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Dear robvh: is possible to upload the stream your recorded somewhere that I can try it as well?
Or did you try copy the stream to a SD card or flash and play it back directly on ATV1200 XBMC ? if not, please try it firest.
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I don't know for certain, but most of these boxes are SDHC, not SDXC.
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robvh
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Whoever said that nfs works much better than smb on the ATV1200 was right. I installed nfs-kernel-server on my tvheadend server and changed the video source to nfs in the ATV1200. Wow. The display of HD video is much smoother, I even saw 1 recording of 1:15 hours finish without halting. When I tried again, it halted after 15 minutes :-(.
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Is the latest version of the kernel 1080p? I just read somewhere else that the kernel needs to support 1080p otherwise what you are seeing is just 720p upscaled. I assume the new fullHD phones and tabs that are coming out would have 1080p kernels. Is that a reasonable assumption?
Anyone who could give some technical details with sources would be greatly appreciated.
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(This post was last modified: 2013-09-25, 00:30 by damole.)
Thanks. I thought I'd read all of this thread but must have missed that post. I downloaded the sample video and it's clearly different in movie player when compared to any other player.
I've ask myGigca to send me links to the 1080p firmware and also asked about VPD as even my Netflix doesn't give me the option to watch in HD.
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The GPU in the chip may not have the processing power to render the UI/XBMC at 1080p smoothly, at least on the older M1/M3 Amlogic chips thats what I assumed (which only managed XBMC at 30fps in 720p), the M6 has a slightly improved GPU but it may still not be enough.
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In theory, they should be rendering the XBMC GUI at 720 on weaker CPUs, but allowing the video to be 1080. I believe this is what is done on the Pivos FW and is also done on other lower powered ARM boxes, like the Raspberry Pi. Rendering video at 1080 is a lot easier for the device than it is to render the XBMC GUI at 1080, as odd as that might sound.