XBMC Frodo 12.0 Final

[Koenkk]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Don't use this guide anymore, Alpha 5 will be out soon

Hi all,

As many of you already known XBMC Frodo (12.0) Final has been released (awesome work XBMC team!). Because we know some of you don't like to wait for a XBian update, we made instructions on how to get this awesome XBMC build.

NOTE: Advanced users only! If you are not, please wait for the next XBian release! If you are wondering why the download is so big, we also need to get some dependencies.

Update (30-01-2013 18:00 UTC+0): we updated the firmware & XBMC to take advantage of experimental support for the following codec's: VP6, VP8, MJPEG, and Ogg Theora. However MJPEG isn't working yet due to a firmware issue, the Raspberry Pi company is working on this. If you already upgraded it's safe to rerun these instructions.

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

Code:

sudo su         #default password = 'raspberry'
service xbmc stop
apt-get update
apt-get install libcurl3 libva1
cd /opt
rm -rf xbian
git clone -b master git://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian.git
cd xbian
git reset --hard 4d99fd2b51a84083bb6a40453fd4d0ae074c0698
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
rm -rf /lib/modules/3.6.11+.OLD
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
cp -R /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!

[MARA]

Thanks for the fast work!

[Handaloo]

Hey Koen,

Thanks for getting this out so quick!

Initial feedback is I have no sound and some strange colour saturation with some movies.

Handaloo

[CurlyMo]

Does this build also contain the new omxplayer?

[Koenkk]

@CurlyMo not yet, working on it (I will update the git issue that is related to it when it's ready).

[Handaloo]

Guys,

Tried to revert for now and got the following:

root@xbian:/home/xbian# rm -rf /boot
rm: cannot remove `/boot': Device or resource busy

Any ideas?

Handaloo

[CurlyMo]

To revert:

Code:

cp -R /boot.OLD/* /boot/

[Handaloo]

Revert successful

[namtih]

(30th Jan, 2013 09:43 PM)Koenkk Wrote:  @CurlyMo not yet, working on it (I will update the git issue that is related to it when it's ready).

I don't know if this helps, but here are always pre-built versions:
http://omxplayer.sconde.net/

[Koenkk]

(31st Jan, 2013 12:07 AM)namtih Wrote:  

(30th Jan, 2013 09:43 PM)Koenkk Wrote:  @CurlyMo not yet, working on it (I will update the git issue that is related to it when it's ready).

I don't know if this helps, but here are always pre-built versions:
http://omxplayer.sconde.net/

OMXPlayer is directly built into XBMC, I can't do anything with that.

[nicoflorin]

hello there,
i tried to update xbian but i received the following error after the command git clone -b xbian-alpha5 git://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian.git:

Cloning into 'xbian'...
remote: Counting objects: 25203, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6355/6355), done.
remote: Total 25203 (delta 15027), reused 24971 (delta 14800)
Receiving objects: 100% (25203/25203), 240.68 MiB | 2.03 MiB/s, done.
error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect header check)
fatal: serious inflate inconsistency
fatal: index-pack failed

anyone knows what i can do?

Nevermind, i just tried it again. And see there... no problem

[xburchartz]

The git clone command does not complete. I get a fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed error.

Could this have anything to do with the fact that I also installed the download package? I stopped xbmc but I don't see other services that I could stop?

[zerokwel]

nicoflorin.. looks like ya overclocking the puppy over the max. turn your overclock down and all the seg and other faults will go away. after ya install feel free to turn ya overclock back up

[rikardo1979]

Just a 1st quick test and some feedback

• GUI responding times are much faster
• lower CPU load when playing media
• no stutter or a single glitch when playing HD files with some high standards
  tested files like 25gb mkv Full HD 1920*1080 5.1DTS downmix to stereo (means output set to HDMI 2.0 DD and DTS decoders OFF). Absolute smoothness
  

So have fun guys with testing and be ready to be amazed with our new release

@Dev Team, great work

[crs]

awsome work, smooth on my v1 and v2 Pi !@#$%^&**&^%$#@!@#$%^&*( both using a cat5 to smb movie database. Poor WD box is now a small door stop.... TY devs.