Holy cow… there is a lot of complaining on this thread. I just wanted to say thank you, and that the new features set is awesome.

Their seems to be an issue with the on playbackstopped calll. It causes xbmc to autoplay current listed streems randomly.

Chrisats :
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.

Same for me. I have to update the XBMC for it to work. After the reboot of ATV2 and first start och XBMC, it works just fine. All movies. But after that it will always stutter. Is it something that is written in the first startup that is used during the other startups?

I’m running RC3 with Mediaportal backend on a few different platforms. Still some issues, would be grateful for help.
1. When I shut down XBMC on my Mac running OS 10.8.2 it always crashes. Have to switch off and on again.
2. Live TV on a Raspberry PI running Openelec has no sound.
3. Tried RC3 on a Atom/Ion machine. Streaming HD video was impossible, very choppy and no sound – SD was fine. Then switched to Openelec on same machine and works perfect.
Despite these, very impressed with Frodo and looking forward to stable.

Eckie :
I’m running RC3 with Mediaportal backend on a few different platforms. Still some issues, would be grateful for help.
1. When I shut down XBMC on my Mac running OS 10.8.2 it always crashes. Have to switch off and on again.
2. Live TV on a Raspberry PI running Openelec has no sound.
3. Tried RC3 on a Atom/Ion machine. Streaming HD video was impossible, very choppy and no sound – SD was fine. Then switched to Openelec on same machine and works perfect.
Despite these, very impressed with Frodo and looking forward to stable.

Duh! I meant to say the PI has no picture, but does have sound!

@Manna I have the same issue as Manna and Chisats. All video playback is choppy and unplayable, no audio either. Only happens on HDMI out (either WSAPI or Directsound). Works fine in VLC. I have an i5 and an AMD Radeon 5770.

Otherwise, great job and thanks!

Hi, I tried to install on my Motorola Xoom. But it didn’t work. But when I installed on my HP touchpad with jellybean, it is working. Can you solve the problem with xoom?

Waiting for long time and still waiting for work on Xoom.

@Chris

It’s better to use smb:// than \\

Out of curiosity, is there any reason why WASAPI isn’t the preferred HDMI connection over DirectSound if it can’t pass DTS-HD MA? I think the issue with Realtek HD audio drivers should also be more explicity stated. These two issues seem to be among the biggest problems people are experiencing when trying to get Frodo RCx to playback files smoothly. I spent a bit of time trying to get that up and running, however, I will say that Frodo RC3 is _LEAPS AND BOUNDS_ improved above the old XBMC 11. Everything seems to run faster and video playback (once I got over the hurdles) seems to be A LOT better, too.

Thanks to everyone who’s made this project possible. It’s an amazing piece of work.

On ATV2 the resume play function does not work. The TV show or movie starts playing from the beginning all over again like it did not remember where you stop watching.

However everything else seams to be working. Its looking good.

@adamb0mb

You are right! I also want to add that this is the best XBMC yet. Thank you so much – I really appriciate the work the xbmc team have done.

Great work, guys!

I was having crashing problems with the Ubuntu Eden, so I thought I’d give Frodo RC3 a try on one of my 7 little Zotac Atom ION boxes. It’s working flawlessly, and quite a bit quicker than Eden was! Playback is perfect, audio is fine – no bugs so far, other than once not booting right into XBMC (it left me at a Ubuntu login prompt for some reason). Very happy! Time for a new donation once the stable is out, for sure!

@Eckie

That’s weird, ION works fine for me. Have you updated the drivers? That did the trick for me in previous versions.

Hi first of all great rc and superb work xbmc team :-) One question to all in this forum. Has anybody had success playing dolby digital plus? I cannot get this sound track working. When choosing Wasapi as audio output and passthrough the video stutters and here is no sound. When selecteing direct sound in audio output the correct sound output is shown in the receivers display, but there is no sound and video still stutters. Anyone having same issues?

@Eckie

Have you tried updating your ION-drivers?

@Eckie
Have you entered the details for the MPEG2 and VC1 licences? Will get audio and a blank screen if you haven’t

Add equalizer function please!

