[reynolea]

I'm running XBMC Camelot on Ubuntu 9.10. HW is OOTB ASROCK 330 HT configuration. Network is Gigabit/CAT6.

I've ripped several of my blu-rays to MKVs (20-30GB rips), and the movies play fine until say around 1-1.5 hours, and then buffering kicks in, and the movie keeps gettting interrupted by the buffer display. If I pause, then wait 20 minutes, I can press play and watch the end of the movie without being interrupted. This problem doesn't happen with other lower-bandwidth formats (AVI,etc).

Some questions:

-- Is this a case where my "little engine that could" just doesn't have enough horsepower after a while? If so, if I sacrificed the small footprint and built a beefier box, more RAM, faster CPU/GPU, would this solve the problem? Any recommendations on this front?

--Are there SW settings in XBMC that could address this issue? I seemed to recall buffering settings in older versions of XBMC?

Thx!

[tslayer]

Please read stickies on how to post in a useful manner... or you can look in my signature since the link is there too.

Hint: Debug Log.

[reynolea]

Ok will take a look at the debug log. I guess this issue didn't seem like a bug to me at first, but more WAD that might be addressed through SW/HW configuration.

[tslayer]

Depends on your configuration. Since you are using ubuntu, vdpau should handle it fine.

Also, if it is playing for some time and then the issue happens, it is probably a bug.

Have you tried a newer release yet? Such as Dharma nightlies?

[Vankwish]

[quote=reynolea]-- Is this a case where my "little engine that could" just doesn't have enough horsepower after a while? If so, if I sacrificed the small footprint and built a beefier box, more RAM, faster CPU/GPU, would this solve the problem? Any recommendations on this front?[quote]

I can't answer your problem but you dont need to sacrifice the small footprint. My little Revo hasn't chocked on anything ive thrown at it yet! Simultaneous Par/Unrar/Http/Copy/Move whilst playing my 1080 BRRips.

An easy way to "debug" whats wrong would be to fire up one of the newer livecd's built for ions and see!

[reynolea]

it appears that the xbox live installers do not incorporate the latest builds

[davilla]

it appears that the xbox live installers do not incorporate the latest builds

Ahh, xbox is over here -> http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/

[reynolea]

ok, so my newbie mistake, in my last post replace 'xbox' with 'xbmc'.