2009-08-08, 18:35
I've tried running xbmc on my Mac and I am getting choppy video during faster paced scenes. Lines will show up where info is missing the video gets thrown off. I think it has to be xbmc.
I am running an early 2008 Mac Pro quad 2.8GHz with stock 2GB RAM and the 8800GT. It's a .m4v file, 843x480, h.264, 1500kbps average video with 128kbps audio. I played the same exact scene through Front Row, Quicktime, and VLC and there was no issue at all. No choppiness, no pixelation, looks perfect as it alway has. I've never had choppy playback with this computer, even with HD stuff. I ran XBMC with MenuMeters going. Even with a bunch of apps running in the background, I am still at 1200MB free of RAM and am running max 14% at any one of the CPU cores.
I don't see many video settings I could have mucked with to throw something off. Audio is set to analog. Render method for video is auto detect. Adjust refresh rate is off, software scaling is off.
Thoughts/ suggestions?
I am running an early 2008 Mac Pro quad 2.8GHz with stock 2GB RAM and the 8800GT. It's a .m4v file, 843x480, h.264, 1500kbps average video with 128kbps audio. I played the same exact scene through Front Row, Quicktime, and VLC and there was no issue at all. No choppiness, no pixelation, looks perfect as it alway has. I've never had choppy playback with this computer, even with HD stuff. I ran XBMC with MenuMeters going. Even with a bunch of apps running in the background, I am still at 1200MB free of RAM and am running max 14% at any one of the CPU cores.
I don't see many video settings I could have mucked with to throw something off. Audio is set to analog. Render method for video is auto detect. Adjust refresh rate is off, software scaling is off.
Thoughts/ suggestions?