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Just wanted to throw some info into here for those interested in knowing the state of current SVN builds with CrystalHD support. I had the displeasure of being stuck in bed all day yesterday from illness and used the ATV extensively for the first time in a while.
These comments are on an AppleTV with CrystalHD card running on Ubuntu 9.10. "Starting XBMC, Platform: Linux (Ubuntu 9.10, 2.6.31-19-generic i686). Built on Jul 27 2010 (SVN:32216)" Dharma branch... crystalhd driver r143, old layout board
With the exception of the very first play of the first movie the experience was flawless. The first startup started playing the audio, but was sitting at the movies list blinking. I hit stop, started playback again, and it worked fine after that.
I watched 2 720p H.264 movies, one 1080p H.264 movie, and several 720p tv shows with nothing but great consistent playback. Pausing/resume worked great, 30sec jumps worked great, scene jumps worked great, and audio sync was perfect.
Relative to my Revo, starting and stopping is slower (it can take 10+ seconds to start a movie once you hit play, or reload the movie list when you hit stop.. probably more the fault of the lack of RAM than anything else). Pause/resume is fast and resume stutters no more than any other box I've used.
All in all it works great. Davilla remains to be the freakin' man. Thanks for keeping the ATV useful.
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So my 2yr old got to my ATV remote and I came back to the please select your resolution screen
He must have gone through random clicks and found the restore ATV option.
Everything was working fine before the restore. Since the restore, I reinstalled everything. Last nights Dharma build, 1.03 Crystal HD drivers, etc... Basically the same things I did before.
But now, I get jitter in the playback, makes the video look like it's moving in slow motion. The other problem which I never had was that now, all MKV's are outputting no audio. When this happens, it kills all the other audiable clicks etc.. in XBMC and back in ATV FrontRow. YouTube is the only way to get any sound back.
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Dan, is it possible to tweak remaining issues out of the older r1.0.3 tagged crystalhd driver based on the development effort of the past months?
Maybe the older driver performance could be brought up to the same level as the new one?
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i'll try to stick with my bcm70012 card as long as possible...
hope it will work with new drivers...