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Just wanted to confirm Alan's comments about the 3.2 kernel. After applying the CEA patch and another patch (which fixes an error in the ELD processing of the git version I have) EDID detection works very well. All modes are detected and it correctly discovers all audio capabilities of my amp, DD, DTS, DTSHDMA, Dolby TrueHD and LPCM.
To add - I compiled with an external version of ffmpeg (the n0.7.6 version used in another topic) and VC-1 vaapi decoding works. It's all a little flakey but I imagine that'll be sorted when a proper update of xbmc's built-in ffmpeg occurs.
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Hello, I've been following this issue on Sandy Bridge for almost a year and I'm ready to give it another try thanks to your work and others.
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Getting some errors in the PPA as follows
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0~git20111122.89fe561-0ubuntu1~ppa1~natty) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0~git20111122.89fe561-0ubuntu1~ppa1~natty.1~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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I'm sure its something simple I've overlooked. Any input?
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2011-11-23, 18:16
Thanks Alan she's up and running. Looking forward to more of your insight as the build evolves. Are you exclusive to Intel? Have you done any builds with the new AMD CPU's with built in graphics? I plan on building a few of these so I'm interested in high performance and reliability.
Thanks Again
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I've not tested the two samples you linked to yet. I did however play through one full movie and another couple partially - all VC-1 encoded (Goonies and Back to the Future and ... another). They both played fine - initial 16 or so frame drop excepted. The third movie can't remember which but playback fits your description of being heavily artifacted. However I stopped and restarted and it was fine for as much as I played.