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A new wrinkle on the bd playback issues. I reckon I was reading things wrong. It appears that with the standard install of ubuntu at leat, the XBMC is not using hardware decoding, I was looking from across the room before and mid read things. The celeron has both CPU cores near maxed on BD iso playback and the vcpu figure says it is practically idling.
The difference to the I3 is more (and presumably faster) cores so it does not run out of puff.
So. Any Linux gurus out there who might be able to help get it using HW acceleration? And yes, I have the acceleration settings switched on in xbmc.
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Oh - what's so different between BD ISO and BD Folder structure?
My Celeron 1007U Acer Revo is playing BD Folder structure stuff fine from my unRAID server. Definitely hardware not software decoding. This is with OpenElec not Ubuntu.
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Use makemkv and just save the iso as raw bluray in mkv format and all should be fine.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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2013-10-20, 23:58
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-20, 23:59 by noggin.)
If there is an issue with BD ISOs, why not convert to BD Folders?
Odd that BD ISOs don't play with hardware acceleration though.
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I would expect that BD discs ripped to the folder structure would suffer the same issue with lack of harware decoding, in which case nothing gained.
The main reason to rip to ISO files is the wife and mum factor for simplicity, both in use and in ripping. The fact that it just works (With the exception of not having the BD menus) will be remembered long after the extra $100 or so between the Celeron and I3 has been forgotten. I am spending four times that on earplugs to use in my race car!
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2013-10-21, 01:19
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-21, 01:20 by the_bluester.)
Ubuntu 12.04 and XBMC 12.2. All served off a Qnap TS412 NAS over GigE.
Even for browsing I find WiFi so patchy at home that I don't bother with it for anything but basic connectivity for tablets and phones where Ethernet is not an option. There seems to be something in the construciton of our hose that kills WiFi signall in short order. We are out of town in a quiet environment RF wise but even with external antennas no WiFi works reliably beyond about 10 meters.
What are you using to play from BD folders? The biggest issue is that I have zero chance of getting the wife and mum to accept it unless it can be launched seamlessly from within XBMC. And my own limitation is that the boxes have to remain on a Linux OS.
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2013-10-21, 02:42
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I'm using OpenElec installed to a hard drive in my Revo (2GB RAM, 500GB HD, Celeron 1007U). I have installed XBMC on Ubuntu in the past, but getting it to work just as I wanted with HD Audio and the correct 16-235 colour space was never that straightforward. OpenElec has just worked for me this time.
I have a GigE connection from my unRAID server to my Revo, and am using SMB/CIFS (aka Windows File sharing) My library on my unRAID server was initially set-up using MyMovies under Windows Media Center, rather than scraping from IMDB, and I continue to use MyMovies to create the library information rather than scraping. I even bought a cheap USB bar code reader on ebay to read the barcodes on the cases when I rip.
I added my Movie and TV shares to XBMC and it imported the MyMovies information and artwork. I can then play BDs (and DVD Folders and DVD ISOs - I have used both formats over time) from the Library view. I get HD Audio bitstreaming over HDMI, and as I watch a lot of native-interlaced content I switched to a special build of OpenElec that has improved de-interlacing by using VAAPI.