RE: [OT] XBMC AVI Playback

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil, Simon,

I use an Xbox with XBMC (an old version) and have had problems like you
describe in the past, in fact up until this afternoon.

My problem was caused by issues on the LAN, specifically poor CAT5e
suffering water ingress. This was made worse some time ago by mixing
hubs and switches.

Today I replaced 100+m of CAT5e with proper external cable (expensive).
This has cleared all the problems. I now have 100m of cable from the
XBox to a switch then another 100+ metres to a second switch and then
the TiVo / Samba share PC.

My problem could be seen by using the info button on the remote during
play, the cache was always hovering around the 0%. Now it ramps up to
78% within the first minute of play...

HTH

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Frost [mailto:neil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 March 2006 12:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] XBMC AVI Playback

Hi Simon... A very big snap...

I bought an Xbox, upgraded to XBMC last night, tried to play an mpg
(Timone & Pumba - Don't ask) and it was very choppy....

Music plays fine.

Then my ADSL went down until some time this morning (you're not on
PlusNet by any chance?)

Can anyone recommend the best version of xbmc that does the most things
really well?

Thanks
Neil

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Simon McCaughey
Sent: Tue 07/03/2006 09:38
To: UK Home Automation List
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] XBMC AVI Playback



So after all the recent conversation, I've bought an XBOX, and
installed XBMC last night.

Does anyone have problems playing downloaded TV content? I'm not sure
what the exact codec is, just playback of '24' for example is choppy.
I'm also streaming from an SMB share on another PC, if that is a
factor.

Can anyone confirm that it should play these files?

Can anyone confirm that playback from a shared folder shoudl work well?

I didn't get a chance to do a lot of testing last night, my ADSL went
down, and without google it seems I have no brain.

Thanks

Simon