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Since, Beta3 I have been noticing that HD playback on chd-* has been very choppy. with frequent framedrops.

I am using the r161 build of the crystalhd lib/driver, as this had the 8M buffers that work well w/ appletv's low mem.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14162/xbmc.old.log

The log doesn't really have anything that I can see that points to the framedrops.

This exists in B3 and B4 as well. B2 works fine.

Ubuntu 8.04
CrystalHD BCM - 15 card
cyrstalhd-for-osx r161 drivers/lib
xbmc beta 3 and 4
I'm having the same issues. But in OSX. both beta3 and 4..
n8op8o Wrote:I'm having the same issues. But in OSX. both beta3 and 4..

can you also attach any logs, do your logs show any framedrops

also i found going back to Beta2 is ideal for the Appletv/linux for now.
vajonam Wrote:can you also attach any logs, do your logs show any framedrops

also i found going back to Beta2 is ideal for the Appletv/linux for now.

How do you do such a downgrade?
rolandb5 Wrote:How do you do such a downgrade?

if you haven't done a purge of your apt cache you should still have some packages in the /var/cache/apt/archives

Code:
#cd var/cache/apt/archives

#sudo dpkg -i xbmc-bin_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_i386.deb xbmc-data_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-skin-confluence_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-standalone_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-live_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb

should get you back

Also you might have to delete you addons.db for which the format seems to have changed since Beta2.
vajonam Wrote:if you haven't done a purge of your apt cache you should still have some packages in the /var/cache/apt/archives

Code:
#cd var/cache/apt/archives

#sudo dpkg -i xbmc-bin_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_i386.deb xbmc-data_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-skin-confluence_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-standalone_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-live_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb

should get you back

Also you might have to delete you addons.db for which the format seems to have changed since Beta2.

Thanks for the tip, do bad that the 33778 version is not available in my apt cache anymore.
rolandb5 Wrote:Thanks for the tip, do bad that the 33778 version is not available in my apt cache anymore.

can get em from there, they should be on the ppa still

https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-svn/+ar...es_filter=
vajonam Wrote:can get em from there, they should be on the ppa still

https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-svn/+ar...es_filter=

Too bad... no files published

Code:
Publishing details

    * Removed from disk on 2010-10-15.
    * Removal requested on 2010-10-15.
    * Superseded on 2010-10-13 by xbmc - 2:10.00~svn34731-hardy1
    * Published on 2010-09-14

Removed files can still be downloaded from the Librarian; see below.
Changelog

xbmc (2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Build of 10.00~svn33778
-- Billy (XBMC BuildBot) <[email protected]>   Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:29:06 -0700

Available diffs

    * diff from 2:10.00~svn33324-hardy1 to 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1 (224.7 KiB)

Builds

    * [FULLYBUILT] amd64
    * [FULLYBUILT] i386

Package files
[b]No files published for this package.[/b]
vajonam Wrote:if you haven't done a purge of your apt cache you should still have some packages in the /var/cache/apt/archives

Code:
#cd var/cache/apt/archives

#sudo dpkg -i xbmc-bin_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_i386.deb xbmc-data_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-skin-confluence_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-standalone_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb xbmc-live_2%3a10.00~svn33778-hardy1_all.deb

should get you back

Also you might have to delete you addons.db for which the format seems to have changed since Beta2.

I used the above to downgrade back to 33778. Can anyone please remind me how to make my aptitude updates work again? I want to try dharma.

At the moment I get :
Code:
xbmc@AppleTV:~$ sudo apt-get remove xbmc-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xbmc: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn35326-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: xbmc-skin-confluence (= 2:10.00~svn35326-hardy1) but 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1 is to be installed
  xbmc-skin-confluence: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
  xbmc-standalone: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
frumpy_uk Wrote:I used the above to downgrade back to 33778. Can anyone please remind me how to make my aptitude updates work again? I want to try dharma.

At the moment I get :
Code:
xbmc@AppleTV:~$ sudo apt-get remove xbmc-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xbmc: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn35326-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: xbmc-skin-confluence (= 2:10.00~svn35326-hardy1) but 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1 is to be installed
  xbmc-skin-confluence: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
  xbmc-standalone: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn33778-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


sorry for the late reply


I would suggest you remove all the xbmc-* packages, and they try that command again. I guess by now you should be able to update to the latest?
vajonam Wrote:sorry for the late reply


I would suggest you remove all the xbmc-* packages, and they try that command again. I guess by now you should be able to update to the latest?

No problem at all. To my shame, I cannot remember what I did to resolve the issue! But it is resolved.

Thanks anyway - better late than never!