Archive:Common issues

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. [1] [2] [3] [4]
A minor cosmetic flaw, when a single TV show is created from more than one source path (like some seasons on hard drive A, other seasons on hard drive B) certain counts in the GUI (i.e., number of episodes) can be off. [5]
Dolby Digital Plus support seems to have issues. Dolby Digital and Dolby True HD are unaffected. [6]
Videos encoded with VC-1 and that are interlaced will not currently playback correctly in XBMC when software decoding is used.
XBMC might eat your babies

Initial Android support is targeted at inexpensive Android powered set-top boxes. As such, support for mobile devices is developed, but will improve with time.
No hardware video decoding for most devices, which means no HD playback support unless there is a fast CPU. This is something that is under active development and will eventually be improve for a number of devices. See Android FAQ for more info.
No zeroconf/bonjour/service discovery support
Volume needs to be set high on the Android device before entering XBMC, as XBMC will not exceed this set volume level
Various specific phone/tablet features have not been looked at in depth, such as video out cables, hardware button support, etc. Reports are mixed about if such features are working or not. Expect this to improve with time, but may be an issue for the v12.0 release.

Not really a bug, but at the time of release there are no small screen skins (3-5 inches).

Not actually an issue with XBMC: AMD GPUs do not support HD-audio passthrough under Linux
Not actually an issue with XBMC: XBMCBuntu lightdm causes no audio devices detected in XBMC thread about issue & workaround here added to upgrade FAQ.
Not actually an issue with XBMC: Some Intel GPU's have a problem with rc6 and locks up the whole boot process. Workaround here Thanks to wsnipex for posting solution.

gapless playback for music isn't working
no AAC to AC3 transcoding, which means no multichannel support for AAC
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)

Not actually an issue with XBMC: Apple does not provide support for HD-audio passthrough in their audio API, CoreAudio.

Some tools/applications which adjust screen brightness may lead to low framerates (5fps frameratelimiting) in XBMC. The most common ones should be exempt from this and not cause any issue, but there may be others. Please report any tools/applications that still have this issue to the XBMC support forums so that we can add them to the exempt list. (basically all tools which use a transparent fullscreen overlay)

No retina support for iPads yet (Retina iPhones/iPod touches do work)
No 1080p output with HDMI adapter on A5 iDevices (planned for v13, and test builds available on the forums)
ATV2 - 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) (See here for a possible temp workaround).

DVD ISO playback is not expected to work well (experimental support with the hardware decoder).
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).
Navigation sounds (clicks and such when you move around in the GUI) are not supported. Sound from music and videos are unaffected by this.
Playback of music from a USB CD drive probably doesn't work.

AirPlay videos rotation is off if using hardware decoding [7]
No or little touch screen support in Windows 8. XBMC devs lack a device to test/troubleshoot on.