[AppleTV] CrystalHD Driver for XBMC Launcher

tuckbodi Wrote:Oops, sorry...thought it'd be a way for us to test it for you. Just anxious to give it a whirl. I'll sit tight..

I'd rather it not hit Launcher just yet. Newbies will click anything and if the new crystalhd driver/lib has some unforeseen issue, it might require a manual revert.

davilla Wrote:@Andy, please wait for some feedback. So far I'm the only one who has tested this.

roger
maybe i have time this evening and install the atv harddisk again. then ill gonna test it, too.

-andy

Just update from r28276 (with crystalhd r26) to r31463. I understand that chrystalhd has moved out of system-video-playback-render method to its own radio button. But I can't find that radio button. Either I'm blind or something is wrong with my chrystalhd card. Could someone point the precise location of that radio button?

Just so that i understand thers a new crystal hd driver on the way since its only you davilla that have tested it atm. Is ther any big diffrent on the playback and the cpu useage reduktion becouse atm my atv have a realy hard time playing 1080p materials and 720 works but nothing more surfing the menus in the xbmc takes a while. With 1080 materials if i start useing the menus the movie starts lagging and i have to restart the movie. My guess is that its becouse of high cps useage and the crystal hd card isent taking on that mush of the decoding as it shold do. Any idaes your part? I know your working your ass off for us so exuse my inpatince. and ofc as you say it have to be stable befor it hit luncher it will be so many ppl with broken atv if its something wrong with the driver becouse thy cant fix it them self (for example my self)

(sorry for my poor english ill hope it works for you anyway to read it)

Kammaflaje Wrote:Just so that i understand thers a new crystal hd driver on the way since its only you davilla that have tested it atm. Is ther any big diffrent on the playback and the cpu useage reduktion becouse atm my atv have a realy hard time playing 1080p materials and 720 works but nothing more surfing the menus in the xbmc takes a while. With 1080 materials if i start useing the menus the movie starts lagging and i have to restart the movie. My guess is that its becouse of high cps useage and the crystal hd card isent taking on that mush of the decoding as it shold do. Any idaes your part? I know your working your ass off for us so exuse my inpatince. and ofc as you say it have to be stable befor it hit luncher it will be so many ppl with broken atv if its something wrong with the driver becouse thy cant fix it them self (for example my self)

(sorry for my poor english ill hope it works for you anyway to read it)

"surfing the menus" is not crystalhd decoder related, you just don't have the CPU capacity to "surfing the menus" while playing video. The solution a) don't do that or b) http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...he_AppleTV

mauzzz Wrote:Just update from r28276 (with crystalhd r26) to r31463. I understand that chrystalhd has moved out of system-video-playback-render method to its own radio button. But I can't find that radio button. Either I'm blind or something is wrong with my chrystalhd card. Could someone point the precise location of that radio button?

It's right under renderer settings, if you don't see it, then XBMC cannot see/load CrystalHD lib. Check xbmc.log for more info.

davilla Wrote:It's right under renderer settings, if you don't see it, then XBMC cannot see/load CrystalHD lib. Check xbmc.log for more info.

Reinstalled the CrystalHD driver and the radio button shows up now. Thanks.

davilla Wrote:@Andy, please wait for some feedback. So far I'm the only one who has tested this.

i would be willing to test it under XBMC on ATVOS. How do I install it manually?

-T

yeah I would love to give v137 a spell.

we need kext, library, and firmware to try it out manually (without compiling).

Guru Davilla, any location where we could find such objects?

http://code.google.com/p/crystalhd-for-o...loads/list

or can anyone IM me

I can't compile unfortunately - not rich enough to own a mac

look here: http://crystalhd.sartori.at/compile/

it's a compiled r137 version. no questions how to install. i wont provide an automatic install script until davilla says "GOGOGOGO!!!!"

-andy