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Since my issue is different than the original posters, I will start my own thread.
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I want to thank everybody who offered help and suggestions. Video playback on my HTPC is 100% better thanks to you. Even the "Killa Sample" plays almost perfectly.
As one last data point for those who might be interested, the "Hybrid SLI Frame buffer size" BIOS setting does seem to make *some* difference. I tried dropping it to 32MB and x264 videos wouldn't play at all (to be precise: the audio would play over a black screen). There's no discernible difference between 128MB (the default) and 512MB, except possibly a few dropped frames on the "Killa Sample" (and that may just be a coincidence).
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bobo1on1
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It can't be done from xbmc because it requires root rights.
You need to make a script that runs as root and polls the status of xbmc.
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Ah shh... Didn't think about that...
Any hints on how/where/what to poll? I guess I would need to write a pyhton script to interface XBMC, right?
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bobo1on1
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No of course it doesn't work when the http server is not activated.
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Ala "Set CPU scaling to 'Performance' while playing video". Does not work because of rights, I know...