[Hannes The Hun]

sorry sebj, yes, that's what I did on the 7th, did not write that clearly in my posting, and it's dropping frames. my notebook with T9300, 8GB and 8600GT also drops frames when playing in WMP but NOT in VLC, that's why I assume it's a codec-related problem with the files you recorded.

[sebj]

Related?

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6051

My resolution's different, but it sounds really familiar.

Guys, little poll here, do you think that if I'd just bend over and order a 4g sodimm that this awkward problem go away. I PM'ed Bobo, and he can play the file, my other gpus all did too... Feeling a "it's not you it's me" vibe here

Sebj

[sebj]

I guess they are working on it /sarcasm

Thank you for supporting Foxconn products.
As you known,the GPU allocation depends on the memory size that you installed, that is, when you installed 1GB stick, the GPU would be allocated as 128mb automatically; when you installed 2GB stick, the GPU would be as 256mb and if you want 512mb, you need to install 4GB stick.
That is, when you installed 4GB memory, you could allocate 512MB onboard video size.
And we have tried allocating 512MB shared memory to onboard VGA card when installing a 2GB RAM in nT-330i.
But it couldn't pass the reliability test, e.g. unstable , BSOD, hang during 3D mark etc.
So we think we shouldn't release a such BIOS to our users.
Thanks for your understanding.
Any other query in the future, please contact us freely.
Best Regards,

Foxconn Technical Support

Might ditch the box completely and get a Boxee box, what a time waster...

[joelgoodman]

@sebj - yeah, I saw this reply posted over at avsforum back in April. Pretty sure they're totally not going to release that support (lame).

Saying that - yeah, it takes a bit of hacking around to get the nt330i to be perfect with everything. But I think that's half the fun for most of us. If we wanted something that just worked with everything we'd spend $600 on a mac mini or something.

the Boxee Box does look sweet...

[Ninjahblu]

@sebj: Have you tried playing the "Killa" sample? It's a taxing 42 megabit video you could try to see if there are any dropped frames. My 330i only produces 1 dropped frame each time, so if you may need to check your setup if you experience a lot more.

Hannes, I'm beginning to think that the video was a bad encode. I've tried a few more 1080p files which have played beautifully so far. I'll need something beefy to know for sure, like an Avatar blu-ray rip. =D

[sebj]

Have you tried playing the "Killa" sample?

Not on this box, no. But the canon dslr video is [email protected] at 45mb/s and the 330i can play that and a bad ass avatar rip when xbmc is at 1080p,

My guess right now is that 24fps/40fps stuff is doable even at 1080p, but 60fps is a stretch. I can hold it almost in 720p system resolution, but it drops frames. At 1080p system, forget 60 fps.... sucks for tv, cool for rips...

Here's to hoping someone gets xbmc running on the boxee box...

I hear that box needs decent software.. ouch.

[Hannes The Hun]

and my best guess is that with the videos you are trying to run, we're right at the borders of what VDPAU is supposed to do.

[sebj]

well, I never really had any problems with the videos on my other systems and vdpau was in full effect there. It's h.264 ac3 video, not apple prores...

But we're talking real pcie nvidia cards with 512mb+ vram.

The bios option is annoying though, could have been a quick fix here.

Off to bestbuy top get a boxee box? ? This machine is a PITA.

Wonder how many people checked this thread out researching before buying and decided to get another brand?

Sebj

[numbly953]

I just got mine up and running when my SSD came in the mail today.

I flashed the bios to fix the fan issue, then I installed Windows 7 32-bit, RC1 Dharma and Aeon65.....LOL talk about a mess.

Movies look like I hit the slow motion button while playing them, have no choice but to steam where the box is located. But the same movies play fine in Windows Media Player.

Ugh, best thing to do, install Linux? Now that the bios is updated, I wont ever have to do that again correct? Even if I moved over to Linux?

I hate Linux, just dont have time or patience to learn anything about it, command line makes me loose it so quick too....

I knew all this on same system was gonna be too much, I have 2gb of RAM and using a SSD.

One thing I did notice, I absolutely love the SSD and browsing my library, no more having to wait for art to load, its all there as I flow thru due the huge upgrade in read speed from the SSD.

[Hannes The Hun]

do a dual boot installation with the latest dharma live image, neither your win7 nor your upgraded BIOS will be touched

[numbly953]

live sucks, why? because I dont know how to share my files over it. After spending hours trying to get dharma rc1 live installed (finally found out rc1 and unetbootin dont play nice), I have beta4 on my computer but now cant share my windows machine files to it.

I am fed up, anyone want a foxconn with 2gb of memory? I will sell it for 150.

I am going to build a windows machine that can handle what I need it to.

[darkscout]

Sold. Send me your PayPal.

[numbly953]

Once I get done work tonight, I am going to give it some more hair pulling, if no luck its yours. Turning into a big ass headache that is pissing me off.

