(2015-02-28, 14:56)Rrrr Wrote: First of all thanks for your great work here. Thanks to this, I felt comfortable to get the Asus Chromebox yesterday.
Although I did a first time install, I have had many different h/w in the past 10 years using XBMC, recently a few RPI's.

My aim for buying the Chromebox over the RPI2 (and returning the Minix X8-H) was
1) fast UI and content loading (picture slideshows etc); SUCCEEDED
2) the ultimate dedicated quality media player: stutterless butter smooth video 1080p. NOT YET

I have followed the recommended settings , although not all of them as I was unable to locate where to check the 2nd and 3rd screenshot (new version?).

But I am still not happy with video quality, specifically when the screen panning from left to right, I still see jumping lines (with objects in the video like poles, gates, etc)
Now I know this can still depend on many factors like TV quality/frequency/refresh rates, recording/compression quality, etc.

Code:

1920x1080 (0x48) 148.500MHz +HSync +VSync *current +preferred
        h: width  1920 start 2448 end 2492 total 2640 skew    0 clock  56.25KHz
        v: height 1080 start 1084 end 1089 total 1125           clock  50.00Hz

Do you perhaps have a set of samples I can play to further establish why I am not happy and what I could do to improve?

(2015-02-28, 19:51)AndreaSpooky Wrote: apparently seems theres still no solution to HDMI audio lack in both pure windows and ubuntu (or any other linuxes): the OSes still cant see the hdmi audio device from hdmi...

noob question:

...but what about using Chrubuntu (ubuntu installed over chromeOs core), which already has all the drivers correctly installed?

That way will chromebox output audio through HDMI?

thanks

(2015-02-21, 00:00)morbidz Wrote: I have 2 rips of the same movie with slightly different rip settings, can anyone advise which parameter might be causing the frame skips on chromebox while wdtv plays both perfectly

Not working

cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=6,4 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=12 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / fgo=10 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=11920 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.15 / aq=2:0.80

Working

cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.80:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=7 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=150 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=14916 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.70 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=38000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.80