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No one else is seeing this?
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Can you make a bug report on Trac for this using what you described first post? Just make a new debug log using the latest nightly build.
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Same here too. Moved from Eden to Frodo over the holiday and started watching a movie last night. Turning Hardware decoding off causes playback to be fine.
Glad it wasn't just me!
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Will file a bug report tomorrow night after the in-laws leave.
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Attached a log spanning 30 mins of playback.
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Not sure why the dropped frames aren't reported in the log, but the codec info overlay ('o' key) does show them.
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2013-01-08, 00:15
(This post was last modified: 2013-01-08, 00:19 by MageX.)
Are the dropped frames obvious while watching, or is it just the count that increases?
Edit: On my optical link, a 1080p using passthrough DTS on my optical link, no drops. However, switched to a 720p file that uses WMAHD, I see the drop count on the overlay, but nothing was visibly dropped/skipped.
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Hmm, setting the Render method to Software solves the issue (leaving VDADecoder enabled). Well, mostly anyway. There are a couple of frame drops here and there, but not the once/second I got when it was set to Auto Detect.
Both of the shader methods cause the issue when used in conjunction with hardware acceleration. Either disabling HW acceleration *or* setting the render method to software solves the problem (mostly).
The only way I get no frame drops at all is by setting the render method to Software and disabling hardware acceleration. This obviously gets the CPU going though.
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I was just wondering, whether this was "fixed"... ? I started using Frodo RC3 yesterday (MacMini 2012, i5 base-model, ML 10.8.2) and must say, playback seems quite buggy to me... dropped frames (at least I think thats what it is) and actually a slow down after 1h and 24 minutes (restarting the movie (with return where left off) the movie solved this)...
I also must say, it seems as if Frodo would starts up slower (I use an SSD so its not really sloooower but just.. you know... maybe a split second ;-) ) than Eden...
No debug log just yet, as I am at work (obviously not working ;-) ) and just wanted to see whether I am the only one with this problem / perception...
cheers