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video randomly crashes when using dxva2 - nathanblgos - 2010-05-15
I was wondering if anyone else was having this issue, when I watch some videos using dxva2 it works fine or awhile then randomly it just crashes. It looks like it tries to change the refresh rate or resolution, the sound cuts out, but it seems to continues to work correctly after a few seconds. A couple of times I've seen the windows warning display recovering from a diaply error or something.
specs:
win 7
1gb ram
ati 5450
e6350 cpu
this is not limited to xbmc it also happens in mpc-hc.
any ideas ?
- joshuass - 2010-05-16
Make sure you're ATI drivers are up to date. ATI released Catalyst 10.4 last month which boosts h.264 decode capabilities to profile level 5.1 and up to 8 ref frames.
Also, as you've seen in the other threads about DXVA, hardware decoding support is still in development and is bound to be buggy, especially when used with other features of XBMC. I would disable auto-refresh-rate for now and see what happens. But make sure to update Catalyst first!
DXVA is also very dependent on how the video was encoded, so it may work for some, and not for others.
- nathanblgos - 2010-05-17
joshuass Wrote:Make sure you're ATI drivers are up to date. ATI released Catalyst 10.4 last month which boosts h.264 decode capabilities to profile level 5.1 and up to 8 ref frames.
Also, as you've seen in the other threads about DXVA, hardware decoding support is still in development and is bound to be buggy, especially when used with other features of XBMC. I would disable auto-refresh-rate for now and see what happens. But make sure to update Catalyst first!
DXVA is also very dependent on how the video was encoded, so it may work for some, and not for others.
I forgot to say I'm already using the 10.4 drivers, and I am aware dxva isn't completely working. however this problem isn't occuring for just xbmc, it seems to be happening with any program using dxva. I was hoping someone else was having this issue, otherwise my video card might be faulty.
I am going to try a fresh install of windows 7 and see if this error happens again.
- Lister of Smeg - 2010-05-17
nathanblgos Wrote:I forgot to say I'm already using the 10.4 drivers, and I am aware dxva isn't completely working. however this problem isn't occuring for just xbmc, it seems to be happening with any program using dxva. I was hoping someone else was having this issue, otherwise my video card might be faulty.
I am going to try a fresh install of windows 7 and see if this error happens again.
Try re-installing DirectX 11 Feb10 redist
- nathanblgos - 2010-05-18
Lister of Smeg Wrote:Try re-installing DirectX 11 Feb10 redist
will do when I do a fresh install