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I am trying to get XBMC running through windows. When I first tried, I got the error that a .dll was missing. A search through these forums led me to install the August 2009 distro of DirectX.
That worked, XBMC loaded. I added my external drives as sources. However, when I go to play a video file, even thogh the sound is PERFECT (AC3 passthrough), there is no video... only a white screen. This was the case for but the .VOBs I tried and well ask an .mkvs I tried.
Any idea?
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i had a similar problem but mine was something to do with ati ccc 9.12 so i uninstalled my graphics driver and went back to 9.11 however i belive ccc 10.1 is out this may fix it but iv not bothered to update yet
hope this helps (altho if you dont have a ati graphics it wont lol)
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It is an older HP DC5000 SFF with integrated intel chip graphics. Does this still apply?
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bobo1on1
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It's because your gpu doesn't support directx pixel shaders 2.0, and xbmc currently does not have a software fallback for directx.
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2010-01-30, 19:59
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-30, 20:03 by wisenheimer.)
When I was running XBMCLive I had the picture just fine. It's the same on-board GPU. (I only tried the Windows version because I was having a hard time mounting external drives) Does/Can the disc-driven Linux version do something that windows can not?
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bobo1on1
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Opengl in xbmc has a software fallback.
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Well F me, running. Thanks for the input. While unfortunate, you may have saved me a lot of time.
