[VMCosco]

I have tried the wiki and tried sifting through all of the posts on here but have not found what I am looking for.

I am not really having any major problems. I primary stream media that is stored on my LAN via a wired connection. I have my AFTV connected to my receiver via HDMI. My receiver is DTS capable.

I am looking for "best practice" for the Video Settings (Playback and Acceleration), Video Output and Audio Output. I feel like I just don't have enough technical knowledge to optimize these settings.

Let me know if there is additional information needed to determine my optimal settings.

Thanks.

[Ned Scott]

There's really nothing to optimize. Especially not on Android. Most of the options are for when the defaults don't work, so if everything works then I wouldn't worry about it.

[VMCosco]

Thanks. About the only thing I have noticed is the audio and video getting out of sync during some 720p content. Anything to optimize for that.

[merschdawg06]

I know I had issues with MPEG-2 and other file types where I had to switch between libstagefright and MediaCodec when playing MPEG-2 and non-MPEG-2 files. I followed the below link's suggestion and added that logic to the advancedsettings.xml file and that fixed my issues.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1781829

[ChipsAhoy]

I ultimately found that switching to SPMC, turning off hardware acceleration, allowing multicore software, and increasing the buffer was the best combination for me.

I have a large variety of video formats, and every other solution I tried (including the one above) only worked for some files, but not for others. It was very hard to troubleshoot, because everything would play fine for a few hours, and then stutter, stutter, freeze.

This is the the buffer combination that works for me. I'm running on a wireless network, and of course, YMMV:

Code:

<network>
    <buffermode>1</buffermode>
    <cachemembuffersize>104857600</cachemembuffersize><!-- Comment: Default is 20971520 bytes or 20 MB -->
    <readbufferfactor>5</readbufferfactor>
  </network>

Almost 2 weeks now with no freezes, buffering or stuttering, even with 1080p sources.

I also modified my keymap, since I use a Harmony Smart Control remote and wanted to my buttons to work a little differently. This lets me reboot the FTV from the home XBMC menu, scroll lists using the channel selector buttons, and stop a video by pressing the back button, all of which I find very useful.

Code:

<keymap>
  <Global>
    <keyboard>
      <up>Up</up>
      <down>Down</down>
      <left>Left</left>
      <right>Right</right>
      <enter>Select</enter>
      <menu>ContextMenu</menu>
      <play_pause>Play</play_pause>
      <backspace>Back</backspace>
      <rewind>PageUp</rewind>
      <fastforward>PageDown</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </Global>
  <Home>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>XBMC.Powerdown</menu>
    </keyboard>
  </Home>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <up>ChapterOrBigStepForward</up>
      <down>ChapterOrBigStepBack</down>
      <left>StepBack</left>
      <right>StepForward</right>
      <return>OSD</return>
      <menu>ShowSubtitles</menu>
      <play_pause>Play</play_pause>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
      <rewind>Rewind</rewind>
      <fastforward>FastForward</fastforward>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
  <VideoMenu>
    <keyboard>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </VideoMenu>
</keymap>