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ASRock ION 330 HTPC with Ubuntu 9.10 and XBMC


So decided to go with ASRock ION 330 dual core atom at 2.6ghz fully specd out for 1080p playback ;) Very nice package for the price and I threw a SSD in the box for no moving parts (besides the 30mm and 80mm fans ) for airflow.
Im installing Ubuntu 9.10 and XBMC, so installation of 9.10 was pretty standard, XBMC repository needs to be added to the apt sources, and this can easily be done by a few commands below.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone
I ran into an issue of when I put a DVD disc in there was no way for me to eject it cleanly, and also took me a good ten minutes to find the location of Play DVD from the main menu, so after a bit of digging around I found a guide on XBMC forums on how to add items to the home page.
Basically to add items to the menu system with Confluence skin, you will need to edit this file
/usr/share/xbmc/skin/Confluence/720p
and find the section with the Videos and other items and add the following code
<item id="16">
<description>PLAY DVD</description>
<label>PLAY DVD</label>
<label2>PLAY DVD</label2>
<visible>System.HasMediadvd + !Skin.HasSetting(HideDVD)</visible>
<onclick>XBMC.PlayDVD()</onclick>
</item>
<item id="15">
<description>Eject</description>
<label>Eject</label>
<label2>Eject the DVD</label2>
<visible>System.HasMediadvd + !Skin.HasSetting(HideDVD)</visible>
<onclick>XBMC.EjectTray()</onclick>
</item>

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