[PitCritter]

I've been using XBMC for years and have always been able to figure out my issues. This one has me stumped.

Certain videos (no pattern that I can see) display as two small windows at the top of my screen. The videos all play perfectly in VLC. MediaInfo doesn't give any clues as to why some videos play normally and some don't.

I don't know if it's relevant, but I'm running Frodo on Windows on a Revo r3610.

Any guesses are more than welcome.

Here's the MediaInfo for one file that doesn't display properly.

General
Complete name : P:\2TB TV & Music\TV\Dancing With The Stars\Season 16\Dancing.With.the.Stars.-.16x10.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 924 MiB
Duration : 1h 24mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 523 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-04-23 02:49:38
Tagged date : UTC 2013-04-23 02:49:38

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 24mn
Bit rate : 1 391 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 5 561 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 404 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.160
Stream size : 843 MiB (91%)
Writing library : x264 core 130 r2273 b3065e6
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2013-04-23 02:18:14
Tagged date : UTC 2013-04-23 02:50:45
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 24mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 144 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 67ms
Stream size : 77.6 MiB (8%)
Encoded date : UTC 2013-04-23 02:50:42
Tagged date : UTC 2013-04-23 02:50:45

[nickr]

Debug log (wiki) and screenshot.

[PitCritter]

Log

Screenshot

Thanks for looking

[PitCritter]

This may be bad form, but...

Bump.

Am I the only one with this issue?

If you look at the screenshot, it looks like only half the info (half the scan lines maybe) is included in each small screen. This leads me to think that it's an interlace issue.

I re-installed as a last resort and it's still the same.

[Jogee]

Not knowing your hardware setup (display, avr, etc), I'd ask why you are running your desktop resolution at 1842x1036?

I wouldn't say it's an interlace issue per-say, as the video is progressive @ 30 fps. But with your screen res running at 60 Hz, it would have to double the frames to get up to 60.

It seems XBMC is going to 1920x1080 (unless I read the log incorrectly), or at least doing some resizing back and forth. I'd say set your desktop res to 1920x1080 if you can, or down to 1680x1050 and try again. This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but an easy change to try.

Also, from your log file it looks like you have hardware acceleration enabled in XBMC as well. I would suggest you can TRY to use software rendering mode, as my opinion is that this looks like a video driver issue.

Backing up your XBMC userdata folder and erasing it to start from scratch settings would help with determining if it's a setting that's messed up in XBMC.

And the standard answer, but still valid -- update your video driver. When you do, the NVidia installer lets you erase your personal settings and start from scratch. I would recommend do so in this case.

Good luck.