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Jikyo · 2009-09-18, 00:39

Hey guys,
first of all - Props for this great community.

Sadly i (linux noob) thought xbmc live would solve all my problems but sadly it now makes me learn *nix Rolleyes

Anyways - my setup is a pretty simple AMD 4850+, 2Gigers of RAM on an Geforce 8200 Mobo.

Sadly XBMC Live makes all my .mkv files choppy + digital audio out wont work. I guess xbmc is not using the right/up2date drivers.

Could any1 help me?

I tried the ION Tutorials and changed nvidia-gtx-185 to nvidia-gtx-new but well it didnt help Smile

harryzimm · 2009-09-18, 00:45

Have you selected vdpau in settings, videos, player, render method?

cheers

Jikyo · 2009-09-18, 01:02

i did not. But when i do its totally choppy its not working at all

SD-Video works, .mkvs are like 1-2 fps

**gabbott** · 2009-09-18, 01:22

Jikyo Wrote:i did not. But when i do its totally choppy its not working at all

SD-Video works, .mkvs are like 1-2 fps

You need to enable vdpau in order to get gpu assisted decoding. Sounds like that is your issue.

edit: oh sorry, didnt read fully that you did try. Something else sounds amiss, I have a 8200 using the nvidia drivers that comes with the latest stable of live and it works fine.

Jikyo · 2009-09-18, 02:19

Okay. I might have fucked it up earlier. I will reinstall and try VPMU from the beginning.

Do you have solution for the sound issue?

Jikyo · 2009-09-18, 02:29

ya its not working at all. The video is totally messed up with vdpau

fasteddy · 2009-09-18, 04:29

3 thoughts:
1. Do you have the nvidia drivers installed?
2. Do you have 512mb of ram assigned to your igpu?
3. Are you using dual channel ram?

Jikyo · 2009-09-18, 11:41

1. Probably not - How does it work? - i tried the FAQ for the Nvidia ION but i guess those are not the right drivers.

2. I cannot. I've set my primary gfx card now to Internal VGA and SLI RAM Size to 256MB (shouldn change anything but it was worth a try). it didnt help though Sad

At least the Grafics arent totally fucked now. But its still FAR awayfrom smooth (feels like 10fps - prolly less)

3. Yes, i Do. 2 x 1GB Dual Channel (800)

My motherboard is a Asus M3N78 btw

harryzimm · 2009-09-18, 12:40

Try following this guide to update to a more recent version. I think there was a fix after the stable was released. I did a quick google on that motherboard and you should be able to set the gpu to 512mb in bios. Here is the link.

cheers

Jikyo · 2009-09-18, 15:55

Will try this as soon as im home.

Thanks

**Starstream** · 2009-09-18, 19:13

This might be a little easier there is an XBMC Live with newer Nvidia driver (but not the latest) available here or here as an ISO image you can burn to disc & install.

It's based on the last stable release 9.04.1 so I dont know if that will improve anything for you.

shassino · 2009-09-18, 20:06

2 things:
1) u must enable 512MB shared ram to video card in bios setup (if u can't do that u must upgrade bios) to use vdpau correctly.
2) in stable version (the live use the stable version) there is a known bug that affect all nvidia integrated card like your 8200 (i'm a 8300 user Tongue

) solved some time ago in the svn build (development). Follow the sticky that explaing how to install from svn ppa.

Jikyo · 2009-09-20, 12:09

So upgrading to the latest nvidia driver + bleeding edge helped alot. Its nearly good now.

Audio is still not working though.