[anarchylicence]

I upgraded to the latest release of XBMC (Dharma) and at the same time I installed Ubuntu 10.10.

Since them my video playback is not as smooth as it was with the previous release of XBMC under Ubuntu 10.04.

I get brief pauses in playback where the video has to catch up with the sound. This happens no matter whether I am playing SD or HD content.

All content is being played from local 1.5TB hard disks, one internal SATA and one connected via USB (NTFS and Ext3).

I never had such problems with my previous see set up.

I also get flickering during video playback (looks like Vsync problem) but happens whether Vsync is set to 'Always on' or not and only occurs curing video playback (Project M visualisations are flawless).

My Media Centre is connected to a Panasonic 50-inch plasma display via an NVIDA 8400 graphics card (512MB RAM) running at 1080p 50Hz.

My XBMC setup uses VDPAU and also Colour Correction on SD contect.

The system in a P4 2.8Ghz HT with 3gb RAM.

log: http://pastebin.com/Ag8qvy4r

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

[bobo1on1]

Can you let the video play for at least 10 minutes without doing any seeks and fast forwards and repost the log.