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Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-02

Hello all, I hope everyone had a great new years!

I didn't. Well, I had a great New Years eve. Woke up new years day and found out one of my "friends" managed to kill my xbmc computer. It was running centos with xbmc on top. Everything worked fine, except the file sharing with a mint box I have. So when the idiot in chef broke the machine, I decided I would use the opportunity to change over to Mint and do it that way. So I installed mint, xbmc and updated all the software. Low and behold the nfs file sharing worked (pretty much).

So I decided to sit back, watch a video and nurse my raging hangover. It took me a while before I figured out it wasn't my eyes or brain that was slowing down, then speeding up, then slowing down.. it was actually the video.

Now, I tried the same video from this "new mint" machine which slows down, and my other mint machine via nfs and the video plays flawlessly there. So I am assuming it is a video card driver or something?

Sorry, I know that isn't a lot to go on, but I can post whatever logs would be helpful(Just don't know what is needed), I am sort of hoping this is a simple issue. Really don't want to go back to centos if I don't have to.

Thanks for any and all help.

KP


RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - nickr - 2013-01-02

Machine specs? Logs?

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34655

RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-04

I could have sworn I posted a reply. If this is a duplicate, my apologies.

it is a i686, the svn is xbmc 11.0 GIT:Unknown (compiled March 24, 2012)

the paste bins

http://pastebin.ca/2299191

and my sysinfo, just in case

http://pastebin.ca/2299192



RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - nickr - 2013-01-04

Your version of mint is rather old.

You haven't told us (I think) what your graphics card is and what you have set your video settings to in XBMC.

RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-04

@nickr

I know. I was thinking about grabbing a new version of it, but it is the same one I have in my bedroom and it works flawlessly there. I figured if I had the same version, it might make things easier to figure out on my own, but I got stuck with the video.

I ran a check to see what my vid card was, and it said it was just an intel 82Q35 express integrated. I formerly had centos on it and the video worked great, so I think it should be a driver issue but I don't know. I couldn't get my file shares going between the bedroom and livingroom then, but the video was great. Now it is the reversed. I can share files easily, but can't watch anything in the livingroom.

The resolution is 1920X1080. I tried to put it down to 720, but it then cropped the screen.

Thanks again for any and all help.

KP


RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - artrafael - 2013-01-04

(2013-01-02, 21:34)Euphemism Wrote: So I decided to sit back, watch a video and nurse my raging hangover. It took me a while before I figured out it wasn't my eyes or brain that was slowing down, then speeding up, then slowing down.. it was actually the video.
You weren't perhaps watching "The Hangover", were you? Wink

Seems similar to the problem described here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=142145
While playing your video, hit the "o" key to see the Codecinfo (wiki), including CPU utilization.

Also, as previously requested, what are your hardware specifications? (Make/model of system if store-bought system; make/model of motherboard, CPU and graphics card, amount of RAM if home-built system)

RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-04

Man, I was in some bad shape. Still haven't been able to even smell booze without feeling queasy. As a person with an Irish background, that isn't good.

I'll check the other thread. Thanks.

I'd be happy to grab all that info, but I am not sure where to find it. You tell me the command, and by your command, I shall get it!!

Looking thorough the XBMC system info I found the following. Hope that helps?

The CPU is 2.66G, there is a 1968MB (not playing it shows 1785 free) of ram. It was an off lease computer that was going to be thrown out, so I grabbed it(Hating throwing out computers, would always rather re-purpose them). The video info says the GPU is a Mesa DRI Intel Q35 GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2

With the little o...just a dvd rip of 300

D(Audio: aac, 48000Htz, stero, s16, 64 kb/s) P(aq 98%, kB/s:62.40, att:0.0 dB)
D(Video: h264(High), yuv420p, 1280x528 [PAR 1:! DAR 80:33], 834kb/s) P(fr:23.976, vq:98%, dc:ff-h264, Mb/s:0.79, drop 2038*(and rising quickly)*, pc:none)
C(ad:0.000, a/v: 0.290, edl:-, dcpu: 0%, acpu: 2%, acpu:15% cache:0, B 100%)
Q (fps:20.25, CPU0:11.2% CPU1: 14.8%)

Thanks again for all your help folks. I appreciate this. I'll go look at that other thread now. Thanks again.

