Archive:Common issues

Known issues that are expected to be present in XBMC v12.0 "Frodo".

General

• The current AFP client in XBMC is still the not-so-stable one from Eden. A replacement won't be ready for Frodo, but is planned.

Android

• (Obviously) hardware playback for most devices
• No zeroconf/bonjour/service discovery support

Mac OS X/iOS

• gapless playback for music isn't working
• no AAC to AC3 transcoding, which means no multichannel support for AAC
• no HD audio passthrough support (currently seen as cannot fix due to Apple APIs)
• all sort of hickups during music track transitions (gets worse with activated crossfade)
• music output lacks audiophile support (output is resampled to the setting from audio midi setup for all tracks)

Mac specific

• some tools which adjust screen brightness may lead to lowfps (5fps frameratelimiting) in XBMC - we have covered some of them but there are a lot of more tools out there i guess (basically all tools which use a transparent fullscreen overlay)

iOS specific

• No 1080p video output for retina devices (resolution gets scaled down because of performance issues - solution is in sight for after frodo)
• ATV2 - We crash on startup when plexapp is installed (seems plexapp does something bad on their frappliance init)
• uppercased special characters with accents are shown as lowercase (when uppercase tag is used in the skin)

Raspberry Pi

• DVD ISO playback is not expected to work well
• Fast forward/rewind do not work yet, but "stepping" back/forward does work. In other words, the FF/RW buttons don't work on the On Screen Display, but you can go back and forward using left/right arrows (or whatever you map to stepping back/forward).

Windows

• AirPlay videos rotation is off if using hardware decoding http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=149006
• Windows screensaver and power saving mode kicks in when XBMC is not focused (independent of whether XBMC is playing a video or not)