We use XBMC for playing mp3/cdg files for karaoke and in the previous version this was working. Running Frodo we found that the screen is not updating the lyrics. I’m not sure how many others use XBMC for karaoke. We like using it as we can cue songs using an Ipod and keep the singing, as good or bad as it can be, going with minimal interruption. It is not critical – worst case we can look for another software solution. Otherwise the newest version has been working quite well. We really appreciate the improvements with remote Airplay support and also the DTS support. Being able to play DTS encoded WAV files or DTS music from ISO or CUE/BIN files would be a nice addition. I don’t know if that was planned or what it takes to support that. Thanks to all of you for the good work on this great software!

Just installed v12 RC3 over an alpha release, install went fine. Video playback sputters, no sound.

It is like the pause button is being tapped continuously. Tried this with several movies, same deal.

Could not find anything in the forums.

Win7 64bit
Movies in ISO

Clean installed on win7 x86 and x64 and osx x86 with mysql shared library. All good except android xbmc remote gives an error “Invalid utf-I middle byte”. I

I`m having the same issue on a windows 7 box ?
different video files 2…

Sadly, this one trashed my almost 2 year stable HTPC :( I know it happens but after testing so many night builds I did not expect this to happen. Basically it wouldn´t start (Program error, RC3 Windows version), and could not repair it by reinstalling and manually editing some config files. Now it´s been uninstalled (including profile) and I’ll have to start from zero, to link the several folder files from my 5 computers and wait hours for my libraries to be built once again. Anyhow, excited to see Frodo launched!, RC2 was a beauty in my system :)

Last post got cut off. It only does that on the OSX client, the windows clients work perfectly

@tperricone
The Vizio Co-Star is a GoogleTV device, not stock Android. Google have to update the GTV OS to allow it to run native apps before XBMC could ever run it so the ball is in their court. Hopefully at CES Google do something with GTV to make it more compelling.

RC3 is terrible. Mythtv client is not working, or better put, works the first time, then constantly says that it cannot connect to the server. Mythfrontend works fine. This is better then RC2, which all PVR clients were activated and telling me they could not connect. Please throw away the code for both RC3 and RC2 and bring back RC1, it just worked better. Oh Yeah, the crashing, oh the crashing of XBMC constantly, especially on RC3, in various modules, pretty much after 30 minutes. Yeah, I know this is Beta, but you can do better, I hope. I will download the source and see if I can make this work for me.

Also, why do you put out XBMCbuntu disks with errors? None of the REV 1 versions of these work, again, showing signs of chaos and disfunction within the XBMC team. Maybe you guys should team up with MythTV and re-design their Frontend. Please?

OK, so I am going back to RC1 for the time being, then probably mythfrontend when that fails.

Bitter,
Schnyde

Have been using Eden now with TMT5 to play blu-ray folders and iso’s, but this no longer appears to be working in Frodo. When I press play I now get the option to play the main movie, select from all titles or show the blu-ray menu’s. Playing the movie in the default player works fine, but I want to play it in TMT5 so I can have full menu-support and when I select ’show blu-ray menu’s’ it just opens TMT5 but it doesn’t play anything. Until this problem is fixed I’ve gone back to Eden, which still works the way I need it to.
Anyone else have this problem?

@Schnyde
For most people RC3 is an improvement and does not cause these issues. I do not doubt that you are having real issues, but unless you report them on the forums and give us the information we need to identify problems, there’s nothing we can do about it. I am not experiencing any of the issues you’ve described.

I have no idea what you’re talking about with XBMCbuntu. The ISOs work fine for me. Even if there are errors, concluding that technical errors are signs of chaos and disfunction within the team is… stupid. But hey, maybe that’s just… you.

@Jakeu1701
There’s a sticky post in the general help forum (as well as a link in this very blog post) pointing to http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_v12_(Frodo)_FAQ

You need to fix your audio settings. Frodo isn’t as forgiving as Eden was about those settings, so it’s very important to make sure they’re set correctly. Check the audio part of the FAQ. If you have Windows then you probably just need to switch to Direct Sound, unless you need audio passthrough.

