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parkerbender

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Installing Xbmc
« on: May 02, 2004, 01:57:00 PM »
i installed xbmc, and it freezes on the load screen, do i have to assign a home directory or something, i saw a little bit of stuff in the .xml but couldnt figure out what if anything i should change, the read me first post said if you drop it on the hdd it should boot, but it doesnt, what is my problem?  any ideas?  i got the newest version 4-23-04 i think
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jmarshall

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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2004, 02:25:00 PM »
1.  Make sure your XBoxMediaCenter.xml file is present on C:\ and has the correct path to the XBMC directory.

2.  Check your log file to see what's going wrong.

3.  Update to a newer version which has a "Fatal Startup Error" handling.

Note that you may well have an FTP server going if you need it, even if XBMC isn't fully booted.
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parkerbender

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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2004, 02:45:00 PM »
do you have to have the .xml in c: even if the .xbe is in c:\apps\xbmc\ ?
also where do you put the home address into the .xml, right at the top where it says to put something if ur using it as a desktop?  i'm real new at this cente rstuff, as i've been using player forever but just figured i'd give it a try since it has 5.1 and maybe can play .rm files, thanks in advance for your help!
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2004, 12:31:00 PM »
Put the xboxmediacenter.xml where the xbe is.

Put the link to the main XBMC directory into the <home> tag of the xboxmediacenter.xml file.

If your C:\apps\xbmc directory holds ALL of xbmc, you won't need the home tag.  It's only needed if the xbe and xboxmediacenter.xml are located elsewhere.
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