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Can someone please point me to a definition of the statistics I am seeing when I press O on my keyboard.
I have looked and searched but had no luck finding the exact definitions...
I mainly am trying to see if I can tell how much load my is my cpu vs my video card....
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All of the stats are labeled fairly clearly other than maybe aq and vq which are the audio and video frame queue usages. Perhaps you could be more specific as to which you're confused about. AFAIK there's no platform independent way to measure GPU load, only through proprietary manufacturer specific tools. What exactly are you hoping to gain from this?
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XBMC doesn't offload video decoding on any platforms at this time. Any CPU usage differences you observe are likely in the driver.
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natethomas
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Wow. I used to not like it when people suggested using the search button, but it amazes me how people persist in having no idea about the no hardware acceleration thing.
Maybe the team could change the title. XBMC-NHD (No Hardware Decoding). Or maybe XBMC-OCPU (Only CPU). XBMC-LTR (Learn to Read).
Wait. Got it. XBMC-DND!!! (Die, N00bs, die).
Alright, that might be a little much.
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he was refereing to searching for hardware accelleration, which as stated, there is no support for now, or in the forseeable future.
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natethomas
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Yes. I realize that sometimes we make presumptions without pausing to consider them. I was simply experiencing a momentary irrational moment of frustration about this particular presumption. As you are somewhat new, you had no real reason to know the amount of arguing and haggling that has gone on for the past several months about hardware acceleration and the lack of it. The fact of the matter is, though, that this issue comes up over and over.
For your info, the XBMC devs do not personally develop the video decoder. That is done by the nice people over at FFmpeg. Because they do not have a video card based decoder in their main trunk, XBMC does not have a video card based decoder.
Heh. "Momentary irrational moment." Somewhere within that phrase lies the secret of life and all physics.