Xbmc For Xbox - March 23rd 2008 Svn Rev12263 Build, compiled by T3CH Options

[XanTium]

XBMC for Xbox (XboxMediaCenter) SVN rev12263 build of March 23rd 2008 compiled by T3CH

This is a complete snapshot of what was in SVN at the time the build was compiled, with just a few small additions:
+ Killarny & Nuka1195 & Pike's Apple Movie Trailers (AMT) SVN pre0.99.3 rev2030 [scripts/Apple Movie Trailers]
+ EnderW & Blittan's XBMCScripts Installer 1.8 SCRIPT [scripts/XBMCScripts]
+ Team XBMC Lyrics 1.5.7 rev2032 SCRIPT [scripts/XBMC Lyrics]
+ Asteron's Tetris 1.1 SCRIPT [scripts/Tetris]
+ BigBellyBilly's T3CH Upgrader 1.4 [scripts/T3CH Upgrader]
+ Nuka1195 & Dataratt's AOL Videos Plugin 1.1.1 [plugins/video/AOL Videos Plugin]
+ Nuka1195's XBMC-Addons Installer 1.0 [plugins/programs/]
+ Codecs for mplayer [/system/players/mplayer/codecs/*]
+ PM3 Red Theme + PM3 Blue Theme by Jezz_X


Special Note From T3CH:

* XBMC Lyrics updated to 1.5.7. AMT updated to 0.99.3
* I'm including the >>XBMC Win32 PC environment<<.exe that is meant for skinners & python developers, read more about the concept here. It was built using Microsoft DirectX Summer 2004 SDK.
* I've tweaked the win32 >>run_me_first.bat<< so it runs and then unmounts the virtual drives when you exit.
* If you want to report bugs, please do it the PROPER way, see http://xbmc.org/wiki/index....oper_Bug_Report

NOTEWORTHY, XML and SCRIPT CHANGES IN THIS BUILD:

Here is the FULL changelog since the March 09th 2007 SVN Rev11970 Build (last one posted on xbins/xbox-scene):

