2012-01-27, 18:29
First, I hope I'm hitting the right forum. I've been running XBMC Live on my Revo 1600 for a long time and it's been great. However, I've always disliked having to have a Roku sitting beside it to watch Hulu & Netflix (I know there's a plugin for Hulu). So, after reading that there was hardware accelerated support in Win7 I thought I'd try to rebuild my Revo with Win7.
1) As expected XBMC worked great. I've not seen any difference in playback compared to ubuntu. I think the interface is a bit slower but I can live with that.
2) Huludesktop works fine. I had to install Flashplayer but after that it works fine.
3) Netflix is terrible. Anything in HD stutters and audio is almost always out of sync. Even SD content ends up out of sync over time. I've tried using the web interface & Windows Media Center. Both have the same playback problems.
So, my question is whether anyone here that is running this configuration has been able to get Netflix to work.
I suspect that either a) Silverlight is just too much for the Revo or b) I need to tweak something with the LE ION video driver, or c) I need to tweak win7 to strip out as much overhead as I can.
BTW, I have 3 gig or RAM in my REVO and I have the video memory set to 512mb.
Any advice anyone can share would be greatly appreciated.
1) As expected XBMC worked great. I've not seen any difference in playback compared to ubuntu. I think the interface is a bit slower but I can live with that.
2) Huludesktop works fine. I had to install Flashplayer but after that it works fine.
3) Netflix is terrible. Anything in HD stutters and audio is almost always out of sync. Even SD content ends up out of sync over time. I've tried using the web interface & Windows Media Center. Both have the same playback problems.
So, my question is whether anyone here that is running this configuration has been able to get Netflix to work.
I suspect that either a) Silverlight is just too much for the Revo or b) I need to tweak something with the LE ION video driver, or c) I need to tweak win7 to strip out as much overhead as I can.
BTW, I have 3 gig or RAM in my REVO and I have the video memory set to 512mb.
Any advice anyone can share would be greatly appreciated.