2012-02-24, 01:21
That big step (able to play HD audio formats without external player) is planned to be out in the next beta release?
jmpa Wrote:That big step (able to play HD audio formats without external player) is planned to be out in the next beta release?
OtisPresley Wrote:@DDDamianOuch...audio dropouts every 30-45 seconds is not acceptable for me. You can try un-check the "Sync Playback to Display" in XBMC settings\video\playback. The audio will be good, but you might have problem with frame drop (you might be able to tolerate it than audio dropout). Good luck!
I tried out your build from this post and get very good results! There are still audio dropouts in TrueHD, but they are not as bad as they were. They occur about every 30 seconds with WASAPI and about every 45 seconds with DirectSound. Everything else is perfect! Below is my setup:
OS: Windows 7 x64
XBMC running in portable mode
Foxconn H67S Mini-ITX MB
Intel i3-2105 (HD Graphics 3000)
Rotel RSP-1570 processor (HDMI connection)
bluray Wrote:Ouch...audio dropouts every 30-45 seconds is not acceptable for me. You can try un-check the "Sync Playback to Display" in XBMC settings\video\playback. The audio will be good, but you might have problem with frame drop (you might be able to tolerate it than audio dropout). Good luck!
OtisPresley Wrote:Thanks bluray, that did the trick! I monitored the stats during playback after disabling sync and never saw any drops under Video.
OtisPresley Wrote:Thanks bluray, that did the trick! I monitored the stats during playback after disabling sync and never saw any drops under Video.
voip-ninja Wrote:This brings up a question I have, as I have also noticed pretty much zero frame drops using this trick with a 6450 (at least with H264 content). I notice that ae starts out at -50ms and wraps around about once every few minutes, I thought that when this happened a frame would be dropped? How can we see how far out of sync audio and video actually are during playback? Damian, any thoughts on this?
OtisPresley Wrote:Thanks bluray, that did the trick! I monitored the stats during playback after disabling sync and never saw any drops under Video.That's good to read...it's time to enjoy the blu-ray movie w/ TrueHD audio then!
voip-ninja Wrote:Do you have a Radeon card? I've seen this problem before, it was related to overscan as well as an XBMC setting that chose whether videos were shown in their native resolution or were played windowed. What video card do you have?I do have a Radeon card
DDDamian Wrote:By that do you mean that it's playing letterbox or 4:3 instead of zooming? You can change the default setting in System/Setting/Video/Playback or for each show individually using the OSD.Sorry for not making my self clear, having a hard time figuring out how to explain it in english
Shouldn't be a build issue at all - just a setting.
Berggren Wrote:I do have a Radeon card
Sorry for not making my self clear, having a hard time figuring out how to explain it in english
Before i installed your "all in one pack" my tvshows filled up the intire screen (they are all 720P). And after I installed your pack it´s just a small window in the middle of the screen that´s displayed. This only happens when I play tvshows, all movies and menus look perfect as always.
I haven´t changed any settings from after the upgrade so something has happend. The settings appear to be the same and I can´t see any new options that are there regarding videoplayback.
And since it worked flawlessly before the upgrade it lead me to believe that your pack altered something on my machine, that´s why i asked here.
But I can continue to look into it after work today and i will report back my findings if any.
Thanks for your help so far guys and girls
Regards Berggren
nikc0069 Wrote:It isn't a buikld issue but is a pain int he behind to sort out. I had to use some magical windows voodoo...Thanks for your suggestion but the odd thing is that it just happened without me doing anything other installing DDDamians pack.
My TV was displaying 1080i50, which was the only time this was happening.
By dropping out of xbmc to Windows, ticking to show unsupported refresh rates in the advanced display settings in Windows, selecting 50hz, then monkeying around with the Catalyst scaling (even though 50hz is supported the Windows setting defaulted back, but I could then change the scaling setting) fixed it.
It would be better however if we could add custom settings in an easier fashion in CCC - it is a pain the backside and I don't know why ATI don't have the option to set a global scaling...
Sorry if this is a bit vague but once I had it sorted I didn't want to mess it up again to figure out exactly which step solved it, but I hope it helps a bit.
Berggren Wrote:Thanks for your suggestion but the odd thing is that it just happened without me doing anything other installing DDDamians pack.
T800 Wrote:When playing a 720p video, bring up the OSD,
Video settings/
View Mode/
Make sure it is set to 'Normal' and not 'Original Size'