[jgawera]

Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble with XBMC on my windows box.
It's been fine playing SD content of different sources, Recently I tried some HD content, which results in a very poor framerate.
Here's the XBMC Debug log for me playing the first few seconds of this video.
xbmclogs Slow Framerate for HD

Here's the mediainfo for the video file i'm trying to play.

Code:

General
Unique ID                                : 24597204839875310117312718948747356996 (0x12813FD46A0C5B249D9B743FD812AB44)
Complete name                            : \\readynas\WRITE\TV\Touch\Season 1\Touch.s01e01.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 1.50 GiB
Duration                                 : 49mn 43s
Overall bit rate                         : 4 308 Kbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-01-24 23:08:48
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v3.0.0 ('Hang up your Hang-Ups') built on Apr 19 2010 11:58:49
Writing library                          : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 9 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 49mn 43s
Bit rate                                 : 3 774 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.171
Stream size                              : 1.31 GiB (88%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 120 r2146 bcd41db
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=11 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=20 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

The PC is a core 2 6700 2.6GHx with 2GB Ram running Windows 7 32Bit
The graphics card is an Asus EAH4350 SILENT/DI/512MD2(LP) which looks like it's an ATI Radeon 4300/4500 in windows device manager.

This video has played just fine using XBMC on my ATV2, but that's out of action at the moment. It also plays OK in vlc in this PC.

Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks

[jjd-uk]

It's most likely your audio settings, to prove try the most basic settings which are:

Audio Output: Analog
Speaker configuration: 2.0
Audio Output Device: Directsound Device*

* Where device is the connection type e.g. HDMI

If that works then your previous audio settings were incorrect, if 5.1/7.1 is needed then take a look at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=146911 to find where you were going wrong.

[jgawera]

That's great, it works now!!!

Thanks so much.

As i'm only using the TV speakers and have no surround setup yet i'll leave it at that for now and will revisit when I get a proper surround system.


Thanks again.
J