2008-03-23 12263 fixed: ofdb scraper (thx asm_alien/Bra!n/Bootsy)
2008-03-23 12258 fixed: httpapi broadcast was logging too aggressively
2008-03-23 12255 fixed: dvdplayer didn't react to subtitle delay correction for text subtitles
2008-03-23 12254 fixed: warning due to bool > 0 comparison
2008-03-23 12253 changed: avoid reparsing current fileitem's url on each render by just checking left of url instead of using CURL class.
2008-03-23 12252 fixed: ffmpeg demuxer wouldn't seek to start of movie correctly
2008-03-23 12251 fixed: ffmpeg demuxer wouldn't seek to start of movie correctly
2008-03-23 12250 changed: avoid using accurate seeks for normal seeks as it takes a lot longer.
2008-03-23 12249 changed: avoid using accurate seeks for normal seeks as it takes a lot longer.
2008-03-23 12247 fixed: after multi tuner support for mythtv channel listings, sometimes almost nothing showed up. (third times a charm)
2008-03-23 12246 fixed: after multi tuner support for mythtv channel listings, sometimes almost nothing showed up. (second attempt)
2008-03-23 12245 fixed: after multi tuner support for mythtv channel listings, sometimes almost nothing showed up.
2008-03-23 12244 fixed: before selecting mythtv tuner to start livetv on, make sure tuner supports the given channel, otherwise try another tuner.
2008-03-22 12243 changed: make cmyth client list all channels on all available tuners.
2008-03-22 12242 changed: curl http client now won't loose it's state on a seek against a server that doesn't support ranged requests. before the failed seek would lead to a lost connection, thus it was vital to know if server would accept seeks beforehand.
2008-03-22 12241 fixed: ringholdbuffer would fail skip if it was empty and skipamount was 0 (curl had to reconnect each time this happened)
2008-03-22 12235 updated: Dutch language file, thanks gigantisch
2008-03-22 12234 updated: Danish language file, thanks buchwaldsource
2008-03-22 12232 fixed: [ 1852063 ] "Press any button to reboot" doesn't work in Error Recovery
2008-03-21 12228 fixed: uninitialized variable
2008-03-20 12221 changed: removed unneeded header callback system from filecurl
2008-03-20 12220 added: support LATM encapsulated AAC streams (mplayer.dll) added: support some more mpegts streams with aac audio (mplayer.dll) fixed: attempt to seek in a unseekable http stream would render original connection invalid.
2008-03-20 12217 fixed: paplayer must always create new streams for new files when playing files with larger than 2 channels. channel order may have changed or samplerate may have changed (we don't resample those to 48k)
2008-03-20 12216 fixed: dvdplayer/mplayer would play multichannel vorbis audio with wrong channel orders.
2008-03-20 12210 fixed: deleting a cmyth file would fail due too %lld not being supported on msvc and msvc not allowing NULL be passed as a string parameter to a printf style function. ( printf("%s", NULL); )
2008-03-20 12209 fixed: libcmyth.dll didn't get unloaded when session was disconnected
2008-03-19 12208 changed: Removed "enabled" and "disabled" as boolean conditions. Use "true" and "false" instead.
2008-03-19 12207 merged: forgotten piece from linux branch to allow deleting of recordings
2008-03-19 12206 merged: r12169, r12171, r12173, r12177, r12198, r12199, r12201 from linux branch. added: %Q as label format method to retrieve filetime fixed: GUIMediaInfoWindow wouldn't resort items when set to sort by label and label masks changed. added: mythtv now uses special sort modes, and additional date in label to know when the show aired. added: allow myth client to stop a recording by starting it from recordings and pressing the record button during playback. (this doesn't always work as backend seem to restart recording directly after. same thing happens in official frontend, so i'd expect the bug is in the backend) changed: plot now containes subtitle + description field from backend, and plotoutline only the subtitle field. added: a new better method of requesting data from a mythbackend, that doesn't rely on the sockets receive buffer size.
2008-03-19 12205 merged: CharsetConverter change from UTF16 denomination for gui strings to W as in wide string.
2008-03-19 12204 merged: CharsetConverter change from UTF16 denomination for gui strings to W as in wide string.
2008-03-19 12203 fixed: CDateTime would break debug due to not masking of unneeded bits when converting lower part of 64bit value to DWORD.
2008-03-19 12202 fixed: eventserver was started instead of stopped on network down
2008-03-19 12193 Updated : PM3 Music Info while in Slide show window to same standard/look as full screen visualisation
2008-03-19 12190 added: scalediffuse attribute to <aspectratio> tags for image (and largeimage) controls. Allows the skinner to disable the scaling of diffuse when aspectratio forces image scaling to occur. Defaults to true (i.e. previous behaviour).
2008-03-18 12187 fixed: tvshows table was overrun on insertion of details (read overrun, not write) but caused column junk in db.
2008-03-18 12186 updated: Swedish language file by blittan (based on english 12175)
2008-03-18 12184 merged: minor code cleanup back from linuxport.
2008-03-18 12178 added: id to details output
2008-03-18 12176 disabled: event server in non-XBox builds.
2008-03-18 12175 added: event server from linuxport.
2008-03-18 12174 fixed: Send container.* builtins to the underlying media window.
2008-03-17 12160 changed: Make <colordiffuse> infolabel-ized.
2008-03-17 12159 Added: Infolabels for text colors, thanks to agathorn.
2008-03-16 12155 fixed: series banners failed due to minor site changes
2008-03-16 12154 fixed: interlace method setting defaulted to 1 (auto) changed to None, thanks mysteryman.
2008-03-16 12146 fixed: default scraper settings failed to load if you entered settings but hit cancel
2008-03-16 12128 fixed: wrong id was being used for "Language Override" causing language preference regards banners to be ignored.
2008-03-16 12122 Updated : Danish Language file
2008-03-15 12118 fixed: plugin/scraper settings, defaults set label2 for type "action"
2008-03-15 12109 added: new plugin/scraper setting type "action", it allows you to execute a builtin from settings. "option" may be set to "close" to close the settings dialog when you click the setting. e.g. <setting type="action" label="30090" option="close" default="RunPlugin(plugin://video/Apple Movie Trailers Plugin/?update=newest)
2008-03-14 12092 fixed: play using did not work in library mode
2008-03-14 12089 changed: movieposterdb default to false in scraper settings (not the quickest of sites)
2008-03-14 12084 fixed: filmgrain setting defaulted to 1
2008-03-14 12083 changed: moved scraper settings to a separate cpp file (backport from linux branch 12059)
2008-03-14 12081 fixed: dvdmenu button was visible on videoosd when its not needed
2008-03-13 12079 fixed/changed: backported from linux branch (12057, 12058, 12060, 12062, 12065, 12066)
2008-03-13 12078 Added : Year Value to the end of the Album name in Full screen music info Changed : Localized a string in Codec info in Full screen music info
2008-03-13 12075 Fixed : Filemanager ( Xbox ) When C,E,F,G drives is used, free space labels not fit in some languages. SF Patch [ 1913299 ]
2008-03-13 12054 fixed: large tag chunks would crash the flac tag loader (backport from linux branch 12053)
2008-03-12 12049 fixed: various video library search issues ([ 1876756 ], [ 1880289 ]) (backport from linux)
2008-03-12 12045 fixed: libcmyth would log error when closing files due to parsing "ok" as an integer changed: don't allow libcmyth to open files with 0 size. backend doesn't fail open on non existing files, just give a filesize of 0
2008-03-12 12043 fixed: and yet again i forget that our filesystem returns unsigned longs not longs..
2008-03-12 12041 updated: Portuguese (Brazil) translation, thanks mrbeetle.
2008-03-12 12040 merged: r12038, 12039 from linux branch.
2008-03-12 12037 fixed: make separator in local season thumbs optional (backport from linux branch)
2008-03-11 12031 Fixed: If no plotsummary exists use plotoutline rather than returning "Not Available"
2008-03-10 11975 fixed: don't enable edit title in context menu for season items (backport from linux branch)
2008-03-09 11974 merged: r11971, r11972 from linux branch to trunk