[sebj]

Having went double or nothing and bought/returned the boxee box (WTF did they do to xbmc ), I caved in and ordered a 4gb sodimm to replace the 2gb.

DipNFalls : Try running the xbmc UI @ 720p resolution, maybe you'll have better luck getting decent framerates.

Should be here any day now, but yeah, the way I see it, 256mb of vram is just not enough to make sure every format plays@1080p.

Can get anything playing @ 720p with 2gb.

Will report back when I pop the new ram in.

[sebj]

Damn,

right off the bat, playing the mythtv 60p files, still can't get them to play over 50fps with the 4gb module....

xbmc to blame?

going to try maverick next...

UI's a bit smoother though... will report back

sebj

LOG:

20:03:19 T:3079268224 M:3219812352 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: myth://root:[email protected]/tvshows/La Galère/1602_20101115210000.mpg
20:03:19 T:3079268224 M:3219812352 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
20:03:19 T:2857175920 M:3219812352 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
20:03:19 T:2857175920 M:3219558400 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
20:03:19 T:2857175920 M:3214225408 NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
20:03:19 T:2857175920 M:3214225408 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
20:03:19 T:2857175920 M:3214225408 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Creating VDPAU(1280x720, 28)
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: vdp_device = 0x00000001 vdp_st = 0x00000000
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: VDPAU Decoder capabilities:
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: name level macbs width height
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: ------------------------------------
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: MPEG1 0 8192 2048 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 8192 2048 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: MPEG2_MAIN 3 8192 2048 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: H264_MAIN 41 8190 2032 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: H264_HIGH 41 8190 2032 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: VC1_SIMPLE 1 8190 2048 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: VC1_MAIN 2 8190 2048 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: VC1_ADVANCED 4 8190 2048 2048
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: ------------------------------------
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_NOISE_REDUCTION
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_SHARPNESS
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213582336 NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_INVERSE_TELECINE
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3213230080 NOTICE: Creating 1280x720 pixmap
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3212468224 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (VDPAU acceleration)
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3212468224 NOTICE: Creating video thread
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3212214272 NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3212214272 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86020
20:03:20 T:2857175920 M:3212214272 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
20:03:20 T:2836196208 M:3212214272 NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio:rocess()
20:03:20 T:2846686064 M:3212214272 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
20:03:21 T:2836196208 M:3207516160 NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86020, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, pass-through
20:03:21 T:2846686064 M:3197992960 NOTICE: (VDPAU) screenWidth:1280 vidWidth:1280
20:03:21 T:2846686064 M:3197992960 NOTICE: (VDPAU) screenHeight:720 vidHeight:720
20:03:21 T:2846686064 M:3176849408 NOTICE: (VDPAU) Total Output Surfaces Available: 4 of a max (tmp: 4 const: 4)
20:03:21 T:2846686064 M:3175231488 NOTICE: (VDPAU) Creating the video mixer
20:03:21 T:2846686064 M:3163230208 NOTICE: fps: 59.940060, pwidth: 1280, pheight: 720, dwidth: 1280, dheight: 720
20:03:21 T:2846686064 M:3163230208 NOTICE: Display resolution ADJUST : default: 1280x720 @ 60.00Hz (26)
20:03:21 T:2836196208 M:3163230208 WARNING: CALSADirectSound::GetSpace - get space failed. err: -32 (Broken pipe)
20:03:21 T:3079268224 M:3160182784 NOTICE: Using GL_TEXTURE_2D
20:03:21 T:3079268224 M:3160182784 NOTICE: GL: Using VDPAU render method
20:03:21 T:3079268224 M:3160182784 NOTICE: GL: NPOT texture support detected
20:03:21 T:3079268224 M:3160182784 NOTICE: GL: Using GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
20:03:21 T:3079268224 M:3163324416 NOTICE: Created m_glPixmapTexture (6)
20:03:45 T:2836196208 M:3155898368 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
20:03:53 T:2846686064 M:3153907712 WARNING: Previous line repeats 2 times.
20:03:53 T:2846686064 M:3153907712 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 4692, consumed: 0
20:03:53 T:2846686064 M:3153907712 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 3843, consumed: 0
20:03:53 T:2846686064 M:3153907712 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 3421, consumed: 0
20:07:43 T:2846686064 M:3151249408 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 1994, consumed: 0
20:07:43 T:2846686064 M:3151249408 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 977, consumed: 0
20:07:43 T:2846686064 M:3151249408 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 2282, consumed: 0
20:07:44 T:2846686064 M:3151126528 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 4435, consumed: 0
20:07:44 T:2846686064 M:3151126528 WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 3532, consumed: 0


edit: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6051 is the culprit. Cost me 100$ worth of ram to confim this. argh. Any dev listening?