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baxtermedic · 2010-01-24, 01:43

I have put the card in my wife's Win7 laptop and it discovered, and installed (the drivers i got from Broadcom) perfectly fine. I have downloaded a video player that I will use to test the card. I ran VLC with and without the card but the CPU difference was negligable. It is a C2D laptop so it could handle the 1080p file anyways. The drivers you can download from Broadcom comes with a utility that sits in ur tray and mine says broadcom crystalhd inactive, but i put my card back in my Apple TV.

I will let you know later how everything pans out.

davilla · 2010-01-24, 02:36

baxtermedic Wrote:I have put the card in my wife's Win7 laptop and it discovered, and installed (the drivers i got from Broadcom) perfectly fine. I have downloaded a video player that I will use to test the card. I ran VLC with and without the card but the CPU difference was negligable. It is a C2D laptop so it could handle the 1080p file anyways. The drivers you can download from Broadcom comes with a utility that sits in ur tray and mine says broadcom crystalhd inactive, but i put my card back in my Apple TV.

I will let you know later how everything pans out.

VLC does not know about the crystalhd. You need to use correct video player.

yzeyze · 2010-01-24, 03:11

Try a live disc if you can.
I couldn't get mine to work and thought it was faulty, but it ran fine in the ATV on a live cd.
So I knew the card was working.
I ended up upgrading my ATV to 3.01 and then redoing the xbmc install and following the instructions again and then it all worked.
Must have been something I did wrong previously I guess.

baxtermedic · 2010-01-24, 03:18

ok,
I've tried installing the windows GL latest build and it would force close on me until i took out the card.

I guess I can factory reset my ATV, since I've upgraded to 3.01 already, i believe. and just ssh in and try all of the steps before even loading libraries.

Will report back later.

baxtermedic · 2010-01-24, 03:20

oh yeah wich build are you using? the official nightly or the one from the link posted in the tutorial?

yzeyze · 2010-01-24, 04:33

baxtermedic Wrote:oh yeah wich build are you using? the official nightly or the one from the link posted in the tutorial?

The Live image I used was the one linked in the first post here.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64634
Not the latest, but certainly showed me that the card itself was working.

bluetang · (This post was last modified: 2010-01-24, 08:17 by bluetang.)

hi yzeyze
what do you mean by live cd? Did you get the same error as below? If so, maybe it's not the the card and I need to try to reinstall... Sad

*ERR*:/Users/davilla/Documents/crystalhd-for-osx/trunk/crystalhd/driver/darwin/crystalhd_hw.c:1799: Firmware command T/O
*ERR*:/Users/davilla/Documents/crystalhd-for-osx/trunk/crystalhd/driver/darwin/crystalhd_hw.c:1810: FwCmd Failed.

Kevin

yzeyze Wrote:Try a live disc if you can.
I couldn't get mine to work and thought it was faulty, but it ran fine in the ATV on a live cd.
So I knew the card was working.
I ended up upgrading my ATV to 3.01 and then redoing the xbmc install and following the instructions again and then it all worked.
Must have been something I did wrong previously I guess.

baxtermedic · 2010-01-24, 09:26

Ok now I know i'm not crazy.

I just used the XBMC-live usb boot and BroadcomHD shows up under render method and there is a significant difference in the 1080p movie I am streaming over SMB.

It was still a little jittery but not outright skipping like it was on the latest official nighly build.

I am going back into the live usb boot to try out a 720p file that was skipping badly to double check my findings.

yzeyze · 2010-01-24, 09:38

bluetang Wrote:hi yzeyze
what do you mean by live cd? Did you get the same error as below? If so, maybe it's not the the card and I need to try to reinstall...
*ERR*:/Users/davilla/Documents/crystalhd-for-osx/trunk/crystalhd/driver/darwin/crystalhd_hw.c:1799: Firmware command T/O
*ERR*:/Users/davilla/Documents/crystalhd-for-osx/trunk/crystalhd/driver/darwin/crystalhd_hw.c:1810: FwCmd Failed.

Kevin

See post above yours - it is a linux boot image with xbmc and the crystal drivers preloaded.
You put the image on a 4G+ USB stick and boot the AppleTV off of it.
If it works on that, then the broadcom card is fine.

bluetang · 2010-01-24, 10:46

Thanks yzeyze
I'll give that a try!
Smile

yzeyze Wrote:See post above yours - it is a linux boot image with xbmc and the crystal drivers preloaded.
You put the image on a 4G+ USB stick and boot the AppleTV off of it.
If it works on that, then the broadcom card is fine.

baxtermedic · 2010-01-24, 17:43

it plays a little smoother but the CPU is still running at 100 percent. I have contacted my seller and am trying to get this thing exchanged.

I am going to put linux on my apple tv in the mean time. I really don't like the sluggishness of the UI

bluetang · 2010-01-25, 03:58

Hi
I try to boot with that image. Everything is loading until it hit the following error.
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

Did you ever saw that?

yzeyze Wrote:The Live image I used was the one linked in the first post here.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64634
Not the latest, but certainly showed me that the card itself was working.

yzeyze · 2010-01-25, 04:03

bluetang Wrote:Hi
I try to boot with that image. Everything is loading until it hit the following error.
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

Did you ever saw that?

No, Is it not booting through to xbmc?
Can you try another stick?

bluetang · 2010-01-25, 04:26

Tried another stick but it's the same. Oh well. thanks for helping.
I'm pretty sure my crystalHD is bad. I'll guess I'll need to get another one.

yzeyze Wrote:No, Is it not booting through to xbmc?
Can you try another stick?

bluetang · 2010-01-25, 04:42

HI
Did you try to put his card in your ATV? Since your ATV set works, then it would for sure mean his card is dead?
Kevin

deano72 Wrote:HI, Just like to ask the following:-
I have installed on my ATV the broadcom crystalhd card, and it is working all ok. I bought another one and put that in my mate's ATV and it experiences the above (log shows exactly this). When I tried my known working card in his box......it also shows the above. Put my card back into my box, all ok.
However his initial card DID have a resistor loose on bottom of it and this is going back for a replacement.
Since my working card also did not work on his box, and his files are in the exact same place as mine, could he have a faulty slot inside his ATV (btw, wifi used to work fine on his box before he went wired).
Cheers,
Dean