2009-10-27, 23:39
Hello All,
Since last week I have got XBMC running on ASROCK ION 330. Sine I'm new user of the system I obviously like many others have got some issues that I would like to resolve. I'm running UBUNTU 9.04 + latest SVN (I tried the stable one but I did not really improve the situation) + VDPAU drivers (1.85 or 1.90 ).
So the issue .. jerky video does not matter what is on the screen simple DVD or HD/MKV. The performance during the play shows high CPU utilization (top shows 100-115%) constantly. I have poked around and found that the issue can be resolved by changing during play "Video Settings" - > "Scaling method" from Nearest Neighbor (which seems to be the default one) to Bilinear" (would be great to know what is the difference). Anyways this change brings down CPU utilization down to ~60% and frame drops are gone. Well most of you would say "good,save the config and enjoy" but now is the tricky part - "Set as default for all movies" just does not work .. it does not store this config .. and any time when I try to play another movie I must go trough this procedure again, and again... So .. is it a bug or a feature?
Is there a config file that I may change manually to set this option to be a default one? Please advice ...
Regards
K.
P.S. I saw some posts about high CPU utilization during idle of XBMC .. so I have noticed the same CPU has ~70% utilization by doing nothing ... or I assume nothing .. there are not auto library updates enabled ... nothing .. but it is always somewghere between 70-100% ... Stable release has the same ... so does anybody know what is this?
Since last week I have got XBMC running on ASROCK ION 330. Sine I'm new user of the system I obviously like many others have got some issues that I would like to resolve. I'm running UBUNTU 9.04 + latest SVN (I tried the stable one but I did not really improve the situation) + VDPAU drivers (1.85 or 1.90 ).
So the issue .. jerky video does not matter what is on the screen simple DVD or HD/MKV. The performance during the play shows high CPU utilization (top shows 100-115%) constantly. I have poked around and found that the issue can be resolved by changing during play "Video Settings" - > "Scaling method" from Nearest Neighbor (which seems to be the default one) to Bilinear" (would be great to know what is the difference). Anyways this change brings down CPU utilization down to ~60% and frame drops are gone. Well most of you would say "good,save the config and enjoy" but now is the tricky part - "Set as default for all movies" just does not work .. it does not store this config .. and any time when I try to play another movie I must go trough this procedure again, and again... So .. is it a bug or a feature?
Is there a config file that I may change manually to set this option to be a default one? Please advice ...
Regards
K.
P.S. I saw some posts about high CPU utilization during idle of XBMC .. so I have noticed the same CPU has ~70% utilization by doing nothing ... or I assume nothing .. there are not auto library updates enabled ... nothing .. but it is always somewghere between 70-100% ... Stable release has the same ... so does anybody know what is this?