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XBMC 12 Frodo Released

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  • Feb 4th, 2013 8:52 am
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Wait, is this new?
Didn't they come out with this on Jan 14th?
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there was an RC for it.

this is the "official" stable release
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Got it installed on my IPad 2 with a little experimenting. Make sure to have "show upgrades" turned on in Cydia. Downloaded and installed in under 10 minutes.
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Can anyone comment on XBMC 12 Frodo's performance on a Raspberry Pi (512 Mb model)
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can this be updated from in xbmc or is it a brand new install?
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The final release of XBMC dated Jan 28, RaspBMC is on its last nightly (RC3) Jan 24 and Android nightly (RC3) dated Jan 27. RaspBMC runs pretty good (512Mb mode), however I couldn't get it run on USB drive with powered hub. I'm happy with its performance, so I don't care about USB drive or not.
jacquesstrap wrote: Can anyone comment on XBMC 12 Frodo's performance on a Raspberry Pi (512 Mb model)
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fido1984 wrote: can this be updated from in xbmc or is it a brand new install?
I updated mine within Cydia on a jail broken IPad so I have to assume you can just update other devices.
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download worked for me.... dont' love frodo.. i have very low volume and need to crank it up to hear anything....
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I had a hard time setting up my audio. I found out turning off my dts encoder on my sound card worked to setup the sound right. I have it set to DTS but when i play a AC3 file xbmc crashes.
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can this be set up on one of those Android tv sticks?
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Nice to see live TV. Might have to give this a shot and maybe switch from WMC and Media Browser.
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Menace wrote: The final release of XBMC dated Jan 28, RaspBMC is on its last nightly (RC3) Jan 24 and Android nightly (RC3) dated Jan 27. RaspBMC runs pretty good (512Mb mode), however I couldn't get it run on USB drive with powered hub. I'm happy with its performance, so I don't care about USB drive or not.
using a 3 amp ngear runs fine theirs a thread on usb hubs compatiability and you may want to check which ports your hub offer the most juice some hubs offer say 7 ports but only 1 or 2 are alocated for say external hard drives or power hungry devices, usually the closest to power source but not always so.
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townie22 wrote: can this be set up on one of those Android tv sticks?
yes but check out stagefright enabled test builds a your stick may support hardware acceleration for 720 and 1080p. allwinner and amlogic don't support stagefright rockchip does, amlogic gets native support regardless with pivos builds or builds with amplayer enabled.
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thanks Lead. it's an MK 802+, and to tell you the truth, now that i have one i don't really know what to do with it (i'm not very techie). i don't have cable hooked up to my bedroom tv so i was thinking if i could get something like XBMC going on it........
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Thanks for the tips. I will try another power hub on the final release. I did try it on a cheapo hub.
lead wrote: using a 3 amp ngear runs fine theirs a thread on usb hubs compatiability and you may want to check which ports your hub offer the most juice some hubs offer say 7 ports but only 1 or 2 are alocated for say external hard drives or power hungry devices, usually the closest to power source but not always so.
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Easy install on my newly acquired 32gb Kobo arc. It loads and works great but volume is low.

Is anyone encountering volume problems with android volume??

Also updated it on my iPad without any problems didn't check if volume was ok.

Cheers!!!
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