[Origin64]

Hey all,

I have a problem with a tv show I'd like to watch through XBMC. I have the first season of Dexter in 720p. All files are compressed in x264, audio is AC3 5.1 and the files are .mkv

I can play these videos with no problem at all in VLC and BSplayer, but in XBMC they stutter horribly and I have no sound at all. Very strange, as I've ran videos with three times the bitrate of these in XBMC without trouble. I believe support for these files is flawed.

if you need any more information by all means rub my face in it, I will provide it as quickly as possible.

[PatrickBateman]

Hey all,

I have a problem with a tv show I'd like to watch through XBMC. I have the first season of Dexter in 720p. All files are compressed in x264, audio is AC3 5.1 and the files are .mkv

I can play these videos with no problem at all in VLC and BSplayer, but in XBMC they stutter horribly and I have no sound at all. Very strange, as I've ran videos with three times the bitrate of these in XBMC without trouble. I believe support for these files is flawed.

if you need any more information by all means rub my face in it, I will provide it as quickly as possible.

Hi,

There is not much information to go on here but...


1 - If your on XP.. Well, your screwed as XP and XBMC do not play well when it comes to hardware decoding (if your on a low powered pc such as an Atom for example) its just not going to work... You'd need to play the file in an external player such as MPC-HC and use hardware decoding.

2 - If your on windows 7... I beleive there is an option to turn on and enable DXVA2 within the xbmc settings.. (i'm unsure where this is as i am an XP user, but its there somewhere)

3 - If neoither of those options help, Post up your specs of your PC and your driver revisions, xbmc version and os version etc... That way it can be narrowed down a bit better :-)

Hope you resolve your issue, im still working on resolving a few of mine but its getting there :-)

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[Origin64]

Running Win7 on an AMD quadcore (965BE) with a GTX460. Driver is 166.something. I have a 2nd 460 coming in tomorrow, will update to latest driver then. believe its 170something.

XBMC version is 10.0 r35647

I already had DVAX2 on, turning it off didn't help.

[HansP]

when playing press O to display CPU and VPU usage percentage , then you'll see wheter its CPU or VPU

[bobo1on1]

Please post a debug log (turn on debug logging first, then play the file for a couple minutes, then post the xbmc.log file on pastebin.com).

[Philmatic]

To build on what everyone else was saying, since you're on Windows 7 and you definitely have a Purevideo supported video card. Make sure you have the latest version of XBMC installed (Dharma v10.1), and the latest NVidia Drivers (v270.61 32-bit/64-bit), and make sure you enable DXVA2 support in XBMC.

If after doing all that doesn't work, then we'll need a debug log to see what isn't being wired up.

[Origin64]

OK, will do.
It's late now (where I'm at, at least) so you'll hear from me tomorrow.

[MidnightWatcher]

Set scaling to Auto

[Origin64]

Can't find the Scaling option....wtf?

[bobo1on1]

It's in the video settings dialog that you can select during playback, bilinear is the fastest.

[foca]

Origin64, did you find a solution? I am experiencing the same issue, my hardware is pretty new I guess: Win 7 32bits + Radeon HD5670 + Amd Athlon II X2 250 3.0 GHz.

I tried nightly newer builds (with clean profile folder) instead of 10.1 and the same issue happens.

I tried all the combinations DXVA on/off, scalling and nothing...