2008-09-11, 12:10
Hi all xbmc fans
I am very impressed with the functionality in the windows port of xbmc. But I have a slight problem with the video playback performance. I know that a lot of people reports problems with hd stuff etc. and complaining about not using external codecs. I know all that but my issue is slightly different.
When I play regular avi files in sd (and hd) or dvd isos the quality of the playback is not perfect. I can see small 'hickups' in the playback, like it's not as smooth as it should be. Especially in panoramic scenes this is very annoying as the image is a little 'jerky'. It should not be a performance problem on my pc because the cpu load is around 20-25% during playback and the xbmc reports no dropped frames. The frame rate reported is also correct. I also do not think it is a sync problem as enabling/disabling vertical sync do me no good. I have tried different resolutions, fullscreen or windowed but nothing seems to help..
As i have understood the xbmc uses the 'dvdplayer' as its internal player. Does anybody else have this problem, or are there any tweaking tips for me? I did some testing using the x86 port of mplayer and then the playback quality was perfect. And no other player I use give me this problem.
Btw. my pc is a AMD Athlon X2 2800+, 3Gb ram, XP SP3, GeForce 6600
Thanx for any advice or help on this as it is the only issue keeping me from using xbmc.
Kind regards..
I am very impressed with the functionality in the windows port of xbmc. But I have a slight problem with the video playback performance. I know that a lot of people reports problems with hd stuff etc. and complaining about not using external codecs. I know all that but my issue is slightly different.
When I play regular avi files in sd (and hd) or dvd isos the quality of the playback is not perfect. I can see small 'hickups' in the playback, like it's not as smooth as it should be. Especially in panoramic scenes this is very annoying as the image is a little 'jerky'. It should not be a performance problem on my pc because the cpu load is around 20-25% during playback and the xbmc reports no dropped frames. The frame rate reported is also correct. I also do not think it is a sync problem as enabling/disabling vertical sync do me no good. I have tried different resolutions, fullscreen or windowed but nothing seems to help..
As i have understood the xbmc uses the 'dvdplayer' as its internal player. Does anybody else have this problem, or are there any tweaking tips for me? I did some testing using the x86 port of mplayer and then the playback quality was perfect. And no other player I use give me this problem.
Btw. my pc is a AMD Athlon X2 2800+, 3Gb ram, XP SP3, GeForce 6600
Thanx for any advice or help on this as it is the only issue keeping me from using xbmc.
Kind regards..
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