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- dannyv45 - 2010-01-14
jhsrennie Wrote:http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/MP1.html
JR
Thats the exact same card I use and I can confirm it works great with the broadcom card.
- DrMedia - 2010-01-15
Quote:Originally Posted by jhsrennie
http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/MP1.html
JR
Thanks for that.. cant find any in UK, and im not prepared to part nearly $50 just for an adapter and delivery!!!
That would make the crystalhd and adaptor cost around $80 or about £55!!
- Scott R - 2010-01-15
WiSo Wrote:3) without a crystal card we can't do much for the DirectX port.Wiso, if I gave you an Acer AspireRevo would NVIDIA ION support be available in the near future? I could make that happen.
Yes I bought me a Crystal HD card not because I need it but to get it running. And please don't think we always have everything for testing at home. I don't own a second monitor, nor a 1080 tv, nor digital audio equipment etc.
- A600 - 2010-01-15
DrMedia Wrote:That would make the crystalhd and adaptor cost around $80 or about £55!!
If the short bracket isn't a problem you can buy this
- davilla - 2010-01-15
A600 Wrote:If the short bracket isn't a problem you can buy this
Nice find
It will even handle the 1/2 sized mini pci-e. Wink, wink.
- ashlar - 2010-01-15
Scott R Wrote:Wiso, if I gave you an Acer AspireRevo would NVIDIA ION support be available in the near future? I could make that happen.The problem is that, in that case, to properly use the ION hardware acceleration you would need to develop a DirectShow based player, there's no VDPAU under Windows.
- DrMedia - 2010-01-15
Quote:Quote:
Originally Posted by DrMedia View Post
That would make the crystalhd and adaptor cost around $80 or about £55!!
If the short bracket isn't a problem you can buy this
Nice..just orderd one, and the crystal hd card.. so lets see what happens!!! WOuld imagine adapter will take a week or 2 to get here....
Just to confirm, I need to be running a gl version of xbmc on windows....
Any other disadvantages in doing this
?
- WiSo - 2010-01-15
Scott R Wrote:Wiso, if I gave you an Acer AspireRevo would NVIDIA ION support be available in the near future? I could make that happen.
Thanks for the offer but I'm the wrong to ask. I hope for DXVA in future and think it's only a matter of time.
- johnw - 2010-01-15
jhsrennie Wrote:Did you run the setup.exe fom the driver download or did you just install the driver from Device Manager? If the latter, XBMC won't see the card as it needs libraries installed by setup.exe.
Also are you using x64 or x86 Windows? I'm not sure if it will work on x64 Windows.
If you turn debug logging on the log file will tell you whether XBMC is using the Crystal HD.
JR
I haven't had the time to diagnose further yet, but to answer your question, it is Windows 7 x86 and I used setup.exe to install the Crystal HD drivers. This was a fresh install of Windows, the only other software I installed was Comodo Firewall and antivirus. I have had different versions of XBMC installed and uninstalled. I will have some time over the weekend so I will turn debug logging on.
Pictures of my Desktop PCIe CrystalHD Card Version and infos - zyxel13 - 2010-01-15
Hello,
today I received the following :
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250515308995&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
and
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320436937576&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
The Carrier and MiniPCIex work good together in my Test HTPC
Here a few Pictures :
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/P1010779.JPG
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/P1010780.JPG
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/P1010781.JPG
Playing a h264 compressed m2ts file gives me the following result with svn 26880dx:
it decodes the h264 Full HD video, w very low cpu usage but.... the video fills out only the upper half of the Screen(and its almost Black and White),
the lower half of the screen is green....... and after the file finishes, CBMC crashes...see screenshot:
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/crystalhd000-dx.png
here the Debug Log for the above:
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/xbmc_crystalhd-dx.log
Playing the same h264 compressed m2ts file gives me the following result with svn 26880gl:
Using the above GL version setting the Crystal HD as the renderer,
it decodes the h264 Full HD video great(great colors, very low cpu),
but.... the video fills out only the upper half of the Screen, the lower half of the screen is green.......
...see screenshots:
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/crystalhd000-gl.png
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/crystalhd001-gl.png
here the Debug Log for the above:
http://www.grsnet.net/xbmc/xbmc_crystalhd-gl.log
Cheers,
Konstantin
- davilla - 2010-01-15
"but.... the video fills out only the upper half of the Screen, the lower half of the screen is green......."
yes, the deinterlacing of interlaced video content. known issue.
- zyxel13 - 2010-01-15
Hi Davilla,
thankyou for your reply.
Is this a Issue or a missconfiguration from my side ?
Why does the DX version also work (at least somehow) with the Crystalhd ?
The problem is that when the CrystalHD Card is in the HTPC , the DX version crashes....
You want me to make any test with my setup ?
Cheers,
Konstantin
- davilla - 2010-01-16
zyxel13 Wrote:Hi Davilla,
thankyou for your reply.
Is this a Issue or a missconfiguration from my side ?
Why does the DX version also work (at least somehow) with the Crystalhd ?
The problem is that when the CrystalHD Card is in the HTPC , the DX version crashes....
You want me to make any test with my setup ?
Cheers,
Konstantin
Opps, missed that "Platform: Windows XP", thought it was Linux. The DX version crashes sometimes because the render assumes YV12 and the CrystalHD decoder outputs NV12. YV12 has three planes (y, u, and v), NV12 has two (y and uv packed). If renderer assumes YV12 and tries to access the 3rd plane, it might die.
No tests needed until DX version gets fixed.
- daverx7 - 2010-01-21
I thought I would post my configuration and my quick initial findings...
* Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
* Old AMD 4600 Dual Core Duo w/3GB RAM
* POWERCOLOR AX3650 1GBD2-V2 Radeon HD 3650 1GB 128-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card $37 USD ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131169 )
* BroadCom BCM970012 Mini PCI-e HD Decoder Chipset 4 UMPC $22 USD ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320436937576 ) - 64-bit driver
* Mini PCIe to PCIe adapter $16 USD ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170422041954 )
* XBMCSetup-Rev26880-gl.exe
I've only done some quick preliminary testing on a couple of 1080p mkv movies that start to stutter within seconds, but ran smooth as silk with the above configuration.
Thanks to all that are doing all the hard work with making XBMC happen, and those that shared their XBMC setup info in this thread!
-Dave
- ashlar - 2010-01-21
daverx7, I'm not sure I get what you mean.
The couple of 1080p mkv movies start to stutter without CrystalHD and run smooth as silk with CrystalHD? Is that what you meant?