INSTALL NOTES from T3CH readme/nfo:

* APPLICATION INSTALL
- Fresh Install: Transfer _whole_ XBMC folder to your APPS folder (or where you want it).
- Upgrade: Backup the XBMC\UserData folder. Transfer whole XBMC folder to Xbox. Overwrite UserData folder with your backed up copy.

* DASHBOARD INSTALL (SOFTMODS)
ARE NOT COVERED IN THIS README, SEE http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=406656

* DASHBOARD INSTALL
- Option 1. Team XBMC's shortcut tool.
It's included in the _tools folder as <<SHORTCUT by TEAM XBMC.xbe>> + <<SHORTCUT by TEAM XBMC.cfg>>.
Instructions here: http://xbmc.org/wiki/index....=As_a_Dashboard (Option 1).
Rename the <<SHORTCUT by TEAM XBMC.xbe>>+.cfg & also EDIT the .cfg so it matches your config.
See APPLICATION INSTALL above.
- Option 2. Thanks to an app called 'Team UIX's Xbe Shortcut Maker v1.0' by JbOnE, it's now easy...
Transfer contents of XBMC folder (this is VERY important since the tool is hardcoded) TO "E:\APPS\XBMC\". Rename <<SHORTCUT by TEAM UIX.xbe>> to something your bios can boot (see http://xbmc.org/wiki/index....=As_a_Dashboard or read your BIOS README) and transfer to location your mod solution boots. No need to fiddle with HOME tag anymore, and future upgrades you need not to worry about this file (unless you move XBMC).

* AN INTRODUCTION TO PLUGINS
XBMC has a system for Media plugins to allow browsing of remote content (Internet) using the regular filesystem approach.
Plugins are put inside >>XBMC/plugins/<video/music/pictures>/<< (I already do this for the one/s I include), furthermore they also need to be installed as a source in (video/music/pictures).
You do this install by using the contextmenu choice >>Add New Source<< while in ROOT list and then choosing ***Plugins as source.
Then you highlight (not select) the folder of the plugin you want to install. It will be saved inside sources.xml for future.

* WIN32 PC ENVIRONMENT INSTRUCTIONS (WIN32 FOLDER)
Good to know, this requires DirectX9 Runtimes to be installed. Also this doesn't work with all graphics cards.
You need to:
- Copy XBMC_PC.exe & 'run_me_first.bat' from win32 to XBMC folder
- Run 'run_me_first.bat'
- Run XBMC_PC.exe

* UPGRADE TIPS
If you're updating from a VERY old/bad build you may get issues. Follow these simple rules:
- Replace (FTP OVERWRITE) all files in your XBMC folder with fresh ones from your new build
- Delete old settings (from UserData/guisettings.xml)
- In some rare cases some of the database files in UserData/Database/*.db may need manual deletion (usually if they are very old). Note: This loses all per file settings you made with the old build!

INFORMATION from T3CH readme/nfo:

XBMC's online manual can be found at http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Main_Page .
Any questions or support issues, are best asked in the XBMC support forums, which are located at http://xbmc.org/forum/ , or in the official IRC support channel, #XBMC on Freenode IRC network (irc.freenode.net). (NOTE folks in #XBMC can't help with info where to find builds)


If you want other scripts (extra 3rd party components), see
- http://www.xbmcscripts.com or use the included script installer!

If you want trainers, grab them at
- http://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+trainers

The xbe has been retail patched and was built using v5849 of the XDK.

