2014-06-03, 19:46
MPEG-2 from HDHOMERUN is still hit and mostly miss with hardware acceleration using OSS and Radeon HD5450 for me. Sometimes it will play for a short while and then crash XBMC, most of the time it will immediately crash. Disabling hardware acceleration makes it play, but the particular machine I am using is too weak to decode 1080i in real time it is slightly sluggish taking up all cycles. And yeah, multithreaded
I'm guessing this will never be fixed and I should start looking for cheap used hd6450 which hopefully will work correctly. I am pretty limited to a low tdp for the card that will go in this box so I don't have a lot of choice. It's just disappointing because I moved to radeon from crystalhd because crystalhd support is dying but crystalhd worked flawlessly in this respect I thought there was no way that going to something much more mainstream like a popular htpc radeon card would give me more grief.
I'm guessing this will never be fixed and I should start looking for cheap used hd6450 which hopefully will work correctly. I am pretty limited to a low tdp for the card that will go in this box so I don't have a lot of choice. It's just disappointing because I moved to radeon from crystalhd because crystalhd support is dying but crystalhd worked flawlessly in this respect I thought there was no way that going to something much more mainstream like a popular htpc radeon card would give me more grief.