{"id":170,"date":"2012-04-27T16:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-04-27T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:49:22","slug":"self-compiled-xmbc-on-the-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Self-Compiled XMBC, on the Pi.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have Fedora 17 running OK, I will try the <strong>XBMC<\/strong> stuff&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a complete &#8216;image&#8217; available yet, so I have got the <em>git<\/em> repository code from OpenELEC, and (just for fun) am actually compiling it all on the Pi..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seems to be (roughly) as quick to compile as an old Pentium system from the early-00s&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Be interesting to see how long it actually takes!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One thing to watch for when compiling, is that you have to have a valid system time&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t have it from the network, you can set it &#8216;manually&#8217; using the <strong># date<\/strong> &#8230;\u00a0 command..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One additional gotcha&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 I got compile failures with &#8216;out of memory&#8217; errors, and then discovered that the boot files I had used (from the git repository) were set to the 128\/128 CPU\/GPU &#8216;video performance&#8217; setting, instead of the (default) 192\/64 CPU\/GPU split..\u00a0\u00a0 Copied <strong>arm192_start.elf<\/strong> over <strong>start.elf<\/strong> and rebooted, to fix..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have Fedora 17 running OK, I will try the XBMC stuff&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a complete &#8216;image&#8217; available yet, so I have got the git repository code from OpenELEC, and (just for fun) am actually compiling it all on the Pi..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seems to be (roughly) as quick to compile as an old <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=170\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,16,21,27],"tags":[120,154,174,287,313,424],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-linux-arm","category-raspberry-pi","category-xbmc","tag-compile","tag-fedora-2","tag-git","tag-openelec","tag-raspberry-pi-2","tag-xbmc-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}