@JackD

It is this reason that we didn’t include the AMD hardware decoding code. Doing so would be making users of the stable release our guinea pigs.

You can’t bitstream HD audio with an AMD GPU in Linux. Just sayin’…

Found pretty big bug in XBMC, running latest build, please fix. Screenshot:
http://pics.apartment808.com/users/NineT9mustang/XBMCBugReport331.jpg

@marek
Gapless FLAC playback is borked on osx/ios.

Hi.
Tried to update my Ubuntu 11.04 to get Frodo running.
Added ppa:team-xbmc/ppa to my sources list, ran apt-get update, and later apt-get install xbmc.
But instead of getting Frodo, I was “stuck” with a version compiled 2012/03/23.

Also tried to add the unstable ppa, but still no Frodo.

Is the ppa’s up and running as they should be at the moment?

Hello,
XBMC Frodo ignores audio output. It does not change between the options in my computer. Always HDMI, although I select analogic. I didn’t have this problem on previous versions.

Thanks.

Filtering by FilterSMS does not work in library mode http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13915 . Too bad you broke this for us remote-users.

many thanks works flawless here win7 with amd 6450

Frodo still has playback issues on the AppleTV2. All of the RC releases had this problem and the final version still has the problem. Every couple seconds the CPU usage spikes to 90% according to “top” on the ATV2 and that is when the stutters/judders occur.

Reverting back to 11. It doesn’t seem to suffer from these issues.

Great but one MAJOR problem!!!!! Like the release candidates, this version WILL NOT scan my music library. I’m not sure if this anything to do with my music been stored on an FTP server however movies stored on exactly the server scan fine.

… and where has Pseudo TV gone??

@jokono
Just set up a button on one of your control devices. On my universal remote, while on the XBMC input the red button goes to library Movies, the green button to library TV shows, the yellow button to video files and the blue button to music files. Much faster to navigate around this way.

Many thanks! It worked.

@nedscott
You are a genius! Display Out was the issue. Thank you very much!

Great work guys on Frodo , on my windows puters frodo works fine , still wrong selection on sound will make pic stutter, mediaportal works fine also , Have also installed Frodo on my Denver android 4.0.4 pad with great result, , mediaportal pvr works , smb networking works only thing that buggers me is that i cant get the tuxbox Connection to my dreambox 500 (enigma1) to work. it gives the error… cant connect to server, though i can log in to the dreambox with the default android webreader.

@Craig Staszkiewicz
A Frodo version is still in testing, it seems: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=90738

@clutch
It’s not forgotten, just still being worked out.

@biGdada
Known issue. Unfortunately, it will take a lot of work to fix this one. AudioEngine is basically having some growing pains on iOS and Mac OS X, but things should be better in the long run.

@OddE
It should be working, and I can see XBMC v12 in our repo. Post on the forums if it’s still giving you issues.

@Philip Stiff
Sounds like another audio settings related thing. Frodo isn’t very tolerant about the audio settings, and can cause stuff like this. Post to the iOS sub-forum and mention what options are enabled under Settings -> System -> Audio output.

@kalnas
Thanks, but I’m just the messenger :)

Seems a lot of people ran into this for Frodo.

@nedscott
After last nights frustration I gave up and went to bed.
Tried some more today and today the wikipage “HOW-TO:Install XBMC for Linux” says :
“From Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) to 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), you can install from the team-xbmc PPA as follows or replace the ppa with the desired from above”

I’m pretty sure that line said From Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx yesterday…

The reason that I used that old distro was that I’m very fond of my old Xbox DVD remote kit, and as far as i know that was the last version to support that hw.

But seems I to have to find me an alternative remote soon, so today I installed Ubuntu 12.04, and now it’s Frodo-time :-)

Will Hardware decode for Galaxy S3 on the way? Love the XBMC, works well with HDMI (MHL), but drains many battery. (i Think the problem is from Galaxy, they don’t shut the screen…) Any way.

Another thing, maybe the magictrackpad (apple’s) can work someday? :D

For sure, the hardware decode is way more important.

Thanks a lot!

Wow. Weren’t pages 3 and 4 of solid bitching a complete downer.

Chaps, have you ever heard of TiVo? This is viewed as a premium paid box with a proprietary interface and you know what? It’s slow and has bugs that have been there since about a decade ago. Some of which will hang the box and require A SEVEN MINUTE REBOOT. On a product that can cost around $499 new.

