2009-07-13, 01:24
Ok, So first I'd like to say thanks to all who have been part of the XBMC port for PPC machines. I had been using Miro as HTPC app ( which is not what it is built for), and on my QS PPC 933 with 1.5gb of ram, and Radeon 9200 Mac Edition Video Card, it is pretty solid as far as playback goes, handling playback of anything that Quicktime can playback, (thanks to Perian and Flip4Mac installed in the QT Libraries), but management of assets is
troublesome to say the least.
So when I read that a PPC build of XBMC had finally been released I went and downloaded it to give it a try.
The first build I downloaded, the 9.0.4ppc.dmg, I installed on my QS and rebooted. Upon first launch of it, XBMC is sluggish, and hard to navigate the mouse through the menus.
So I quit it and ran Disc Utilty, and relaunched it, no go.
I then trashed it and pulled down the 9.0.4-1ppc.dmg, and installed that.
Success! Navigation is now snappier, and I can actually navigate
without it feeling like the mouse is three steps behind what I want to do.
I then tested playback of my media. I have all my media on an internal
500GB HD ( the boot and XBMC reside on a separate internal 80GB HD).
Playback of XVID and MP4 media is choppy, stuttering where it looks like
a badly dubbed chinese movie. The same files playback in Miro fine.
So my question is:
What if anything needs to be installed to make the playback smooth?
I'm guessing that XBMC is using something different that Quicktime
to decode and playback the videos, which if fine. I've been reading a bit
on the forums about plugins for XBMC, but I haven't found anything
regarding my situation. Is it perhaps a setting I haven't found
in XBMC that could be the problem?
TIA for all responses!
troublesome to say the least.
So when I read that a PPC build of XBMC had finally been released I went and downloaded it to give it a try.
The first build I downloaded, the 9.0.4ppc.dmg, I installed on my QS and rebooted. Upon first launch of it, XBMC is sluggish, and hard to navigate the mouse through the menus.
So I quit it and ran Disc Utilty, and relaunched it, no go.
I then trashed it and pulled down the 9.0.4-1ppc.dmg, and installed that.
Success! Navigation is now snappier, and I can actually navigate
without it feeling like the mouse is three steps behind what I want to do.
I then tested playback of my media. I have all my media on an internal
500GB HD ( the boot and XBMC reside on a separate internal 80GB HD).
Playback of XVID and MP4 media is choppy, stuttering where it looks like
a badly dubbed chinese movie. The same files playback in Miro fine.
So my question is:
What if anything needs to be installed to make the playback smooth?
I'm guessing that XBMC is using something different that Quicktime
to decode and playback the videos, which if fine. I've been reading a bit
on the forums about plugins for XBMC, but I haven't found anything
regarding my situation. Is it perhaps a setting I haven't found
in XBMC that could be the problem?
TIA for all responses!