[kedda]

All,
Something weird happens with my setup. I have the Apple TV 1 with the Crystal HD (BCM70015), XBMC Dharma 10.1, and r174 driver installed.

At first video plays PERFECTLY. However, every 2nd or 3rd day the video starts to stutter badly and I can barely SSH into it. Only fix is a reboot of the box.

Is this an issue with Sleep, the Driver, or XBMC??

Please help!?!?

[eTip]

Network related perhaps? Wired or wireless? Anything else happening on your network perhaps - torrent traffic, etc? Does the stuttering happen playing back from movies in iTunes (download an HD podcast to test if you don't have any movies in iTunes)?

[kedda]

everything is completely wired.
I havent tried to play other video after it occurs.
I will try to play an HD podcast to test.

[kedda]

oh, and its not related to network traffic.

[davilla]

xbmc.log or no soup.

[kedda]

XBMC.log
http://pastebin.com/792N4p4y

ran the following: ps -u -p `ps -ax | grep XBMC | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'

during stuttering:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 172 94.7 43.9 446736 115200 ?? Rs 10:55PM 339:41.90 /Applicati
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 172 92.4 42.7 447456 111964 ?? Rs 10:55PM 343:13.25 /Applicati

without stuttering:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 278 64.5 47.7 435032 124980 ?? Rs 8:14AM 1:02.44 /Applicati
-bash-2.05b$ ps -u -p `ps -ax | grep XBMC | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 278 53.6 41.4 432072 108560 ?? Rs 8:14AM 7:28.76 /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/MacOS/XBMC -fs

[kedda]

exiting XBMC, returning to frontrow and restarting XBMC fixes this issue.

what is happening?

[kedda]

WARNING: CoreAudioRenderer::Initialize: Unable to locate configured device, falling-back to the system default.

ERROR: CCoreAudioDevice::SetMixingSupport: Unable to set MixingSupport to 'Off'. Error = 0x65706f6e (nope)

WARNING: CRenderManager::Configure - timeout waiting for previous frame

WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
(repeats 3 times)

WARNING: CRenderManager::FlipPage - timeout waiting for flip to complete

I get a bunch of these...

WARNING: Decode - avcodec_decode_video didn't consume the full packet. size: 28939, consumed: 0

WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available

[kedda]

This is not specific to this file, when it occurs, it occurs on all movie files.

[davilla]

XBMC.log
http://pastebin.com/792N4p4y

ran the following: ps -u -p `ps -ax | grep XBMC | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'

during stuttering:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 172 94.7 43.9 446736 115200 ?? Rs 10:55PM 339:41.90 /Applicati
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 172 92.4 42.7 447456 111964 ?? Rs 10:55PM 343:13.25 /Applicati

without stuttering:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 278 64.5 47.7 435032 124980 ?? Rs 8:14AM 1:02.44 /Applicati
-bash-2.05b$ ps -u -p `ps -ax | grep XBMC | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
frontrow 278 53.6 41.4 432072 108560 ?? Rs 8:14AM 7:28.76 /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/MacOS/XBMC -fs

cpu is saturated (94.7 percent), so you are skipping frames to keep up.

dmepg might show more info. what is happening is it's using ffmepg for decode and not crystalhd. you don't have the ponies to decode much with ffmpeg by itself on atv1. find out why crystalhd drops out after a few days. see dmesg. I bet it is leaking.

[interceptor121]

a memory leak would require a reboot not just exiting to frontrow and running xbmc again?

[davilla]

it's a little unclear, the posts jump around a bit.

[kedda]

last two times I tried it, I had to reboot to get it to work.

a memory leak would require a reboot not just exiting to frontrow and running xbmc again?

[kedda]

it's a little unclear, the posts jump around a bit.

if its a memory leak, what can I do to fix it?

[davilla]

boot linux on it, xbmc is really much better under linux on that atv1 than the native os.