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Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by DaveM

DaveM — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:25:46 +0000

@DaveM BTW, I meant to say "Major "facepalm" in the post above, but used angle brackets and that mea culpa got filtered out of the posting LOL

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by DaveM

DaveM — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:24:36 +0000

@BK, @Westy, @JohnP and especially @Jacob ;)

Major ;)

I don’t know what happened, but it turns out DXVA2 *WAS* disabled. I know I turned that sucker on, but somehow it got disabled (perhaps post upgrade to Beta2, but who knows?). That brought my CPU usage down from 85% to 30%. Playback is much smoother now ;)

Thanks all for putting up with my nooby complaining LOL.

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by yossie

yossie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:44:27 +0000

@yossie I should mention that this is on an apple tv 1.

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by yossie

yossie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:44:02 +0000

Since upgrading to eden beta 2 – playback shows a black bar at the top of the screen with a blinking narrow vertical line at the very top left, same height as the bar. the window is entirely shifted down, and the bottom bar is lost below the tv screen. While I can adjust the playback so that I see all of it, I can’t’ find any setting that fixes the bar at the top.

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by BigBen

BigBen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:22:10 +0000

Is there a reason why all my media keeps buffering from my external HDD…it never did this with Dharma…it is really very annoying and defeats the purpose of have the files local. Is this a bug or something because it is the same configurations I have for Dharma…Anyone else experiencing this problem

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by BK

BK — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:48:43 +0000

@Dave

I’m running a Foxconn nettop with the same specs (AMD E-350, 4GB ddr3 RAM, etc) as your Zotac and mine is rendering 1080p mkv files smoothly with DXVA2. My content is read from USB 3.0 hard drives, no issues there. Here’s what I recommend you try:

Check out System Info in XBMC and see what your CPU % usage is. Mine is in the low 20’s just navigating the menu, and never breaks 30% even when playing 1080p content (usually around 10Mbps video bit rate), assuring me that the GPU part of the E-350 has taken over. If your CPU usage % is high, then we can assume DXVA isn’t rendering like it should be.

You could download Media Player Classic Home Cinema and enable DXVA rendering in there, to cross-check if you get smooth playback in that program. If it’s not smooth there, then there’s some kind of video issue with your system that no amount of XMBC tweaking will fix until the root problem is found and solved.

My most basic suggestion is to simply make sure your graphics driver is up to date.

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by Jacob Sandhøj

Jacob Sandhøj — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:28:33 +0000

@Dave Make sure hardware acceleration is turned on in video playback. DXVA2 if i remeber correct.

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by bentoy

bentoy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:51:01 +0000

mp3+cdg still not in sync. disappointed again. :(

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by Westy

Westy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:56:00 +0000

@Dave
JohnP is stating NOT to run “Full Screen” but change it to “True Screen”….I don’t have beta 2 installed but this helped me in previous versions.

Comment on XBMC 11.0: Eden Beta 2 available now by Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:18:35 +0000

@JohnP I checked and unfortunately it is running in full screen. Sigh :(