Macroblocking with new sandy bridge build, dxva2 enabled. - Printable Version +- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv) +-- Forum: Discussions (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=222) +--- Forum: Hardware (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=112) +--- Thread: Macroblocking with new sandy bridge build, dxva2 enabled. (/showthread.php?tid=98037) |
- wsume99 - 2011-09-13 Cfishy Wrote:I'm still holding out hope that there will be a software solution for our issues.The issue is related to the hardware capability of the iGPU in the intel SB CPUs (24.000 fps vs 23.976 fps) and I don't think that any software is going to correct that. Now that h/w acceleration appears to be working with the nightlies you have three options:
- Mallet21 - 2011-09-13 Sounds like we've gotten off topic with the 24p talk......Has the macroblocking issue been resolved with the most recent nightly builds?? - wsume99 - 2011-09-13 In my post I said, "Now that h/w acceleration appears to be working with the nightlies..." If you recall, the macroblocking issue was a result of enabling h/w acceleration. I have not confirmed this myself but several users have posted in this thread that using the nightly build instead of the lastest stable release (Dharma) results in proper h/w acceleration hence no macroblocking. So now because it appears that the macroblocking issue is gone we can get back to complaining about the 24p issue. - Cfishy - 2011-09-14 len45 Wrote:ok I spoke too soon. I am actually seeing the playback get choppy and frames dropped even with HW acceleration turned off. Seems like the i3 without HW acceleration can't decode all that smoothly in highly complex/high bitrate scenes. The way I gauged this is the "o" on-screen display in XBMC using a clip with fast moving CGI (the DTS trailer below). There's a point where the bitrate gets high and the "o" screen shows a "dropped" count that ticks up. And the screen framerate looks a bit jerky for a second there. I'll test it out tonight. If HW acceleration is indeed fixed I think I can live with teh 24 frames a second... - XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-09-14 Spyhop Wrote:It's also a lot more money, has a fan on it, uses more power, and unavailable in low profile. I was mistaken, I've the Sapphire Radeon HD6570 1GB (not the HD6750).. I was afraid of fan-noise myself, but the CPU fan spins faster when I pull the card out, so in reality my HTPC makes less noise when the card is in. - uncola - 2011-09-16 huzzah, this is working now. I just installed hte newest nightly for windows and the newest intel hd drivers from september and enabled dxva in xbmc and it works awesomely. when I hit o in xbmc while playing something it says it's using ffmpeg-h264-dxva. I have an intel core i3 2100 with hd graphics 2000 in win 7 64 bit - portokala123 - 2011-09-17 wsume99 Wrote:The issue is related to the hardware capability of the iGPU in the intel SB CPUs (24.000 fps vs 23.976 fps) and I don't think that any software is going to correct that. Now that h/w acceleration appears to be working with the nightlies you have three options: Did you try to disable windows 7 UAC? It resolve 23.976 problem. - saitrix - 2011-09-18 So what is the situation with Sandy Bridge and XBMC? Is it working all fine just with the 24p issue? I am trying to decide what htpc to buy but I keep changing my mind between sandy bridge and the zotac nd22. Plus does it matter whether it is linux or windows? - XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-09-19 saitrix Wrote:So what is the situation with Sandy Bridge and XBMC? Is it working all fine just with the 24p issue? I am trying to decide what htpc to buy but I keep changing my mind between sandy bridge and the zotac nd22. Plus does it matter whether it is linux or windows? I've a Sandy Bridge and a Zotac ND22. If I were you I'd go for the Zotac. Love that machine. A lot less hassle than the Sandy Bridge. - saitrix - 2011-09-19 Do you use sab and sickbeard on the nd22? I am just worrying that the nd22 wont handle playing video at the same time. How do you find library browsing speed between the 2? If I'm honest I would go for the seperates version of the nd22 to allow quieter operation. - XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-09-19 saitrix Wrote:Do you use sab and sickbeard on the nd22? I am just worrying that the nd22 wont handle playing video at the same time. How do you find library browsing speed between the 2? If I'm honest I would go for the seperates version of the nd22 to allow quieter operation. I don't use sab and sickbeard on my ND22 (have a separate PC for that). So, I basically use the HTPC's only as player now. I don't notice any difference in library browsing speed, using the default skin. However, using the heavy 'Aeon MQ 2' skin the Sandy Bridge is a lot faster. But in retrospect. I think I'd rather had bought another ND22, than the Sandy Bridge. - rbrohman - 2011-09-19 I had a LOT of trouble on a recent sandy bridge build for xbmc live. See this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=108860 Havent been able to solve those problems yet. Not saying that this is entirely indicative of the state of things, but from what ive been reading, there are a bunch of people with issues. If youre planning on going with windows though, it all works 100% apparently. I couldnt find an ND22 in my area and i needed another htpc built right away, so i ended up going for another sandy bridge (one of eskro's builds), but this time with a G620 cpu instead of a core i3. The only problem i had was getting the suspend/resume going. But i managed to solve it by installing xbmclive dharma on top of ubuntu 11.04. Now everything seems to be in working order. Details here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=110357 - tboooe - 2011-09-19 saitrix Wrote:Do you use sab and sickbeard on the nd22? I am just worrying that the nd22 wont handle playing video at the same time. How do you find library browsing speed between the 2? If I'm honest I would go for the seperates version of the nd22 to allow quieter operation. I have the nd22 running SAB and Sickbeard. The only time I have noticed an issue is when SAB unpacks the video. Of course this is a very processor intensive activity which causes browsing XBMC to slow down and stutter sometimes. I havent noticed any issues when watching a video however. You could always schedule SAB to only process files during the late evening. As another poster said, an I3/I5/I7 build browse quicker than the ND22 especially with large libraries. For example, it take between 3-7 seconds for the ND22 to access my 30K song music library. So what would I do?? I would build wait for Ivy Bridge and build an I3 HTPC. Actually, this is exactly what I am doing. You can never have too much processing power. - saitrix - 2011-09-20 Is there any word on proper 24p support with Ivy Bridge? - XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-09-20 Just wanted to mention that the stutter problem I was talking about lately on this thread got fixed: Click here Now, I'm happy again with my XBMC HPTC.. I'm still using my Radeon HD6570, and I probably will keep using it (the CPU fan makes less noise with the GPU card in it).. |