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Of course, as many of us already know, the RaspberryPi will not play DivX 3 content. It plays audio only, no video. This is a known issue with the Pi and DivX 3, and is due to licensing (or, lack thereof). Now that I have a working setup, I'm going to convert these all. I have loads of them.

Have you tried context-menu "play using dvdplayer" ?

I do still have a few 1080p h264 titles with some really high-def scenes that don't play well. There is one scene in particular, about 8 minutes into a Sci-Fi movie from 2 years ago, that has lots of dots moving around on the screen for about 1 minute. This scene does not play, but it's not specific to this build or the RaspberryPi... this scene uses lots of resources and is choppy even playing via gigabit ethernet on BoxeeBox.

Sounds like the Prometheus dream sequence, which much like the "birds" sample has a bitrate spike that goes through the roof.

I did notice one bug. This build doesn't seem to respect the cachemembuffersize I have set in advancedsettings.xml. I have a RaspberryPi Model B with 512MB RAM. I did NOT adjust my config.txt to gpu_mem=256. Everything looks to be working as expected with gpu_mem=128. So, If I want to cache to memory, with 372 MB available, then a setting of 100MB should use 3 times that, or 300 MB (Can somebody please explain WHY using memory for cache buffer is supposed to use triple the RAM?? My testing on 20131219 does NOT support this.)

With the following advancesettings.xml, I see the cache fill up to only ~60MB, not ~100 as I was seeing on 20131219.

Unfortunately this is a new "feature", not a bug. I did try to resist it, but it came in here:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/3963

Basically half the cache is unused for mkv and mp4 files.