Any XBMC experts here able to help me set XBMC in Ubuntu?

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As per title, i am having all sorts of problems with Ubuntu 10.04 one of them is setting up XBMC and using it to stream music and movies from my Windows 7 PC downstairs which contains a shared hard drive full of music and movies.

I have no idea what I am doing, being a bit of a noob. I have sort of got most of XBMC installed, up to the bit "Adding the XBMC SVN Repo Installer" and when I start XBMC I have no idea what I am doing with settings, and have managed to get a link in music showing Windows Network (SBM) but no idea what why where for music which would be a start.

As would configuring the audio, M-Audio 24/96 stereo, and later display as I cannot get anything to play DVD smoothly let alone access remote media (even directly accessing the VOB file results in jerky playback via VLC)
 
OK sorry for the delay, this was put on hold as I was working on another PC, and getting a new telly.

Current HTPC is,
Asrock 4CoreDUal SataII mobo
Intel E5200 passive cooled
Corsair XMS PC3500LL 2x1gb
HIS IceQ Pro HD3850 AGP graphics
M-Audio 24/96 audio card
Sammy drives DVD and HDD
Corsair 450w modular PSU
Silverstone LC13 case

May end up changing some components with these,
Asus Maximus Gene II 775 micro ATX mobo
Intel E6300
PC-8500 (awaiting)
Powercolor HD5750 passive GPU
 
Hi guys, regarding questions raised,

I seem to have motherboard sound as I can run my headphones from the rear motherboard output, I am assuming the M-Audio card will not be a problem to set up as it is supported bu Linux.

I have only installed the available ATI driver from the Ubuntu Synaptic manager download thingy.

I don't plan on buying a new graphics card, well I don't think I will, unless there is a cheap guaranteed option that is capable of smooth 1080p under Ubuntu?
My powercolor HD5750 is new in it's box.

What is an SVN build from a PPA?

My only reasons for using Ubuntu, my Windows 7 release candidate ran out, I had read that Ubuntu can do everything a Windows PC can do with regard to being a Media center, I will have to save up some cash for Windows 7 as I am currently putting together a few other things inc the hardware for a smaller Micro ATX HTPC.

When you talk about giving the XBMC Live CD a whirl? Can this be loaded with no OS or is it just that the live CD is easier to run? As I could not play a DVD from the DVD drive if a live CD is in there?
 
I found the ATI/AMD Proprietary FGLRX driver was causing issues.

Still not sorted out Ubuntu as I think I will have to start again with that.

I installed Mint, and without the above update it played DVD's from the DVD drive, with the above update I got the same jerky unresponsive playback I had in Ubuntu so I feel that driver is one of the issues?

My current issue is finding out how to install the XBMC SVN Repo Installer? I have it downloaded as a ZIP in my downloads folder, I have opened up XBMC program and closed that. But I cannot find the location xbmc/plugins/programs directory that I am meant to extract the repo file to?

Not sure where I should be looking and how I should then extract it to that location?

I tried the XMBC live CD but could not work out how to get it to access and stream from my PC folder?
 
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