Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/universe/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
anyone else got this for the apt-get updates?
I did a little snooping on that server and found this location instead:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz
is this the correct location for that and should we update the sources accordingly?

Is this more helpful? I did a screening as you said:

video jump
FLUSH draw pts: 7470
FLUSH draw pts: 11250
FLUSH draw pts: 15030
FLUSH draw pts: 18810
FLUSH draw pts: 22500
FLUSH draw pts: 26280
FLUSH draw pts: 30060
FLUSH draw pts: 33750
FLUSH draw pts: 37530
vo_vdpau: enabled features: inverse_telecine=0
vo_vdpau: disable noise reduction.
vo_vdpau: disable sharpness.
vo_vdpau: vdpau_update_csc: hue=0.000000, saturation=1.000000, contrast=1.000000, brightness=0.000000, color_standard=0
vo_vdpau: skip_chroma = 0
play_internal ...done
video_out: throwing away image with pts 421296019 because it's too old (diff : 6553).
video_out: throwing away image with pts 421293002 because it's too old (diff : 9570).
video_out: throwing away image with pts 421296755 because it's too old (diff : 5817).
set_speed 0
audio_alsa_out: Reset call failed. (err=-77:File descriptor in bad state)
audio_alsa_out: Drain call failed. (err=-11:Resource temporarily unavailable)

The last three lines appear, when I call up the menu to close playback. After that I have to reboot the MD, because otherwise no video will play

as far as I remember you don't need to do any updates prior to install Linuxmce. I only found the CD-menu a little bit misleading, since it states Install kubuntu and install linuxmce.
At first I only went to the first option and of course didn't really get anywhere easily from there. if you go straight to install linuxmce you should be fine. As soon as the kubuntu install is finished, you should start the installerscript for linuxmce. The only obstacle is the nvidia driver really- you should use basic ui for the first generation of the orbiter- once everything is finished, got to kde-desktop, open a terminal and run nvidia-xconfig. Reboot from there and go through the AVWizard again, this time you can select ui2 with alphablending- it should be using nvidia 195.22 then.

okay, it seems I posted the same problem in two threads, I'm sorry...I will continue here.
I've set the hardware acceleration first to vdpau, tried and when it didn't work with those files, I set it to auto.
So far I can only play those files with xv- but with noticeable framedropping
I tried with one of my movies- this one is an mkv- and put a snip from the xineplayer log here. After that I have to reset the Md or else I can't play anything anymore.

1   12/06/09 13:32:53   Spawn_Device.sh 49 (spawning-device)14232 Dev: 49; Already Running list: 35,36,38,37,42,40,50,44,49,45,[1;00m
1   12/06/09 13:32:53   Spawn_Device.sh 49 (spawning-device)[1;00m14232 Device 49 was marked as 'running'. Not starting[1;00m
1   12/06/09 13:32:53   Spawn_Device.sh 49 (spawning-device)   [1;00m14232 Dev: 49; Exiting because not starting[1;00m
05   12/06/09 13:37:11.192      [33;1mXine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() called for id 1001 filename: /home/public/data/videos/(sda1)-CORE [30]/Movies/1408.mkv ()[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:11.194      [33;1mXine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() stopping PSS[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:11.195      [33;1mXine_Stream_Factory::GetStream streamID is 0[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:12.218      [33;1mCreated new stream with ID=1001 deint 0  100 0[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:12.218      [33;1mXine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() set stream 1001 as last rendering to screen.[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:12.219      [33;1mXine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() called for id 1001 filename: /home/public/data/videos/(sda1)-CORE [30]/Movies/1408.mkv () with corresponding stream 0xb4b005a0.[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:12.945      [33;1mOpening media without chapters/title position: 'file:///home/public/data/videos/(sda1)-CORE [30]/Movies/1408.mkv' [0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.730      [33;1mXine_Stream::changePlaybackSpeed no running seekers found[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.730      [33;1mXine engine set new zoom level to X:100, Y:100[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.737      [33;1mRead media A/V information: [A/52 5.1]/[H264/AVC (vdpau), 1008x416] => [dolby digital 5]/[63:26][0m <0xb06ffb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.738      [33;1mXine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Started(streamID=1001) <= AV info[0m <0xb06ffb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.738      [33;1mRead media A/V information: [A/52 5.1]/[H264/AVC (vdpau), 1008x416] => [dolby digital 5]/[63:26][0m <0xb06ffb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.738      [33;1mXine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Started(streamID=1001) <= AV info[0m <0xb06ffb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.739      [33;1mRead media A/V information: [A/52 5.1]/[H264/AVC (vdpau), 1008x416] => [dolby digital 5]/[63:26][0m <0xb06ffb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:13.739      [33;1mXine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Started(streamID=1001) <= AV info[0m <0xb06ffb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:23.732      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:10336 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 0 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:23.732      [33;1mRead media A/V information: [A/52 5.1]/[H264/AVC (vdpau), 1008x416] => [dolby digital 5]/[63:26][0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:23.732      [33;1mXine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Started(streamID=1001)[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:24.733      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:11104 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:24.735      [33;1mXine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() ended for filename: /home/public/data/videos/(sda1)-CORE [30]/Movies/1408.mkv with stream 0xb4b005a0.[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:25.734      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:11872 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:26.735      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:13120 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:27.736      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:13888 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:28.737      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:14624 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:29.738      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:16128 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:30.739      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:16896 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:31.740      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:18400 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:32.741      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:18912 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:33.742      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:19680 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:34.744      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21184 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:35.744      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:36.745      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:37.746      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:38.747      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:39.748      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:40.750      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:41.751      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:42.751      [33;1m[ID: 1001]  CHAPTER:0 POS:21952 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:6746527 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 1 freq 1,[0m <0xafcfdb90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:42.848      [33;1mXine_Player::CMD_Stop_Media() with corresponding stream id 1001 0xb4b005a0.[0m <0xb6e60b90>
05   12/06/09 13:37:42.848      [33;1mXine_Stream::changePlaybackSpeed no running seekers found[0m <0xb6e60b90>

