Differences between video players: Xbox vs. Windows

zeuss-axis · 2008-06-04 17:42

sticky Wrote:there's persistent (slight) tearing in the linux version (for me).

Help me out a bit-- what is 'tearing'? Is it the presense of short horizontal lines (~1" wide) randomly appearing in the playback? If so, I'm experiencing the same with my setup from within XBMC.

roeroe · 2008-06-06 01:39

zeuss-axis Wrote:I'm curious what the difference is between the video player used in the Windows build and the Xbox build. I've recently migrated from an Xbox to a Windows HTPC, and the video quality on the Windows version is subpar.

Initially, I thought it might be the video card on the Windows box, but when I play the same video in VLC on the Windows box, I get much better results than from within XBMC. Both results are worse than on the Xbox, and I'm working on Catalyst settings to fix that...thoughts?

Running:
XBMC rev 13239
Windows XP SP3
Catalyst 8.5
AMD 780G chipset
3200HD integrated video

Test it last night cant see much of a difference in my setup playing back Xbox and Windows version.

zeuss-axis · 2008-06-06 21:47

roeroe Wrote:Test it last night cant see much of a difference in my setup playing back Xbox and Windows version.

What's the size of the video you're testing with, and what aspect ratio are you set to? Ar eyou using upscaling at all? ATI or NVidia graphics?

I haven't had a chance to play with this at all yet...thanks to everybody for testing!

zeuss-axis Senior Member Posts: 143 Joined: Apr 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Dallas	2008-06-04 17:42 Post: #11 sticky Wrote:there's persistent (slight) tearing in the linux version (for me). Help me out a bit-- what is 'tearing'? Is it the presense of short horizontal lines (~1" wide) randomly appearing in the playback? If so, I'm experiencing the same with my setup from within XBMC.
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zeuss-axis Senior Member Posts: 143 Joined: Apr 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Dallas	2008-06-06 21:47 Post: #13 roeroe Wrote:Test it last night cant see much of a difference in my setup playing back Xbox and Windows version. What's the size of the video you're testing with, and what aspect ratio are you set to? Ar eyou using upscaling at all? ATI or NVidia graphics? I haven't had a chance to play with this at all yet...thanks to everybody for testing!
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