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Hi!
Has anybody tried this on the new Sandy Bridge entry-level (G620, G620T, G840, G850) cpus?
I haven't found any useful information about them.
It would be nice if I don't need to buy the much more expensive Core i3 for a HTPC.
thanks
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I have a G620T and so far it works "fine" - well issues with all Sandy Bridge processors not withstanding of course (EDID detection, etc.). As above - VC-1 playback for everything I tried is non-functional, ranging from a complete lockup to at best the purple blockey mess described above. Not sure if others are seeing this but a number of h.264 vids can be a bit jerky at times - just for a moment or two then it catches up. It's not consistent, least doesn't seem to be, just a moments "pause" then speedup and back to normal. Processor load is very low and as I say it's inconsistent so I find it hard to believe it's the G620. I've got hold of a GT210 for the time being - hopefully Intel et al will resolve all the issues and I can do away with add-in card.
This is with the latest git pulls of libva, mesa and alsa 1.0.24 from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev on a 2.6.38-8 kernel. With xbmc git from June 8th - pre-scraper issues ... latest git with apparent fixes for the scraper issue aren't compiling for me as of this post.
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Be careful if you test with the "killa sample", because it does have different container and videocodec fps defined which could cause framedrops by itself if adjust refresh rate is on. I woukd try it with adjust refresh rate turned off, with 24hz (that's the correct rate if i rembember well)
I i were you, i'd try a high bitrate part of the movie Dark Knight.
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Videoscaling with Lanczos 2 or 3 or Bicubic seem to be broken since last week... (video speedup) Took me some time, why it was working without VAAPI... xbmc would default back to bilinear...