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I just logged in to say thanks "bluray"!
I'll remember to do this when I get my ID82. It's replacing my Revo3610 in the kitchen. We use Windows7 because it's also used as a general surfer, Skype, and my wife needs IE for mlxchange, she's a realtor.
Question: my Revo3610 has lag when navigating through xbmc and general surfing on any browser within W7 (at one time I had an SSD and clean install of W7, no bloatware, nothing installed and the browsing was the same); is the navigation/surfing quick and fluid on an ID82?
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2012-09-15, 17:22
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-15, 17:23 by Ancaster.)
^^ Thx so much for replying.
My buddy runs a Mac mini as his htpc and his browsing/XBMC navigation is lightning fast, whereas on my Revo3610 there is an annoying momentary lag.
I do not experience this lag with with my 2012 MBA or the PC I built, both with better specs than the Revo of course.
dmacpher, do you have another reference PC/Mac at home to compare to?
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@dmacpher: I am curious which audio drivers you use, because i have the same problems which you had.
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@dmacpher: I too have problems with playing Bluray ISO files on my Zotac ID82 (W7-64b, 8Gb Memory). It plays very slowly and stutter. I wonder how exactly is your configuration and setup in your PC and XBMC.
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I'm pretty sure I know what the stuttering, choppy playback issue is for you. It's that AVC garbage. AVC and AAC in combination are horrid and have only come about because people in the PS3 and XBOX360 scenes love that crapola. I had the exact same issues you were reporting with every one of these files until I started reencoding them myself using Mp42Mkvac3 which is awesome. It'll convert all that AVC and AAC garbage to .mkv and AC3 dolby digital audio. Works flawlessly and no more stuttering or choppy playback on my Zotac Mag.
Just to check, you do have the video acceleration enabled in XBMC, correct? There's a specific video setting that must be enable for Zotac Mags with the Ion setup. I didn't know what it was and all my 1080p stuff was horrid until my friend mentioned I should check and see if it was enabled. Once I did that I was gold.
Avoid XBMC Windows version 12.3, it's horrid. 12.2 was super smooth without any issues and 12.3 just completely messes up the audio formats. Nothing but problems with 12.3 so far. Going back to 12.2 ASAP.
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(2014-01-24, 04:36)jrio69 Wrote: I'm pretty sure I know what the stuttering, choppy playback issue is for you. It's that AVC garbage. AVC and AAC in combination are horrid and have only come about because people in the PS3 and XBOX360 scenes love that crapola. I had the exact same issues you were reporting with every one of these files until I started reencoding them myself using Mp42Mkvac3 which is awesome. It'll convert all that AVC and AAC garbage to .mkv and AC3 dolby digital audio. Works flawlessly and no more stuttering or choppy playback on my Zotac Mag.
Just to check, you do have the video acceleration enabled in XBMC, correct? There's a specific video setting that must be enable for Zotac Mags with the Ion setup. I didn't know what it was and all my 1080p stuff was horrid until my friend mentioned I should check and see if it was enabled. Once I did that I was gold.
Avoid XBMC Windows version 12.3, it's horrid. 12.2 was super smooth without any issues and 12.3 just completely messes up the audio formats. Nothing but problems with 12.3 so far. Going back to 12.2 ASAP.
AVC? Are you talking about H.264? That's the standard video codec that just about everyone uses. Protip, "MKV" isn't a codec. Same with AAC. I don't think I've ever found any XBMC box that couldn't play H.264 video with AAC audio.
Anyway, to everyone else, don't listen to this guy about XBMC v12.3. He obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Make sure you tell the multitudes on the forum complaining about 12.3 as well.
Just fyi genius? AVC is not MKV. It's a different wrapper for MP4 encodes. All the AVC + AAC encodes came about because all the kids wanted MP4 compatibility for their 360's and PS3's. Anyone who has a home theater and knows anything at all about codecs and encoding knows that MKV is king. Move along and troll someone else.
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(2014-01-25, 02:41)jrio69 Wrote: Make sure you tell the multitudes on the forum complaining about 12.3 as well.
Just fyi genius? AVC is not MKV. It's a different wrapper for MP4 encodes. All the AVC + AAC encodes came about because all the kids wanted MP4 compatibility for their 360's and PS3's. Anyone who has a home theater and knows anything at all about codecs and encoding knows that MKV is king. Move along and troll someone else.
This has to be a troll.
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2014-01-26, 04:03
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-26, 04:03 by Ned Scott.)
It's hard to say. Sometimes people really believe stuff like that to be true :\
Won't someone think of the children!?
