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I am not sure if CrystalHD DirectShow filter follows the DXVA protocol. I hope not.
There are lots of limitation on DXVA. For Windows XP it is DXVA1 but for Windows Vista/7 it is DXVA2. Both are incompatible. The biggest limit of DXVA2 is that it requires EVR or EVR CP as its renderer.
If CrystalHD DirectShow filter did not follow DXVA1/2 that will be a good choice.
So the CrystalHD filter can be connected on to any renderers. In logic any hardware acceleration in decoder should not related to render except the output frame.
Where is the source of CrystalHD DirectShow filter?
BTW There is a Coprocessor device after my installation of BCM100012, is there any driver for it? If CrystallHD card worked as a Coporcessor we may be able to use it for other acceleration such as color space conversation.
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only the dsplayer branch uses directshow. trunk is clean.
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Has anyone else experienced stuttering (slow then fast then slow etc) playback on MKV's using the Broadcom Crystal HD?
I'm using a DX build a few days old but had same on GL builds.
The video will be playing fine then the Video will slow down and lose audio sync, then speed up and pass the audio sync, then slow again etc etc
This carryies on and won't recover unless I stop the video and restart it. Pause won't fix it either.
Anyone else had this?
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2010-03-18, 02:08
(This post was last modified: 2010-03-18, 02:18 by Sno Crash.)
Given the data loss on the forums, is it possible to do a quick roundup on where the Broadcom support stands?
(1) I have been using 28183-GL for some time now. This build is pretty good and I only have minor issues with it. Are there builds beyond this release for GL that I should be using that address playback / performance?
(2) If there are releases, where do we get these? The nightly mirrors don't seem to have the Broadcom support built in. I used to get an Ikon build, but that site no longer works either. I recall seeing that GL support was getting dropped.
(3) Is the Broadcom GL under Windows being dropped for DX\DSplayer support instead? I have a non-Broadcom machine running DX/Dsplayer and it is wonderful, but I thought the Broadcom was not DX-compatible?
(4) Does it make sense to avoid the nightlies on this until a final release comes out?
Thanks everyone, glad we are back up and running again!!
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Hi all, I am a bit stuck and would appreciate some pointers. Windows XP Pro, Pentium D 3.0GHz, Broadcom card, a LOT of different XBMC builds with no success. Latest broadcom drivers.
Pretty much all my vids are .MKV files if that makes a difference.
Leaving the broadcom card out of it, the machine is borderline and plays a fair bit of 1080 content without problems, and plays lower quality stuff easily. I have a couple of video files that will not play (but they play fine on my other PC, popcorn hour, etc).
With the broadcom card installed, I get perfect playback using the ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 player and much lower CPU usage so I am reasonably confident that the hardware side of things is okay.
Basically I have installed many different builds of XBMC, both GL and DX inlcluding Ikons' and Kricker's, and get far worse performance with Broadcom CrystalHD selected than without it. It won't even play SD video smoothly with the card enabled and can manage this easily with the card absent.
I've done a lot of reading on the forum and I sincerely apologise if I have missed something obvious, but I have run out of ideas.
Other than installing XBMC, selecting the broadcom card for video rendering/playback, and ensuring I have the latest broadcom drivers, what else should I be doing that I've missed?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Cheers,
Jason
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2010-03-30, 10:25
(This post was last modified: 2010-03-30, 10:44 by mudstuff.)
I'm also interested to know how development is going. I have a Revo 3610 with win7 64bit, 4GB RAM. All videos up to 1080p rips play fine but lossless 1:1 rips from bluray can't play smoothly at all, even with DXVA (they play fine with TMT3 and other MP software). I've just tried Live from USB and video is smooth but now I'm having issues with audio whereas I had no problems at all getting LPCM to my amp under win7. I can likely resolve these issues but I much prefer running this in Win7 environment as I also like to use the Revo to surf, use utorrent etc.
Therefore, if the Crystal HD allows smooth 1080p playback on lossless files (as well as on scene rips), I'll pick one up.
I appreciate the effort going in to developing this and that there will be some issues but is it mostly stable and worthwhile investing in?
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Hello,
I have read every post in this thread and cannot get the Crystal HD decode option to show up.
I am wondering if it's a driver issue? The latest drivers released on Broadcoms site are 3.3.0 and were just recently released. I would like to try older drivers, but could not find them on their site.
I am running Windows XP 32-bit home edition and xbmc-r28256-trunk.
I also have tried other builds (DirectX and GL) with no luck. My Crystal HD does show up in Device Manager as working (listed as "Broadcom CrystalHD Video Decoder)
The only rendor options I have at "System -> Video -> Playback" are Auto detect and Standard. With GL versions I had more options, but none were Broadcom.
I see early on you had to move broadcom dll files around to get it to work, but it doesn't look like you need to do that now.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Maybe a long shot but have you installed the Broadcom app as well?
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Well, maybe that is not it, I rebooted my computer, launched the app, started XBMC and once again it is not selectable.
There is no diagtool.exe included with the latest drivers, curious what that would say.