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I just upgraded my HTPC with a new motherboard and an Intel Core i3 2105. With my new found power (upgraded from an Atom 330) I figured I would give XBMC another go. I love it! It's fantastic! Except for one thing. I turned on hardware acceleration thinking it would improve playback of HD content, but it only makes my HD TV shows choppy. Turn it off and all is well. Any ideas? It's using the GPU built into the processor which is listed as an Intel HD Graphics 3000.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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So far I know DXVA doesnt improve anything. It just make your CPU usage less when you watch movies. But in your case if your CPU can handle it, there is mainly no reason to have it activated. Might be cause your CPU is stronger then your GPU?
I have the same case, so i deactivated DXVA and since CPU usage never gets above 25% when i watch movies and runs smoother, im happy with that
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Interesting points. I'll give the nightlies a go and see if that helps. I'm not sure if the video files are VC-1 or not. They're Matrovski containers and I believe they should be X.264 or H.264. They're TV episodes downloaded by SickBeard on my fileserver.
I have definitely made a full switch to XBMC, regardless of the hardware acceleration problem. The wife far prefers the layout, the Hulu add-on and XBMC Flicks over using MediaCenter, Hulu Desktop and the WMC Netflix app. She's the hard one to convince (and not techy at all despite my attempts to teach her) so if she's happy, everyone is happy.
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Can you check in Settings > System and look at the Display Mode, what is this set to?
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I'll have to check when I get home, I'm not sure off the top of my head.
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OK try deselecting "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen"
This worked for me a while back when I uninstalled the nightlies and went back to Dharma for stability as the WAF was slowly declining..
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Ahh, that option, yeah that's already disabled. It's a dedicated HTPC so I had no need to run it in a windowed mode.
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I'm in the same boat with an I3 myself and wanted to try the pre-Eden nightlies. Is there a way to do this without uninstalling 10.1? I'd like to be able to go back to 10.1 if it doesn't work out.