tslayer Wrote:May help if you actually told us what was in the log.

tiben20 Wrote:If you followed a little bit the trade you would know that its already a lot that subtitles are supported at all. Subtitles from ffdshow require postprocessing in order to use dxva. There is no way to fix this unless your willing to code for us.

therealjoeblow Wrote:With all due respect, what exactly is the problem with 30-40% CPU

You're playing your material well with in the capability of your system - you should be happy, no? It's the people who are pegging their CPU at 100% and having choppy playback that would be of concern here.

Cheers
The REAL Joe

steelman1991 Wrote:I certainly would but not on this thread (that's hijacking of the highest order). I will start a new thread and link to it from here. (probably won't get anything up until later tonight - bear with me, watching tonight rather than tinkering).

Sno Crash Wrote:I posted a question on the Broadcom thread a while back, but it seems to be a dead topic. I'm wondering if I missed something - did the GL builds end in favor of the DS player? Is Broadcom support phased out in XBMC?

Any rate, I tried out the DS player build with the Broadcom Crystal HD, and cannot get video to play in XBMC.

(1) MediaPlayer Classic Home Cinema will play my videos correctly, and will use the Broadcom card.
(2) I used GraphStudio to connect to MPHC and see the filters being used. I grabbed all the filter IDs and built my dsfilterconfig.xml file.
(3) Here's my dsfilterconfig section for MKVs, for example.

<rule filetype="mkv">
<source>mkvsource</source>
<splitter>haali</splitter>
<video>broadcomvideodecoder</video>
<audio>mpaaudiodec</audio>
</rule>


MKvsource is the built in MKVsplitter that comes with XBMC. Haali is my registered filter for Haali.

Is there any reason why the Broadcom card would not work?

I've tried on MPEG2, VC-1, and H264 videos, all with the same result.

steelman1991 Wrote:Be aware as with all these builds that they are/can be temperamental and problematic. For that reason I have decided to abandon using dsplayer for the moment - need a reasonably settled system for a while SWMBO is getting fed up with all the testing and no watching.

To be honest I have just set-up play via mpc-hc (external player) and its integration is so smooth I wish I had taken the time to set it up like this ages ago - would have saved myself a lot of grief.

I now have everything (HA, subtitles, chapter support, superb playback of all my material) that I need and access to it via the best front-end on the market - what more could one ask for?

Seriously for anyone at the moment who is looking for a stable environment to play their files with HA then the external player route is - well certainly in my the case - the way to go.

Keep up the good work Tiben and Seb. It's been fun.

gcarter Wrote:Nah... sorry, but this build is VERY unstable on my Dell Zino HD! I found the scraper add-on options, however, when trying to select movie information, nothing happens (this a fresh installtion of the build as well).

Furthermore when trying to exit... XBMC hangs. Going back to the 10th March releases, which works perfectly for me

blinkseb Wrote:If you want to use Haali, you need to set it for both source & splitter. The splitter filter is inserted only when playing from rar file or when the source filter can't load the file.

Otherwise, without a log file, no answer is possible

NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: Successfully loaded F:\Program Files\XBMC\system\players\dsplayer\dsfilterconfig.xml
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertAudioRenderer Successfully added "Default DirectSound Device" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Haali Media Splitter" to the graph
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertSourceFilter Successfully loaded file in the splitter
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Broadcom VideoDecoder" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Mpa Decoder" to the graph
ERROR: CVMR9AllocatorPresenter::InitializeDevice AllocateSurfaceHelper returned:0x8876086c
ERROR: CFGManager::RenderFileXbmc Audio / Video error
Error in the video rendering chain.
Ensure that the audio/video stream is supported by your selected decoder and ensure that the decoder is properly configured.
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
ERROR: CDSPlayer::OpenFile failed to start this file with dsplayer Y:\Media\TV Shows\Life (2009)\Life (2009) - S01E01.mkv
ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [Y:\Media\TV Shows\Life (2009)\Life (2009) - S01E01.mkv]
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Broadcom VideoDecoder" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Xbmc VMR9 (Renderless)" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Default DirectSound Device" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Mpa Decoder" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Haali Media Splitter" from the graph
ERROR: exception in CApplication:rocess()
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure

indy5 Wrote:Speaking of weird stuff going on. I came home yesterday to view watch some tv content and xbmc was frozen. I killed the app and when I got back to the windows desktop there was a message about low disk space. My free space on C was actually at 0. My xbmc log file was 146 GB.

I am currently running 28723.

Sno Crash Wrote:I set Haali to Source and Splitter and tried again:

Here is what happens with a H264 MKV:

NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertAudioRenderer Successfully added "Default DirectSound Device" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Haali Media Splitter" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertSourceFilter Successfully loaded file in the splitter
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Broadcom VideoDecoder" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Mpa Decoder" to the graph
ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Xbmc VMR9 (Renderless)" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Default DirectSound Device" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Broadcom VideoDecoder" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Mpa Decoder" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Haali Media Splitter" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSPlayer::CloseFile DSPlayer is now closed

Here is what happens with a VC-1 MKV:

NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: Successfully loaded F:\Program Files\XBMC\system\players\dsplayer\dsfilterconfig.xml
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertAudioRenderer Successfully added "Default DirectSound Device" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Haali Media Splitter" to the graph
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertSourceFilter Successfully loaded file in the splitter
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Broadcom VideoDecoder" to the graph
NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "Mpa Decoder" to the graph
ERROR: CVMR9AllocatorPresenter::InitializeDevice AllocateSurfaceHelper returned:0x8876086c
ERROR: CFGManager::RenderFileXbmc Audio / Video error
Error in the video rendering chain.
Ensure that the audio/video stream is supported by your selected decoder and ensure that the decoder is properly configured.
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
ERROR: CDSPlayer::OpenFile failed to start this file with dsplayer Y:\Media\TV Shows\Life (2009)\Life (2009) - S01E01.mkv
ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [Y:\Media\TV Shows\Life (2009)\Life (2009) - S01E01.mkv]
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Broadcom VideoDecoder" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Xbmc VMR9 (Renderless)" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Default DirectSound Device" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Mpa Decoder" from the graph
NOTICE: CDSGraph::UnloadGraph Successfully removed "Haali Media Splitter" from the graph
ERROR: exception in CApplication:rocess()
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure

Thanks!

blinkseb Wrote:If you want to use Haali, you need to set it for both source & splitter. The splitter filter is inserted only when playing from rar file or when the source filter can't load the file.

Otherwise, without a log file, no answer is possible



To bad you left us only because mostly of external issue not directly connected to dsplayer

blinkseb Wrote:Please enable debug in XBMC. We can't read a log like that. And next time, please post the entire log to pastebin for example, not only a fragment

nielsi Wrote:-- about the freezing remote bug: it appears only XBMC-specific commands don't get through (ie. XBMC ghostscript plugin commands). Keyboard commands keep working. Might have something to do with the commands being sent to a wrong window...?



I had the same thing. Only a 5 gb log file. So people might want to check that if they use this build..

I'm relatively new to XBMC (came over from mediaportal), but I basically just want to be able to play some HD video on my Asus ION nettop. Could someone maybe briefly explain to me what the pros and cons are for using the DSPlayer and using (for example) MPC as an external player? I've spend most of the day trying to tweak this setup on my new nettop. But it looks like every time you solve one problem an other pops up. I wouldn't like to go to Linux for several reasons, what would you guys advise me to do to get a (relatively) stable ION media center on Windows that can play HD?