Just wanted to say I just built an HTPC and LOVE having XBMC on it. It is amazing and look forward to using it for everything. The phone remote app amost made me cream my pants (Thanks Tim!)

I am having slight issues with this build though. As others have said all video playback is choppy with no audio. Only happens on HDMI out, worked fine on monitor. A6 3500 integrated graphics.

Lesser issues with waking up in the morning after leaving LiveTV on all night to a black screen (kids complain the TV is out; they can’t fix it). Have to exit out of XBMC to get it to sync up again. Using WMC instead as my “cable box” in the meantime so the kids can watch their cartoons without waking me up.

Thanks! Again, I love everything as a whole and can’t wait to start integrating other things into “‘Programs” soon.

@Futhark

If by getting XBMC to sync up you mean pulling in new media, you can achieve this through the contextual menu on your sources. Alternatively a phone app like Yatse can do this (XBMC Remote may also, but it’s been a while since I’ve used it so I don’t remember)

@Adrian
I think the only reason is because DirectSound is a simple setting that will work for most people with little explanation. WASAPI is preferred for the best possible sound, especially with an audio receiver. I’ll see if I can make this clearer in the Frodo FAQ.

XBMC RC3 for android tested in a Minix neo G5 (Andorid 4.1.1) and works fine.

pls can somebody tell me how to play bin files in XBMC 12 Frodo – Release Candidate 3

PVR addon for DVBVIEWER does not have time shift, othervice frodo rc3 works fine

Sound volume cannot be adjusted using mouse wheel.

Still bug with playing wavpack files. First second(s) is skipped (this bug is also in all previous versions, including 11).
See here:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-37/wavpack_questions-936801/

Awesome work, loving it.

It was crashing for me when I had the random artwork screensaver add-on so I disabled it and it works great.

@nedscott

nedscott :
@Adrian
I think the only reason is because DirectSound is a simple setting that will work for most people with little explanation. WASAPI is preferred for the best possible sound, especially with an audio receiver. I’ll see if I can make this clearer in the Frodo FAQ.

Thanks! I think this will help many people. I’m just glad that it seems to be working better and faster than 11. It’s working so well on a fresh install that I haven’t even bothered with MPC-HC. :)

Frodo12.0-Final

Past due by about 16 hours

DTS audio drops after 3-5 seconds of playback. DD/AC3/AA are all fine. Happens on both RC3 and the latest frodo nightly. Tried both WASPI and DirectSound. Testing on a fresh install of Windows 7 x64 using an i7 3.4Ghz 4 core, 8 thread chip, Asus P8 Z77-V-LK board, displaying via onboard HDMI with realtek audio (Tried both with Realtek drivers installed and not installed). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I test last version in Raspberry pi and two HD movies that works in windows version, in raspberry they have sound but they haven’t picture.

xubuntu RC3 works perfectly on my old eeePC, such an improvement over RC2 and previous release when playing videos … Thanks to the team for this great product & works!

After having loaded the Xios Linux RC3 nightly, there appears to be problems with profile mapping. advancedsettings.xml is told to always run from the main profile. I will document my findings in the forum, under “Pivos Xios Profile Problem”.

Question, once Frodo 12.0 final release is out for Apple TV2.
Will the advanced settings.xml still be working?
I have a mysql build for my NAS wich have all my movie/serie information and share it through my Network to all my XBMC devices.
Once i have installed the new release will my Apple TV2 XBMC still sees all the information from mySQL server?

I love xbmc, still running it on several xboxes, but would like to step over to pi…. Running rc3 on raspberry pi as a test – most things are wonderful but, sadly most of my movies are dvds on my nas, and dvd menues are not working. Would it be any chance of you guys making an option to start dvd with main movie directy, in that case all of my movies would be possible to run… Thanks.

Please note: The Profile Problem that I mention above is now documented at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=152062

The Frodo release is awesome. You can really notice the difference in the sound quality even with DTS. True there are a bit more upgrade pain than with the previous releases but with a bigger system it’s always harder so I would say “let’s give a break to those that work on this based on donation only and actually thank them”. But… :) what’s happening with the GA ? it’s been on RC3 forever or am I too impatient ?

