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

blademat Wrote:Just how does one actually make this work?
I'm on hpmini, windows 7, broadcom card installed and works fine with arcsoft. MPC-HC will work, but a bit stutterish. Still very watchable.
I have tried installing the dharma beta 1 and cannot find a broadcom option in render methods.
How is this done?

Help<!

The radio button for using the CrystalHD is under the Playback menu under Videos.

Install the 3.5 drivers from Broadcoms site. Reboot after install because sometimes if the device drivers arent installed, the device is powered off and wont show up (weird). With Dharma beta1, its literally plug and play - you'll see the option and it will work like a charm. Make sure you set the proper res - in my earlier post I found that a certain resolution plays perfect while others dont.

Sno Crash Wrote:The radio button for using the CrystalHD is under the Playback menu under Videos.

Install the 3.5 drivers from Broadcoms site. Reboot after install because sometimes if the device drivers arent installed, the device is powered off and wont show up (weird). With Dharma beta1, its literally plug and play - you'll see the option and it will work like a charm. Make sure you set the proper res - in my earlier post I found that a certain resolution plays perfect while others dont.

Worked perfectly.
Thank you very much. indeed 1368X768 stutters while 1280X720 is fine.

Sno Crash Wrote:I can get smooth playback and seeking on my 1080p content. However, there is one big catch that I learned. On this particular machine, I have to use 1280x720 as my Video Output resolution (my LCD is not a 1080p tv, btw). Only with this resolution can I avoid dropped frames and stuttery playback. Any other resolution seems to be too much load on the machine to rescale the video and it is choppy. Don't know why, but it is. 1366x768, for example, is very bad framerate.

Could this be the reason why on an Acer 532h I'm getting the problems I described previously? the problem is that the machine has 1024x600 display... I'm not sure that is there a way to output 1280x720 on it...

720p MKVs are fine and seeking is superfast (better than any other player I've tried, MPC-HC, Kmplayer, GOMplayer, XBMC is the best at seeking) but 1080p is unplayable.

I received my HP Mini 210 netbook with dual core atom n550 and broadcom bcm70015 today. to my surprise, my 2nd mini pci-e slot was empty. it seems this brand new version of the hp mini 210 includes the crystal hd as a chip integrated onto the motherboard. So far I've gotten it to work with MPC-HC with both 720p and 1080p. I'm using the 3.50 drivers from broadcom's web site. Xbmc dharma beta 2 does not have a radio button for crystal hd in system/video/playback. Is there anything special I should try to get it detected? I'm going to upgrade the netbook with a SSD and more ram tonight. and I'm going to reinstall windows 7 starter too.. I'll let you guys know my results after I upgrade the netbook
update: so I uninstalled dharma beta 2 and installed beta 1, and the radio button for the crystal hd appeared. however, when I tried to play any of my 720p files, the audio played with no video for a few seconds then xbmc froze.
If I install a non dharma recent svn, will that have working crystal hd support?
update2: revent svn of the plain old camelot non dharma build didn't work either