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Hrm, using an E-350 based Zotac AD02, I was able to playback 720p 10bit using v12 Alpha 1 in Windows 7. There were a feeeeew dropped frames however, but if things get just a bit more efficent, at least 720p could be workable under nettop/netbook class hardware.
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Just a new commit wich solved this issue and high CPU usage. Should be avaible on next nightly.
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Is there any precompiled build for Linux with PVR and multi threaded ffmpeg support?
Or an ffmpeg-mt that actually works and can be used to compile XBMC-PVR with --enable-external-ffmpeg?
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Looks like 10bit 1080p eps of Yuru Yuri from Coalgirl's uses about 30% of the CPU on my AMD A6-3500. So it's more than capable of handling any 10bit you toss at it. I wonder how well this CPU will do once HEVC becomes popular in a couple of years.
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Something major changed between May Alpha1.exe and alpha2-nightlies.
My 10-bit videos play perfectly fine on xbmc-12.0-Frodo_alpha1.exe 02-May-2012 10:57 51M
but drop hundreds of frames within a minute of playback on anything newer.
Amd Phenom 1055T 3.4Ghz.
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It's this 10bit issue that's disillusioned me to things like the Intel Atom w/Ion or the AMD E-350/E-450. For 8bit h.264 they are all you need, but the moment the encoding nerds find something new you hit a wall. I want XBMC to be part of a machine that 'Plays everything'. I hate little set top boxes that eventually don't play some newfangled format. XBMC at a software level is generally uninhibited (Sure we have 10bit in development, but that woulda been pressed into service MUCH faster if more than anime nerds used it) but the hardware still needs to be capable.
Since h.265/HEVC will come out eventually, all those little Nettop chipsets will hit a wall and force their users to upgrade or avoid newer formats. Any machine I build will be using something more powerful, like AMD Llano or similar, just to ensure a box doesn't need to be upgraded for 5+ years. Maybe it'll cost more, but long term hardware life makes it cheaper overall.
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2012-06-11, 13:14
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-11, 13:17 by fruitgull.)
I've not read through this whole thread, but I am right to think that you need the alpha of Xbmc 12 for it to , more or less, work?
I'm running Eden now and must transcode all animes (almost) I download. I have a I3 2.93 ghz (faster than AMD A6-3500 that DJ_Izumi mentioned) in my htpc, so I should be able to decode 10 bit x264.