2010-03-23, 22:59
Geforce 5500 FX
AMD Sempron 3000+
1gb Ram
I recently upgraded to a new 42" 720p Samsung Plasma
running svn 28256-karmic1
Now I am trying to get xbmc to upscale some of my sd so it will look a little better now that I have a better TV
I found this in the wiki, which is supposed to enable upscaling. So I have it in my home/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml
I know this is working because the logs have a warning that was not there before
WARNING: Upscale: possible given resolution increase.
WARNING: Upscale: selected algorithm 8
Here is my problem. Now that I have added this to the advanced settings, When I leave the render method for videos set to auto, xbmc crashes when I try to start a video. Software works fine.
I know vdpau does not work and from what I read the 5500 uses opengl 1.5 which means glsl is not supported
I have also tried setting the render method to basic shaders and software. The video will play, but the cpu usage stays the same. About 20% with basic shaders on and 30% with software only even if I change between bicubic to sinc to nearest neighbor in the OSD.
I have also tried to set sinc as the default for all videos, restart xbmc, and load a video. Sinc is selected but cpu usage stays the same
Maybe someone has some experience with this card and it is just not possible or they can see I am doing something wrong because I am out of ideas.
Log with render method set to auto
http://pastebin.com/AnYGNYTt
Log with render method set to software
http://pastebin.com/WSUtWaPk
AMD Sempron 3000+
1gb Ram
I recently upgraded to a new 42" 720p Samsung Plasma
running svn 28256-karmic1
Now I am trying to get xbmc to upscale some of my sd so it will look a little better now that I have a better TV
I found this in the wiki, which is supposed to enable upscaling. So I have it in my home/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<highqualityscaling>1</highqualityscaling>
<highqualityscalingmethod>8</highqualityscalingmethod>
</video>
</advancedsettings>I know this is working because the logs have a warning that was not there before
WARNING: Upscale: possible given resolution increase.
WARNING: Upscale: selected algorithm 8
Here is my problem. Now that I have added this to the advanced settings, When I leave the render method for videos set to auto, xbmc crashes when I try to start a video. Software works fine.
I know vdpau does not work and from what I read the 5500 uses opengl 1.5 which means glsl is not supported
I have also tried setting the render method to basic shaders and software. The video will play, but the cpu usage stays the same. About 20% with basic shaders on and 30% with software only even if I change between bicubic to sinc to nearest neighbor in the OSD.
I have also tried to set sinc as the default for all videos, restart xbmc, and load a video. Sinc is selected but cpu usage stays the same
Maybe someone has some experience with this card and it is just not possible or they can see I am doing something wrong because I am out of ideas.
Log with render method set to auto
http://pastebin.com/AnYGNYTt
Log with render method set to software
http://pastebin.com/WSUtWaPk