How about Windows 7? It’s a good OS, but I come across bugs and poor design in it at least a few times a week. It’s a paid for solution and it still has some of the same annoying problems it had when launching in late 2009.

Yeah, XBMC has the odd bug. Some are quite annoying. But in my experience, because the thing is open source and you can start hacking around in the source code and/or the XML files for skins and control devices you can warp the thing to be whatever you want it to be. If something is missing, either find a workaround, code your own, or best of all do a feature request/bug report. Otherwise it’s not constructive and will annoy the devs, so you should politely and quietly STFU.

In my end-user case, Frodo fixed a lot of bugs or problems that made Eden unusuable. Playback of 1080i material in TS files, the playlist order bug, severe UI slowdown after running for more than 48 hours etc etc. Most of the remaining problems are the result of deficiencies in Windows 7 and/or the graphics drivers. Big step up from the 2012-10-03 pre-alpha I’d been using. Jezz-X recently fine-tuned PM3.HD for Frodo and that’s working really well. Overall in my specific case, it’s a refinement of all the things that made XBMC great. I still love the fact that through EventGhost I can double tap the “video files” button on my remote and YouTube search pops up in a second or two. So much controllability if you choose to RTFM and poke around with what it can do.

TL;DR
——-

Remember, above all things, that at one time XBMC could play 720p content on an Xbox 1 with 64MB of RAM. And now with a bit more hardware power, it can do much much more. If that doesn’t speak to the abilities of the coders and you can’t see it, then tough. Don’t assume your end user case problems are everyone’s user case problems, because they’re not. No software/hardware solution is perfect, paid or not, so suck it up and count the blessings!

So yeah, rant against the whiners over. I’ll go back to enjoying the many benefits of XBMC now, thanks. :D

While I appreciate anyone that posts a comment, if you have an issue, here is not the place to put it. We cannot help you in the comments of a blogpost. Further, it doesn’t really help anyone else.

Please, if you have an issue, go to the forums and post it there. People WILL help you – we have a fantastic community of users in addition to the team that really do go above and beyond to help others out. Take advantage of it, and XBMC will become better for it.

@JackD: While I understand your frustration, you must also understand ours: There’s on the order of 100 people semi-actively involved in working on XBMC from a development side, which is a small number of team members, along with those devs and testers on the periphery. That’s 100 potentially different hardware combinations, user configurations etc. Compare that to the well over a million XBMC users world-wide. We cannot possibly get everything right – indeed, it is certain that we will miss things – quite likely many things.

As an example, I’ve fixed at least 5 issues in this release cycle that were present in Eden, and at least 1 issue that was present from Babylon onwards (could have been in Atlantis, I didn’t bother going back further). Yes, that’s right – bugs that have been in “stable” code that well over a million people have been using for a year or longer, yet we’re only being made aware of it now.

Without people like you testing the release candidates and taking the time to put together the things that work and the things that don’t, we will miss things that you find critical issues. Before you give up on the process, take the 10-30 minutes out of your day to provide cogent bug reports and follow them up as we investigate them. Only by doing so do you ensure your issues have priority.

Many thanks for this great software. Don’t understand why though audio had to be changed from Frodo RC3 to final for OS X. I’m having nothing but issues with sound since I upgrading to final. Thanks anyway.

Frodo is fantastic. I find myself looking for reasons to put a tv some where now.

S JMarshall: When will the hub wizard be deemed ready to configure Frodo in the same way as it was configuring Eden? Mind you, I have asked this question on the forums, but so far I have got no definitive answer. I am asking you in case you have one. I have 4 jailbroken ATV 2s currently sitting there and waiting to be configured. Nito installer now only installs Frodo, but it seems the hub wizard can only configure Eden so far. I do not want to go back to Eden if Frodo is the future. On the other hand, I would like the configuration of the wizard on my Frodo, so I need this answer. I hope you understand.

RTMP protocol in xbmc12-frodo not open in my Ubuntu 10.04.4 …. i back on alexandr-surkov-xbmc-pvr… all rtmp stream open, navi-x (rtmp) ok in frodo not open

- this is not fixed… i test – Compiling with all changes
Ticket #13864 (closed Bugs: Fixed)
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13864

in ver. eden have line:

in frodo have this line:

—— not open rtmp/e/…..

