[SOLVED] FLV problem with XBMC?

[Skywatch]

HI,

Another issue unfortunately.

Last night I tried to play a FLV file on the Xbian pi (1A5 + 12.1) from it's attached USB HDD.

The audio played fine, but the image would flash on the screen and vanish repeatedly (about 1 second on and 10 seconds off). It was unwatchable.

When I stopped the video and went to the main XBMC menu screen, the image had been 'stretched' vertically and I could not see the power button as this was now below the bottom of the screen display area. The only way to turn it off was to ssh in and issue a reboot command.

On rebooting all was fine in the displayed screen. I didn't try to play the file again, but it streams from the pi to my tablet just fine, so it's not a corrupted file.

Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

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[namtih]

Could be related to this. So perhaps a general 12.1 issue with flv files.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160613

[Skywatch]

Namtih,

Thanks for the reply.

I waited to try the file again and it's still doing it.

I will keep a watch on it and see what I can think of, but it might be related to the 'resetting to 1024x768' problem I also seem to have (where it self resets to that resolution and can't be changed in the menu any more).

Still, at least with a new SD card and 1A5 I seem to be able to reboot out of most problems, before it took a card wipe and reinstall! :-O

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[Skywatch]

This is now solved!

Thanks for the help Namtih but it was something else....

See http://forum.xbian.org/thread-683.html for the solution....

Skywatch