Dharma Beta 3
October 13th, 2010
Nearly one month after the release of Beta 2, the latest Dharma pre-release is ready for testing. We have been working very hard to to stabilize XBMC for the final release; there have been over 300 commits to the release branch since the last beta. Notable fixes include:
- Lots of Live fixes and clean-ups. We want Dharma Live to work out-of-the-box as much as possible. Those who have been plagued with broken ALSA upgrades and unsupported soundcards will be happy to know that these issues have been resolved. In addition, most ION/ION2 systems should just work ™, though there are a few small issues remaining.
- Shoutcast, which is now an add-on, was causing hard-freezes. Now Fixed.
- A bug causing redundant http requests has been fixed. Scraper sites (Hi TMDb and TheTVDB!) should see significantly less requests per session.
- Several new addons. Many scrapers have been fixed. The popular Transparency! skin is now in the official repository; a total of 9 available even before official release!.
- Many more small fixes. Small fixes are good.
There are still a few known bugs:
- CrystalHD support is great, but drivers and libraries still require manual intervention for installation in Live/Linux. This may or may not be fixed in time for release.
- No packages for Ubuntu Maverick are available as of now. We’re working hard on this.
- A few small miscellaneous bugs. Small bugs are bad.
Update: All users of Live Beta2 or earlier are advised to backup their XBMC profile (~/.xbmc) and reinstall. Due to the way some drivers were installed before, a smooth upgrade is unlikely. This should now be resolved for future releases.
Go forth and download!
Sweet stuff, Beta 3 runs perfect! Have been running this kick ass product since XBMP on XBOX, and it just keeping getting better and better! Great work from you developers!! Thanks
scraping still does not work with Beta 3. still getting the “unable to connect to remote server”. and i cant download any other scrapers, the download wont start in the add on screen.
is this going to be fixed?
there is still no sound in 3gp movies using linux. can i expect that this bug will be solved before the final version??
Is there any place to get a torrent for Dharma Beta 3? I tried several times direct iso without success.
So far, so good. Making for a great release. Thank you.
I miss slideshow screensaver being able to pull from SMB mounts (or from the default Pictures source) like Camelot. Currently, only Video/Music fanart and local sources are supported. I hope this feature will be duplicated in Dharma. If not, Dharma will be a no-go with the wife. :(
(running live, installed to thumb drive.)
I miss a easy installation from the remote. I have a x10 remote from medion and the configuration is very difficulty.
anyone having issues with beta 3 freezing? every time i try to download addons, the whole thing freezes. Beta 2 didnt have this issue.
the final version will be perfect as it seems.
I can not wait for the live cd version
Is there any possibility to fix the alsa bug for Asus M3N78VM spdif out in next version?
Please file a new bug report at trac.xbmc.org with all needed details.
HOW, please tell me how you configure the audio to allow for this?
@bobjames
Yes sir +1 Beta2 OK Beta3 Freezes with the addon… all the addons…
why the subtitles dont work. It used to work with beta 2..
I am relatively new XBMC user, but a quite experienced computer professional (in the battlefield
since 1968 :) Recently I tried the new (Dharma) web control interface and I must say I am a bit confused.
I can connect without problems, but If XBMC is not allready playing, it’s all I can do. At the bottom I see
just big gray rectangle; at the top there are REMOTE, MOVIES, TV SHOWS, MUSIC, and SETTINGS fields,
but they seem to be dead (If I point to some field, its background color changes, but clicking does nothing
except the ‘ajax-loader.gif’ icon shows and starts to rotate). No directories, no files, no controls, no messages,
no help …
If XBMC is allready playing, I can see album and track info, timing info, next track info and basic control
butons. Buttons seem to work as expected, but no playlist for random track selection, no playlist edition.
And again, no directories, no files to build playlist. Beyond this, track name sometimes changes properly,
somtimes does not (reloading page helps here). No volume control (do not understand why?).
In the Wiki there is just a very, very brief description of the old interface and list of JSONRPM functions
for developers (with bugs) – no description, no help for users.
