[WINDOWS] Broadcom Crystal HD integration support in XBMC for Windows?

How many of you guys are checking the Broadcom site like every hour to see if there's new drivers? I know I am!

bluevolume Wrote:How many of you guys are checking the Broadcom site like every hour to see if there's new drivers? I know I am!

Often enough . . . >_>'

zinjashike Wrote:I guess the big question here is if it's just the 532H that's having the problem or not.

Ill let you guys know in a few days when I get my ASUS 1005PR. Just curious to see how the netbooks CPU will handle XBMC's menu, with the constant updates and all. Then again my dual core Atom 330 gets about 35-50% usage in the menu so I dont think the single core will differ to far from that just for a screen refresh. I just cant wait until this years GSOC when that all gets (hopefully) revised.

zinjashike Wrote:EDIT:

Flash is still choppy for me . . . AustinPowersISU, which browser and which RC are you using with Flash, and do you have to open them in a particular order to get it to work?

Sorry for the delay here, I only check this thread once a week or so now that things 'work' as long as Total Media is open.

Flash is somewhat choppy for me as well, but way better than with no Crystal HD. I was just guessing that is normal, as I've seen reports of 1080p flash (and 720p flash) being choppy with the Crystal HD. I'm using RC2 of flash in Firefox. Flash is not a big deal to me so I haven't updated it in a while .

I have TotalMedia launch on system startup, minimized and to my system tray with the help of an application called TrayIt!:

http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm

I created a profile in TrayIt! that will always minimize any window containing "ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre" in the titlebar.

In the Tray It! main screen:

Edit -> Options: Make sure the following are checked:
Always start minimized
Load TrayIt! at Startup

Click OK and leave the Tray It! Window Open

Launch ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre, it should show up in the Tray It! Windows now, right click and select "Place in System Tray". Right click again and click "Edit Profile".

Click the box next to "Match pattern below with the window title when creating a Tray icon". Also check "Minimize window on creation / when TrayIt! is started".

Close out of Tray It! You should see arcsoft in your system tray instead of your taskbar. You can add ArcSoft to your startup folder in your start menu so it starts upon system startup.

This is what I do so I don't ever have to even think about running the arcsoft player.

Yesterday I upgraded from XP to Win 7 on my HTPC which required starting from scratch.

Once I got all my media in and back to where I needed to be I played an MKV with Crystal HD as the default playback device and there was alot of dropped frames and a general feeling of the playback being slow, then fast, slow, then fast.

I played around with AV Sync and Sync to display etc and nothing helped.

What fixed it was in System > Video Output. By default "Use a full screen window instead of True full screen" was enabled. I turned that off so it was using true full screen and playback is perfect now.

HexusOdy Wrote:Yesterday I upgraded from XP to Win 7 on my HTPC which required starting from scratch.

Once I got all my media in and back to where I needed to be I played an MKV with Crystal HD as the default playback device and there was alot of dropped frames and a general feeling of the playback being slow, then fast, slow, then fast.

I played around with AV Sync and Sync to display etc and nothing helped.

What fixed it was in System > Video Output. By default "Use a full screen window instead of True full screen" was enabled. I turned that off so it was using true full screen and playback is perfect now.

What software are you using to play the videos? Sounds like XBMC. Is that where you made the change to the settings?

bluevolume Wrote:What software are you using to play the videos? Sounds like XBMC. Is that where you made the change to the settings?

This is the XBMC forum so yeah I'm using XBMC

Yeah go to where I pointed out and change to true full screen.

HexusOdy Wrote:This is the XBMC forum so yeah I'm using XBMC

Yeah go to where I pointed out and change to true full screen.

LOL -- I've been hitting so many forums trying to research this I forgot where I was.

Hi! I'm trying to use CrystalHD on an Acer Aspire 532h with XBMC.

The add-on card has been installed correctly, the OS sees it with latest drivers (3.3.0).

Unfortunately with both the latest nightlies and the ones before the hiatus (xbmc-r28256-trunk.exe) I don't have CrystalHD under rendering options. Anyone knows why that could be? I can use the decoder with MPC-HC just fine... when having Arcsoft TMT in the background that is (unbelievable... it doesn't help for XBMC though, the option to use CrystalHD isn't even there as I mentioned).

Anyone? Am I missing an option somewhere?