Inconsistant Playback of Bluray videos, ATV(ubuntu+chd)
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Hello,

I hope someone might be able to help me with an issue that seems to be eluding me. I am currently running 3 xbmc boxes off of the ATV. I have 2 with the Crystal HD card and running ubuntu and Dharma beta 3. All of my videos are stored on a ReadyNAS NV+ and none of the connections are wireless.

I am getting very inconsistent playback of bluray videos on both ubuntu/chd atvs. I have one that I have been using as a test that is in a mkv container but otherwise has not been encoded. Sometimes I can start up the video and after a min or two the frames will stop dropping and the video will smooth out. Pausing or skipping forward or back will cause the video to get jerky again, and sometimes it will recover and other times it will not. Sometimes the video will never smooth out and I have to stop and try again.

I have seen that some people say that smb is not as fast as nfs but it does not see like a network issue to me. My Windows installs of xbmc work fine.

Here is the xbmc.log, http://pastebin.com/ERXfxeZ0 . I played the file twice, the first time it started up a little jerky but smoothed out, I skipped forward and it again smoothed out. then I stopped it and tried to resume where I left off. This time it would not get any better. The video was extremely choppy and the audio was way off.

Here is the dmesg for the crystalHD as well. http://pastebin.com/vr2CxmhN

Another interesting issue that I have had, but I think this is a incompatibility with my TV is I cannot get xbmc to go to a 1080 resolution. The TV is capable of it and it looks as if when ubuntu boots it is in 1080 but xbmc will not let me go higher then 1280. That system is running Ubuntu with the crystalHD installed as well. This is only happening on one TV which is why I think it is related to the TV and not xbmc, but I thought if anyone might have an idea or a way to fix that would be great. Here is the xbmc.log http://pastebin.com/iA79qRju

Thank you so much for your time as well as for your work on this awesome project. xbmc has completely changed the way I watch movies. Thanks
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