2011-02-21, 03:33
Hi all,
I just got Windows7 installed, and after taking care of the basic necessities, I went to get XBMC up and running. However, I have an issue with adding my mythTV server via the myth:// protocol.
Playing HD videos via the myth protocol results in horrible stuttering - think quarter second of play, quarter second of stopped. It will continue like this as long as I let it. If I pause the video for a while and then resume, it will play ok for a few seconds and then resume the stuttering. Both audio and video are stuttering.
The strangest part is, if I add the SMB share with the videos stored on it, and then play via that, everything plays fine. My myth backend is a remote system, which is connected on my local LAN. My Windows7 frontend is connected to the lan via 802.11n, but I'm very certain this is not the issue, unless it is Windows7 specific (network buffers, or something like that). I can boot back into XP on the same machine with the same hardware and XBMC fires up myth just fine, and, as I said before, even in Win7 the SMB share access works fine.
Any ideas from someone who has been down this path? Not having XBMC is really preventing me from completing my move to Win7! I don't have many deal breakers, but I won't give up XBMC just to move to a new version of windows.
Also - Debug log: http://pastebin.com/3hC68MZN
I just got Windows7 installed, and after taking care of the basic necessities, I went to get XBMC up and running. However, I have an issue with adding my mythTV server via the myth:// protocol.
Playing HD videos via the myth protocol results in horrible stuttering - think quarter second of play, quarter second of stopped. It will continue like this as long as I let it. If I pause the video for a while and then resume, it will play ok for a few seconds and then resume the stuttering. Both audio and video are stuttering.
The strangest part is, if I add the SMB share with the videos stored on it, and then play via that, everything plays fine. My myth backend is a remote system, which is connected on my local LAN. My Windows7 frontend is connected to the lan via 802.11n, but I'm very certain this is not the issue, unless it is Windows7 specific (network buffers, or something like that). I can boot back into XP on the same machine with the same hardware and XBMC fires up myth just fine, and, as I said before, even in Win7 the SMB share access works fine.
Any ideas from someone who has been down this path? Not having XBMC is really preventing me from completing my move to Win7! I don't have many deal breakers, but I won't give up XBMC just to move to a new version of windows.
Also - Debug log: http://pastebin.com/3hC68MZN