I had xbmc installed under 11.1, I believe I installed it from Pacman.
I’ve done a clean install of 11.2, but can’t seem to find xbmc anymore. Does anyone know where to find a package ?
It took a while for XBMC to show up in Pacman for 11.1, so I’m presuming the same for 11.2.
There’s always the option of building it from source…
Tried building from source, but got into all sort of dependency issues I couldn’t fix.
After some searching I found these for 11.1 : Software.openSUSE.org. I installed the third one and after that I only had to modify permissions on /usr/share/xbmc and it works.
Probably not the best way to do it, but I didn’t find another way.
I’ve been a bit hesitant to compile as well, but I think I’m going to give it a shot in the next week or so and see how it goes.
Seems it’s not working perfectly after all, I can’t get it to display covers and fanart and it crashes regularly.
If you get it to work by building it from source, please let me know how you did it, thanks.
I simply installed all the packages that the opensuse xbmc wiki page said to install. Trying to compile after that failed, but konsole output told me the packages I lacked. Installing them…ENCA, FLAC and a few others, I got it to compile. Now it runs perfectly. No trick to it.
PS: It was crashy last week, but that was due to the thetvdb servers being down. Somehow the inability of XBMC to scrape for tv show info got it to crash.
There’s something about needing a patch for the 64-bit version. I wonder if this is still needed for 11.2?
[QUOTE=nordlibris;2076355]I simply installed all the packages that the opensuse xbmc wiki page said to install. Trying to compile after that failed, but konsole output told me the packages I lacked. Installing them…ENCA, FLAC and a few others, I got it to compile. Now it runs perfectly. No trick to it.
I only wish that were the case when it is compiled on an EeePC 
3 hours of config/compilation resulting in a non responsive binary.
Oh well guess I am waiting for Packman then.
non responsive binary: as in running ‘xbmc’ from the console and having no feeback at all ? No window created, no error message, no log, … It just seems to hang.
After upgrading to 11.2 from 11.1 I had to recompile xbmc and since then it fails to run here… system is nvidia ION (intel atom + nvidia 9400gpu) which has the intel atom in common with the Eee I guess ?
This is driving me crazy. Thought some dependencies were outdated, so updated/reinstalled all deps (libGLEW etc) but to no avail
Yep, that is EXACTLY the same symptom. Configure and compile all completed with no reported errors. When running XBMC from the Console indeed, no feedback, no XBMC no log nothing.
Other than 2 processes running and using upto 50% of available CPU resources (XBMC and XBMC.BIN)
I hope this is not an ATOM problem but yes this is an Atom equipped EeePC. Will try it on the x86_64 Phenom x4 at the weekend.
Craig
Glad I’m not alone. Can’t find anyone with a similar problem on the xbmc forums (though many run a ION system over there). Same symptoms for latest trunk and beta (Camelot).
So this may in fact be an opensuse problem or a 11.2 upgrade problem. I even tried to debug xbmc using gdb to see where it ‘hangs’. I’ll try again this weekend.
Finally found the problem.
The problem was with libcdio (stack trace led me to it).
Apparently versions <=0.81.2 hangs when no optical drives are present.
discussion:
Nabble - Mandriva - bugs - [Bug 49636] lxmusic, NEW: Cannot run lxmusic.
commit: Savannah Git Hosting - libcdio.git/commitdiff
So the solution is to use 0.81.3 or higher. Opensuse only provides 0.81.2 but I found 0.82 on libcdio’s site.
GNU Compact Disc Input and Control Library (libcdio)
Compiled it and installed it. Requires a reconfigure/recompile of xbmc though. but it works…
I’m having no joy with a source compiled XBMC on 11.2. I’ve tried the latest stable release as well as the Camelot Beta, both from svn.
The compiles always go fine following the instructions found here: HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux on openSUSE Linux - XBMC
It even runs (almost) like a dream, except it won’t play any media. Every time I click on a movie to play it, it crashes with a segmentation fault.
For now I can only use it to stream media over uPnP to my xbox360. The downside to that, however, is that XBMC only picks up 150 or so of my 200 movies, and only picks up 1 of my 100 or so TV episodes!
Anybody else having any similar issues?
No luck so far with compiling on x86_64. >:(
I’m even on 32-bit openSUSE and no luck!
I’ve been having other media related issues as well, though, like the k3b mp3/MAD missing codec which I haven’t been able to resolve but that’s another can of worms.
I can only assume that I’m missing something foolishly simple, as always!
I got it working as follows…
- Replace all PYTHON packages with those from Packman not Opensuse
- Replace all gstreamer packages with those from Packman also
- Recompile the latest camelot Beta with an Optical drive plugged in
- It works perfectly when run with or without a drive!
a bit of a nightmare I admit but at least it works
And Oh, I love the new Camelot default skin
Craig
The XBMC beta of 9.11 is now in the packman repo. I just installed it with
sudo zypper in xbmc-beta
The new default theme/skin looks really nice!
I have packman enabled by default, so I may had the python/gstreamer packages from there.
The strange thing is: compiling with an optical drive, but running without one works ?!? 
Hopefully packman also includes a update libcdio too
The new skin is nice and most importantly: much faster than other 3rd party skins I’ve tried. Only thing missing is a configuration option for the opensubtitles script.
A long shot but, installing the development pattern cause opensuse to also install and configure ccache. This caused lots of segfaults, cleaning ccache -c did the trick in my case…
I’m glad that XBMC is now on the Packman repository, but I’m disappointed to see that it’s the Beta. I’m having all sorts of issues with the software–I can’t even play a video from my hard drive, let alone a DVD or audio CD.
Is anyone else having similar issues?
I tried with the same files in Mplayer and in Kaffiene and while they played, Mplayer reported an error: Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected. The files that Mplayer reported this on cause XBMC to crash; however, the files that didn’t cause this error are able to play fine.