2007-02-05, 02:04
M.D. Wrote:What kind of video files will benefit from 2 MB more memory? Are you using 1080i desktop?
I'm using 720P desktop. I can barely play some Xvid encoded 720Re HDRip files (usually a 4.3 GB file) and don't upscale to 1080i. For other Xvid files below 720Re (540Re 700 MB TV episodes or 1.4 GB movies), enough memory for XBMC to upscale to 1080i. And even some H.264 encoded 480P Apple HD movie trailers play ok. Strange thing is I found no x.264 files even at 480Re play smoothly. They suppose to use lessn CPU than H.264 Apple trailers.
I'm interested in your experiences. Thanks.
Since my TV only supports 480p and 1080i, I have the everything running in 1080i. I tried the desktop in 480p, but everything is just too big for my taste.
Some of the movies I have are in rar's and some are not, but I did have problems paying some of them in PMIII before.. Thats why I switched to Clearity, since it was supposed to use the least amount of memory.. I guess over time the skin started to use way more then the other skins, and now when I try to play some of my videos, XBMC just runs out of memory.. I go back to PMIII and the same file will usually play just fine...
If someone could tell me what is using up the memory in a skin and what I could do to reduce the amount of memory, (just from the skin, I already have cache sizes turned down etc.) I would appreciate it very much..