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[cube]

Hi,

I've been trying for about a week now to make a working version of XBMP on CD-RW and I just can't get it working...
It takes forever to load (if it does load) my shares take ages to show and all this while the version on my HDD is fast as lightnin' and uses more or less the same settings...

I thought that it might be in the part where you tell XBMP where the <home> directory is, but removing those tags don't help.

So my question is could somebody with a working stand-alone version please post their config.xml so I can compare and see where I go wrong?!?!

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

cube

[billyciam]

they got some programs now that will auto configure the xml file....aint bad

[billyciam]

also what version of xbmp do u have???

[cube]

Hi Billy, thanks for your reply! I use the latest build (1st of May if I recall it right). Will the auto config programs also make a stand alone version?? Or just the harddisk version.

I have no problem at all in building the config.xml for a hdd, but have trouble getting it to work from cd-rw.

I suspect the problem is in the specification of the directories. I've made one with an older build in the past and that worked ok. That's the reason I asked for an example config file. But it looks like nobody outthere is running a stand alone version (can't imagine it though).

[JayDee]

You make a xiso of xbmp and burn the image to the cd-rw right?

Just burning as a iso9660 wont work.

[cube]

Yes JayDee, I use isomaker to make an ISO file and than burn it with Prassi Primo to make sure everything is ok, the CD-RW I use work, since I've used them quite a few times with other applications (and also with an older build) which works fine...

I just can't find the problem :-(

[JayDee]

mail me the config.xml and i´ll take a look at it and do some testing :-)

but first try to delete these two folder and try again:

e:\tdata\0face007
and
e:\udata\0face007

[cube]

Hi JayDee,

Thanks a lot for helping! I couldn't find how to PM you my config.xml, so I added it to this post, sorry..
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<configuration>

<media>

   <map>C:,Harddisk0\Partition2</map>
   <map>E:,Harddisk0\Partition1</map>
   <map>F:,Harddisk0\Partition6</map>

   <local>
       
       <address*>10.0.0.50</address*>
       <subnet*>255.0.0.0</subnet*>
       <gateway*>10.0.0.138</gateway*>
       <nameserver>194.109.6.66</nameserver>
       <timeserver*>207.46.248.43</timeserver*>
            <playlists>d:\playlists</playlists>
            <thumbnails>d:\thumbs</thumbnails>
            <bookmarks>d:\bookmarks</bookmarks>
            <imdb>d:\imdb</imdb>
            <home>d:\</home>  
   </local>


   
   
   

   <music>
     <visible>true</visible>

     <share>
       <name>Xbox DVD(UDF)</name>
       <url>d:</url>
     </share>

     <share>
       <name>Xbox DVD(ISO9660)</name>
       <url>iso9660:</url>
     </share>


   <share>
     <name>Shoutcast</name>
     <url>d:\Streams</url>
   <cachesize>256</cachesize>
   </share>
   </music>


   <pictures>
     <visible>false</visible>
     <share>
       <name>Network (XBMSP)</name>
       <url>xbmsp://192.168.0.1/pictures</url>
       <cachesize>256</cachesize>
     </share>      
     <share>
       <name>Network (XNS)</name>
       <url>c:\shared\[email protected]</url>
       <cachesize>256</cachesize>
     </share>
     <share>
       <name>Network (SMB)</name>
       <url>smb://username:password@workgroup/computer/share</url>
       <cachesize>256</cachesize>
     </share>
     <share>
       <name>HDD</name>
       <url>e:\pictures</url>
     </share>
     <share>
       <name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
       <url>d:</url>
     </share>
     <share>
       <name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
       <url>iso9660:</url>
     </share>
   </pictures>

   <videos>
     <visible>true</visible>

     <share>
       <name>Xbox DVD (UDF)</name>
       <url>d:</url>
     </share>

     <share>
       <name>Xbox DVD (ISO9660)</name>
       <url>iso9660:</url>
     </share>
   </videos>


   <tvguide>
     <visible>false</visible>
     <autoprocess>true</autoprocess>
   </tvguide>

   
   <apps>
     <visible>false</visible>
     <share>
       <name>HDD</name>
       <url>e:\apps\shortcuts</url>
     </share>
   </apps>
   
