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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.

I made my observations with the nightly build from yesterday. So if there was a change in the code with respect to that problem it hasn't made it's way to the nightlies yet.

Sorry again, I really don't want to be rude. But to my opinion all problems related to playback should be on top of the priority list. This VDPAU deinterlacing-crashes are a pain, and the problem has not been addressed since more than a year now.

So basically I'm not requesting a new feature, I'm requesting a fix (or workaround) for a bug that is known already for a long time.

At this stage I have to say that the Mac OS X version of XBMC is definitely much weaker than its Win7 counterpart.

An that's a pity considering what for a nice OS Lion really is.

Chris


P.S.: Sorry if I sound rude somehow, I'm not a native english speaker and didn't know how to phrase it better without not showing that I'm not happy with the situation.