[Ned Scott]

Hi Ned,

thanks for your answer.

The thing is that the Mini gets a bit noisy when the CPU is doing all the work.

Within XBMC, wouldn't it be a good idea then if XBMC - in the case it 'finds' 1080i material - just automatically ignores the hardware acceleration switch in the settings in order to avoid a crash? This would be really helpful.

Otherwise I always have to know before starting play back of a file if it contains interlaced material or not... Basically, this makes HW acceleration useless then, at least when you have a mix of 1080i / 1080p files in your collection. You'll never know if your next playback attempt will crash XBMC or not.

Chris

Actually I mentioned this to Davilla yesterday and he said he actually had some ideas to try out for interlaced content. Him and all the devs are really busy right now cleaning up code and getting rid of bugs, so I wouldn't expect this to be ready in time for Eden, but it sounds like there is hope.

As for an automatic switch, that's not a bad idea. You might want to make a feature request at http://trac.xbmc.org for that. (trac log-in is the same as it is here on the forums). There's some info on the wiki about submitting a feature request, but it's pretty straight forward.

Although something like this might have been added in the latest nightlies (the pre-Eden builds). I know a bunch of interlacing reform was pushed through somewhat recently. If you haven't tried a nightly yet you might want to check it out to see if it handles interlaced situations any better. Just make a backup of your XBMC userdata folder

Code:

/Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata

so that you can downgrade back to a stable copy if you want to.