ok I have loads fo questions, please do reply even if its just to one of the questions, hopefully this can help other users too.
1) increase the amount of a movie that can be streamed in the background during playback - has anyone increased the size of the cache that xbmc uses so that hd content can be paused at the start to allow it to stream/load in the background? what size of cache did you set in the advancedsettings file?
2) moving stuff to the sdcard - i heard that moving stuff to the sdcard can improve the performance of this machine. anyone done this? what can i move? apps? xbmc thumbnails/cache? what else?
3) upgrading the sdcard - also is the sdcard removable? if so is it worth replacing with a faster one?
4) streaming HD1080 - i can stream a hd 1080p file using the youtube app, and in the xbmc youtube addon too, but cant stream a hd 1080 file that i recorded from bbc hd, that is saved on my lan. anyone know why this might be?
5) sound sync to the video - the sound is out of sync in all my videos, so i have it setup in the xbmc settings to have the sound ahead by 2.5 seconds for every video. is this the setting other people are using because i'm not sure if its bang on
6) xbmc sometimes forgets that i changed skin - when i reboot and go back into xbmc it sometimes remembers that i changed skin to quartz and sometimes it forgets! anyone else had this?
7) skipping & winding through videos unreliable - clicking the right or left directional arrow during a video to skip 30 secs works on some movies but not others, and even when it does work it then puts the movie in slow mo
also rewind doesnt work but fastforward does. is this normal, do we just wait on xbmc for android to mature with new versions?
(2013-01-31, 18:05)Antenne71 Wrote: Hi,
the latest PIVOS build does not correct the aspect ratio mismatch.
Does anyone have an opinion about the video quality? Neutral question!
dammit! i just realised you are right. I haven't tried double checking / re-doing the solutions that I posted above.
video quality seems great to me, streaming the jack reacher (HD) trailer through the youtube addon just now. brilliant. streamed 720 from my local media server too and it seemed flawless to my untrained eyes. just the aspect ratio problem that is the only main thing wrong now. so i'm going to try and fix it tomorrow.