[Techtalk] headless XMBC?-- video problem solved

[Carla Schroder]

Allrightythen goils, video problem is solved. It was bad kernel
drivers for my Intel video, and the solution was either to roll back to
an older kernel, or install updated drivers from the Oibaf PPA,
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/  (my media
server runs Lubuntu 13.10)

I was seeing this error in dmesg when I tried to play any video in VLC
or MPlayer:

*ERROR* kicking stuck wait on render ring

It seems that the Oibaf PPA is popular and well-known for high-quality
graphics drivers for Intel, NVidia, and Radeon. Well-known except by
me. I installed the Oibaf drivers and regression cured!

Mediaserver works now, hurrah, I can play my DVD .isos just fine and
the menus work. Now I can look at the resources you gave me for getting
to know XBMC better. Thanks much! Yay couch potato time :D

Carla

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:48:11 -0700
Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:

> Word:  BEEF
> 
> Get a bigger processor I/O board?
> 
> Also, check verify the HDMI types (not all are created equally).
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Thanks Robyn and Lisa. I think one of the issues I'm having is
> > HDMI-- both XBMC and VLC work perfectly when my media server is
> > connected to a computer monitor, but when I hook them up to my
> > teevee things get weird. I'm playing DVD .isos, and VLC crashes and
> > XBMC hangs on the DVD menus when they're connected to the tv. But
> > they don't on a normal PC.
> >
> > Duh setting it up to auto-login :) *smack forehead*
> >
> >  thanks, stay tuned for more thrilling media server adventures!
> >
> > Carla
> >
> > > From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> > > To: "techtalk at linuxchix.org" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Techtalk] headless XMBC?
> > > Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:37:08 -0700
> > > Sender: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org
> > >
> > > Hey Carla,
> > >
> > > Here's a complete discussion of keyboard alternatives:
> > >
> > http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/456702-living-room-pc-part-1-no-keyboard-no-mouse-no-problem/
> > >
> > > StreamZap is pretty nice remote control:
> > > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Streamzap_PC_Remote
> > >
> > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=How-to:Setup_Streamzap_PC_Remote_for_Linux
> > >
> > >
> > > See also the excellent XMBC Keyboard controls:
> > > http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Keyboard_controls
> >
> >
> > > From: Robyn Willison <robyn at robynspcs.com>
> > > To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Techtalk] headless XMBC?
> > > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 02:43:33 +1030
> > > Sender: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org
> > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
> > >  rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0
> > >
> > > At the moment I am running XBMCbuntu and it boots straight into
> > > XBMC without requiring a login. After setting up XBMC I've just
> > > been using the remote from my TV card to drive XBMC. I'm going to
> > > have to map a few keys though to the remote so I can drop using
> > > the mouse completely.
> > >
> > > Robyn
> >
> >
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