   
   <applications>
      <bookmark>
        <name>Emulators</name>
        <path>e:\apps\emulators</path>
      </bookmark>
      <bookmark>
        <name>Utilities</name>
        <path>e:\apps\utils</path>
      </bookmark>
   </applications>

   <extensions>
       <music>nfo|pls|rm|sc|mpa|wav|wma|ogg|mp3|m3u</music>
       <videos>nfo|rm|mp3|m3u|ifo|mov|qt|divx|vob|pva|wmv|asf|asx|ogm|m2v|avi|bin|dat|mp2|mpg|mpeg</videos>
       <pictures>png|jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|ico|tif|tiff|tga|pcx</pictures>
   </extensions>

   <dashboard>xboxdash.xbe</dashboard>
   <shutdowntime>0</shutdowntime>
   <sensitivity>0.2</sensitivity>
   <xnsbuffer>8192</xnsbuffer>

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   <resolution>1</resolution>

   
   
   <language*>21</language*>

   <subtitleencoding>UTF-8</subtitleencoding>
   
   
   <usettfuifont>true</usettfuifont>

   
   <screensaver>600</screensaver>

   
   <snapstreamserver*>192.168.0.138</snapstreamserver*>
   <snapstreamuser*>common</snapstreamuser*>

   
   <precache>10</precache>

   
   <shoutcasttimeout>12</shoutcasttimeout>    
   <recordingpath>e:musicrecordings</recordingpath>

   <scrollysuffix>***</scrollysuffix>

   <autolaunchxbox>true</autolaunchxbox>
   <autolaunchdvd>true</autolaunchdvd>
   <autolaunchcdda>true</autolaunchcdda>

   <!- Set to false to remove the IP/Disk Space/Build Info on Main Screen -->
   <showdebug>true</showdebug>

</media>

</configuration>
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I've added a folder streams on my disc which contains Shoutcast links, which was seen when I was able to boot it (which takes a long long time...) I don't use the Pictures, TV Guide or Apps...
I've tried it with and without the <home> </home> entry, with and without timeserver and it won't work :-(
With this one I did as you said (removed the 2 folders, I've tried it before with just the tdata one) and it won't boot at all.

Thanks a lot in advance for taking time and effort to help me!!!!

Cube

[cube]

Is there really nobody that that uses XBMP from CD-R or DVD?!?

[JayDee]

Answer in ~12 hours. Gonna do some test when i get up....

[JayDee]

Actually i got rather pissed with it not booting from cd so i been sitting with it for +2hours and guess what?

I get it to boot everytime now.

Pm me in channel and i´ll try to explain more there.

Have a few things more to test, but now i know that it works like it should atleast.

[JayDee]

Or better yet again.

Talked to RUNTiME about it and this it what we came up to:

The hometag MUST be set to a sub dir.
As that cant be done on the cd/dvd (all files are already in the root so imposible to point to a subdir) you just set it to point to a dir that dont exist.

Like D:xbmp and not D: or D:

<home>D:\xbmp</home>

There might be a workaround for this too but to early to say right now.

Hope this helps you out alittle.

[cube]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me out JayDee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm burning a CDRW at the moment and have high hopes

So my hunch was right on the <home> tag, it was the only thing that changed after 2.2 that could influence the player...

I will let you know how it turn out!

Thanks again!!!!!

cube

[cube]

Hi JayDee,

Looks like I'm getting somewhere It works, but it could be streamlined, it takes over 40 seconds to boot of CD-RW, could you give me an indication if the time it took you to boot?!?

Furthermore it takes about the same time to get a shoutcast stream playing (takes about 10 seconds when I do the same of my HDD)

Could these be problems connected to the fact that XBMP can't write to the folders specified?!?

Thanks and regards,

cube

[JayDee]

I guess it´s here when the dvd-rom and medium comes into the picture.

I have a samsung dvdrom (jippi) and booting from cd-rw takes ~10-15 seconds.

Starting a stream takes ~7 seconds.

The thing that is frustrating is that xbfilezilla wont work from cd as it need the home dir set right.

RUNTiME thought it was _Frodo_ that put the hometag in the cvs release so i need to talk with him befor anything will happen on that front.