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Plex controls without focus

I asked this question on the Plex support forums, but that didn't prove to be fruitful so I thought I'd come to the trusty stack exchange. What I'm trying to do is control Plex using the media ...
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VLC stream with input options

Im trying to make stream in cvlc for xbmc. My problem is that i cant make it because Im not using just file stream but Im using decklink protocol and I need input options. I cant find any resources ...
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Delete movies from XBMC

I use XBMC on Win7, with the default skin. Lately I can not delete the video files. I press DEL, a confirmation popup comes up, click yes, but the file remains there. A week ago it was only frequent, ...
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Does Virtualbox virtualizes a NVIDIA or a AMD Radeon graphics card?

I'd like to try-out XBMCbuntu (the "live" version of XBMC) on Virtualbox. Since it is offered in two version, specifically one for AMD and another for NVIDIA graphic cards, I'm puzzled on which one ...
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Recording CCI-flagged content with CableCARD tuner to NAS drive

Has anyone been able to record CCI 0x02 programming to a NAS drive with a CableCARD tuner, like Ceton's InfiniTV or the Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650? And have any ARGUS TV or PseudoTV deployments with ...
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Running XMBC 12 off a stick, sans HDD

I have a laptop whose hard drive is toast, so I'm booting XBMC off a stick. It works fine, but I would like to not have to manually intervene halfway through booting up to tell it to Try Ubuntu, ...
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Is it possible to stream XBMC video plugins over UPnP?

Ideally I'd like to be able to stream video from XBMC plugins to an XBOX 360. I've read UPnP makes it possible to share media, but haven't seen anywhere that indicates the possibility of sharing ...
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Determine if graphic card is HDMI CEC capable

I have a EVGA GeForce 8400 GS 512 MB graphic card installed on a Windows 7 system that is used primarily as a media center using XBMC. The PC is connected to a Sony LCD using HDMI and works fine (both ...
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Universally fix/re-embed embedded album art?

Hi I recently tried adding my music collection to XBMC and was (re)incensed when I saw that yet another program didn't recognize more than 50% of the album art in my collection (I have had this ...
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how do I install an add on from zip in xbmc 12?

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-ons#How_to_install_from_zip The wiki is pretty straighforward but those options are not present when I follow the steps in the wiki. I select this: System ...
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Does XBMC supports hardware decoding on Rikomagic MK802 III running Android 4.1.1

I am looking foward to buy a Rikomagic MK802 IIIs mini-pc to be used as a media center. I expect it to run any type of video, including HD and Full-HD videos. Since I'm looking foward to use XBMC as ...
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Audio in XBMC no longer works after updating

For the longest time, I've been running XBMC v10, but wanting airplay capability, I updated to the latest stable version. Now my audio no longer works in XBMC. My system sound works, and other apps ...
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Can I prevent my power saving from activating when XBMC is running but doesn't have focus?

This seems contrary to what most people want, but I've got a somewhat different setup. I have my desktop computer hooked up to my HDTV as a second screen - I don't always have it turned on in that ...
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Stream music from XBMC to iTunes over local network

I'm looking for a simple way to get iTunes to either: See a remote directory as part of its library. I store my music on my server (locally), but would want to listen to it from my mac through ...
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Why don't the play/stop/etc buttons on my XBMC Android remote app work?

I've installed the official XBMC Remote on my Android phone to communicate to my XBMC instance on our Windows 7 HTPC. I can browse and select videos with no issues, and the video starts playing on ...
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How to launch XBMC from XBOX 360 controller guide button on Windows 7?

How can you configure the XBox 360 controller guide button to launch XBMC? I am using XBMC Frodo RC3 on Windows 7 64bit, my controller is a wired one.
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nfs /etc/fstab doesn't mount on startup: ubuntu / xbmc

I have an nfs share I'm trying to mount automatically at startup in ubuntu / xbmc I have the following in /etc/fstab nas:/mnt/raid /mnt/raid nfs noauto,rw,async On startup the mount doesn't ...
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Android XBMC remote: Java error: FileNotFoundException (command=getSystemInfo)

I want to use my raspberryPI as a HTPC. I installed Raspbmc and tried to connect to it via Official XBMC Remote but I get the error: I/O Exception (java.io.FileNotFoundException) ...
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XBMC thumbnail scan?

Is there a feature or add-on in XBMC so that I can scan/fast-forward through a movie using thumbnails at ~1 minute intervals, like the PS3 has?
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How do I define a folder for music videos?

I have a bunch of music videos stored locally in a single directory. I want XBMC to recognize them as music videos as such, i.e. separate from existing video categories of movies/TV shows, or as just ...
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Autohotkey send key in xbmc script error?

I want to open the context menu in xbmc with my remote device and I've installed mceremote to no avail. Now I'm trying autohotkey and I know the keystroke from my remote and I have this script: ...
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How should I decide what deinterlacer to choose for streaming video? [closed]

In my pulldownmenu (Live TV xbmcI) for deinterlacers I can choose from for example bilinear, bicubic, etc. Here you can see my options: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Video_playback. ( I don't ...
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Can I use Distant tv server with xbmc?

I want to use distant tv server with xbmc because it seems to work better then mediaportal. I have tried mediaportal only for 1-2 days but I get already a couple of problems. The Pinnacle software ...
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Better TV quality with MediaPortal and pctv nanostick?