well, some of them are mkv, but I've played those before even on lmce 7.10 without vdpau.

I have an md running on an ion330. When I'm trying to run any HD-movie, the TV stays black, I can hear sound for about 5 seconds, then the player crashes. Is there a way to check what happens?

hmmm...I wish I could say its working...but it isn't so far.
I tried setting the hardwareacceleration to vdpau and started a movie, but its not showing. I can hear sound, but see no video.
Then I changed the setting to auto...and get  the same. If I regenerate the orbiter, it says first "trying to startup xineplayer" then I get a message, that some services didn't start properly.
If I change HW-acceleration back to XV, normal videos are playing again.
As far as I can see, the nvidia 195.22 is in place

guys, do yourselves a favour and get the beta2.
So far I can say a lot of good things about it

thanks niz23...you're right. I will check that out :-)

okay, here is my update :
the script for the creation of the bootimage went through without a hitch and I was able to boot up an configure my MD (asrock ion330). At first I had some trouble with the AVWizard, but I got around that. Then I tested the available UIs but went with the basic one, since the latest nvidiadrivers weren't activated.
After the orbiter generation was finished, I went to the KDE-Desktop, opened a terminal and used nvidia-xconfig there. After that, a reboot, AVWizard and I could use UI2 with Alphablending. I didn't have the sound over spdif optical working, so I went to the desktop agai and performed the Alsaupgrade with the script I posted here earlier....works fine now
I was however curious and did a apt-get update and a dist-upgrade. Interestingly enough there were some repos offline and there were some files relating to mythtv that had been downgraded (!?).
Later that evening I tested mythtv with VDPAU, which was not quite nice...choppy performance and quite unstable. I also read, that xine should also come with VDPAU- but so far I have not been able to see in in action...I tried some HD-content I had waiting on the disks, but I also noticed a rather choppy playback.
Tonight I will just scrap the current MD and create a new one. I want to try and see how it works out of the box- in other words without the aforementioned updates.

Other than that, nice works, guys :-) you are my heroes!

I finally gave in...I have a backup stored away in case I screw up, so...what the heck
:-)
I am just in the process of installing the beta2. So far things seem to run nicely, however the bug about the /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh still seems to exist.
I am running the script as we speak and I hope everything will turn out to be fine in the end.

upon hearing the great news about the new beta2 (hurray)
I went to update my system- being a lazy slob,  I did a backup beforehand...
I got this in the end:

Unpacking lmce-mythtv-scripts (from .../lmce-mythtv-scripts_2.0.0.44.09112922522_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lmce-mythtv-scripts_2.0.0.44.09112922522_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/pluto/bin/SaveMythRecording.sh', which is also in package pluto-mythtv-player
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/lmce-mythtv-scripts_2.0.0.44.09112922522_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

does anyone know how to fix this, short of a fresh install?

After some checking around, I found out that asterisk has quite some problems. there is some connection erros with the asterisk manager port 5038 and some error about retieve_conf. Is anyone having asterisk running successfully at the momen?

I have some issues with asterisk. My router provides ip-telephony via sip....so I setup one account inside my router, I get a username,password and registrar to be used with the ip-telephone. With this I went on to configure asterisk. I created a amp-script as described in the wiki and edited the provider_list.txt. Now when I select the proper provider and type in the required data- I don't get anything there- nothing shows up, so I guess the configuration doesn't get applied.
Does anyone have an idea, on how to get it working?

you're right, there are some issues...right now for example I cannot for whatever reason watch CNN, whenever I select it, mythv throws a tantrum and crashes frequently...if I leave it alone for a while and stay away from that station I can watch anything I like...I guess the news aren't so popular with that software :-)