aparently the windows 7 version has trouble playing 1080 files and for what this is doing ubuntu does the job perfect, I dont dual boot- I have ubuntu on the harddrive and then SBS and XBMC installed on that, they both start on boot so literally i have to turn it on and its ready to go, got the xbmc app on my touch too which works nicely!.
So first you need to install ubuntu from a usb stick. ( i used unetbootin method) loads ubuntu first from the usb and then gives you an icon on desktop to install full ubuntu. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick then install SBS - make sure you go with the test 7.4.2 release, just need to add in to the software sources. if your using an existing usb drive or een copying data to the local disk then you may have to change permissions on the folder, mine couldnt find the music at all at first. deb http://debian.slimdevices.com testing main for the 7.4.2 release other wise you will have mysql dependency error see here for full howto -http://havetheknowhow.com/Install-the-software/Install-Squeezebox-server.html install XBMC - http://home4film.com/questions/237/how-to-get-ubuntu-9-10-xbmc-and-squeezebox-server-installed-on-an-acer-aspire-r make sure you install the driver update and change the appearance settings within ubuntu to the minimal effects- dont know why but it completely removed all video tearing for me. dont get too worried about anything, alot of sites just detail the terminal prompts but in ubuntu 9.10 you have a full gui to use, so you just add the package link into software sources and use the synaptic package manager to then find the package and install it. took me about 2 hours probably start to finish from getting the box installed to having it all running in some form, ok so few more tweaks to get running perfect but with all these links ive provided will save you a lot of work. to get xbmc running on start you just type xbmc in the startup manager. worst comes to worst, you learn a bit about ubuntu but cant get it working right so go with windows but its honestly pretty straight forward!! -- trouty00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ trouty00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30875 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73774 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
