[cable_guy]

Hi all,

I had a HP Microserver for Christmas, I tried a 1080p video on XBMC live and it seemed to play perfectly, although both cores were running high, one at 96%, and one at 77%.

VDPAU hardware acceleration was enabled, any ideas why the GPU doesn't appear to be taking the strain please?

[norms]

What is the hardware spec of the microserver ?

[cable_guy]

It's an AMD Turion II processor which contains 2 x 1.5GHz cores. I added 6GB 1333MHz ram and a Zotac Geforce 210 512Mb GPU

[Orclas]

Aye, something must be wrong. When my Atom D510 decodes 1080p, CPU load is around 10-20%, that's it.

[Boppy3125]

I can't help much, but wanted to mention that I have been having issues with older hardware that I wiped and reload Ubuntu from scratch. Now I can't get GPU acceleration working. I am trying to run Dharma due to the need for MythTV support. What version XBMC are you running.

I did come across one step that didn't help me but may help you: apt-get install libvdpau1

Good luck.

[Orclas]

You most likely need to get "under the hood" of XBMC and poke around a bit in the OS for stuff like "drivers properly loaded" etc. If I could I would tell you how to, but I can't.

Also, your question may get better and more suitable attention by being asked in the Offtopic/Hardware subforum. The elegant way is most likely to poke a moderator and ask for the thread to be moved (rather than double posting).

[cable_guy]

I did come across one step that didn't help me but may help you: apt-get install libvdpau1

Good luck.

thanks I'll try that. I find it quite bizarre that my little low power server can run 1080p on it's CPU