New Raspberry Pi firmware & XBMC Frodo RC3

[Koenkk]

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Hi all,

The new raspberry pi firmware is again a huge improvement. It fixes the grey block(s) in the video when forwarding/skipping in a movie. It also solves the XVID playback issues that happend in XBMC RC2 & RC3. In my case it also improved the playback and overall performance (I can now finally stream 1080p from samba over wifi without hiccups & more overclocking )

NOTE: Advanced users only!

To install
SSH into your pi and execute the following commands:

Code:

sudo su         #default password = 'raspberry'
apt-get update
apt-get install libcurl3
/etc/init.d/xbmc stop
cd /opt
rm -rf xbian
git clone -b xbian-alpha5 git://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian.git
cd xbian
git reset --hard cf71d5f9af56e0593cd9cbc41a99c2cf2aa3c8dc
rm  boot/config.txt boot/cmdline.txt
rm -rf /boot.OLD
mkdir /boot.OLD
cp -R /boot/* /boot.OLD
rm -rf /opt/vc.OLD
mv /opt/vc /opt/vc.OLD
rm -rf /usr/local/share/xbmc.OLD
mv /usr/local/share/xbmc /usr/local/share/xbmc.OLD
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/xbmc.OLD
mv /usr/local/lib/xbmc /usr/local/lib/xbmc.OLD
cp -R boot/*  /boot
cp -R opt/vc /opt
cp -R usr/local/lib/xbmc /usr/local/lib/xbmc
cp -R usr/local/share/xbmc /usr/local/share/xbmc
chmod +x /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
mv /lib/modules/3.6.11+ /lib/modules/3.6.11+.OLD
cp -R lib/modules/3.6.11+ /lib/modules/
reboot

To restore
If you don't like the new firmware & XBMC restore using the following commands.

Code:

sudo su         #default password = 'raspberry'
/etc/init.d/xbmc stop
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/xbmc
rm -rf /usr/local/share/xbmc
mv /usr/local/share/xbmc.OLD /usr/local/share/xbmc
mv /usr/local/lib/xbmc.OLD /usr/local/lib/xbmc
rm -rf /boot
mv /boot.OLD /boot
rm -rf /opt/vc
mv /opt/vc.OLD /opt/vc
rm -rf /lib/modules/3.6.11+
mv /lib/modules/3.6.11+.OLD /lib/modules/3.6.11+
reboot

Please leave your feedback, finding & suggestions here! Thanks!