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Since many in this forum have built their own HTPC's I am wondering what settings everyone is using?
For my AMD A4-3400 I have the catalyst driver for the built in GPU but I havent really explored any of the video settings yet.
(I dont know if its my imagination or not but the picture when watching a video isnt quite as good as my Revo was.)
Also, what settings inside of XBMC do you use?
Match refresh rate to display?
Use fullscreen window?
Etc etc....
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eskro
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i keep all stock/default settings except, i enable DXVA2.
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I have also been wondering the same because since my new build I feel the video quality is not as good.
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If its SD video you think doesn't look good then you should be pulling up Video in the OSD and trying some of the different Video Scaling options Eden beta 1 has some pretty good scaling methods available now
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You may want to poke around inside Catalyst Control Center to see if you can adjust things a little better. I really like the video tweaks available in the Linux varieties and miss them on the Win7 builds at times.
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hick
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I disable everything in the Video/ video settings tab in CCC.
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Looks like a few of you are using different settings than I am.
Guess I'll have to do some more experimenting.
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Balinus
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I disabled everything in CCC. It was causing some choppiness and stuttering. The only thing that I kept is the automatic deinterlacing and pulldown detection.
For color, you might want to force the color scale (sp?) in CCC. Something along the lines of 16-255 instead of 0-255. I don't remember the details....
Under XBMC, I just enable DXVA2. When "Sync playback to display" is enabled, I had some stuttering each X minutes.
No frame drops or stuttering since.