Public bug reported:
Expected behavior:
XBMC plays all supported video files correctly.
Actual behavior:
After upgrading to Precise (12.04) from Oneiric (11.10), XBMC stopped
playing .mkv and .mp4 files correctly (and possibly others). .avi files
seem to playback fine. Specifically, .mkv and .mp4 files start to
playback, as I hear the audio just fine, but the video playback is not
shown (i.e., completely black screen). Then, if I attempt to stop the
playback, XBMC freezes, and the only way to correctly the problem is to
switch to tty1 (i.e., press Ctrl-Alt-F1), login, and run 'pkill -9 -f
xbmc.bin'.
Additional information:
Based on the information found at this URL:
http://www.noobslab.com/2011/09/install-xbmc-on-
ubuntu-1110-oneiric.html
I ran:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge xbmc xbmc-bin
sudo apt-get install xbmc
in order to try an alternate build of XBMC Eden (11.0). Doing so fixed
all of the playback problems. Thus, I assume that the source of the
problem concerns the Ubuntu build for Precise (12.04) rather than XBMC
itself per se.
In order to check if perhaps the problem with the Ubuntu build was due
to an upgrade issue, I ran the following:
sudo rm
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nathan-renniewaldock-xbmc-stable-precise.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge xbmc xbmc-bin
sudo apt-get install xbmc
in order to again completely purge XBMC from the system and install the
official Ubuntu version. Unfortunately, doing so caused the described
problems to occur again. Thus, I have switched back to the alternate
build (i.e., from ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable) and will keep
this repo active until such time as this issue is resolved.
Thanks!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xbmc 2:11.0~git20120423.cd20772-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 7 23:33:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-color
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xbmc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-06 (1 days ago)
** Affects: xbmc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise
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