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Two questions about XMBC/XBian
19th Apr, 2013, 02:29 AM
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Question Two questions about XMBC/XBian
Hi guys,

I am totally new to the Raspberry Pi/XBian world, but I managed to get everything installed and running.

Now there remain two important questions:

1. When watching a movie (Les Miserables for example), I see the colours changing every 30 to 60 seconds. Once it has a red blur, then it is dark and later on bright green-brown. It looks really strange and I know, that can not be correct. Is there a fix for that?

2. I have added two directories from my NAS (Movies and TV series). Now I would like to add a third one, but this directory should NOT be pushed to the "movies" section, but remain as an own category/division ... AND it should be somehow password-protected, so only I and my wife for example can access it and not just every visitor or even children. Is that possible and if yes, how?

Thank you very much.

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19th Apr, 2013, 02:34 AM
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RE: Two questions about XMBC/XBian
1) try another tv or hdmi-cable
2) try system-profiles
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19th Apr, 2013, 02:37 AM
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RE: Two questions about XMBC/XBian
Thank you for your reply.

1. I doubt the error lies in the TV, because otherwise I would have the problems on other players or channels, too. The cable is a brandnew one (just ordered for the Raspberry Pi) 1.4 with gold contacts, whatever that means, but I can test it with another cable, of course.

2. Can you be a bit more specific? Sorry, I am totally new to this subject.
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19th Apr, 2013, 04:01 AM
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RE: Two questions about XMBC/XBian
(19th Apr, 2013 02:29 AM)syco Wrote:  2. I have added two directories from my NAS (Movies and TV series). Now I would like to add a third one, but this directory should NOT be pushed to the "movies" section, but remain as an own category/division ... AND it should be somehow password-protected, so only I and my wife for example can access it and not just every visitor or even children. Is that possible and if yes, how?

please read Locking source

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19th Apr, 2013, 04:03 AM
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RE: Two questions about XMBC/XBian
(19th Apr, 2013 02:29 AM)syco Wrote:  1. When watching a movie (Les Miserables for example), I see the colours changing every 30 to 60 seconds. Once it has a red blur, then it is dark and later on bright green-brown. It looks really strange and I know, that can not be correct. Is there a fix for that?

more likely an cable issue, so try another cable if that fix the issue but it can be a wrong detected HDMI device(CEC) so report back and we may look for config later

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19th Apr, 2013, 04:23 AM
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RE: Two questions about XMBC/XBian
(19th Apr, 2013 02:37 AM)syco Wrote:  2. Can you be a bit more specific? Sorry, I am totally new to this subject.
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19th Apr, 2013, 10:43 PM
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RE: Two questions about XMBC/XBian
First, I thank you a lot for your help up to now. About that:

1. Alright, I will go and buy another cable to check it out. Btw, that graphic glitches do not happen to be there all the time. It seems to affect high-res videos only (Les Miserables was 1080). I will look out for further 1080 files to compare.

2. Okay, that did not work at all. I changed the sources.xml to get the security lock done and after that the Raspberry freezes, whenever I press on that directory to enter it (with my Yatse app on my handset). So, I deleted the security lock stuff from sources.xml and tried it over the GUI (XBMC settings). There I could do the same (set up a security code per context menu). Well, configuring worked easy, BUT when trying to enter again that directory, it just hangs (as before). That means, there is not coming up a menu/question to enter numeric code I specified earlier.

Does anyone know, why both ways lead to a freeze? I mean I can not do anything after trying to enter that directory. Btw, after a restart and removing the security lock, the directory can be opened/visited normally. For some unknown reason the security lock stuff kills my system. :-\
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19th Apr, 2013, 10:56 PM
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get us log file after the freeze
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