2014-02-18, 13:03
Thanks Miappa for those latest build. I have testing them quite a lot.
Globaly everything is amazingly stable. From skin navigation (using amber) to airplay support everything is perfect.
I should mention (maybe already did) that to prevent stutter while playing through airplay i had to totally disable visualisation (shouldn't it be disabled by default?) and that over 3 different pi.
Now about the video playing, i don't play dvds so i can't really help on that but i do play a lot of mkv and stuff:
For a few weeks now i have seen some kind of a regression while playing a movie. Showing the GUi interface (stop and such) while playing is a lot longer than it used to be. That is with omx.
Dvdplayer handles that differently. The first time it even hangs the video a bit, but the next times are instant and without any consequence on the video.
Now about the playing itself, omx seems smoother. I see a few stutter while playing 1080p with dvdplayer. Yet while omx crashes while playing some videos, dvdplayer seems to handle them better (even if there are quite big stutters).
I don't know if it is of any help but here are the specs of a video crashing on omx and stuttering on dvdplayer
So for now i'll stay with omx (for now …)
Thanks a lot for amazing work!
Globaly everything is amazingly stable. From skin navigation (using amber) to airplay support everything is perfect.
I should mention (maybe already did) that to prevent stutter while playing through airplay i had to totally disable visualisation (shouldn't it be disabled by default?) and that over 3 different pi.
Now about the video playing, i don't play dvds so i can't really help on that but i do play a lot of mkv and stuff:
For a few weeks now i have seen some kind of a regression while playing a movie. Showing the GUi interface (stop and such) while playing is a lot longer than it used to be. That is with omx.
Dvdplayer handles that differently. The first time it even hangs the video a bit, but the next times are instant and without any consequence on the video.
Now about the playing itself, omx seems smoother. I see a few stutter while playing 1080p with dvdplayer. Yet while omx crashes while playing some videos, dvdplayer seems to handle them better (even if there are quite big stutters).
I don't know if it is of any help but here are the specs of a video crashing on omx and stuttering on dvdplayer
Code:
RELEASE DATE......: 08/12/2013
RELEASE SIZE......: 15.8 GB
RUNTIME...........: 1h:51m:33s
VIDEO CODEC.......: x264, CRF 16.9, L4.1
VIDEO BITRATE.....: Variable @ 18.4 Mbps (56.6% of source)
RESOLUTION........: 1920x804
FRAMERATE.........: 23.976 fps
AUDIO.............: English DTS Core 5.1 @ 1.5 Mbps
SUBTITLES - SRT...: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English SDH, English,
Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish (UTF-8)
CHAPTERS..........: Included (numbered)
SOURCE............: 1080p Blu-ray AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-LAZERS
x264 [info]: frame I:1588 Avg QP:16.04 size:191111
x264 [info]: frame P:32327 Avg QP:16.95 size:126371
x264 [info]: frame B:126573 Avg QP:17.84 size: 89333
consecutive B-frames: 2.5% 1.6% 5.8% 13.7% 15.4% 40.0% 9.2% 8.1% 3.8%
encoded 160488 frames, 5.49 fps, 18758.94 kb/s
So for now i'll stay with omx (for now …)
Thanks a lot for amazing work!