2015-02-09, 20:30
Hi,
I've been watching using only software decoding on my Chromebox with OpenElec.
Most everything plays back lovely.
I kept the debug log enabled so I could see the FPS and CPU use and most every video I have did fine.
My blu ray MKV from "The Dark Knight" was choppy and often pegged one or the other CPU core at 100% so for that video I will enable acceleration unless I just re-encode it and dumb down the bit rate some.
Subjectively... I think it looks better and smoother using software rendering. That could be my imagination but I always welcome perceived improvements regardless of if it's imaginary.
-Brian
I've been watching using only software decoding on my Chromebox with OpenElec.
Most everything plays back lovely.
I kept the debug log enabled so I could see the FPS and CPU use and most every video I have did fine.
My blu ray MKV from "The Dark Knight" was choppy and often pegged one or the other CPU core at 100% so for that video I will enable acceleration unless I just re-encode it and dumb down the bit rate some.
Subjectively... I think it looks better and smoother using software rendering. That could be my imagination but I always welcome perceived improvements regardless of if it's imaginary.
-Brian