PDA

View Full Version : Choppy HD video, was working, using wrong nvidia driver?


bbaldino
2009-04-27, 21:52
Hey guys,
Over the weekend I installed Intrepid (usually keep my media center one version behind) and I'm now getting seriously choppy video when playing back HD files.

I've got an nvidia 7600 GS, and a dual core CPU which previously played all my HD content without any problems. Right now I'm running the nvidia restricted driver ver. 180, unfortunately, I'm not sure what I was running before the upgrade (perhaps nvidia-glx in the repositories?)

One thing I notice is the CPU usage is incredibly low, under 10%, so it seems like it may be trying to do the work elsewhere which is unable to keep up.

Thanks for any help.

bbaldino
2009-04-29, 05:27
Messing with this a bit more, looks like I was wrong about the low CPU part, it's very high so it looks like even VLC on its own is choking. Any ideas would be appreciated, but I think I better take this one over to the Ubuntu forums.

bbaldino
2009-04-29, 07:45
Hmmm, now looking like it may have to do with this issue:

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43075&page=29