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Ok, so it wasn't the audio delay.. put that back and it's still fine. Was one of the other two then. Now I'm going to bed lol
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Jingai, now that Frodo Beta 1 is out, I want to switch from Plex to XBMC on my Mini Mac 2009 (Nvidia 9400).
This computer will be dedicated to XBMC and I want to make sure that I have the best setup to play HD movies. I was struggling in the past about movies in 24p, audio sync, refresh and all and never had a proper solution.
Is it possible for you to give tell me exactly what it takes to make it work?
Lots of movies I have are 24p HD mkv but I have some tv series not in that format that I still want to watch of course.
Now my MiniMac resolution is at 1080p60 but when I play an HD 24p movie, no drop frames but I can that it's not always fluid (pan scene for example), when I play with the setting to change the resolution for each movie, It's fluid but I have audio delays.
I would like to have a perfect solution without my tv switching resolution all the time. And since the majority of what I watch is in HD 24p, I would like to know if I can do it.
1. What are the settings with SwitchResX?
2. What are the settings in the advancedsettings.xml file?
3. What are the settings in the Video section inside XBMC?
Thank you in advance!
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what brand and type TV are you using. On my panasonic I had to disable all artificial software on the TV to enable 24p mode
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Thank you! I will try that today. For the tv, I have a Samsung Serie 7.
I will report my tests here with those settings later.
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We opted to turn off motion and judder compensation; although these features generally lend a smoother feel to video, we preferred the Samsung Series 7 (PS50C7000)'s output of The Dark Knight and Watchmen with them disabled. As you'd expect, the Samsung Series 7 (PS50C7000) supports 24p Film Mode playback for a proper cinematic frame rate.
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24p is supported on my Panasonic TX-PG420ES , however, motion compensation and smooth playback are by default turned on when in 24p mode.
This causes judder, and when disabling these all is fine
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Hmm it didn't cause judder on mine -- I just didn't like it.
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Hi guys, I recently got a 2012 base-model Mac Mini and I'm trying to decide whether or not to keep it or return it. It has the Intel HD4000 graphics. I was originally intending to install Windows 7 on a partition and use Windows Media Center for PVR purposes and Plex or XBMC for movie playback, but I'm recently thinking of using it as a client, in which case I'd prefer not to have to change the OS if I don't have to. What is the current state of XBMC under Mac OSX with the 2012/HD4000? Can it do "24" fps movie playback smoothly and without the audio getting out of sync? If there are issues, are these issues non-issues if I run under Windows 7?
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mac mini 2012 is restricted to mountain lion (which is full of strange behaviour). I have this setup and it works ok as long as you are not trying to passthrough audio and having the automated refreshrate adaption turned on. Also there is this 1h2min bug reported (which i wasn't able to reproduce yet with my mini).
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I get 23.977Hz (note, not exactly 23.976) playback on my 2011 Mac mini with Intel HD 3000 under MacOSX 10.8. I use SwitchResX to achieve that.
I haven't used a 2012 mini with HD4000, but I suspect it's a similar experience in this regard (24fps playback), because the limitation is with OSX, not (necessarily) the hardware. OSX doesn't store more than 3 decimal places precision in any of the fields, so I couldn't get the refresh rate exact.
I don't use Windows at all, but it (or Linux) may work better (or worse) -- not sure. I don't have Linux installed on any hardware that uses Intel GPUs so I can't really say.
I'd say give it a go under each OS and decide what's acceptable to you. I am living with 23.977Hz because my mini is responsible for other tasks that are OSX-specific (Indigo for home automation). Yes, I can do the home automation stuff under other OSes, but I really like Indigo, so...
All that said, I'm not unhappy with the mini in OSX 10.8. And I'm a pretty picky person.
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Thanks for the replies guys. I can live (for the forseeable future) without lossless audio. Since ripping all of my Blu-rays to .mkv over the last year or more I've intentionally selected only the core 5.1 audio tracks because for a while I was thinking I was going to then convert my movies to .m4v files using Handbrake so as to make everything compatible with the Apple TV 2/3. Smooth playback is a bigger sore point for me, and part of the reason why I've shelved the idea of optimizing anything for the ATV. I may be able to live with not-quite-perfect 23.976; I'll let my eyes be the judge, so I guess I'll need to play back some more samples. I did one very quick test when I first got the Mini home where I installed Plex and hooked it up to my Epson 8350 1080p projector. The projector reported getting a 24Hz signal (whatever that really means) and the short sample looked really smooth to me, so I was pleasantly surprised. My other concern would be around the audio getting out of sync, which I thought I read might have been a problem in the past with the Macs and 24Hz.
Memphiz, just to be clear...if I don't care about lossless audio, and am running under 10.8 (10.8.2 as of this moment), what issues do I need to be concerned about?