Xbmc For Xbox - April 23rd 2009 Svn Rev19585 9.04-beta1, compiled by T3CH Options

[sektor1062]

Any better compatability with windows 7

[kronyk420]

I haven't been around for a while, so please pardon if it's an old question, but what happened to the music scrapers? I have over 300 albums scanned in with the CCDB 2 years ago, but after updating XBMC to the 2.0 stable build the only available scrapers are Allmusic and Israelmusic (garbage sites in IMHO) which return only inaccurate info, if anything at all. 99% of the time a search locks up my box for 5 minutes and returns nothing. The ID3 tags still scan, but I miss the album art and info panels! Has this been addressed in this new build, or are the good scrapers gone forever? Without detailed info, XBMC is no longer my first choice for music..........and with its limited ability to play the newer SD codecs (such as WMV) on Xbox it may soon lose its appeal for video as well. It seems lately I have to reencode everything before my Xbox can play it, as even AVIs with SD aspect ratios are stuttering. It is not a hardware issue, as I have 3 boxes all running the same build, with same issues. I have upgraded to many of the newer builds and been greatly disappointed, always returning to Stable.

FTR, I'm not complaining, I love XBMC! It's just a little like watching your girlfriend get old and saggy.............

ALL OF THIS IS XBOX SPECIFIC! I do not use the WinXp or Linux versions, both crap IMO. They'll never beat what Xbox had!

[Big Al]

Looking good. The user interface is definitely quicker.

I'm having the Youtube script to work. Not sure if it's me or the program. I should just be able to select the thing I want to be able to watch and hit "enter" correct? When I do that it comes up with a "resolving server" message that lasts about a half second and then just pops back to the thumbnail page. Nothing locks up or anything like that, the video just doesn't play.

[Bomb Bloke]

... but after updating XBMC to the 2.0 stable build...

Wait, what? You do realise the last "stable" build was 8.10, and this thread is discussing the beta version of the next point release, 9.something?

2.0 is, um, rather old. Google T3CH's site.

[alexh]

I haven't been around for a while, so please pardon if it's an old question, but what happened to the music scrapers?

There was an agreement a while ago within the dev group to make XBMC scrapers legit. AFAIK there are nolonger scrapers video/audio for sites which have not agreed to be scraped.

after updating XBMC to the 2.0 stable build the only available scrapers are Allmusic and Israelmusic (garbage sites in IMHO) which return only inaccurate info, if anything at all. 99% of the time a search locks up my box for 5 minutes and returns nothing.

Scrapers must be kept upto date with the website they are scraping. You cannot expect scrapers in older versions of XBMC to work with current websites. If you want to use an older version of XBMC for stability I imagine you must use up to date scrapers (assuming they are compatible) or you will get nothing!

This post has been edited by alexh: Apr 27 2009, 02:08 PM

[Bomb Bloke]

I did a check on this build of XBMC with the latest build of the MC360 skin. They can indeed be considered incompatible. The "cursor" cannot be moved from certain elements to other elements.

For example, if you bring up the playlist view, you can start/pause/stop etc, but you can't move the cursor over to the list on the right which shows all the music.

If you try to add a source, you cannot move the cursor in the display window at all!

So something or other needs tweaking. I'll have to play with some more skins (eg PMIII) to work out where the problem is.

(More seriously, my console now seems to have a 90% chance of crashing on startup, at about the time my MP3s would usually start playing. But given that I've got autobooting scripts in addition to my customised skin, it'll take me a while to work out what's going on there).

(I still don't know what this business about a file manager in the guide blade is though).

This post has been edited by Bomb Bloke: Apr 27 2009, 03:05 PM

[DaBernd]

Vobsubs for avis are working again!
Thanks!!!

Scrapers must be kept upto date with the website they are scraping. You cannot expect scrapers in older versions of XBMC to work with current websites. If you want to use an older version of XBMC for stability I imagine you must use up to date scrapers (assuming they are compatible) or you will get nothing!

The discogs.com scraper works perfect (at least it did two weeks ago) and discogs is THE definitve site for high quality/consitency information.
It should be everything a music lover needs ...

Bernd


This post has been edited by DaBernd: Apr 27 2009, 06:56 PM

[Guily6669]

hmmm. The xbox 360 already plays all of them including HD. That's why I stopped using XBMC.

Humm? xbox 360 doesnt play anything...

with the xbox 1, i just go to my hdd right click it in my pc and share it, and i can play everything. While in the 360 doesnt play a shit... XBOX is still the best...

+ my xbox is online all day long for playing electronic music from web radios, because i already got like 100GB of electronic/disco sounds in my pc

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Anyway i updated my XBMC to this version, but when i click XBMC credits, nothing happens, some of my old themes doesnt work any good (like vision), and xbmc 360 has somethings fucked...