I've installed the latest 11.8 Eden-PVR version of MediaPortal with my PCTV nanostick and it finds all channels but when I watch a channel I have many frame drops and the audio quality is also close ...
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XBMC remote control key repeat

Those who have used XBMC with a WiFi remote, such as an Android or iOS device with the official XBMC remote apps, have probably seen this at one time or another: your remote stops working, when you ...
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XBMC launching external applications full screen

Running xbmc-standalone (Eden) on Ubuntu server edition 12.04 (no gnome/kde/etc...). When launching another application via 'advanced launcher' or other launcher add-on XBMC goes into a 'windowed ...
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Clean Multi X Server Setup

I want to spawn a second X Server for my TV and use a Media Station software like xbmc over it. Is it best practice to manage multi x instances from xinit or is there another/better way? Apart from ...
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Why my XBMC library is empty?

I installed XBMC on my MacBook and Android mobile phone, turned upnp share on.I added source, but both music library and video library are empty. Can you tell me how to add files to library?
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Monitor a process without init?

I have a bash script that runs a process - it runs from an xsession /usr/share/xsessions/$user.desktop I want to monitor the status of that process using monit. Is it possible to create a pid and ...
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How can I make an XBMC keybinding to turn off the display?

I'm running XBMC on Arch Linux. I would like to bind a key to trigger the monitor to turn off. I have a remote with a power button, and I would like that to cause the display to go to sleep, just like ...
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How to quickly switch between “webcam preview” and XBMC?

I've build a dedicated PC for use in Dental Clinic, but I found out that it's very difficult to setup the computer "idiot-proof" enough. It has to do 2 simple things: show live preview from ...
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Replicate Samba Settings from Windows to Linux

Basically i have a dual-booting pc, that shares folders via the network, to an softmodded xbox. So rather than having to manually switch all my sources in xbmc every time i switch OSes. I'd rather ...
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How to delete the entire library

I have XBMC installed on a HTPC. I use it to play the movies I have copied from my DVD collection. I store those movies on a separate server. I had to move the files to a different location on the ...
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XBMC DVB-T and Played Video filling screen

I have a small PC running as an XBMC attached to a Samsung le37m87bd. The PC isn't powerful enough to output a full HD 1080 image at 1920x1080 which is the TVs native resolution (about every 1/2 a ...
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Access media collection with metadata over DLNA

I've got a big media collection on my main PC, and would like to be able to watch it on different devices (TV, laptop), without having to manually copy files around. A good way to do this seems to be ...
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XMBC Flicks missing from plugin list

I have just installed XBMC on a Windows XP machine, and would like to use it to play Netflix. The XBMC Flicks plugin is not in the list of video plugins. The version of XBMC is 11 (Eden). The machine ...
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(Mythbuntu) After upgrading to XBMC 11, Mythbox now says “cannot import name decodeLongLong”?

The vital stats: Mythbuntu 10.10 (maverick) XBMC 11 -- from team-xbmc maverick ppa Mythtv 0.23.1+fix (the standard version for mythbuntu 10.10) Mythbox version 1.1.0 OK, so, I was happily going ...
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Software solution to use one set of speaker for multiple sound-output devices

In the room I'm currently working in, I have a: Primary computer, running Windows 7 - connected to speakers, Secondary MacBook, running OS X Lion, "TV-computer" running Linux/XBMC or similar.. ...
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Debian 3D Acceleration with Intel HD 3000

I'm looking at installing XBMC in Debian on a mATX PC I'll use as both a NAS and HTPC. I am currently researching the actual components that will make up this computer and I'm considering how ...
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Video not filling the screen in XBMC

I have XBMC running on a win 7 machine and I can't get it to totally fill the screen. There is always, on all media files, black bars on all four sides. any idea what I can try?
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Enable DVD Resume on XBMC?

Is it possible to enable some kind of automatic "DVD Resume" in XBMC when playing DVD discs? At the moment the only way I see of doing something like this is by setting a bookmark, which is a bit of ...
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How to choose a media center remote with mouse pad to control my pc for Windows/Linux?

My goal is to make my windows 7 mce htpc to use linux instead, I would like to use Mythtv and Xbmc to use my tv tuner and others sources. (tube sites, tv channels sites and others ...)
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Best Handbrake settings for encoding TV shows

Been using Handbrake since it's the fastest and easiest program for me to understand as I'm not a real A/V guy and I'm getting some under par results from it when it comes to TV shows. I see episodes ...
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Cannot set XBMC as default session?

I have installed XBMC. Under Login Screen settings, the default sessions lists a number of guis but XBMC is not one of them. How do I make it appear in this list along side items such as GNOME?
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How to boot XBMC 10.1 ISO on USB via grub?

I am trying to boot the XBMC Live image (http://xbmc.org/download/) as ISO from USB via grub 1.98. I have a Kubuntu 11.04 image there as well already and it works using the following configuration: ...
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How do I skip to a specific place in a video using XBMC?

I'm finding it increasingly irritating not being able to skip to a specific point in a video or in the iPlayer plugin. Surely there's a way to just click on a progress bar to skip to a certain ...
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What are some tweaks to Windows 7 that can be done for a HTPC?

I've built a HTPC and would like to optimize Windows 7 to dedicate as much of the resources to Media playback through the HTPC. I'll be using XBMC and Media Center (testing them out, and making a ...
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XBMC Live with NVIDIA ION2 no 720p or 1080p options

I installed XBMC live onto an older NVIDIA ION system (the series with a 1.6Ghz cpu) without any problems. XBMC gave me the 1080p and 720p options for video playback and everything worked fine. Now ...
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Serving Videos via HTTP to my LAN

I've got a number of movies and TV episodes with full metadata on my machine. I want to be able to access these videos from other machines on my network. I've got all the network stuff set up, but ...
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Bind and dedicate a USB keyboard to an X11 screen?

I have a boxee remote that basically registers itself as a USB keyboard (via the dongle) and for some strange reason, KDE 4.x (whichever one is included in kubuntu 10.10) allows my regular ps/2 ...

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