2012-06-18, 23:11
I have this old (2009) MacMini (still using an Intel chipset) with MacOS 10.7.x. I am able to play 720p h264 videos in it without problems.
Recently I tried to play a 1080p movie and it was stuttering a lot in high action scenes. At first I attributed that to "the machine can not handle it" but, jsut for the sake of it, I tried to play the same video under Plex and VLC on the same machine. In both cases the movie played fine as far as I can tell.
Is there any specific reason for XBMC being slower than than either Plex or VLC (as I underdstand it, they all end up using the same decoders, right?). Is there any hidden settings that could help improving performance in this case?
Thanks in advance.
Recently I tried to play a 1080p movie and it was stuttering a lot in high action scenes. At first I attributed that to "the machine can not handle it" but, jsut for the sake of it, I tried to play the same video under Plex and VLC on the same machine. In both cases the movie played fine as far as I can tell.
Is there any specific reason for XBMC being slower than than either Plex or VLC (as I underdstand it, they all end up using the same decoders, right?). Is there any hidden settings that could help improving performance in this case?
Thanks in advance.