And my xbox is still stucking when i let it play a web radio music for too long, when i go to change to other it just get stucked, at least i hope the sound doesnt fail like the one released in december or something-

+ I had lot's of music visualizations, i have more than 1000 which iv been getting over the years, but now with this xbmc, the list dissapear and also cant acess the settings...

Keep Cool

This post has been edited by Guily6669: Apr 28 2009, 01:22 AM

[Bomb Bloke]

Anyway i updated my XBMC to this version, but when i click XBMC credits, nothing happens, some of my old themes doesnt work any good (like vision), and xbmc 360 has somethings fucked...

The XBMC credits were broken for years (the list was outdated and the font was messed up), so they were eventually removed altogether. Skins shouldn't have an option to play them any more (assuming they're up to date).

[Bomb Bloke]

Seems my crashes are caused by using my startup playlist script together with MC360. So long as I use one or the other it's fine, but both together? Nope, the "Audioscrobbler thread" starts throwing exceptions and it all goes kablewy.

Guess it's PMIII for me, then. (Though I seem to have no problems using other skins; Xii and xTV work fine).

This post has been edited by Bomb Bloke: Apr 28 2009, 06:45 AM

[Guily6669]

The XBMC credits were broken for years (the list was outdated and the font was messed up), so they were eventually removed altogether. Skins shouldn't have an option to play them any more (assuming they're up to date).

What tha?

But hey at least the oficial release of December the XBMC credits were working just fine for me...

This new XBMC sucks, can't even do any thing with music vizualizations...

I will fully upload the original T3CH release for my xbox hdd, and see if it also has problems, because i may be having problems because i updated from the december version...
Keep Cool

[phinxy]

Perfect release, fastest and greatest ever!
But i miss music visualization.. Keep up the good work!

Xbox beats everything! Peace.

[Guily6669]

Perfect release, fastest and greatest ever!
But i miss music visualization.. Keep up the good work!

Xbox beats everything! Peace.

LOL?

For me is the worst version, i think sound has been fixed,but my xbox is still stcking, lot's of things doesnt work, the vizualizations got fucked...

I will just roll back to the stable version cause every T3CH beta sucks, the one from december has audio problems...
Keep Cool

[grimgriefer]

Hey folks, hoping you all powerful peeps can help.

Been using XBMC for a number of years and decided to update it for the first time in ages. Using a softmod that booted directly into XBMC that is located in /E/XBMC/.

I've downloaded the latest revison from T3CH and FTP'd onto the box via the DVD2Xbox app to rename my old XBMC to XBMC2 and then copy the latest revision (Unzipped XBMC folder) to the /E/.

The new XBMC boots up a treat and seems to work perfect for all but one thing, which is connecting to my media server. I have copied my old sources.xml /E/XBMC/UserData folder and when I select one of the media options in XBMC I can see the correct list.

When I select Server from the list I get an error saying:



Remote Share
Could not connect to network server



My sources.xml defines the locations as follows:

<video>
<default></default>
<source>
<name>1) --------- This Xbox ---------</name>
<path>F:\Videos\</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>1) DVD-ROM drive</name>
<path>D:\</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>2) --------- My Network ---------</name>
<path>smb://</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>2) Server</name>
<path>smb://WORKGROUP;username:password@Server/</path>
</source>
</video>

If I go back to my old setup it works straight away with the same sources.xml so can't understand what is different with the new version that makes it not understand the xml file.

Anyone out there that can help me?

[elitegamer360]

Hey folks, hoping you all powerful peeps can help.

Been using XBMC for a number of years and decided to update it for the first time in ages. Using a softmod that booted directly into XBMC that is located in /E/XBMC/.

I've downloaded the latest revison from T3CH and FTP'd onto the box via the DVD2Xbox app to rename my old XBMC to XBMC2 and then copy the latest revision (Unzipped XBMC folder) to the /E/.

The new XBMC boots up a treat and seems to work perfect for all but one thing, which is connecting to my media server. I have copied my old sources.xml /E/XBMC/UserData folder and when I select one of the media options in XBMC I can see the correct list.

When I select Server from the list I get an error saying:
Remote Share
Could not connect to network server
My sources.xml defines the locations as follows:

<video>
<default></default>
<source>
<name>1) --------- This Xbox ---------</name>
<path>F:\Videos\</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>1) DVD-ROM drive</name>
<path>D:\</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>2) --------- My Network ---------</name>
<path>smb://</path>
</source>
<source>
<name>2) Server</name>
<path>smb://WORKGROUP;username:password@Server/</path>
</source>
</video>

If I go back to my old setup it works straight away with the same sources.xml so can't understand what is different with the new version that makes it not understand the xml file.

Anyone out there that can help me?

Not sure how you usually make your xbox Identify your PC... For me Nothing worked but for years I've been using ccXstream which runs from my PC and it runs like a dream also its compatible with vista!!

sorry could not help with your question.

This post has been edited by elitegamer360: Apr 30 2009, 01:44 AM