2013-10-04, 19:29
I just wanted to share my experience:
I installed Xubuntu 13.04 instead of the minimal version.
My hardware is as follows:
Mainboard: ASUS M4A78-E
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 4850e
GPU: HIS HD 4670
I had vertical tearing despite precisely following the tutorial (I skipped the xbmc.conf part in /etc/init) and xbmc crashed _every time_ I wanted to exit it.
After playing around a little I have no tearing and no more crashes with the following options different from the tutorial:
System->Settings->System->Video Settings:
Vertical Sync: Disabled
System ->Video->Playback:
Adjust Refreshrate to match video: Off
Sync Playback to Display: off
The other settings (including the advanced config) are the same and now my video playback is as smooth as I could wish for.
Also, xbmc only crashed once on exiting (of maybe 30 tries) and that was after I stuck a pendrive into the computer and the system pushed xbmc to the background to show me a message.
Sound over SP/DIF also works great, I just activated the SP/DIF device and passthrough in System > System > Audio Settings
I installed Xubuntu 13.04 instead of the minimal version.
My hardware is as follows:
Mainboard: ASUS M4A78-E
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 4850e
GPU: HIS HD 4670
I had vertical tearing despite precisely following the tutorial (I skipped the xbmc.conf part in /etc/init) and xbmc crashed _every time_ I wanted to exit it.
After playing around a little I have no tearing and no more crashes with the following options different from the tutorial:
System->Settings->System->Video Settings:
Vertical Sync: Disabled
System ->Video->Playback:
Adjust Refreshrate to match video: Off
Sync Playback to Display: off
The other settings (including the advanced config) are the same and now my video playback is as smooth as I could wish for.
Also, xbmc only crashed once on exiting (of maybe 30 tries) and that was after I stuck a pendrive into the computer and the system pushed xbmc to the background to show me a message.
Sound over SP/DIF also works great, I just activated the SP/DIF device and passthrough in System > System > Audio Settings