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- Schenckmeier - 2012-02-27 22:22

argh, sorry for crying here...
XBMC was searching for "xbmc_video60" mysql-database instead of "xbmc_video58".
All is fine now, many thanks for this new release.


Xfce - gfisher - 2012-02-28 06:16

Hi Bvan58

XFCE desktop is a good option for a fully working desktop. Originally, I tried ubuntu 11.10 32 desktop unity 2/3d but XBMC and VLC had framerate juddery problems on 11.11 ati. I installed XFCE on ubuntu and 99% of it was good! Not as pretty but worked. Defaulting XFCE was clunky on ubuntu. Got tired of formatting when errors ocurred with experimentation leading to xorg corruption. So I went Xubuntu and XFCE is default. XBMC plays much better as does VLC. Xubuntu hdmi audio stinks for me. Pulse audio volume control is needed to set output source to hdmi and disable optical, no bios switch for me. I have not tried 12.1 on gnome 3 unity so maybe it is fixed? With the latest XVBA build it is so good I hate to break it! My WAF is very good right now. Smile


- fritsch - 2012-03-01 09:12

Some timeline news from AMD (source: https://twitter.com/#!/CatalystCreator)

Catalyst 12.2: 5/6 of March
Catalyst 12.3: around March 21


- .:B:. - 2012-03-02 01:58

Nothing about improved XvBA support I assume? Tongue


- konti - 2012-03-02 12:03

I know the XvBA gpu rendering is still kind of experimental. But it looks to me there is being made allot of progress here. I've been reading through this thread, but still have some questions. As I think there is allot of knowledge here, i was hoping someone can answer them.

I'm running an ION1 system now. When watching HD channels (1080i), i need to use deinterlacing. The ION optimized option can barely do this. Fast scenes are slowing down.

Is the XvBA inplementation at a point were it can perform this deinterlacing on a E350?
Does anyone has experience with this?


- fritsch - 2012-03-02 12:09

Good question.

VDPAU internal deinterlacing is state of the art. It is a temporal / spatial algorithm, which uses more than one frame to calculate a smooth, sharp image.

XVBA also does internal deinterlacing, but without any interaction by us. The way they are doing it is at the quality of BOB which looks compared to the nvidia version improvable.

So to conclude:
1080i will work fine deinterlaced on XVBA, but the quality is the same as within ION-1 + BOB deinterlacing.

Btw:
Fernetmenta is working on a new vdpau architecture which should allow ION-1 with the advanced internal ion deinterlacing. There are already some testimages for openelec available.


- konti - 2012-03-02 13:44

Tnx Fritsch! It's amazing to see how far the XVBA implementation has come in such a short relative time. Do you know if the ION1 + BOB deinterlacing is being performed by ION or CPU? Then I can just compare BOB with the ION Optimized option.

It's also impressive that the full potential of the ION1 platform has also not been reached yet. This is enough for me to not start thinking of upgrading to the E350 platform just yet.


- abudabi - 2012-03-04 08:55

New version: 2:11.0~git20120301 ??

Any clue as to a changelog?


- fritsch - 2012-03-04 11:40

only upstream changes because of a rebase.


- wsnipex - 2012-03-06 14:51

new packages available: 2:11.0~git20120306.2f8921a-0ubuntu1~ppa1
- xvba: correct order in clear down of gl resources. Fixes some flickering