CrystalHD & current SVN builds of XBMC?

iscraigh Wrote:I'll ask a question not complaining at all or trying to rush everyone just like messing around on the bleeding edge.

On the new version svn 30831 I notice in my decoders I no longer have a choice of crystal hd but I do have a check box that says enable hardware acceleration (crystalhd). I chose auto and left the checkbox ticked. Apologies for not including the required logs. I was able to play a hi-def movie it took about 2 minutes to sync up but then played fine.

Is this checkbox the new way of selecting crystal-hd ?

Craig

"Is this checkbox the new way of selecting crystal-hd ?", that's a silly question to ask. You don't see it in the render settings anymore right ?

"I was able to play a hi-def movie it took about 2 minutes to sync up but then played fine.", standard xbmc debug prayer -> xbmc.log, mediainfo output.

anton_kg Wrote: what a disaster! I've been waiting and using SVN for the last 6 month with more or less working crystalhd and now it's gone

Please, please! Put it back! In fact, it's about time to release at least a beta version with crystal.hd support, even it got a lot of bugs.

Meanwhile, I'm going to try linux version with svn 28256 and crystal.hd ... Sam.Nazarko might have a better understanding of people's needs.

Honestly, I've regretted that i've got an appletv. Now, I'm getting close to regret that I've bought crystal.hd card. I should just buy something which does support full HD out the box and be a happy user long time ago.

Sorry for this letter, I just can't help myself.

Umm I hope this is a joke. CrystalHD performance fluctuates between builds. To progress forward you need to tweak the builds, meaning that at times performance will degrade. Davilla referred to this a while ago as "two steps forward, one step backward". Soon enough it'll all be sorted.

And you say the SVN is "gone". How? You can re-install the old subversion build you know.

If you wanted something doing full HD out of box then why didn't you buy something that did? Eventually aTV will, but still you can't blame purchase decisions on devs.

Quote:"Is this checkbox the new way of selecting crystal-hd ?", that's a silly question to ask. You don't see it in the render settings anymore right ?

LOL Seems obvious but I wanted to confirm, tough dealing with idiots like me.
Sorry about no logs Davilla
I was posting @ work no access to the box but I will post what I can tonight.

Thanks

Craig

Here are some logs

I played a recording from my mythbox hdpvr capture
then a movie that was choppy.

xbmc log

http://pastebin.ca/1878769

dmesg

http://pastebin.ca/1878772

media info first recording

http://pastebin.ca/1878774

I am sorry I can't get media info for the recording I am having a network issue with my pc but I will include it as soon as I can.

media info second recording

http://pastebin.ca/1878790


Craig

iscraigh Wrote:Here are some logs

I played a recording from my mythbox hdpvr capture
then a movie that was choppy.

xbmc log

http://pastebin.ca/1878769

dmesg

http://pastebin.ca/1878772

media info first recording

http://pastebin.ca/1878774

I am sorry I can't get media info for the recording I am having a network issue with my pc but I will include it as soon as I can.

media info second recording

http://pastebin.ca/1878790


Craig

1st recoding used chd, second ffmpeg.

*ERR*:/Users/davilla/Documents/crystalhd-for-osx/trunk/crystalhd/driver/darwin/crystalhd_hw.c:2251: Insufficient resources

memleak issue. known problem.

interesting on the memleak as I rebooted the atv and started playing the 2 files.

My understanding was that the memleak was an issue that occurred when exiting and reentering xbmc

The first recording was choppy and audio was 2 or 3 seconds out of sync.

If you would like more info or for me to try something else just let me know.

Thanks
Craig

Oh wait, my bad, r30813 has a bug. fixed in http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/30854 , http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/30870 and above.

davilla Wrote:I see a lot of bitching here and no real info as to what's wrong. Seems to be working for me so if you can't give proper debug info, then not much I can do.

I'm really sorry about it, I must be wrong in my perception that CrystalHD has been temporary removed and that's the reason why it is disappear from my video rendering menu. I've just got pretty upset that I couldn't watch 720p video yesterday's Sunday night after the latest upgrade.

I'll provide all required info tonight. I'm sorry for this ridiculous post one more time.

Quote:Is this checkbox the new way of selecting crystal-hd

I think I might be just blind and didn't check for this option ... that could be the one. Let me double check and do kill me for my first post ;-]

updated to 30929

I tried the first recording that used chd but played poorly, and the result was still poor. I turned on the debugging and the interesting thing was that cpu usage stayed below 50% but the fps was poor @ about 15 on average, never got above 17.

Had to trim the log as it was to big for pastebin.

http://pastebin.ca/1878867

Craig

iscraigh Wrote:updated to 30929

I tried the first recording that used chd but played poorly, and the result was still poor. I turned on the debugging and the interesting thing was that cpu usage stayed below 50% but the fps was poor @ about 15 on average, never got above 17.

Had to trim the log as it was to big for pastebin.

http://pastebin.ca/1878867

Craig

720p/60 seems twitchy right now, will look into it.