[shiggity]

Hi,

I got a ZBox ID82, loaded Windows 7 onto it, and have tried to play some H.264 videos in XBMC 11, which I converted directly from Blu-rays.

Based on observations, I noted the following:

Playing them on XBMC -
* Sometimes, there will be dropped frames here and there
* Sometimes, there will be artifacts manifesting as a horizontal band of color across the screen.

Playing them on Windows Media Player -
* No problems whatsoever.

These problems seem to occur in XBMC whether or not hardware acceleration is on. Any suggestions? Or should I just switch to Windows Media Center?

[shiggity]

My mistake -- it seems that the artifacts are indeed due to enabling acceleration. But without it, a lot of frames get dropped.

[shiggity]

I found http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123159 which addresses this problem