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2013-03-22, 14:23
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-22, 14:26 by QQleQ.)
Upgraded to frodo 12.1 on my 2009 Mac mini last week but encountered strange behavior when playing SD video. Whenever there is OSD it will blank out the video completely. It will still play (the audio continues) but there will either be a black image or there is a weird blue image that will get whiter and brighter towards the middle.
I do not have this issue with HD content..
I did not have the issue with 12.0 and I tried both hw acceleration on and off but it would still do it no matter what.
12.1 is also very crashy.. It will crash on me way more than 12.0.
For now I'll just revert back to 12.0 but I hope 12.1 will be fixed so I can use hw accelaration.
Thanks!
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Funny, I'm running a nighlty build from before 12.1, and it used to work fine but is now showing exactly the bug you mention. The only thing I can think of is that some auto update for an addon changed it. It did seem to start happening right after 12.1 came out. I can't get to it right now, but I'll try to get a log file and post it later.
I'm on Mac Mini too, so that is a commonality. There was a bug a while back where the name of the video card was either capitalized or not in the code and that was causing issues for Mini's. I know there was a commit that fixed it at some point, but this bug seems very reminiscent of what I was seeing back then.
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Can you guys give us more details on your hardware? Graphics card, audio equipment/ setup, etc.
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Mac Mini core 2 duo, OSX 10.6.8, HDMI output for video and sound going into a Sony CT150 AV amp. XBMC Nightly build for osx xbmc-20130308-6b319a1-master-x86_64. The Video chipset on this mac is a NVIDIA GeForce 320M.
Audio output from XBMC is set to HDMI, and both bugs (Intermittent Black screen for SD video playback -and- reproducible crash with SD video playback when set for Software rendering) occur with both 2.0 channels and 7.1 channels set in XBMC.
I've tried it in both my standard setup with the AEON Nox skin and all the bells and whistles, and in a separate user account where I delete the XBMC folder from ~/Library/Application Support/ before running. The software rendering crash occurs reproducibly in both cases.
I tried to turn off the auto update on addons when I start XBMC in the separate user account, but it always manages to start updating before I can do it. I can't find a documented advancedsettings.xml command to stop auto updates, so I can't prove it was some updated addon. I'll try turning off my router at some point, but I need to find a time when the disruption to our network will be minimized.
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same on 32bit version of xbmc?
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I just tried xbmc-20130310-8f219c5-master-i386, and it also has the software rendering crash.
Any news on when new nightly builds for OSX will be available?
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OK, I just tried a bunch of different videos, all 480i 4:3. All the 640x480 videos crash with software rendering, but the 704x480 and the 720x480 don't crash. These are all mpeg2 recorded off different local OTA TV stations. Looks like the true 4:3 aspect ratio videos are the ones that have a problem.
The black screen bug is not easily reproducible, but from my memory all the recent occurrences are recorded from the station with the 640x480 video.
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No ETA on new buildbot platform. We are working like 24/7 on it as of my feeling though.
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OK, it's been several weeks now with no black screen bug. It appears that setting the shader to Basic Shaders is a work around. Any other setting does seem to give either the occasional black screen, or a crash if it's set to Software.
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Dude - this analog 7.1 setting is invalid anyways. So of course we stutter like hell then because we are not even able to open the audiodevice with this configuration. Though you might think this is related - it doesn't help a bit in figuring out the 1h2m8s problem sadly.
Could you try a newer nightly please? It is crashing in ffmpeg and we updated the internal ffmpeg version latly.
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