to a wireless network, set which network I want, then I cannot set a static IP. In order to search for my shares and such on my Windows network I have to edit the /etc/resolv.conf which then gets reset every few hours when DHCP renegotiates.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Why do you need to set the IP statically on the XIOS ? why not do it on your router instead ? leave the XIOS set to DHCP on, and use the XIOS mac address to statically set the assigned IP on the router.

[chewie]

Because if I leave it set to use my router for DNS then the Xios cannot resolve the names of my Windows servers. I have been unable to edit the host file on the Xios and have it actually used for name resolution, so I setup an internal dns zone (home.local) and put my local machines into it. Then when I point the Xios at that DNS server all works as it should.

[daggis]

I just got my XIOS DS. Upgrade to XBMC-Linux was easy Will there be support of karaoke (CDG+MP3) in future release?

[geggog]

Because if I leave it set to use my router for DNS then the Xios cannot resolve the names of my Windows servers. I have been unable to edit the host file on the Xios and have it actually used for name resolution, so I setup an internal dns zone (home.local) and put my local machines into it. Then when I point the Xios at that DNS server all works as it should.

Presumably your other local machines have static IPs too? If so, why not just address them via IP? Once you've done the initial setup, the fact your referencing IPs instead of host names becomes transparent to the user anyway.