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This is most bizarre
I am on x64 so I cannot see how skipped frames I have, however.. I installed brand new Jaunty and brand new Babylon Beta 1 and seems that multi-threading is working fine
This is so thrilling...
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Just stumbled across this after upgrading to Intrepid and seeing issues. Is there any possibility of using an older version of XBMC to alleviate this? Or is the problem in both the OS and XBMC, meaning you'd have to re-install Hardy and XBMC to get it back?
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I tried schedtool but unfortunately it didn't fix the problem. Hopefully a fix is in the works and will be available soon.
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Has anyone tried to use the hardy kernel or hardy kernel config in the new ubuntu version? I'd gess that it's caused by a new or updated kernel module, so perhaps a custom kernel could help?
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Does this problem rear it's ugly head in XBMC Live edition?
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Not in 8.1, but it does in 9.04.
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bob didn't merge it because he confirmed it doesn't fix anything, only alleviates in some cases. We aren't keen on patching externals for no good reason, so this will likely never go into mainline.
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2009-07-24, 06:24
(This post was last modified: 2009-07-24, 06:36 by speed32219.)
Frame drops in the latest releases is major when playing BD rips. (m2ts) on my 8300 chipset running kernel 2.6.27-14-generic and the latest May/June/July XBMC builds. (Note: Frame drops occurs using VDPAU, if I don't use VDPAU than my CPU's are running in the mid to high 70% range, but no loss of Video packets other than the 12-20 from the start of the movie)
I have an almost exact hardware setup (Nvidia 8200 vs the failing 8300 chipset) running kernel 2.6.27-11-generic Intrepid and r19419 that runs perfect. I am now trying to get a fresh copy of the r19419 build to try on the on the failing machine above. The one that works when playing BD, H264 MKV, MP4, etc. the CPU utilization is <10-12% across the CPU's with no packet loss! So if you have that virgin build, post it somewhere and let me know.
Asus M3n78-EM 8300 AMD 5050e 2 GB DDR800 and 500 GB WD HD - failing VDPAU XBMC r21749 and many others Fail
GigiaByte GA-M78SM-S2H AMD 4850e 2GB DDR800 and same 500 GB WD HD - Works like a champ! XBMC r19419
Edit: Crap, posted in the wrong thread. That will teach me to close some of the tabs I have open.