@nedscott Thanks, I finally found a way out, thank XBMC team, Frodo is working on my system now.

Sorry to say, but:
1. NPVR addon does not work properly. After installation of NPVR and NPVR 2.5.9 Patches R2 – http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?52417-NPVR-2-5-9-Current-Patches-and-Getting-Started-info, the NPVR works more or less OK. But on XBMC the channel switch takes very long time. Sometimes it does not work at all. On some channels I switch on I get different channel than I choose – e.g I choose NOVA HD, but I get ČT SPORT. The channel switching works OK on NPVR.
2. Addon for DVB viewer still does not have time shift.
3. For me there is not so big difference between Frodo and Eden.
Nevertheless Frodo is very nice of Piece of software, I think the final version has been released too soon.

@Sahmen
We have nothing to do with the hub wizard. We do not make it, maintain it, or support it.

I have been using XBMC from the XBMP days. I have used XBMC daily as my sole source of content for all my TV’s since 2005 and now run it on a Windows 7 32-bit machine dedicated for it. I love XBMC, and have nothing but great things to say about the developers and community. Thank you for all that you do! Congratulations on an amazing release with AudioEngine and PVR!

for windows,how come icefilms is not included?

thanks,

Absolutely loving the Live TV!!! :) I definitely want a “Movie” center first, with Live TV a bonus, but so far, Live TV is working really, really well for me!! Thank you guys, you all rock! :)

Well done Team XBMC.
Thank you for your hard work

I recently discovered xmbc and I’m really impressed by the work done !
Thank you for this great piece of software :)

having been a user since the old modded xbox days I have to say after installing latest Frodo XBMCbuntu I’m blown away by what a sophisticated mature software xbmc has evolved into! I applaud the whole team, simply superb! ^_^

Just installed XBMC 12.0-RC3 on my AppleTV(1). Wow! Outstanding! Great job, people!

from the press relase it is not clear that the IOS and ATV2 are not yet available.
it looks like only HD audio is not yet avalaible for these two platforms

Hey all. I see lot’s of kudos for AudioEngine (and lots of issues too). Given the usual ratio of “cool it works” to “it’s borked” that tends to come out on a release, it looks like for the most part of a million users it works :)

Keep in mind it was written almost entirely by one guy, with several others contributing on different platforms. The amount of work was substantial. It too will grow as XBMC does: with hard work, testing, bug-reports and coding. There is no way to release something to the wild and get 100% success on the first go – especially as we have only the hardware *we* buy personally, and the platforms we code on – not to mention the limited time of real life.

For those whom it’s working well for, enjoy!
DDDamian

I recently found xmbc and I’m really impressed, thinking about getting a Raspberry PI. much cheaper than building a media centre and does the same job.

I am staying with Eden on Windows 7 for now, still a way to go on Frodo BUT as has been said before, the project is driven and maintained by volunteers – well done everyone!
XBMC still beats everything else for me.

XBMC Frodo + PVR + MediaPortal Backend + MySQL = All Other Media Systems Redundant.

It ain’t bug-free, but man, this is a good release. PVR in particular is mind-blowing to the members of my household. Especially since an MPEG-Licenced Raspberry Pi turned out to be an adequate client!

I think it’s donation time. Again. Maybe to MediaPortal as well…

Trying to find something working with Windows and Linux so I can move my wife away from Windows :-).

First shot: d’l and install as non privileged user; gets admin rights and installs. Trying to start: no start menu entry. Logout and logon as admin.
Now the start menu entry is there. Starting and entering weather: it seems to see that I’m in Germany and gets data from a site 20 km away,
that’s ok. But it shows temp in F and date in US format. No way to change that. OK, I’ve got both US-English and German installed with German
being the system default.
Uninstall and reinstall with only German enabled (can’t disable the default English entry). Same procedure as above.

The thing that hiccups me badly is the fact that I need admin privs to run a media center app.

And, last but not least: I’m not complaining – just reporting so that things can be straightened in a future release.

Windows systems: windows 7 Ultimate / Professional 64 bit

@krokodil
Ok, found the language settings, seems to be ok.

So what remains are the admin privs needed to run xbmc. Maybe I have more restrictive UAC settings than necessary but then I’m working in the security business …