2011-01-27, 23:48
Has anyone made such a guide? I've searched in the How-To and haven't found it.
I finally got my Asrock Nvidia ION working by disabling an extra HDMI sound device in my Device Manager.
Anyway, I'm interested in compiling a list like below - anyone have any other suggestions, see any problems with what's listed?
Known Unsolved Issues - waiting for patching
[Edit] - this is a list of things to troubleshoot in case 1080p is not playing perfectly for you.
These are in order of likelihood:
Basics
Painful/ More Complicated
Cheers!!!
I finally got my Asrock Nvidia ION working by disabling an extra HDMI sound device in my Device Manager.
Anyway, I'm interested in compiling a list like below - anyone have any other suggestions, see any problems with what's listed?
Known Unsolved Issues - waiting for patching
- Nvidia ION boxes in Windows have issues with FF/ RW in that you'll see artifacts when you FF or rewind in Dharma Final.
[Edit] - this is a list of things to troubleshoot in case 1080p is not playing perfectly for you.
These are in order of likelihood:
Basics
- You have to have Windows Vista/7 for hardware acceleration. Or try the XBMC live cd.
- Make sure "Allow Hardware Accelaration (DXVA2) is checked in System/ Video/Playback.
- Make sure XBMC.exe is not running in compatibility mode. For Windows 7 - right-click xbmc.exe, select properties and then under the compatibility tab -> check "disable visual themes", "disable desktop composition" and "disable display scaling on high DPI settings".
- System/Video Output - try toggling Vertical blank sync - Always enabled or Disabled (mine works better enabled).
- Make sure you've updated your graphics card's driver to the latest and greatest.
- Make sure that there are no duplicate entries in your Device Manager for HDMI Sound - disable one if so.
- Try changing the audio output in the Syste/System/Audio Output - 'audio output device' to "directsound: primary device".
- Deactivate aero and Windows 7 desktop composition.
- Try Render Method set to Auto or Software in System/ Video/Playback
- Turn on "sync playback to display" in System/ Video/Playback.
- Turn off fullscreen windows in System/System/Video Output/ Display Mode.
- Use Process Lasso (freeware) to adjust xbmc's priority higher - and any back-end processing like Sickbeard, Sabnzbd lower. It retains those adjusted priorities even after reboots.
- Turn off XBMC notifications from Sickbeard and Sabnzbd.
- Disable real time scanning/checking of xbmc.exe from your anti-virus software - or just lower its priority per the note abovel
- If you're trying to play .m2ts files, there's rumored to be a git release that will fix it. Haven't tracked that down yet, though.
Painful/ More Complicated
- On the back-end, allow SABNZBD to have more memory to cache.
- In the BIOS, maybe allocate more memory to video memory. 256 is borderline, 512M is OK.
- Re-encode the files using Handbrake -personally, I think your time would be better spent grabbing a debug log to see what's actually going on.
Cheers!!!