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!
This is awesome to hear. I just got an Acer Revo 1600 and am hoping for a smooth install of XBMC live.
Hoooray! Just installed it from the ppa on 10.04, works like a charm. I’m looking forward to the 10.10 ppa goin online so I can upgrade. Any idea on when that is set to be up?
Thanks for all your hard work guys!
Fantastic work, as always, mates!
A huge thanks and lets hope for a fast final release!
Will XBMC Live be based on Lucid or Maverick? If Lucid, will an upgrade to Maverick be relatively painless, once PPA packages are available?
Thanks for the hard work! I’m glad that all the developers are not rushing the release out the door.
Just got uncomfortable in the pants region.
Cool. I hope the -trailer file bug is squashed. :>
WMV files still don’t work, but I guess that’s considered a very small miscellaneous bug.
Great job all!
I’m updating via the SVN PPA now on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64!
Function is necessary !
Reproduction a kind of video files one after another and randomly
I need the function as in music player like playing music tracks one after the other.
Eagerly waiting for Ubuntu Maverick XBMC packages
@thefreedom
If you’re saying what I think you are, I believe there is a setting you can enable for that under video settings
Doh! I just downloaded the Beta 2 iso yesterday :x Thanks for all the hard work, I guess I’ll be holding off until Dharma goes final :)
Hello, dose this mean I can activate the pulsaudio server on my ubuntu and the digital sound should work ?
Great keep up the good work
I’m running beta2 at the moment can’t wait untill it’s final.
Maverick works fine for me……. using the lucid xbmc svn repo..
Can you give us more details about linux version:
- intel clarkdale support (va-api)
- dts-ma and dolby true hd support
- color space problem (16-235) on intel clarkdale
greetings :))
Great job all!
I’m testing the live release on my new HTPC :)
@Rodalpho
Have you reported it? Is there a trac ticket?
You need to find these things out if it is not reported people will not know about it.
Great!
I’ve been using Beta1 and Beta2, and they work perfect, so I guess this will work even “more perfect”. Great work!
Thank you guys for your hard, invaluable and awesome work!
@Anonymous
please, tell me where to find it?
This software should be up for awards or something, it is truly awesome. Thanks so much for all your hard work its greatly appreciated.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=81073
Hey thanks for the amazing job.
A question…. I am Working on Live beta 1 … Can I run apt-get update … apt-get upgrade and will I be Updated to the Beta3?
onother… I am working on intel i3 and I can not get video…. the mensagge is “unkown user id” what can i do?
Thanks….
I have installed beta 2 from the live CD. Is it possible to upgrade from beta 2 to beta 3, or do I need to reinstall?
THX for your hard work !!!
Unfortunately it seems the ION/ ION2 support is still a bit flawed. “Out of the Box” is a stretch for live (no audio) and video playback now fails (X restarts!).
Can i marrie y’all? :D
XBMC is glorious! Cant wait for the RTM…
Can anyone confirm whether the Samba lockup issue has been fixed on Live?
When will Beta 3 Win32 version being released? I see Beta 1 and Beat 2 but no Beta 3 at this time…
@Rob
Yes, you could say that. I created a ticket for the WMV bug TWO YEARS AGO.
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5089
Hi,
using xbmc live (installed on HD) and Build2. Is there an easy way to upgrade to Build3? without installing from scratch…??? I have stored pictures, music on the system and i did not want to delete all of them
You guys kick @ss. Keep up the great work!
I am so excited! Cant wait for the Release. THanks a lot for your hard work!
For all those who have installed Live beta1/beta2, we seriously recommend reinstalling rather than upgrading. Unfortunate, but it’s the cost of running beta software. As I mentioned in the post, the upgrade breakage should be fixed for good now, meaning that a reinstall should not be necessary from here on out.
@theuni DOH!
Ok, when ist ETA for the final release?
@NeuGier
+1
great work….keep it up.
Will this version contain iTunes library support?
I consider installing beta 3 on my asrock ion 330ht. What is the easiest way to upgrade this beta 3 to full version (in the future). If there is no such solution I’ll have to wait for full version.
Thanks a lot from france for your fantastic work !
Thank you for your hard work, keep it up!
Yeah, you can. Mine auto-advances tracks just fine. :)
Varazir, I did a reinstall of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Dharma’s 2nd beta and all my audio issues were resolved (I had previously removed Pulse and went pure ALSA, which isn’t without it’s own quirks).
If I want to stream un-decoded audio to my receiver via coax I still have to set pulse to use Analog so XBMC can use the digital out, but otherwise it’s perfect (I don’t have the best GNU/Linux friendly audio chip-set either, so you may have better luck depending.)
Best of luck,
daemox
This update is fantastic. I’m running it on Windows 7 and everything seems to be incrementally better than Beta 2.
Wonderful work!
I guess I found a BUG and I don’t know what to do… :-(
When I want to export my movie libary it will not overwrite the old files!! Even when I tell XBMC to do this… If a delete the old nfo files (etc) the export goes well. But delete all those files :-S
@Anonymous
What do you mean then Beta 2? I’ve not found Beta 3 for Windows yet. am I missing the download location? The above ‘download’ link then Win32 only has Beta 1 and Beta 2.
@Brendan
Works fine on a Shuttle XS35 (ION2) – just change the output to Nvidia HDA HDMI and away you go…
@KJ
I don’t think it is fixed and elupus wrote somewhere that it probably won’t until a new smblib comes out – I presume maybe therefore the next Live on maverick some 6 mths from now?
Have you tried the autofs solution – it works a treat for me.
Still have no audio from videos with DTS Mono audio tracks in beta 3. :(