Would some of developers make this part of XBMC more user friendly, please ???
@Stan Svec
I had the same problem, you need to choose the option “use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen”.
i’ve problem with Upnp connection
Anyone with windows experiencing very slow slideshow in Dharma?It’s here since at least Beta1 (see http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10133 ) but so far only two reports that this is the case on Linux.
Keep up the great work!
Hope ION/2 platforms will be now fully supported.
Because it was a pain to run XBMC video on it without jutter effect under Xorg.
I can’t not see anytext in Video Library with “Media Info 1,2″ and list view type. My YM! kazihaha, I will send you pics.
I am a huge fan of XBMC and Night skin. I am very happy with all the time that is being put in to it.
The add-ons are a great plus, but I fail to see other important improvements.
For instance: mkv playback is still mediocre (laggy) compared to mpc.
mkv subs still have no end time, sometimes I am looking at a subtitle for 4 minutes because no one is speaking :)
Is there instructions on how to get the CrystalHD drivers and libraries loaded on the live CD? I didn’t see a link for it in the post or comments and is a great tip since I just bought one and am installing beta 3 right now.
@vaton4
I don’t think its finished, but for me it works to browse movies and tv show library and play them.
First of all …Thank you…for all your hard work…this is just great!
I noticed a few things….
1. the wave form visualazition does not work
2. when screen saver is set to my photos when i press volume button I stop screen saver
3. wether funart does not work (i think it worked fine in beta2)
4. I have one mkv file thst restrats my pc when i try to play it with xbmc
thx :)
Sound for Dharma Beta 3 does not work on a Lenovo Q150 (ION2) system. It doesn’t appear to jitter on video though (from a brief 10 second check). Can’t really tell is if the audio will stay synced because I can’t hear it yet.
I easily managed to get audio working on this system after clean installing Ubuntu 10.10, but with XBMC from the repository (non svn) the video lagged and audio desynced.
@Stan Svec
I have even worse problems. I cannot use fullscreen if I have 2 monitors enabled, since the “fullscreen” area ends up in _between_ the two monitors, so I get 50% of the xbmc window on each monitor.
I can also not start B2 if I disable one of the monitors, I hope this is fixed in B3. What I do is I start XBMC with both screens active, disable one, and THEN activate fullscreen.
The setup is a laptop with a displayport connection to a TV. I dont need/want the laptop screen to be used at all ideally.
I will file a bug if this is not working with B3.
Ooh, I hope this option will also solve my dual-screen problems… Will try tonight.
Tried live last night and everything seems to be working great! Many thanks to everyone involved, I’ve been using XBMC since the XBOX days and it just keeps getting better and better.
why subtitles are not working anymore…
For the devs or anyone else facing sound issues with the Q150 / Ion2, the fix is really simple.
Go into your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and remove the following line:
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2
Edit /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf to have:
defaults.ctl.card NVidia
defaults.pcm.card Nvidia
defaults.pcm.device 9
Run aslamixer, press f6, select your nvidia card, unmute all 4 devices (press m)
Reboot. In XBMC configure your sound to use nvidia hdmi. Done.
Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9732345&postcount=8
Good luck!
very nice works !
great thanks to developpers
the only needed feature i see is remote management
i’m on the liveCD, and it seems to be the only thing which don’t work out of the box
(and mountage of my storage HDD, but i think it’s normal for a liveCD, i’ll fix this at installation)
perhaps we can imagine an addon to download the proper LIRC configuration.
i’ll perhaps do this, but sorry i’m only on linux and have no idea on how does it can work on other platforms.
I really like your project, after testing a lot of solution (freevo, mythTV, elisa, …) i’m impressed by the ease of setup.
so another great thanks to you
Scraping movies for library mode (imdb) from xbmc media compagnion is not working or very very slow.
Exit xbmc has a huge delay.
Version: Beta 3 on Windows xp sp3.
