The XBMC thread - What it is, how it works etc...

[Spy Bee]

Yeah so my droidbox was £90 and so far is the nuts. I'm on a 9mb connection but I'm not thinking I'll go fibre and fill my boots!

[Phoenix]

LOF

 

Thanks Cloggy.

[Furmedge]

I've followed all the installation steps and got mash up on xbmc but can't get a film to play, instead just getting error message 'one or more items failed to play. Check the log file for details.'

 

I've also downloaded avia and allcast to run it from my phone to the telly through chromecast. Anyone have any preference of app?

 

[Furmedge]

Oh and I got the dirties channel up and running in no time.

[Elite]

Istream wont work for me anymore. Help!

[Sugar Ape]

My istream has been working fine all day, only turned it off 20 minutes ago. I have known it to go off for A few hours occasionally but it always comes back on.

[Elite]

Its completely fucked for me. Going to reinstall it see if that works.

[Elite]

As soon as I open Istream I just get a blank screen. I have tried a few youtube vids to no avail.

[cloggypop]

Istream did not work for me when I switched to Gotham. It had no links for the shows/films. 

 

It has extensions that need to be enabled. Search in setup/addons/get add ons/xunitytalkrepo/services . 

 

Mine works now.

[Elite]

Istream did not work for me when I switched to Gotham. It had no links for the shows/films.

 

It has extensions that need to be enabled. Search in setup/addons/get add ons/xunitytalkrepo/services .

 

Mine works now.

No luck. Would uninstalling and then reinstalling istream work you think?

[cloggypop]

No luck. Would uninstalling and then reinstalling istream work you think?

 

Worth a try. Mine was like yours at first, just sort of blank and then it gave me loads of advertising shit and then it looked normal but with no links. 

 

It could also be the skin. I tried using the amber istream skin even though it said some dependencies were unmet and it looked OK but was not really working. I then changed to the normal amber skin and used istream as just a video addon instead and it seems fine after enabling the extensions. This is on Gotham on a Raspberry Pi using OpenElec on a USB stick.

[Elite]

It works now. I had to click on Istream installer>fix my istream I rebooted it and it gave me the option to instalk add ons.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

What is the difference between istream and icefilms?

[The Golden Eel]

What is the difference between istream and icefilms?

Despite me being a tech mong, I'm going to try to answer this.

 

Istream brings together films/TV from all different sources.  Icefilms is one of those sources.  So, if you have Istream, you also have Icefilms as such.

[cloggypop]

What is the difference between istream and icefilms?

 

DimReaper is right that there is more on iStream as it searches icefilms and 1 channel and other sites. 

 

It has other nice features such as marking where you are up to when watching a series and adding new episodes when they come out. 

 

It is pretty as well.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Sounds like my missus would appreciate that more than icefilms.

 

I am bit shit when it comes to this XBMC lark, so where do I get the add on's from?

[The Golden Eel]

Sounds like my missus would appreciate that more than icefilms.

 

I am bit shit when it comes to this XBMC lark, so where do I get the add on's from?

 

There was a video kicking around on how to install Istream - it was very simple.  But i was looking for it again one time and it seemed to have been deleted.  So, not sure. 

[cloggypop]

Sounds like my missus would appreciate that more than icefilms.

 

I am bit shit when it comes to this XBMC lark, so where do I get the add on's from?

 

This is a decent site for video how to do stuff.

 

http://www.totalxbmc.tv/newsite/

 

Loads of istream vids here

 

http://www.totalxbmc.tv/newsite/istream/

 

Friendly Cockernee bloke seems to have been replaced by a Yank robot.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Cheers cloggy.

 

Will et on to that tonight.

[Furmedge]

Can't get my istream working at all so I'll give give those videos a watch and hopefully get it working.

[Sugar Ape]

Can't get my istream working at all so I'll give give those videos a watch and hopefully get it working.

Like Elite said, if you click go into video>video add ons there should be an option in there called fix my iStream. Click on that and it often fixes the problem.

[Elite]

Finally ordered myself a Raspberry Pi, its open elec pre installed so hopefully I can set it up okay!

[Elite]

Christ is is supposed to be this slow?

[Sugar Ape]

I used an android box the other day and the xbmc was painfully slow on it. Took an age to get anything up on it and then buffered constantly. I was thinking of getting one for the bedroom but I'm shelving the idea now.

 

On my mac in the living room it's absolutely perfect.

[cloggypop]

Christ is is supposed to be this slow?

 

If you are not running it off a USB 3.0 stick then get one. It is much quicker and well worth the fiver or so it will cost. You can then overclock it. (It is not difficult).

 

Have a look at the guides here. It has easy instructions on how to set it up and how to overclock.

 

http://www.totalxbmc.tv/newsite/hardware-raspberry-pi/