2014-09-24, 20:12
Lately I started downloading 1080HD movies to play with xbmc, sorry kodi but something breaks big time.
Software:
UB desk 14.04 64b
xbmc 12.something, just added the ppa and downloaded the latest ubuntu version (was not working with the official repo version either)
Prefer your latest ppa, more modest GUI, settings are less complicated and more user friendly)
Hardware
I3 530 @2.9ghz
4GB RAM
Went and bought a new nvidia card today (thinking it would solve the problem) got an 610GT
720HD never had issues
1080HD the videos start but after a few seconds or minutes they get laggy. The frame rates drops to 10 or below and cpu-xbmc goes above 100% and never drops back.
While the cpu-xmbc is 100% plus, 3 cup cores show averages 20% to 40% and 1 core is 100%... this 100% moves from core to core but never drops.
Playing the movie with the debug on (the above stats) and navigating to system menu, status, the cup bar averages 50%
The audio is set to analogue 2.0. The Official repo version add a bunch of options that I fiddle with while reading the forum here (VDPAU, etc), This new ppa version removes those settings except for the analogue audio... set to 2.0
After a couple of minutes, the frame rate drops to 0 while the cpu-xbmc continues to rize until the computer just shuts off, not talking about a normal shutdown!
Everything plays fine on vlc... I'm clueless?
Software:
UB desk 14.04 64b
xbmc 12.something, just added the ppa and downloaded the latest ubuntu version (was not working with the official repo version either)
Prefer your latest ppa, more modest GUI, settings are less complicated and more user friendly)
Hardware
I3 530 @2.9ghz
4GB RAM
Went and bought a new nvidia card today (thinking it would solve the problem) got an 610GT
720HD never had issues
1080HD the videos start but after a few seconds or minutes they get laggy. The frame rates drops to 10 or below and cpu-xbmc goes above 100% and never drops back.
While the cpu-xmbc is 100% plus, 3 cup cores show averages 20% to 40% and 1 core is 100%... this 100% moves from core to core but never drops.
Playing the movie with the debug on (the above stats) and navigating to system menu, status, the cup bar averages 50%
The audio is set to analogue 2.0. The Official repo version add a bunch of options that I fiddle with while reading the forum here (VDPAU, etc), This new ppa version removes those settings except for the analogue audio... set to 2.0
After a couple of minutes, the frame rate drops to 0 while the cpu-xbmc continues to rize until the computer just shuts off, not talking about a normal shutdown!
Everything plays fine on vlc... I'm clueless?