@Saul
you’ve heard of making backups before updating something? ;-)

Files with Flac 6.1 audio won´t play with this version

RC3 works fine on my old WinXP System. I use PVRPlugin and DVBViewer Plugin via Recordingservice on the same machine without any errors.

Thank you for this great pice of Software

Is this an improvement to EDEN. Only videos I can playback with this is divx. 1080p chokes immediately. Don´t bother to use this it is in Alpha stages when I tried it.

Well done – this is looking great! I did have a couple of problems (apologies if I have missed anything in the forums re this). I have tried this on a windows 7 and another windows 8 pc and party mode didn’t seem to work. I set up a music video party playlist with an IS criteria on a specific genre. When I went into the party playlist the correct videos were in there and when you right click on the Party mode Playlist in the Playlist menu and press play this works. When you right click and press play in party mode the following pops up ‘Party Mode Aborted. No matching songs in the Library’. There was a PartyMode-Video.xsp in the userdata directory and looked OK. I also tried to install in Mint 13 in VirtualBox and the XBMC-Live package seems to be broken.

Using recent hardware. Processor i7 dual 560 gtx 8gb memory and so on. I used it about on hour when I get back to Eden which crashes occasionally but playback works. Like Bios update don´t update if it works.

@nintres
I found out that any Nvidia cards will not pass the standard HD audio signals.. I ended up buying a $40 BestBuy special ATI card (HD 5400) and it worked no problem.

This works flawlessly for me. Asrock ION 330HT-BD. Those of you that have issues with playback, have you checked that your configuration for playback is set correctly? Do you use hardware acceleration? And most importantly: Are your sound settings correct? I suffered from no sound and choppy sound on a previous version when the sound was incorrectly set up for my system, but as soon as it was fixed, everything runs (and still do) just as it should.

My thumbnails show up and disappear (I have to individually refresh each movie info), even when I tried a clean install. Running Windows 8 64 Bit. Previous version worked like a charm.

No Chinese character display in file list and main menu

Installation of RC3 in Windows seems not to be complete regarding languages: I only have the english language available.

Will there be a XBMC version for the Logitech Revue, Android on Intel??

hi guys
frodo rc3 doesnt have movie information as separate menu
when right click on a movie .
tnx

Yawza, no need fo a flame war here. I do like all of the media improvements in RC3, and having PVR is a benefit. I really disliked the way MythFrontend (and for the most part Ubuntu (since 11.04)) turned out, and perhaps many of the problems with RC3 could stem from Ubuntu changing to Python3, Bluetooth not working in 12.10, etc.

All I am saying is it would be cool to live in a world with a unified frontends to my investment (of time) to my backend. XBMC does provide that world. I look forward to the official release. XBMCBuntu still does not burn for me either on my MAC, Win or Linux; it boots, goes for a while, then says it has errors on the disc. Very reminiscent to my experience with XBMCBuntu RC1.

ANNIHILATOR001 :
@nintres
I found out that any Nvidia cards will not pass the standard HD audio signals.. I ended up buying a $40 BestBuy special ATI card (HD 5400) and it worked no problem.

It worked fine with my GT430.

@idef1x
I know!, after so many installs without any problem (including nightly builds) I guess I got lazy :/ But everything is fine now, it even starts and works a little faster than my always overwritten install, so I guess a complete reinstall was in order anyway ;)

Just tried the new RC3 release. Has the Dolby TrueHD downmixing been broken? On Eden, I would playback a file with TrueHD soundtrack and it would automatically get downmixed to a 5.1 AC3 640kbit/s signal and play flawlessly on my Yamaha receiver connected via optical SPDIF. With Frodo , the signal I get on the receiver is still 5.1 AC3, however, only the front speakers play sound. Voices etc. are there, so it seems like it just gets downmixed to stereo, packaged in 5.1 AC3.

Thanks for all the hard work! Frodo looks really great!!!

I have only two questions:

Do others have problems importing music directories?
My XBMC crashes when I try to import a samba music directory into my DB.
I’ve described it here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=151168

The other issue is the MythTV PVR Addons. Will there be a package for Debian too?
I’ve created a thread about it here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=151139

Anybody that can tell me where the files link for the Pictures tab as gone? Difficult to add sources without it.

