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The video is ota modern family was 720p mpeg2 59.94 I converted to 720p 59.94 xbmc upscaled to 1080p. 24p 1080/720p. OK. 1080i 29.97 is fine. No skips. 720p is high level.. Low bitrate from handbrake. So is it that 720p 60 is really decoded 1080p 60 because it is upscaled? I think software decode did not have the skips.. Will check, doing a clean install to another thumb. My grub had radeon.audio=1, xubuntu defaults spdif.. Its a known issue. I fixed it before. I forgot, how. 8( no biggie. These are temp USB thumb installs for now.
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Nope, but if scaling is done, set it to bilinear, just to be sure.
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"unable to locate libg3dvl-mesa".
Can somebody confirm that above problem caused by that the "sausy" MESA driver package has not been built yet?
I am not sure, I just assume it. Thank you
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3.12-rc6 is out, I updated the packages.
I don't want pulse at all, as we don't support it via ActiveAE and it has and still causes severe problem. We are working on a PASink for our new developed Audio Engine, but before that one is in xbmc, pulse with xbmc is a pita and highly not suggested at all.
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OK. I will try the new one. I like the desktop for email,YouTube, etc. Pulse is a yucky layer. Agreed 100%. I will try getting pure alsa working on the other pulseless soundless thumb install.
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Don't get me wrong. You can install whatever you want, but it is off topic in this howto thread.
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2013-10-20, 14:17
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-20, 14:28 by FreakErn.)
Hey fritsch,
i have already a ubuntu 12.04 xbmc with the fglrx 13.6 beta with a lot of running services and i don't want to reinstall the complete system (AMD E-350 with an ATI 6310). So is your guide compatible with a 12.04 xbmcbuntu upgraded to ubuntu 13.10? ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 have the same x-server version and the kernel will be upgraded anyway, right? The radeon driver (i think it is xserver-xorg-video-ati) will change from 7.1 to 7.2 (from 13.04 to 13.10) could this be a problem do you know that?
Thanks in advance dude, great job btw
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Hey fritsch,
First of all thanks for all the help you have already provided, awesome!
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) and so I couldn't follow the guide to the letter; instead of using the wsnipex/mesa ppa I used oibafs ppa.
qvdpautest shows that everything is fine but in xbmc I get a white screen whenever I try to play HD movies.
IIRC this is why you included a specific version of mesa in the wsnipex/mesa, is it possible to also include this version for precise?
Huge thanks for any help you can provide!