[detox1978]

hi All,

I build myself a XBMC last night and everything is working well.

I stumbled across this guide in the wiki for enabling hardware acceleration, which says i just need to have a DXVA2 compatible video card and enable the setting with XBMC.

I have an onboard radeon HD 3000 that came with this board.

I downloaded the latest driver from the ATI website and the carrd show up fine in device manager and XBMC (v10.1) lists the GPU as "ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics". However after enabling the setting in XBMC i still see dc:ff-h264.


Any suggestions?

[jhsrennie]

We need to see a debug log to find out why acceleration isn't being used. Enable debug logging from System settings, System, Debugging, and restart XBMC then wait a minute or two to let all the startup processes finish. Play a sample video for a few seconds then stop it and close XBMC.

Open the debug log by pressing Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:

"%appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log"

(including the quotes). Click OK and the log should open in Notepad. Copy and paste the log into http://pastebin.com/ and post the link it gives you here.

JR

[detox1978]

XBMC.log

I open new XBMC.exe to get an empty log file and run Two.and.a.Half.Men.S09E04.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE.mkv


If there's anything else in the log that looks like an issue let me know, as this is my first install of XBMC in four years (last one was onto an Xbox One)

[jhsrennie]

The problem is:

DEBUG: DXVA - unable to find an input/output format combination

This means your video card/driver do not support DXVA2 for the codec used by the video. As I recall the Radeon 3xxx series can be troublesome, but I don't have any Radeon 3000s to hand so I can't check.

Can you fit an NVIDIA G210 or similar PCIe card? That will give you hardware acceleration for a small amount of money.

JR

[0wing]

From what I could find, the AMD 760G chipset doesn't support DXVA2.

[detox1978]

The description says it supports DX10, so doesnt that mean it should work with DXVA2?

[Mallet21]

Download the DXVA Checker to see if your HD3000 supports DXVA2:
http://bluesky23.yu-nagi.com/en/#DXVAChecker

[detox1978]

Download the DXVA Checker to see if your HD3000 supports DXVA2:
http://bluesky23.yu-nagi.com/en/#DXVAChecker

[paco]

Your card doesn't support DXVA2. Here are my listings. The ones in bold are what XBMC supports:

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 / nForce 730i

ModeMPEG2_IDCT: DXVA2, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeMPEG2_VLD: DXVA2, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeMPEG2_A: DXVA1, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeMPEG2_C: DXVA1, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeVC1_VLD: DXVA2, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeVC1_IDCT: DXVA1/2, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeWMV9_IDCT: DXVA1/2, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080
ModeH264_VLD_NoFGT: DXVA2, 720x480 / 1280x720 / 1920x1080

[detox1978]

I managed to get it to work.

I ended up uninstalling the card within device manager (checking the delete driver option, which removes the windows driver), I then reinstalled the latest driver from the ATI website.

After doing this i had the option within the DXVA checker to enable additional hardware acceleration formats.

My guess is it's something to do with the motherboard being Windows Compatible, so Windows prefers its own version of the drivers - even if they are out of date.