New Raspberry Pi firmware & XBMC Frodo RC3

[gizag]

Yeah
I updated yesterday to alpha 4 and now using this method I can confirm that the gray blocks are now gone when skipping vids Woop!

On a sidenote: it seems to me (as a enduser) that the project is going ahead at a good steady pase, is it maybe usefull to built a system that notifies of updates (maybe a cronjob that checks every x hours and sends a xbmc notification?) since for me it was a bit of coincidence that I saw on the frontpage that alpha 4 whas available

[CurlyMo]

We are working on those functions...

[gizag]

Nice one
If there is need to do translations to Dutch I can help I'm not much of a programmer (except SH scripts) but I'd like to give back

[CurlyMo]

Most of the crew is Dutch, so if you can speak other languages...

[gizag]

Lawl My French and German are really sucky Obviously English, but I guess most of the crew also speaks that

[dlysnes]

Hey guys
I just tested this now. Installation went well, but the problem with choppy playback on old sd movies (Packed B frames issue) persists.
It plays choppy for about one minute, then stops.

Output of vcgencmd version:
xbian@xbian:~# vcgencmd version
Dec 27 2012 17:49:29
Copyright © 2012 Broadcom
version 359888 (release)

xbian@xbian:~# uname -r
3.6.11+

Any more logs /details I can provide?

[Pihkal]

I can't believe how fast you guys keep pushing out the new updates.
Thanks a million for the excellent work you guys do.
Cloning the git,can't wait to try it out.

Edit: So far it's working great.

The Xbian version still says 1.0 a4,is this normal?

[raspberry_pd]

(7th Jan, 2013 09:07 AM)Pihkal Wrote:  The Xbian version still says 1.0 a4,is this normal?

Yep. XBian versions and XBMC versions are separate. XBian 1.0a4 is based on a December 13 RC1 build of XBMC.

[doug]

Unfortunately, it breaks the MediaPortal Live TV Add-on:
"23:30:07 T:2967741504 ERROR: PVR - Add-on 'MediaPortal PVR Client' is using an incompatible API version. XBMC minimum API version = '1.6.0', add-on API version '1.5.0'"

1080p videos appear to be playing without buffering via nfs, though I've only previewed about 2 minutes of a movie.

[eth0]

I'm still on A3, should I upgrade to A4 before doing this? I noticed I have no /opt/xbian directory..

[Koenkk]

@doug I'm going to recompile the PVR Addons, will notify when they are ready.
@eth0, upgrading to a4 is recommended.

[Handaloo]

Worked a treat as always

Thanks guys! Loving the lack of grey blocks when skipping!

[eth0]

Thanks Koenkk. I went A3 > A4 >A5 without any issues and everything appears fine in terms of skipping through movies.

[CurlyMo]

Please notice that this isn't version Alpha 5 yet. Just a way for you guys to try our new features / updates.

[Handaloo]

Anybody know why the following command isn't working for me?

vcgencmd version
-bash: vcgencmd: command not found

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