[Duolos]

Having issues with xbmc playback of 1080p movies (SD videos work okay). The playback is entirely unstable and causes xbmc to freeze regularly.

The log file indicates a LOT of "resource temporarily unavailable" errors for my audio device but I've tried different outputs (I only have two to choose from).

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5838632/

[FernetMenta]

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio*

[Duolos]

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio*

Thanks for your reply!

That solved the error messages and the system freezing up. Now the playback is still pretty choppy but not nearly like it was before. I know I didn't have any issues whatsoever when I was running Ubuntu but I also didn't use the nVidia drivers with that. Could the drivers be the issue?

EDIT: I did just try it with the x.org driver instead and it's identical to the nVidia 313 and 310 drivers. I also forgot to mention in my original post that I'm running LinuxMint 15-Cinnamon.

[Duolos]

Without PulseAudio, though, I now have very little audio control. Have a suggestion of what I should replace it with? I need some sort of sound management on here.

[fritsch]

Cinnamon uses compiz or some other compositing stuff, which really sucks. Best is logout and start the normal xbmc session. Btw. to fully remove pulse audio also do:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libasound2-plugins

Reason: PA support in xbmc is very limited and using an ALSA build and trippler wrap to PA is even worse.

A terminal + alsamixer :-) is your friend

[negge]

Without PulseAudio, though, I now have very little audio control. Have a suggestion of what I should replace it with? I need some sort of sound management on here.

What exactly do you mean?