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2011-06-20, 16:37
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-20, 16:58 by Bitruder.)
I've been getting my ZBOX AD02 up and running by following this thread. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04, the 2.6.39 kernel, Catalyst 11.6 drivers, VAAPI 0.32, XBMC 10.1-Dharma. For a while I would have XBMC and MPlayer crash right away when trying to play anything with VAAPI.
I fixed this by disabling the Composite extension in xorg.conf and now I can play videos on my HDTV fine and I get audio through the HDMI cable without issue.
I do have ONE other problem though that may or may not be a limitation of my hardware. When I'm playing a 1080P MKV file my CPU usage is below 20% on both cores and it seems to play without frames dropping (how do I check this? Is it shown in the XBMC overlay you see by pressing 'o'?). However, as soon as XBMC goes to display something overtop of the video (for example, the menu or playback controls), then it gets choppy and I definitely see frame loss. After I go back, the audio will be out of sync and I have to pause/play it to get it back in sync.
Is it simply that by AD02 (E-350 processor) is too slow to handle playing 1080P video and drawing overlays? A similar thing happens, albeit to a lesser degree, when playing 720P video files.