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I'm currently launching XBMC from my MythTv Frontend menu so I could play around with the MythTv integration in XBMC 12.2. I really like the interface and navigation, but the playback seems to be real hit or miss. I'm wondering if there are some options I can enable/disable to help out with the choppiness?
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Launch a livetv channel and pull up the stats overlay, playback is real choppy showing around 10-15fps. I then pause the channel, fps shoots up to 59-60. Then unpause, and most of the time playback is fine from then on. Fps goes to 29.97, like it should.
When I pop out of XBMC and back to my actual Mythfrontend client, playback exhibits no issues, ever.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
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What graphics chipset and do you have hardware acceleration turned on?
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The machine is running an AMD card. It looks like VDPAU is enabled. Like I said, playback is smooth as silk using mythfrontend. Just kind of random using XBMC for playback.
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Unless you have been following the vdpau on radeon oss thread, vdpau is not the right option for an amd gpu.
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2013-11-19, 00:15
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-19, 00:16 by baggar11.)
Thanks nickr. So I should turn it off or try another video card? The system does have an onboard Intel video. Maybe give that a try?
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I just wanted to say thanks. I got sidetracked on some house projects and hadn't gotten around to tweaking my graphics situation. But 2 days ago I took out the AMD gpu and started using the built in 965q Intel gpu and everything has been working great. No more choppy playback.
I think I was actually having a related issue playing movies/tv shows with that AMD card too. Every now and then when I would start a movie/tv show, I would only get 13-18fps. I'd have to pause the movie/show and then unpause for it to snap out of it and playback correctly.
