[miniskipper]

Hello everybody,

I'm using XBMC for one week now and everythings working, so far. I set up everything. Even the remote is working.
But on thing makes me crazy: When playing a movie, the cpu-load stays quite low (something between 30 and 40% of one core at 825MHz whilst playing a 480p movie). In the moment I pause the movie, one core jumps up to 100% and stays there. When resuming the video the load returns to the normal value.
I can see the same behavior if there a text on screen, that scrolls (e.g. a long album-name). Whenever theres something like that, i get 100% cpu load.

It doesn't mater if its a HD-movie or a simple MPEG2.

Here is the system:
Zotac ZBox AD04
AMD E450 with Radeon HD6320
2GB of Ram
fglrx driver
vsync activated
Arch Linux w/o WM/DM, boots straight into xbmc
i have activated dirty regions in advancedsettings.xml


This seems to be a known problem, but I have only found threads and bugreports from 2008 o0

Hopefully there is somebody who can help



Greetings
Skipper

[simonk83]

Bump.

[FernetMenta]

I may have fixed this in a testing branch. Check out this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996
wsnipex provides packages for Ubuntu. There's a package for Arch as well but it is not up-to-date any may not contain the fix:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55296

[.:B:.]

Are you using any of my AUR packages for Xbmc? I will see about updating the git package, it is based on your stable Eden branch, not on the master branch.

Haven't had CPU spikes that I know of with the xbmc-xvba package.

[FernetMenta]

Sorry, don't know what you mean with AUR packages. wsnipex, any idea?

There have been reports on high cpu load. I was not able to reproduce this on my test systems. Recently we had a state on XvBA development where this problem more obviously showed. (It was less obvious to me than to wsnipex who notified me about this issue). This is fixed now but not 100% sure whether it was the same issue as reported by others.

[wsnipex]

AUR is the Arch user repository, where user provided arch packages are hosted.
.:B:. has xvba packaged there