KP





RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - nickr - 2013-01-04

(2013-01-04, 04:16)Euphemism Wrote: Man, I was in some bad shape. Still haven't been able to even smell booze without feeling queasy. As a person with an Irish background, that isn't good.
Maybe you should be requiring the "idiot in chief" to fix it!!


Give us the output of lspci -v


RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-04

I would love to, but the person left for their home and have "diplomatic" immunity, as he is essentially my boss. Somehow he thinks, that because I am the "computer guy" in his world (AKA, I know more about computers than him, thus, I know everything that ever was, is and shall be related to computers). Annoying to say the least, but I have become addicted to eating and paying rent, so I still require the idiot in chief. ;-)

lspci -v

http://pastebin.ca/2299207

EDIT:
Again, thanks for all your help. If you(fellas' / gals') are ever ever in Toronto, let me know there are more than a few beers coming your way.



RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - nickr - 2013-01-04

(2013-01-04, 04:51)Euphemism Wrote: I would love to, but the person left for their home and have "diplomatic" immunity, as he is essentially my boss. Somehow he thinks, that because I am the "computer guy" in his world (AKA, I know more about computers than him, thus, I know everything that ever was, is and shall be related to computers). Annoying to say the least, but I have become addicted to eating and paying rent, so I still require the idiot in chief. ;-)
LOL
Quote:lspci -v

http://pastebin.ca/2299207

EDIT:
Again, thanks for all your help. If you(fellas' / gals') are ever ever in Toronto, let me know there are more than a few beers coming your way.
Not sure that would be entirely safe given your New Years Morning LOL. Likewise look me up if you make it to ChCh NZ. We have a lot of Irish here rebuilding the city [ 1 ], drinking all the Guiness and generally misbehaving Smile

[ 1 ] That's a euphimism for knocking down buildings around here.

Anyway I am not sure what the problem is now, Doesn't look like a very powerful machine and you either need a decent cpu or gpu to decode HD video, if I get some time I will look harder at your logs.

RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - euphemism123 - 2013-01-04

Any help would be appreciated thanks.

Might you be able to suggest a reasonable upgrade to the machine to get it passable? Even if I go back to centos, as you say it isn't a very powerful machine, but I hate like hell to throw anything out. I still have a 486DX laptop running on my kitchen table as a news reader.

My god, I am starting to think I am like the "cat lady", only with computers.

RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - nickr - 2013-01-04

Thinking again, you say it worked with centos, but nfs didn't work. With mint nfs works but playback doesn't?

So is it nfs that is the problem? Network too slow? wireless or wired? What about running a movie from a local drive?

And don't worry I have a storage container with everything down to a 8086 IBM PC in it! (Useful when I needed to get something off a 5 inch floppy a few years ago!)

RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-04

I gave up. Tapped out. Cried mercy. Folded like a cheap deck chair!

I found a cd with xbmcuntu on it, installed that, just checked video playback with Bourne supremacy at 720p and played perfectly. So, I guess I'll focus on the NFS file sharing issues. I would think it would have to be a codec or driver issue.(in terms of the play issue, not sharing obviously. ;-))

To answer your question though (And again, thanks for all your assistance and time). I thought it might be the NFS stuff, but couldn't figure out why it would play fine on the remote machine but not locally. Locally, it would play fine via vlc, but not within xbmc.

With a bit of luck, I will not have any issues setting up the nfs server and I can be lying in bed watching bad b movies, because that is just how I roll. ;-)

Thanks again for your help, assistance and time. It has been a real pleasure to speak with you. All the best in the new year my friend. Stay awesome! If I ever find myself in the land of NZ, I will be sure to hit you up and share some beers.


RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - nickr - 2013-01-04

Cheers, I am just contemplating whether to open another bottle of this http://www.renaissancebrewing.co.nz/content/stonecutter-scotch-ale-craft-ale.html



RE: Broke machine, rebuilt, now video slows? - Euphemism - 2013-01-05

Nick, when in doubt, open her up. She wants it, she needs it. You'll feel better about it as well. That could be the start of a beautiful relationship..albeit temporary.

Remember what I was saying about a bit of luck.. ya, well it wasn't there. I am sure this isn't the correct sub for this and I don't want to clog up the forum, but I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction.

I have set up the exports file, hosts.allow, hosts.deny. I think it is the same as previously, but when I try to connect from my client it says "Failed: RPC error: Authentication error".

Thanks again my man.