[anthonynishat]

You often get skips/drops at the beginning of a file or if you skip around. That's normal in my experience. However if you see the skip/drop count continue to increase whilst in play, and aren't doing something funny with frame rates, then that is more of a worry.

In my experience OpenElec on Intel (including the i5 Haswell NUC) defaults to limited "Broadcast/Studio" 16-235 output (this may be if you select a "Broadcast" resolution for output (1280x720, 1920x1080)) so you won't get crushed blacks and clipped whites in this situation if you are feeding a normal 16-235 HDMI display (and almost all consumer HDMI gear is 16-235 by default - as that is the video range used for DVD, Blu-ray, Broadcast TV etc., and TVs, by default, would expect 16-235 level sources)

If you are feeding a "Full" or "PC" level display - which expects 0-255 video range, you may experience milky blacks, desaturated colours and dull whites then you may need to alter the xrandr stuff to alter to "Full" range.

Unless the picture looks poor there is no reason to mess with xrandr. The default output with OE and Intel hardware is acceptable although arguably it can be improved by changing the way that the video output is handled in the OS. Some displays are more problematic with others. With my Panasonic plasma the PQ was noticeably worse than it had been when using older ATI based hardware, so I had to mess around with xrandr to improve it.

Frame drops/skips during start of playback is totally normal. It is only a problem if you either visually notice frame drops occurring or you see the skip/drop counter incrementing during normal (not chapter skip or ff/rew) playback.

Thanks Noggin and voip-ninja for your answers. Even I am not able to see the + and - button. Feeling really dumb . Can somebody help me out? Or I need to have posted some minimum amount before I can give thanks etc. .

Anyways right now at least my eyes don't see washed out picture so I am guessing I am good . Will keep a check on drops and skips to see if it stays that way. Anybody here has experience playing back their Canon HF11 recorded AVCHDs. As I mentioned in the initial scenes I see a skip. Also I have set it to record with 24fps but I see it doesn't get played in that. Any insights there? I will also double check my camcorder settings, any information on if anybody was successful will definitely help.