Not sure if we ready for final of Frodo just yet, but great progress!

NPVR addon works very bag. Switching of channels almost imposible or very long time (10+ sec). Instead selected TV channel I get radio channel on screen. No time shift function during live TV. The recording I did not test an go back to media portal. Anyway I would like to use dvb viewer which gives the time for TCV Channels switching (cca3 sec), but the time shift function is missing.

@soliter26

NPVR has worked great for me the few times I’ve used it. I initially had issues with channels buffering forever and eventually found this forum: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=143669. There’s a patched file posted in there somewhere that fixed things for me. I believe it also fixes time-shifting, which needs to be manually enabled in the add-on settings.

I’ve looked around to see if anyone else is experiencing plug in issues with Frodo and haven’t been able to find anything that matches my experience. With R3 on ATV2 and on Win7, the HD streams from CNet, HDTrailers and others seem to have a buffering problem. When playing image is “stuck” or choppy and the stop, pause, and skip buttons don’t appear to do anything. Often after a certain time (30-60 seconds) the buffer seems to fill up and I can sometimes replay the video with all in sync. I’ve ruled out environmental issues by reverting to Eden on both and the videos play without issue. Has anyone else reported this issue? Are there any posts avail I can read to find out more about this?

XBMC is one of the most exciting projects/apps I’ve ever used. Since I started using it about 1.5 yrs ago, it’s gotten me to explore python programming, Linux and iOS operating systems. Thank you all for such a GREAT app!

Id just like to say thank you for this program, keeps me updated with the shows i love and it most certainly keeps me entertained. So thank you again and keep it up

thanks, it works great! one minor issue, though…audio doesn’t seem to play on airplay’d videos.

Be sure to use the latest HDMI Audio drivers from your GPU vendor (AMD, NVIDIA, Intel), not the Realtek ones. So, uninstall them and be sure to install the full packgage for your GPU (discrete or not), use WASAPI too.@Alex

@Alex Be sure to use the latest HDMI Audio drivers from your GPU vendor (AMD, NVIDIA, Intel), not the Realtek ones. So, uninstall them and be sure to install the full packgage for your GPU (discrete or not), use WASAPI too.

Thanks for this. Installing on my secondary xbmc box now. Why have the linux PVR Addons been split out though. Its made the installation a little more confusing and, given that PVR is this versions headline act, users of xbmcbuntu now have to install – drop to a prompt – apt-get etc hardly inkeeping with the idea of an appliance. Maybe this is just an RC thing in which case no worries but otherwise seems a step backward.

Feature or Bug?

Running Frodo RC3 on a Win7 machine. I’m using WMC as my pseudo “backend” for XBMC. I use Advanced Launcher to start WMC to watch live TV, and then have a script mapped to button on my universal remote to kill WMC and bring XBMC back to fullscreen. However, when I do this, XBMC no longer outputs sound. I can fix the problem by closing XBMC and then rerunning it, but I’m also unable to quit XBMC. It freezes. I’m using Direct Sound in XBMC. No clue what is being used in WMC.

Thanks for the Android support.

Just installed RC3 on my CozySwan UG007 Android 4.1 MiniPC device after increasing WiFi signal level with a repeater. Will be testing futher with 1080P video from Flash drives and MiniSD cards tomorrow.

Details are in my “First Look at the CozySwan UG007 Android 4.1 MiniPC Device” post at http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/first-look-at-cozyswan-ug007-android-41.html#XBMC.

Cheers,

–rj

Vi aspetto come sempre su http://www.xbmc-italia.it/ per un test e una guida installazione/utilizzo della versione finale XBMC 12 – Frodo … Non mancate.
Ciao da Lucky

I’ll wait, As always, on http://www.xbmc-italia.it/ for a test and guide to install/use the final version XBMC 12 – Frodo … Do not miss.

By Hello Lucky

Awesome piece of Software! Thanks for spending so much time on this project!

Like other people here I also have an ATV2 but experience no stuttering playback at all. I use a shared MySQL DB with Frodo RC3. Great coding guys and thank you for keeping the best media center software out there up to date…