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- kemik - 2009-09-15 16:24

azido Wrote:hehe.. what a fun way of usage Smile

for me, a big plus to the current builds (and the future) is, that now you can fire up xbmc with a single keystroke on your remote (if configured to start a program) and the gui goes fullscreen onto screen #2 without the need to do anything on your pc. this was impossible before.

either i had to click on a symlink on the extended desktop to fire it up there (win 7) or use xbmclauncher to go to screen #2 (vista) or use ultramon to switch primary display.

Does this mean that I will now be able to start XBMC from my iPhone? That would be very cool

- harbingerofdoom - 2009-09-15 22:03

installed 22928 via 0.7.9.0 updater this morning to resolve some known problems

corrected oddball keyboard issue where some combination of keys caused it to use an alternate keymap

corrected the windowed & resolution problem

no problems or oddities found so far in this build

- azido - 2009-09-15 22:07

kemik Wrote:Does this mean that I will now be able to start XBMC from my iPhone? That would be very cool

i know nothing when it comes to the iphone, but if it is able to start a windows app i tend to say yes.

- kricker - 2009-09-15 22:22

I am getting loads of tearing with the dx builds on my HTPC. The GL builds do not have this happening. I tried with all the various vertical blank sync options in Appearance/screen as well as the various settings for the videoplayer such as adjust refresh rate and sync playback to display. I also tried to force it on using the nvidia control panel. Is the log useful for this?

HTPC specs:
AMD 3800+
onboard nvidia 6150 using drivers: 190.62

last XBMC-dx build tried:22928

- azido - 2009-09-15 23:10

kricker Wrote:I am getting loads of tearing with the dx builds on my HTPC. The GL builds do not have this happening. I tried with all the various vertical blank sync options in Appearance/screen as well as the various settings for the videoplayer such as adjust refresh rate and sync playback to display. I also tried to force it on using the nvidia control panel. Is the log useful for this?

HTPC specs:
AMD 3800+
onboard nvidia 6150 using drivers: 190.62

last XBMC-dx build tried:22928

did you get that on the most recent ones or generally?
i had tearing in win xp too, but it dissapeared all of a sudden in version 228xx (cannot remember exact build right now).

- kricker - 2009-09-15 23:22

This is my first go with the dx builds on my htpc. The HTPC and devPC are running Win7. When I tested on my workstation with an nvidia GTX 260 and the same drivers I didn't have any tearing. I've done all my testing of the dx builds on my dev pc and never noticed any tearing.

- hentar - 2009-09-15 23:33

Hi, guys.

I've tried the latest DX buid (22928) and have noticed a speedup of about 20% at cpu usage - got 85-90% range at OGL build and 60-65% range at DX one (for playing 720p x.264) on my p4 3GHZ geforce6200 system. (windows7)
Does it means that DXVA already works somehow?

BTW: I'm unable to switch to mediastream skin on this build, have to use pm3.hd one, is there a fix for that?

Cheers.

- Dullie - 2009-09-16 00:06

I know this is not the place to ask...

But I will shoot.. Hope you guys score...

Whats the benefit of using a DX build or a GL build..? Does it offload video and x264 to the GPU by any means..?

I use MediaPortal because it has the option to use it. But if the DX, GL builds can give me this option.. I will definitely try it out..

- zag - 2009-09-16 11:58

It certainly uses less CPU in normal operation but it does not hardware accelerate anything as far as I know.

- azido - 2009-09-16 12:30

kricker Wrote:This is my first go with the dx builds on my htpc. The HTPC and devPC are running Win7. When I tested on my workstation with an nvidia GTX 260 and the same drivers I didn't have any tearing. I've done all my testing of the dx builds on my dev pc and never noticed any tearing.

so you are using a different graphics card on your htpc?