2010-05-17, 00:05
Hello All!
after posting on the xbmc.org homepage, davilla recommended I post my error here. Unfortunately, the mini that I'm experiencing problems with is at another location and I can't currently provide a debug log (however I will update as soon as I can).
I've tried Every OS X XBMC build since May 1st and have encountered the same problem. 1080p videos still stutter and drop a ton of frames (Avatar 1080p release 15mb/s video bitrate, Planet Earth 1080p bird scene, etc. ) I HAVE verified that the mini is running osx 10.6.3 and that the vda-h264 appears when I hit "o" during playback of hi-def content. CPU usage tends to be around 75% or so on all the high def stuff. To make things more complicated, I'm running boot camp with ubuntu karmic (9.1) and while running VDPAU in XBMC, all videos play perfectly (including the killa_sample!) .. I have another mac mini (more recent: 2.26 ghz, 2 gb ram nvidia 9400) running both Ubuntu and OSX 10.6.3 as well, and all 1080p content streams perfectly as well. This leads me to believe that perhaps I do not have enough ram in the 2.0 ghz mini to decode 1080p content even though VDADecoder appears to be running properly. Prior to updating to svn builds and using VDADecoder, CPU usage on the same files (avatar, planet earth) was over 150%! So clearly, the decoder is working to an extent.. but its still dropping too many frames, and is much too choppy to watch.
Does anyone else have a similar mini? (2.0 ghz, 1 gb ram) if so... Have you managed to get hardware acceleration using vdadecoder working proplerly?? Please help! With the exception of that one slower mini, XBMC has been running fantastically well on all my other systems! Any advice would be much appreciated. I will provide a debug log as soon as I can! Hopefully within the next 24-48 hours or so..
after posting on the xbmc.org homepage, davilla recommended I post my error here. Unfortunately, the mini that I'm experiencing problems with is at another location and I can't currently provide a debug log (however I will update as soon as I can).
I've tried Every OS X XBMC build since May 1st and have encountered the same problem. 1080p videos still stutter and drop a ton of frames (Avatar 1080p release 15mb/s video bitrate, Planet Earth 1080p bird scene, etc. ) I HAVE verified that the mini is running osx 10.6.3 and that the vda-h264 appears when I hit "o" during playback of hi-def content. CPU usage tends to be around 75% or so on all the high def stuff. To make things more complicated, I'm running boot camp with ubuntu karmic (9.1) and while running VDPAU in XBMC, all videos play perfectly (including the killa_sample!) .. I have another mac mini (more recent: 2.26 ghz, 2 gb ram nvidia 9400) running both Ubuntu and OSX 10.6.3 as well, and all 1080p content streams perfectly as well. This leads me to believe that perhaps I do not have enough ram in the 2.0 ghz mini to decode 1080p content even though VDADecoder appears to be running properly. Prior to updating to svn builds and using VDADecoder, CPU usage on the same files (avatar, planet earth) was over 150%! So clearly, the decoder is working to an extent.. but its still dropping too many frames, and is much too choppy to watch.
Does anyone else have a similar mini? (2.0 ghz, 1 gb ram) if so... Have you managed to get hardware acceleration using vdadecoder working proplerly?? Please help! With the exception of that one slower mini, XBMC has been running fantastically well on all my other systems! Any advice would be much appreciated. I will provide a debug log as soon as I can! Hopefully within the next 24-48 hours or so..