gafilson
2008-12-22, 19:53
Hey all,
I just installed XBMC a few days ago and have been messing around with it ever since. My end goal is to have pretty much everything on harddrive and to play it from there. To that end i've got some bluray material copied to HD and am able to get xbmc to play the raw files (I realize that the menu system, etc. is not there yet so I'm just playing the mt2s files from disk).
Unfortunately it seems like whatever codecs etc. are being used by xbmc are not as efficient as those being used by my install of WinDVD. To watch a particular movie directly from the blu-ray drive on WinDVD requires ~50% constant CPU use and no visually perceptible loss of frames. Playing through XBMC from the HD runs in the 70s and 80s constantly and has (somewhat subtly) noticeable frame drop (especially when a lot of the pixels are in flux).
What can be done to make XBMC more efficient? If there is nothing that can currently be done to make it more efficient are there plans in the works to do so?
Note: i've been lurking the boards for a few days here trying to figure out some tips and tricks that might help me and so far have had no luck. I'm using one of the daily builds right now rather than the atlantis build but have seen basically identical behavior on both. I've also seen some vaguely similar threads but nothing identical and no real answers in any of them hence this new post. Any help would be fantastic.
I just installed XBMC a few days ago and have been messing around with it ever since. My end goal is to have pretty much everything on harddrive and to play it from there. To that end i've got some bluray material copied to HD and am able to get xbmc to play the raw files (I realize that the menu system, etc. is not there yet so I'm just playing the mt2s files from disk).
Unfortunately it seems like whatever codecs etc. are being used by xbmc are not as efficient as those being used by my install of WinDVD. To watch a particular movie directly from the blu-ray drive on WinDVD requires ~50% constant CPU use and no visually perceptible loss of frames. Playing through XBMC from the HD runs in the 70s and 80s constantly and has (somewhat subtly) noticeable frame drop (especially when a lot of the pixels are in flux).
What can be done to make XBMC more efficient? If there is nothing that can currently be done to make it more efficient are there plans in the works to do so?
Note: i've been lurking the boards for a few days here trying to figure out some tips and tricks that might help me and so far have had no luck. I'm using one of the daily builds right now rather than the atlantis build but have seen basically identical behavior on both. I've also seen some vaguely similar threads but nothing identical and no real answers in any of them hence this new post. Any help would be fantastic.