Very NICE! Had HD audio bitstreaming issues with RC2, RC3 took care of it. Though if you get the no audio device message (using SSD), there is a good workaround in the wiki.

@FOS4
Have the same issue. This is sad. I asked at the forum but no answer to these issyes yet.

@XBMC user
Any chance you’re passing through audio to a receiver? I got choppy playback at first, changed the audio driver in system settings to WASAPI and all was fine

I am having a bit of problem with the remote for android… But the system runs fine… Thanks to you guys from XBMC crew…

Great RC! Fixed the bug for me that XBMC 12 RC2 was always crashing when shutting down (on Windows 8).

Here is the error: I/O Exception (java.io.FileNotFoundExeception) :8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?xbmccmds/xbmchttp command=GetSystem(120)

I found a solution to the problem: https://github.com/tombriden/android-xbmcremote/downloads

Wow, great release! I still use version 10.1 because I’m able to look even the videos (xxxx.trp), which are streamed on the HD of my TV, but are impossible to look with all newer versions of XBMC. Any hint to make it even happend under the newer versions of XBMC?

Tanks – Jens

@ghostface237

Not to knock the XBMC Remote, but give Yatse a try, it’s pretty great

@Chris Thanks and I really do like this new app…

great job. no complaints other than what i would expect from an RC release. thank you to the whole team.
i have donated what i could afford and i would hope everyone who uses this awesome software daily will do the same.
i look forward to seeing what the next year will bring.

Does Frodo still play .strm files to stream directly from HDHomerun devices (without a PVR backend)? I’m currently able to do this with Eden, and I know new PVR functionality has been added to Frodo — I’m just wondering if hdhomerun:// URLs still work.

Thanks for all your hard work.

I just installed installed RC3 on my new Rikomagic RK802III, an Android HTPC (works like a tablet). First run goes fine and everything seems to unpack, but it crashes just after the unpacking. And it crashes on launch every time after that, this makes it impossible to even be run on my device. I would be happy for any help, or if you would fix this issue in the final release.

Anyone else having similar problems with Android devices?
It works fine on my Galaxy Nexus however.

@jokono
Yes, I can confirm that myself.

@Wikxen
I have the same experience on another Allwinner A10 device which is almost the same as the MK802. While the A10 doesn’t look like it will support video playback very well, it should at least run XBMC itself (music and pictures work great on it). Come to the forums and post about this (there might even be a thread about it, I’m not sure), and it will likely help us collect clues as to why this happens.

@need4speed
Should be in the same place it was in Eden. At least it is for me.

@mad526
Which OS? I think Mac OS X and iOS might have an audio transcoding issue or two, but the others should be okay.

@mojtaba
Do you have your sources set up with something like this? “\\file server\directory\file.ext” rather than “smb://file server/directory/file.ext”? It should be fixed now for the final release.

@Erik
In the future, maybe. For Frodo, probably not.

Gentlemen and ladies,

Thank you for your hard work on this. I am a deployed Airmen in the us Air Force and enjoy xbmc a great deal. Conversely, I have to agree with some on this forum; this new Frodo release requires a significant amount of work. Some files studded, some apps crash’ some features just don’t work at all. Unfortunately, I will be going back to EDEN as FRODO is just not ready for primetime.

Hi Folks,
I am sorry, but I can’t find the correct place in the forum for bugs in the RC’s, perhaps someone could post it here.

XBMCbuntu RC2 was running more or less fine on my Shuttle XS35GS V3, live and also installed on an SDD (the hardware accelation from the embedded ATI Readeon HD 6430M wasn’t used, so the FullHD Vids were stumbling). Now in the new XBMCbuntu RC3, XBMC didn’t start anymore. I think it doesn’t find the correct ATI Driver. Perhaps someone has an suggestion.
Cheers, Burn.

@nedscott

Just curious about your response to mojtaba, is the double slash method preferred over using SMB to point to a network share?

Video stutters on ATV2 no matter what res or format in RC3. Like it needs to work a lot harder to decode or something in the background messing with it.

@nedscott

On my clean install it only shows add-ons under the Picture menu (well under video since it does not center the Pictures on the screen)

RC3 runs better on my ion system than eden did.