[ezhik]

if i only won't have that trouble i described on my 2-screen setup, i would most likely stay with the gl builds, too. that irremovable black bar on top drives me nuts.

If I read right this black bar is there when playing video and not on the configuration/home pages, so have you tried altering the Video scaling method from the OSD? I ask because if I use Bicubic the video drops down to bottom of the screen and can't be calibrated, Bilinear/Nearest Neighbour restores it to full screen. I'm sure you must have done but thought it worth mentioning.

[ShabbyDog]

Just installed 22951dx version to try it out and here's my impression after a few minutes of tinkering.

Playback is smoother than it has ever been. 24fps, 25fps, 30fps, whatever I throw at it plays seemingly smooth.

Whenever I start a video my Windows taskbar shows over the video for a little while at the start of the video.

On some videos I get black bars on the left and right hand of the screen. After my quick check it seems this happens to videos not using the native width of the display. The display is set up at 1920x1080@60hz and the videos that gives me black bars are 1280 in width. Videos with 1920 width does fill the screen nicely.

Of course if anyone has any ideas on how to fix my little problems I would be real happy.

Well, I went back to a earlier build now when I had problems with the music player in both the dx and gl versions of build 22951 would close XBMC to desktop when skipping songs.

[jochenz]

installed rev 22781-dx of xbmc today
everything seems fine
running Windows 7 x86

I have to get back on my review.

when playing AVI files (XVID) the playback is sometimes choppy and will sometimes for no reason stop, while sound continues normally.

is there any changes in playback of AVI files in newer builds?

[azido]

If I read right this black bar is there when playing video and not on the configuration/home pages, so have you tried altering the Video scaling method from the OSD? I ask because if I use Bicubic the video drops down to bottom of the screen and can't be calibrated, Bilinear/Nearest Neighbour restores it to full screen. I'm sure you must have done but thought it worth mentioning.

no, it appears for the complete gui, too - as soon as i try to use fullscreen instead of windowed xbmc.

according to guisettings.xml it uses a smaller screen dimension for fullscreen that it actually is to render fullscreen, and i cannot overcome this by using xbmcs internal screen calibration setup/overscan methods.

fullscreen fits perfectly on my pc monitor (screen 1) though.

[pinn1]

FYI
So far none of the DX versions will display my 10megpix camera JPG photos (it does display the thumbnails however). It does properly display my older 8megpix camera JPG photos.
Previous GL versions had no problem displaying the 10 meg pixel photos.

[carmenm]

Hi,
As a MP user and complete fan of MPC-HC codecs i was really happy to see XBMC-dx.

I got a version but now i am not even sure it uses directx. I tried Graphstudio to connect to the graph while plyaing without any success. So i am assuming i am still using GL. Is there a special command line argument i need to use? What renderer is used?

Thanks

[jmarshall]

DirectX != DirectShow.

XBMC is not planning to use DirectShow (i.e. external codecs) at all.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[carmenm]

Damn you are right !

[azido]

DirectX != DirectShow.

XBMC is not planning to use DirectShow (i.e. external codecs) at all.

Cheers,
Jonathan

so that means it will still render video using ffmpeg, right?

just the gui will use directx/3d.

[Hitcher]

How do you set the Windowed resolution in these builds?

I've tried editing the guisettings.xml but they overwritten each time I load.

I want to run at 1280x720 but it displays ay 720x480.

[kricker]

How do you set the Windowed resolution in these builds?

I've tried editing the guisettings.xml but they overwritten each time I load.

I want to run at 1280x720 but it displays ay 720x480.

Currently you can't. JMarshall knows about it and is thinking about solutions.

[Livin]

I've been testing using Kricker's builds and so far I'm happy with everything BUT 1 item... so I wanted to see if others are noticing it also...

Slide Show Screen Saver looks horrible when the pic pans/moves? All sorts of jaggies, all over the screen.

Video playback and screen animations are not affected - they look perfect.

Anyone else see this issue?

setup:
C2D E6750, 4GB RAM, XP SP3, Nvidia 9500GT

[beagleboy]

I had an old copy of XP Pro sitting around so I decided to give that a go with my HD4550 card and hey presto this setup works perfectly. Some minor tearing at 1080p on my projector.

PS: Love the new Rapier skin as well and the latest apple trailers look great.

SVN 22943-DX
Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.00GHZ/RAM 2GB
Radeon HD4550 512MB
WindowsXP Pro SP3
External USB SPDIF via receiver 5.1
Media streamed (Synology/Windows Home Server)

Cheers BB

[rootyb]

Trying out 22951 (dx version, obviously). Running pretty well, but it looks like videos' aspect ratios are a little off.

Vids that are 16x9 have black bars on the edges, and I've been noticing some subtle horizontal smooshing of other videos.

Aspect Ratio calibration doesn't seem to have any effect.

http://ownedgear.com/shared/1.jpg (example)
http://ownedgear.com/shared/2.jpg (top-left calibration)
http://ownedgear.com/shared/3.jpg (bottom-right calibration)
http://ownedgear.com/shared/4.jpg (aspect ratio calibration)

Thoughts?


/edit: Just saw that some other people have had this issue. Didn't see an answer, though.

I've tried adjusting the video scaling method via the OSD. Same problem, though.

[naicols1971]

Trying out 22951 (dx version, obviously). Running pretty well, but it looks like videos' aspect ratios are a little off.

Vids that are 16x9 have black bars on the edges, and I've been noticing some subtle horizontal smooshing of other videos.

Aspect Ratio calibration doesn't seem to have any effect.

http://ownedgear.com/shared/1.jpg (example)
http://ownedgear.com/shared/2.jpg (top-left calibration)
http://ownedgear.com/shared/3.jpg (bottom-right calibration)
http://ownedgear.com/shared/4.jpg (aspect ratio calibration)

Thoughts?


/edit: Just saw that some other people have had this issue. Didn't see an answer, though.

I've tried adjusting the video scaling method via the OSD. Same problem, though.

I have the same problem !!