Problem getting Broadcom Crystal HD BMC70015 to work with XBMC

i have mac mini 1.66, osx 10.6.3, xbmc r28256, crystal driver 1.0.3.

all mkv files play good for 1 hour. after that the movie pause and i have to stop movie. when i resume movie its play in software render. i have to load the driver again.
xbmc log: http://pastebin.com/h43taJ21
dmesg: http://pastebin.com/WyAKmTFs

beytarj Wrote:i have mac mini 1.66, osx 10.6.3, xbmc r28256, crystal driver 1.0.3.

all mkv files play good for 1 hour. after that the movie pause and i have to stop movie. when i resume movie its play in software render. i have to load the driver again.
xbmc log: http://pastebin.com/h43taJ21
dmesg: http://pastebin.com/WyAKmTFs

That's a new error in dmesg, have never seen that one.

Hi,

having some issues with those two files. When watching the files, small block appears and the video shutters.

File1
http://paste2.org/p/838912

File 2
http://paste2.org/p/838913

log
http://paste2.org/p/838915

Thanks

curlyjs Wrote:Hi,

having some issues with those two files. When watching the files, small block appears and the video shutters.

File1
http://paste2.org/p/838912

File 2
http://paste2.org/p/838913

log
http://paste2.org/p/838915

Thanks

1280 x 720, High@L3.1 with 7 reference frames, noted.

Hi,

I have an Apple TV which is runing 3.0.1 firmware.
I have patched with atvpatchstick ....
I have also installed the driver for BroadCom crystall HD ( 1.0.3) and the nightly build of XBMC R26768.

I can select the render method in XBMC is Broadcom Crystal HD. I have also checked XBMC.log, the status of Crystal card with dmesg command as well. Anything is seem working well but I can't watch any 1080p mkv movies ( lagged ).

Here is my XBMC.log.

http://pastebin.com/1mw7fczZ

Please help me to find out what is happening with my job.

Thanks so much
MisaVN

MisaVN Wrote:Hi,

I have an Apple TV which is runing 3.0.1 firmware.
I have patched with atvpatchstick ....
I have also installed the driver for BroadCom crystall HD ( 1.0.3) and the nightly build of XBMC R26768.

I can select the render method in XBMC is Broadcom Crystal HD. I have also checked XBMC.log, the status of Crystal card with dmesg command as well. Anything is seem working well but I can't watch any 1080p mkv movies ( lagged ).

Here is my XBMC.log.

http://pastebin.com/1mw7fczZ

Please help me to find out what is happening with my job.

Thanks so much
MisaVN

09:36:56 T:2684407808 M: 36114432 DEBUG: Loading: libcrystalhd.dylib
09:36:56 T:2684407808 M: 3358720 ERROR: CrystalHD: device open failed
09:36:56 T:2684407808 M: 3358720 INFO: CrystalHD: broadcom crystal hd not found

Okay .

Bah... I don't know why this always happens to me . I installed the same package as before (31021), play the same file that dropped frames on me every few seconds, and now all of a sudden it barely drops any! Anyway there are still framedrops, so here we go.

Media info for the first test file

Media info for the second test file

Media info for the third test file

Xbmc log file

Xbmc log file for the third movie

The initial dropped frames occur when the movie is loaded (which should be normal as I understood), the ones at 10:46 were caused by pulling up the OSD. The first test file ran pretty smoothly (it dropped as many frames as the second one though the past days). Playback of the second file starts at 10:53:57 more or less. First major dropped frames occur around 10:59:03, where I could see the card's buffer unfill dramatically. I checked CPU usage and that was fine at the time. Network traffic looked fine too (150 KBps upstream torrent traffic, router can handle that just fine), I also tried with rtorrent not running yesterday to make sure it wasn't interfering, frames were still being dropped at the same rate.

Crystalhd kernel module and userspace library are both 1.0.3.

I hope I'm not wasting your time, yesterday it was all choppy and dropped frames galore, and a lot of the time the CrystalHD buffer wouldn't even fill past 50%. Now it played fine for a while and the dropped frames don't occur as frequently, it's very bizarre. I also recall watching another 1080p movie with 30874 and that - apart from a few occasional hiccups - played fine, I didn't check for any dropped frames there with the overlay, thought it was the encode since I rewinded and it occured a second time at the same moment. If you want I can try that again and post the log too.

.:B:. Wrote:Okay .

Bah... I don't know why this always happens to me . I installed the same package as before (31021), play the same file that dropped frames on me every few seconds, and now all of a sudden it barely drops any! Anyway there are still framedrops, so here we go.

Media info for the first test file

Media info for the second test file

Xbmc log file

The initial dropped frames occur when the movie is loaded (which should be normal as I understood), the ones at 10:46 were caused by pulling up the OSD. The first test file ran pretty smoothly (it dropped as many frames as the second one though the past days). Playback of the second file starts at 10:53:57 more or less. First major in-move dropped frames occur around 10:59:03, where I could see the card's buffer unfill dramatically. I checked CPU usage and that was fine at the time. Network traffic looked fine too (150 KBps upstream torrent traffic, router can handle that just fine), I also tried with rtorrent not running yesterday to make sure it wasn't interfering, frames were still being dropped at the same rate.

Crystalhd kernel module and userspace library are both 1.0.3.

I hope I'm not wasting your time, yesterday it was all choppy and dropped frames galore, and a lot of the time the CrystalHD buffer wouldn't even fill past 50%.

I'm having similar issues. Sometimes everything is working ok, a reboot later without touching the installation I'm having a lot of frame drops with the same movie. I'm on ubuntu karmic with 1.0.3 libs and switching between 28744 and svn trunk. I notice that the current SVN builds have less frame drops when you start a movie and on skipping, but they seem less stable
overall.

For example Shutter Island 1080p mediainfo plays almost fine @ 28744, unwatchable @ svn trunk.

r28744log: http://pastebin.com/KbxWKtpF

r31087log: http://pastebin.com/RgDeui21

1080p H@L4.1 with 5 ref frames seems to be a common issue.

mac mini 1.66, osx 10.6.4, xbmc r31168, crystal driver 1.0.3

all mkv files have freezes for few secondes every few minutes. there are no frame drops. the r28256 play these files good.
xbmc log:

http://pastebin.com/UEPcVEvm