2013-06-25, 01:13
I've just purchased an HP Microserver*, with the plan of making it into an HTPC.
I've copied some videos onto it, however when running XBMC I'm getting very poor performance when watching videos.
In the menus etc the UI is very slick, however as soon as I open any video, performance dissapears and even the mouse is slow to respond. The video is jerky with standard-definition content, but with 1080p content the video is down to 1 frame per multiple seconds.
All the videos play fine in VLC (even the ultra high bandwidth ones) without a hint of performance problems.
So far I've tried enabling / disabling DXVA (hardware acceleration) without success.
Any suggestions?
*specs - AMD Turion N54L CPU (2.2 GHz), 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD + 8TB RAID0 HDD's, AMD 6450 GPU, clean Windows 8 x64 install, XBMC "Frodo", 32" LCD plugged in via VGA
I've copied some videos onto it, however when running XBMC I'm getting very poor performance when watching videos.
In the menus etc the UI is very slick, however as soon as I open any video, performance dissapears and even the mouse is slow to respond. The video is jerky with standard-definition content, but with 1080p content the video is down to 1 frame per multiple seconds.
All the videos play fine in VLC (even the ultra high bandwidth ones) without a hint of performance problems.
So far I've tried enabling / disabling DXVA (hardware acceleration) without success.
Any suggestions?
*specs - AMD Turion N54L CPU (2.2 GHz), 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD + 8TB RAID0 HDD's, AMD 6450 GPU, clean Windows 8 x64 install, XBMC "Frodo", 32" LCD plugged in via VGA