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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 12, 2007, 06:16:11 pm »
odd, considering the first install where the system was slow as hell they appeared, then last night it was a couple of hours...ahh well, it's up and running guess thats all that matters.

 All thats left is fine tuning stuff...though I may have to redo some stuff if i can't figure out the dual audio part of some of the stuff.  what i mean by that is i have stuff in English and Japanese for audio.  For some reason it automatically picks up the English audio, but in all honesty I prefer the Japanese audio with subtitles.  I can normally do this under Xine, i just can't get a menu while the vid is playing to change the selection...

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Asus Radeon A9250/TD/128 128MB  would be a good enough vid card then?

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 12, 2007, 02:56:27 pm »
It seems it was an issue with the on board sound or the on board NIC.  I disabled them both since well I don't need either one and the system was much much faster. 

so now my system set is:
P4 2.0
512Mb RAM
Nvidia FX 5200 128MB vid card
3Com NIC
SoundBlaster Live Value soundcard


As for the shares, I have no idea how that got fixed.  They weren't there last night, checked it this morning and there they were...go figure...

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 12, 2007, 12:37:06 pm »
Well looks like it is all working, just need to figure out a couple of issues wuh playback, like how i choose language and subtitles..stuff like that,,,

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 11, 2007, 05:59:09 pm »
Actually I think i will completely redo the system.  This is the idea I have in mind:
use the same computer.  have 2 harddrives in it.  1 20gb drive for LinuxMCE, then take a secondary drive which at the moment will probably be a 320gb drive, partition it so that music has one and movies has the other.  copy all the files I want over to the secondary drive which well I have yet to decide on the filesystem.  Install LinuxMCE on the primary drive...then all I have to figure out from there is how to have the music or movies play across the network saying my wife wants to watch Tv and I want to watch something else.  I could probably use samba for that  and use a linux filesystem to house all the media.

outside of that, the only other thing i can think of doing is setting up a freebsd NFS system and house all the media I want on there and have that shared across the network.

Though I still think i'll reinstall LinuxMCE and use the file structure from that and see if it makes a difference on if the media shows up or not.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 11, 2007, 02:59:46 pm »
well I might just do a fresh install and set up the shares int he LinuxMCE structure since well they aren't showing up at all.  well nothing is showing up at all...it doesn't really hurt for me to redo the system, outside of time, what really do I have to lose? 

I'll have to check out the wiki some more and see what I may have missed.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 11, 2007, 01:08:41 pm »
They are public shares across the network and no i didn't use the LinuxMCE folder structure.  Should I have?  At this point I am thinking i should just go buy a 500GB drive to store all my media on that system.  Damn, i think i should have used the LinuxMCE file structure.  would explain something.  damn.  i'll have to redo that, or look into redoing it without a reinstall...well unless you say otherwise

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 11, 2007, 12:38:10 pm »
i disabled both the onboard sound and the onboard NIC and then did a reinstall of LinuxMCE.  I forgot that LinuxMCE acts as a DHCP server so I have now turned it off in my router.  shouldn't really make much of a difference since I use static IP's well except for the wireless,  So far everything is still cabled outside of my laptop. 

The odd thing was, LinuxMCE saw all of my shared directories, went through the whole set up of each, made them all public and yet still nothing. hmm, either way we shall see how this goes...

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 11, 2007, 02:22:45 am »
well i disabled the onboard sound, onboard nic and everything is working fine...well mostly everything.  The system isn't picking up my shared media across my network.  I am currently sitting on the KDE desktop and soon going to add the shares to the /media and fstab also going to transfer a couple of the things over and see if the machine picks them up.  is there a special place I should be putting them on the drive for them to show up properly?

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 10, 2007, 07:16:48 pm »
It's actually odd that the onboard sound is working since I turned it off in the BIOS yesterday.  When I get home I will look more into what the system is and well I will take another look into the soundcard issue and see if Linux has installed both.  I can change the default sound card if it does and that the BIOS still states the onboard sound is turned off. 

As for the video, i have tried almost every one listed and still had the same bad issue as explained above. 

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 10, 2007, 04:53:43 pm »
I am not sure what other system specs you require.  As it stand, it is sitting on the KDE desktop and works great.  No issues and it is running at 1024 X 768.  As for the xorg.conf  it is using nvidia and nvidia drivers.  I am using U1 in the setup which is the lightest set for the screen.  I have tried this with a computer monitor and my Sharp TV both using VGA and still have the same issues.  As it stands with just using the KDE desktop watching movies and such work great.  No issues what soever.  I am not sure why starting LinuxMCE causes issues, but as i said I am going to try and add some more RAM to see if makes a difference.  Let me know what I may be missing with my system set up and i'll answer the questions as much as I can.

As for using something else for now, why would I?  I prefer the way that LinuxMCE looks and works and that I can add to it in the future if I want to.  Maybe if I don't get this working I might look into something else, my biggest issue is that I am not one to give up that easily when I run into an issue. 
Just to say again:
p4 2.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
128MB Nvidia FX 5200
onboard sound (not sure why it didn't pick up my soundblaster card, though i am working on it.)
3com NIC.

At the moment I have added all the network drives I need access to to fstab.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 10, 2007, 03:29:23 pm »
It is a standalone system. I do not have any other LinuxMCE systems in the house and might look at doing that n the future when I live in a house and not an apartment.  As for what I consider slow, well let me describe it for you.  With LinuxMCE up and running, I click on say media.  I have to wait for the box to appear around the media button and then wait again for it to move to the next screen.  we are talking somewhere between 15 to 20 seconds per movement.  The video is so choppy it is unwatchable.  Even the video on install was so choppy it was useless.  The one anime I had up and running was worse then trying to talk to someone with a severe stutter.
 All it is going to be used for at the moment is strictly playback of media, be it anime, movies, music.  I might in the future set it up as a PVR, but that might be some time.  At the moment I don't see the need for it, actually at th moment i has a lot of features I probably won't be using.  Though thats not to say I won't at some point in the future.   

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 10, 2007, 12:51:41 pm »
Nvidia FX 5200.  I am not what UI settings your referring to, but if it si the opengl ones I used the lightest overlay...other then that everything is default.  Also, I am aware this is not a powerhouse machine, but well from the system requirements I read, this machine should be more then powerful enough to do what I want.  I am not streaming TV through it, I am not using it as a phone system, security, lighting... I am using it to watch backed up movies, listen to my MP3 collection...I figured with what I wanted to do with it, it should be more then capable.  So far I have shut down LinuxMCE and have been using it as a desktop and it works great that way.  I suppose I can see if I have more RAM around that I can stick into it and see if it makes any difference.

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Users / LinuxMCE Slow
« on: December 09, 2007, 11:14:08 pm »
I have installed LinuxMCE DVD quick install n a P4 2.0 Ghz system, 512MB ram and a 128MB video card. During the install it seemed a little slow, but it worked.  After the install it got up and running and was slow as hell.  I went to the Kubuntu desktop and after shutting down LinuxMCE it worked great.  I haven't been able to figure what could be causing this to be so slow, considering the computer has run a few other OS's and never had an issue.  Anyone have an idea what may be causing this?

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Installation issues / Re: Yet another issue...
« on: August 13, 2007, 11:57:12 pm »
hmm had to reinstall and well guess what, back to the:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

and well it isn't the network adapter this time. now i am checking the drive for errors with spinrite

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