[joisey04]

Hello!

I had XBMC running on my Apple TV very smoothly in terms of stability and video playback.
Then I noticed that my HDD was making funny noises and I decided to put a new one in and do a fresh install. After all, I had other programs on my ATV and didn't need them anymore.
So I did:

- Factory restore (created partitions, placed efi & recovery, created media part)
- update to latest firmware
- patchstick (atvusb-creator)
- and finally XBMC download

The good is that XBMC is fast and snappy now with the fresh install.

The bad:
Now if I watch a video I see horizontal lines in fast pans or if someone moves through the picture fast. I havenÄt had this before!!
And secondly, XBMC exits a lot with error code 10 & 11

Anyone any idea?
Is there anything else I need to install?
Nito & perian for codecs?

Please help, I reall enjoy XBMC!!!!

[davilla]

Hello!

I had XBMC running on my Apple TV very smoothly in terms of stability and video playback.
Then I noticed that my HDD was making funny noises and I decided to put a new one in and do a fresh install. After all, I had other programs on my ATV and didn't need them anymore.
So I did:

- Factory restore (created partitions, placed efi & recovery, created media part)
- update to latest firmware
- patchstick (atvusb-creator)
- and finally XBMC download

The good is that XBMC is fast and snappy now with the fresh install.

The bad:
Now if I watch a video I see horizontal lines in fast pans or if someone moves through the picture fast. I havenÄt had this before!!
And secondly, XBMC exits a lot with error code 10 & 11

Anyone any idea?
Is there anything else I need to install?
Nito & perian for codecs?

Please help, I reall enjoy XBMC!!!!

need the standard info, aka, xbmc.log. That's much better than trying to guess which versions you might have installed.

[joisey04]

here is the xbmc.log:
http://pastebin.ca/1505932
and here the crashreporter.log:
http://pastebin.ca/1505935

thanks!

[davilla]

here is the xbmc.log:
http://pastebin.ca/1505932
and here the crashreporter.log:
http://pastebin.ca/1505935

thanks!

turn off Upscaling and let the GPU do that. Upscaling sucks many CPU cycles and is not recommended on the AppleTV.

[joisey04]

did that

still the same...
it looks like horizontal jitter of some sort
like one part updates faster than another

[davilla]

did that

still the same...
it looks like horizontal jitter of some sort
like one part updates faster than another

that would be a vsync. is it on?

[joisey04]

it wasn't but now it is (set to "always on")....and it seems to work
you are the man-thanks!

[kxbmc]

I think I might be experience the same issue. However I can't figure out where to go to enable/disable vsync. Could someone please tell me. Thx.

[kxbmc]

Found it and it works. Got rid of those pesky lines (aka page tearing artifacts). To enable vertical synchronization (aka vsync) go to Settings->Appearance->Screen and set "Vertical blank sync" to "Always enabled".

Apparently the user guide isn't up-to-date, because this isn't shown on this page:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Appearance_Settings

[jayhawk785]

I thought this was now set to "always enabled" for osx builds now?

[davilla]

I thought this was now set to "always enabled" for osx builds now?

It should be and I'm very tempted to hard code vsync to always be enabled on OSX.

[HvClausewitz]

It should be and I'm very tempted to hard code vsync to always be enabled on OSX.

Would make sense, since I have not found any combination of resolution and media type, that displays correctly on Apple TV without vsync set to "always on".

[KevinSartori]

I've moved my issue to a new thread with more information:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=431944