[RookieLinux]

Im another Newbie to the scene.

I just purchased a

Zotac Ion 330.
I have 4GB Ram on it.

I am trying to get it to play 1080p x.264 via my home network. .
Heck Id be happy if I could get it to play 720p x.265 without "fluttering" (Slight lag skips)

I tried it on Windows 7 with the Windows XBMC. No Go.
I got my buddy to help me with trying to do it with Ubuntu v9.04 (Cause I am clueless with Linux) and we could not get it to play right. Still had skips and sound was not syncing. We followed a lot of how to on this forum in Ubuntu to no avail. Are we missing something in cmos?

I am absolutely lost.

I read on this forum in MANY places that this is the board to buy and use for a HTPC.

ANY help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

RookieLinux

[K-FleX]

Windows XBMC has no GPU offloading so it won't be able to take advantage of the ION chip and all processing will be done by the Atom (not enough). Are you using wired or Wifi for your LAN connection?

Try running this:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=57764

I think the "ASRock ION 330 Preperation" option works nice for your board - read the whole thread.

[RookieLinux]

Using LAN connection. Have 2 1.5TB HD's. I was watching all my x264's on my desktop, but once I learned of the whole HTPC scene, I wanted one real bad. So I read up and this board kept coming up.

I will check out the Script. (Well, I will fwd it to my pal....the only Linux I know is the word Ubuntu....I am slowly being weened off of Windoze.)

Thank you.

[bobo1on1]

First: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34655

Second: Did you turn on VDPAU?

[RookieLinux]

How do we turn it on? (VDPAU)

[fdrzrich]

From within the Video options in XBMC. Also did you changed the video memory allocation in the Bios to be 512mb (assuming its similar to AsRock Ion330)?

[ricelover]

How do we turn it on? (VDPAU)

append this to your apt sources list to get the Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA builds
youll also have to configure mplayer or xine to use vdpau then you'll have to configure XBMC to use an external player like xine or mplayer to use GPU for HD content

#Xbmc Team PPA
#deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/jaunty-ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
#deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/jaunty-ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

#Xbmc Bleeding Edge SVN builds
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

#Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA
#sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CEC06767
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

by the way i also have a Zotac Ion ITX 330 A ... it rocks ... just 27 watts under full load

i would say come back if mplayer or xine works with HD-content

HD-content works out of the box with xine or mplayer but you'll have an very high cpu load.
you'll see if it works if you cpu load drops to something like 30% you may check it in a terminal with

Code:

top

From within the Video options in XBMC. Also did you changed the video memory allocation in the Bios to be 512mb (assuming its similar to AsRock Ion330)?

is too absolutely needed

[iainmacleod]

Listen to fdrzrich, that is the way to go first - the fact you don't know where it is, probably means it is the solution - it is very important to increase GPU RAM in bios though.

[ricelover]

Listen to fdrzrich, that is the way to go first - the fact you don't know where it is, probably means it is the solution - it is very important to increase GPU RAM in bios though.

cool i am using the svn build since one day ... didn't know that there is an rendermode vdpau ... but at least he'll need the nvidia-vdpau drivers to get vdpau working, if vdpau support is allready compiled into xbmc i guess he won't need an external player

[RookieLinux]

The 1st thing I did was to turn on the 512MB of video in the BIOS. But I dont think we ever turned on VDPAU. SO I wil have my buddy look into that and see if that does the fix.

I appreciate all the help everyone gives here. Very nice. Especially for someone who only knows the word Linux and nothing else. I am learning a lot though.

This is my board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...IONITX-A-U

4GB Ram.
40GB Sata HD
55" Vizio LCD HDTV
Playing from wired LAN off of 2 1.5TB drives.

Thanks again for all the help.

**Tried XBMCLive...got really bad results...will try to turn on vdpau...that seems to be where we are missing things....hopefully.**

[RookieLinux]

cool i am using the svn build since one day ... didn't know that there is an rendermode vdpau ... but at least he'll need the nvidia-vdpau drivers to get vdpau working, if vdpau support is allready compiled into xbmc i guess he won't need an external player

RICE
Can you elaborate on what is need to be done "append this to your apt sources list to get the Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA builds
youll also have to configure mplayer or xine to use vdpau then you'll have to configure XBMC to use an external player like xine or mplayer to use GPU for HD content"

I have been forewarding all this info to my pal who is a Linux man. I am a windoze man being weened....so I am not sure what needs to be done and he needs it in laymans terms as he isnt Grand Master quite yet.



Thanks

[RookieLinux]

Is there anyone out there that could possibly give me/us a breakdown step by step of what we need to do to get the

Zotac Ion N330

to play the 1080p?

I am absolute noob.

My buddy is fairly noob to it as well.

I am sure we are missing a configuration of some sort somewhere.

We cannot for the life of us get this to work, when we see SOOOOO many people on here who have the EXACT board and 1/2 the Ram.

Any helpful walkthru's would be appreciated.

We are noobs, and we thank any and everyone who is willing to hold our hands on this.

Thanks a million

[LAGMonkey]

http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php...ight=zotac

check it out over there, that should be Noob friendly enough for you Its what i used as a hint to sort my Ion out.

[RookieLinux]

Thanks a Million. Got my buddy workin on it now. I will post back if it what we were missing.

Thanks to XBMC and all the supporters here.

[LAGMonkey]

cool, im sure you and your buddie are aware in the guide the Nvidia driver is old (185.18.14).
what i did instead of using wget is go to the nvidia website
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
and download the driver using firefox, move it to my home folder and then use the "sh" command.
good luck with the install