If you want to remove the startup logo, remove splash.png from the \media folder.
If you want to remove the startup sound, remove start.wav from the \skin\Project Mayhem III\sounds\ folder.

XBMC Changelog is included, see Changelog.txt

Official XBMC Website: http://xbmc.org
Official T3CH Website: http://t3ch.yi.se

[lawdawg0931]

As always, thanks for keeping these coming. Two weeks seems long though - thats why I learned to compile my own (made me appreciate T3CH even more). But your work is alway appreciated..

[competes2win]

Very nice, thanks a bunch!

[Bloodlust]

The AMT in this version seems to be broken. I can't launch it. Anyone??

[R111]

Thanks for the build once again..

btw,
XBMC/system/players/mplayer/mplayer.dll - File length: 5231616 byte(s)
Revision 12266 - Modified Mon Mar 24 01:19:08 2008 UTC by elupus

changed: moved audio probing to after lavf probing. audio probing had a tendency to detect flv files as audio since they contained mp3 headers. fixes flv http streams that didn't contain a filename.

This post has been edited by R111: Mar 24 2008, 08:41 AM

[NineT9mustang]

thanks t3ch! such a sweet girl

can u post pics of u next time?

[drtekger]

Yay thanks t3ch for THE BEST dash ever! Whut u are a girl? Even better ^^

[MonkY2]

Thanks again to XanTium / t3ch for the great job !

I have only two questions... hopefully i will not upset anybody with them:

1. I've donated a small ammount in PayPal account for XBMC, and after one month, nobody got the money and they got back to me. Isn't XBMC team accepting donations anymore ?

2. Is this build better for running on PC also ? It's working great on my Xbox, but i miss HD movies which only XBMC for PC can play. Unfortunatelly, there is no mouse support, and i can't connect my gamepad to my PC... i just hope the best media center to be 100% working on PC. Is that too much of a dream ?

[Axl_Mas]

Thanks for the build once again..

btw,
XBMC/system/players/mplayer/mplayer.dll - File length: 5231616 byte(s)
Revision 12266 - Modified Mon Mar 24 01:19:08 2008 UTC by elupus

Many thanks to the team!!!

Has in this relase been update the mplayer.dll?

[earlneath]

Thanks for the new build. I am still getting the same issue with many video files not playing. I had this issue in builds from the last few months with a fresh install from the dashboard and with files transfered using filezilla (so its not just a flashfxp problem). Attempting to play the files over the network does not solve the issue.

1/ select video to play
2/ "caching subtitles"
3/ "Error. Playlist playback aborted. Too many consecutive failed items"

Here's the log:

23:02:32 M: 31043584 ERROR: CMPlayer::OpenFile G:\###\###.avi failed with code -1
23:02:32 M: 38191104 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [G:\###\###.avi]

I am also getting the following skin file issue in the PMIII skin in my log:

22:58:55 M: 47124480 NOTICE: load default skin:[Project Mayhem III]
22:58:55 M: 45387776 ERROR: unable to load Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\language\english\strings.xml: Failed to open file at line 0
22:58:55 M: 45387776 ERROR: unable to load Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\language\English\strings.xml: Failed to open file at line 0
22:58:56 M: 43630592 WARNING: use dashboard
23:00:07 M: 39440384 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\media\Big
23:00:15 M: 39440384 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\media\Big
23:00:26 M: 40185856 ERROR: Control 18 in window 10129 has been asked to focus, but it can't
23:00:27 M: 39440384 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\media\Big
23:00:36 M: 39440384 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\media\Big
23:00:51 M: 40185856 ERROR: Control 18 in window 10129 has been asked to focus, but it can't
23:00:55 M: 39440384 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: Q:\skin\Project Mayhem III\media\Big
23:01:22 M: 40271872 ERROR: Control 402 in window 10133 has been asked to focus, but it can't

[xRaVeNx]

Is there like a slo-motion button?

To watch videos frame by frame?

[spiff]

snippets from NON-DEBUG logs are of no real value.
that only says 'it failed'. you already told us that.

[navanman]

Thanks for the new build. I like the new refections in video, music library views. Looks fab in music coverflow view, a little overpowering in video episode view IMO but thanks anyway for the hard work.

I checked the Wiki but couldn't find anything. Whats the new "Remote Events" tab in Network Settings? Has options for port, range & clients?

[Cimlite]

Is there like a slo-motion button?
To watch videos frame by frame?

I don't think there is any way to get slow-motion... but frame-by-frame is in there. Just pause the video and press right on the d-pad/remote to advance one frame.

Thanks for the new build as usual T3ch/developers!

[cricri_pingouin]

Yay, thanks