@Adam
I have numerous problems on ATV with Beta 3. They seem mostly related to playing HD video (720 and 1080) with CrystalHD acceleration and disappear when I revert back to Beta 2. So far Beta 3 is 80% unusable for me. It seems like nobody does at least a smoke test of most usable features like HD playback which is sad. Wasted about a week trying to figure out what’s wrong before finally gave up and reverted back to Beta 2 which works OK so far.
@Chunged
I had the unable to connect problem as well…I ran beta originally installed over camelot…however, the problem went away when I uninstalled xbmc completely and reinstalled beta 3 from scratch. Hope this helps.
I feel like a bit stupid asking this, but the Dharma release is not designed for the XBOX classic?
I cant find a link for the xbox on the download page (maybe because of legal reason though..)
I’ve just dusted of my good old xbox, finding a release from 2004 :)
@commk
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org
It’s not officially supported by the XBMC team any longer.
See here: http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/05/27/farewell-xbox/
Thanks for your hard work I love dharma and so does my wife you guys are the best!
Found a few issues please replay if others are also having these issues or if it’s just me.
I would love to see Dharma be the best out there so far I think it is.
Windows version of Dharma
1. THX sound test on any DVD is not in sync with the picture of the speaker it is testing, works fine in windows though.
2. If you use the window key on your keyboard instead of \ and then go back to Dharma using the window key and then click exit via the mouse the system will crash and not even crtl alt delete or alt f4 will get you out. You must do a hard reboot.
3. Clicking the shut down button only exits dharma and does not actually shut down windows (most likely there for linux version).
4. While playing music and it goes to full screen you can not get the scroll bar menu on the side back without stoping the music from the top menu bar.
5. The Movie Blade II reboots your computer!
Info on my system:
I have a Sony 7.1 DTS and dolby reciver hooked up via spdif through a 7.1 sound card that is set for DTS and Dolby live and Dharma is set to pass that info via my sound card.
How it crashes:
Insert the movie Blade II and select DTS 6.1 on the DVD menu
Turn screen info on using O and I keys on your keyboard
Wait for the sound on the dvd menu to stop, your reciver should at this point switch DTS from dolby 5.1 EX
Select play movie from the DVD menu and watch what happens
The reciver will switch back to dolby 5.1 EX when the intro starts
Then the movie trys to start and the reciver switches back to DTS
At this point the whole computer will reboot! This KILLS both Dharma and Windows HARD!
Linux Live CD
1. Need ATI crystall support (looks like you guys already know that)
2. Need CMI 8788 chip set sound card b-Enspirer from bluegears.com supported
General suggestions:
1. Make the slide window menu on the left side auto hide after 2 or 3 sec.
2. Make all controls of media on the top tool bar auto hide unless rolled over.
3. Gui option to set the menu bar delays
I’m trying to use XBMC Live via usb with an MSI N210 MD512H graphics card. I’m attempting to use audio via HDMI. So far, I am able to stream youtube and shoutcast with sound working fine (receiver indicates PCM). When I attempt to play a DVD or video file, I don’t get any sound. When attempting to see what the signal is from the receiver, it flashes, occasionally saying no signal. Has anyone seen this and if so, what can I do to correct? I am using Beta 3.
@commk
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/05/27/farewell-xbox/
@Konan
Hi
I am using apple tv flash on my apple tv, so when even i download XBMC it downloads the latest version, can you please let me know how did you reinstall beeta 2.
@Konan
Hi
I am using apple tv flash on my apple tv, so when even i download XBMC it downloads the latest version, can you please let me know how did you reinstall beeta 2.
@arun
You need to do it manually: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=550588&postcount=3
Hi!
I have tried this Dharma Beta 3. It works quite well, but I have noticed that it crashes nearly every time when I’m trying to config some rss-feeds. It also went down when I was tried to config last.fm settings, so I had to do it several times until it worked right.
Also problems with scraping… unable tot connect to remote server.
This is realy anoying, but…. i know beta. Hope it’s going tp be fixed soon. When is the next release planned?
XBMC on ubuntu maverick