Anyone using an Acer Revo currently?

[Clubber Lang]

It worked, you are the bollocks mate, thanks.

[Clubber Lang]

I have a problem.

I changed the view in movies to the wallpaper view from the one where the movies are at the bottom. Now everytime I go into movies, XBMC crashes and goes to a Terminal window.

How can I change it back, as I can't enter movies to do it from there?

[Clubber Lang]

Bollocks to it, i'm too impatient. Reinstalling everything as I type.

Typical, just as I had it working as I

[evilsatan]

I am going to install the windows version so I have a working XBMC, then I will try self-teach linux (with help from you lot I'm sure ). I will use my Live partition as a project partition, then when I have learnt what I need to I will start from a fresh Live install. What is the downside of using Windows rather than Linux? I thought it was VDPAU which offloads a lot of processing to the ION GPU leaving a lot of CPU power free.

[ThE gOg]

vdpau is only supported in linux atm matey, if windows was an option i'd be using it myself.

someone asking about it on xbmc here

they're working on a new version of xbmc now which is going to contain a whole host of new features, hoepfully this'll beone of em.

[maltloaf]

I think I might give the whole drive to xbmc it's working just as I want and I can't see me using w7 at all

[Clubber Lang]

Anybody want to sell their wireless keyboard and mouse, or if not really using it much, swap for my wired set?

[ThE gOg]

if you're not set on getting the acer wireless ones mate, keysonic do a really good wireless keyboard+mouse combo linky

thats what i'm using, never seen a bad review and the mouse pad on it is a god send.

[tronads]

Just for info, I purchased Ebay item 250377811288 to use with my Revo, and I can advise it works brilliantly, and at under a fiver, is excellent vfm. The remote works perfectly on XBMC Live, simulates both the cursor keys / enter, and the mouse + left and right clicks.

[{{909}}]

I think I might give the whole drive to xbmc it's working just as I want and I can't see me using w7 at all

i did this initially but then found it a pain to do a fresh install of xbmc when a newer version comes out as there didnt seem to be an install option that didnt want to format my HDD (which was full of movies). Thats why i ended up isntalling XBMC to a 2gig SD card but now i have to change some settings to get it to see the internall HDD, which I havnt got round to yet.

[ThE gOg]

easy to update to the latest svn using the script that me and maltloaf have linked to matey, just overwrites your old version whilst maintaining all your settings and media etc.

[Clubber Lang]

Just for info, I purchased Ebay item 250377811288 to use with my Revo, and I can advise it works brilliantly, and at under a fiver, is excellent vfm. The remote works perfectly on XBMC Live, simulates both the cursor keys / enter, and the mouse + left and right clicks.

Can you type with it?

[{{909}}]

easy to update to the latest svn using the script that me and maltloaf have linked to matey, just overwrites your old version whilst maintaining all your settings and media etc.

thats cool, I'll look that up next time.

Does anyone know the default FTP settings for the latest version with confluence skin? I cant seem to work out how to find them and the old settings I was using dont seem to work.

[ThE gOg]

isn't it user-xbmc pass-xbmc as default? could be wrong tho

[{{909}}]

yeah thats the same, but i dunno what port it wants and everything i have tried just doesnt work

[ThE gOg]

ah rite, just looked at my winscp and i connect on port 22, then the host is whatever the ip address is of your ion system, you can find this out from within xbmc in system or something along those lines, it depends on the skin.

hth

[{{909}}]

i think it was down to the ftp client i was using, got winscp and it connects but says my password isnt correct, even though it is...grrrrr

[burner1]

i think it was down to the ftp client i was using, got winscp and it connects but says my password isnt correct, even though it is...grrrrr

What type of connection are you using mate? If it's active, try passive, or the other way round.. I know active and passive can cause issues on the client or server side with firewalls blocking certain ports etc.. seems to be hit and miss when I'm using an ftp app to which one works properly.

[{{909}}]

gah i gave up on it but your reply got me pissing about again....i cant set either of my ftp prog to use passive, the box is greyed out or i just cant find the setting, going to do a fresh install of xbmc i think and this time, not fanny about with settings i dont understand

[maltloaf]

I've bought a USB DVD drive. Actually it's an xbox360 hddvd £16 delivered.

Anyhows, in xbmc live it plays DVD movie discs just fine, I was just wondering if there was any way of adding a USB DVD rom as a source for other video files ? I will have a play with mounting etc. When I get home, I just thought I'd ask if anyone knows any tricks

Cheers,

Malty