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How come there is no new tested build newer than 8 weeks? Is all focus on Frodo point releases now or has the development focus moved to Gotham? If so is the current 'testing' branch stable enough for day to day usage at the moment?
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It is the time, the time and the time ...
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2013-06-04, 07:42
I can understand the lack of time. But how is the dev of Gotham going? Is it proceeding full steam ahead or is alot of resources being poured into 'fixing' Frodo? (Not that I mean in any way that fixing Frodo is wrong if there is a need.)
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Generally the work on fixing one can be contributed to the other.
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Basically build process of xvba-testing is going on automatically. As wsnipex and me did "only xvba" before we joined xbmc staff and other work came up, we had our testseries. Those were some 10 videos of different flavor, some audio files and so on. Before declaring a new xbmc-xvba packaged, we played those files, did some other stuff like suspending / switch fullscreen.
When all those tests were succesfull, e.g. no crashes, fluent playback - we declared it stable. If someone is volunteer to test the nightlies and care for a release every 2 weeks, you can help here.
It needs to be tested on vaapi (here gotham is a nobrainer - as mpeg2 is broken via ffmpeg), vdpau and xvba.
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you were saying what exactly?
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It is not clear to me whether the new drivers (3.16) fix the vertical sync issues?
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They do. First release since 6 months :-)
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Fresh install is for windows users. If everything works for you - keep what you have.
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2013-06-08, 11:28
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-08, 12:02 by ezechiel1917.)
Hi, can someone please thoroughly explain whats the difference between dropped/skipped/missed in codec info screen?
I notice I have +1 skipped every ~3secs when playing Live HDTV @ 50 Hz (nvidia gtx660 - temporal/spatial - W fps goes down to 49.00 from 50.00 everytime this happens). Is it something I should worry about? I installed xvba-testing over xbmc-nightlies where it displayed codec info differently so I'm being curious. Had no actual issue regarding video frames with Live TV streams in xbmc-nightlies.
Thanks Ez
EDIT: only happens with VDPAU, sw decoding reports 0 in drop/skip/missed.
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missed: the video reference clock has missed an vblank event, this gets autocorrected and should not harm
dropped: the decoder has dropped a frame or just a deinterlacing cycle: happens when video gets late
skipped: renderer has skipped an already late frame in the queue, happens when renderer gets late
skipped was introduced with this merge window. I noticed this too when bringing up the codec screen. It does not skip otherwise, right?
There should be no difference in the codec screen itself between mainline and xvba-testing. Or were you referring to the different values?