[finite3]

Hmmm. I have had to turn it off on my ASrock ION330.
I get frame drops every few secs, and the audio sync moves around a bit.
It seems to be driving one of my cores at 100%.
Shame - this was working OK in beta1 at maybe 80%.
This is with option 7 (bicubic).

I'll try overclocking & some other things, but signs are not good.

[Buckster]

mmm I must be missing somethingI think - I have put the XBMC Live Final ISO onto a memory stick

booted it up for first time (which then creates the XBMC directory on the stick)

then in windows put a copy of advancedsettings.xml into \userdata

but I'm only getting 10% CPU utilisation when playing back SD content, so Lanczos upscaling is not working

any ideas please ?

[finite3]

Have you checked all your cores? It may be hitting any of them.
Most recent live version is 9.11 repack.
If you don't have this version, then you need different options to turn it on (or it may simply be broken).

[Buckster]

finite3 - even set to "Sinc" upscaling I get about 9-12% max CPU core loading on either core (dual core @ 3.4 gig) - wheras on the old Windows version with Sinc enabled at 3.4 gig I was maxing out the core and getting stuttering ...

should the upscaling options change in "video settings" when running a video ?

set to "automatic" video playback mode, I get choice of Nearest, Bilinear or Bicubic

set to "software" video playback mode, I get choice of Nearest, Bilinear of VDPAU ?? (whats the last one)

[finite3]

All I can think of is
1) You have incompatible settings in videoplayer section of guisettings.xml
or
2) Render isn't set to Auto

Don't know if anyone has any better ideas?

[liq456]

How do I set it for bicubic hardware?

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <video>
    <highqualityscaling>1</highqualityscaling>
    <highqualityscalingmethod>8</highqualityscalingmethod>
  </video>
</advancedsettings>

Would I use 5 or something instead of 8? I know 7 is for Bicubic (SW), 8 is for Lanczos (SW) (the best quality in my oppinion), 9 is for Sinc (SW).

[bossanova808]

Why not use Alanwww's great build with the scaling done via hardware and not use those software scalers:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=486...stcount=11

Works a treat, silk lanczos3 scaling looks very good.

[liq456]

Why not use Alanwww's great build with the scaling done via hardware and not use those software scalers:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=486...stcount=11

Works a treat, silk lanczos3 scaling looks very good.

Thanks for this but I would still like to know how to set bicubic if someone knows.

[liq456]

Why not use Alanwww's great build with the scaling done via hardware and not use those software scalers:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=486...stcount=11

Works a treat, silk lanczos3 scaling looks very good.

Thanks for this, but I'm a super linux noob with out a step by step I'll just mess it up. I would still like to know how to set bicubic if someone knows.

[alanwww1]

Thanks for this, but I'm a super linux noob with out a step by step I'll just mess it up. I would still like to know how to set bicubic if someone knows.

What i actually did with this package is i backported Bobo1on1's new hw shader based upscalers from SVN to the stable Camelot release.

Just copy the files to an empty dir and you make the one line installation as i wrote there.

After that REMOVE advancedsettings.xml with this.

Code:

rm ~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

After that start xbmc and start playing a video. Press "m" for video OSD. Choose video settings. There you can set the desired upscaler. Here you find bilinear, bicubic, Lanczos2, Lanczos 3 optimized, Lanczos 3, auto.

I suggest selecting auto. As it automaticly falls back to bilinear in case of hd video (your video card could not handle that, and there is no need to have hq upscaling in case of a hd video)

Here at the last lines you can set this to be the default setting for ALL videos.

Cheers, Alan

[liq456]

Ok I tried it and this is what I get now XBMC will not start.

Code:

(T: XBMCLive)xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ cd test
(T: XBMCLive)xbmc@XBMCLive:~/test$ sudo dpkg -i xbmc*
(Reading database ... 100514 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xbmc 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1 (using xbmc_9.11+svn26018-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-bin 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1 (using xbmc-bin_9.11+svn26018-karmic1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-bin ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-data 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1 (using xbmc-data_9.11+svn26018-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-data ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-skin-confluence 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1 (using xbmc-skin-confluence_9.11+svn26018-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-skin-confluence ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-skin-pm3-hd 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1 (using xbmc-skin-pm3-hd_9.11+svn26018-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-skin-pm3-hd ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-web-pm3 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1 (using xbmc-web-pm3_9.11+svn26018-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-web-pm3 ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-bin:
xbmc-bin depends on libglew1.5 (>= 1.5.1); however:
  Version of libglew1.5 on system is 1.5.0dfsg1-3ubuntu1.
xbmc-bin depends on libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1); however:
  Package libmysqlclient16 is not installed.
xbmc-bin depends on libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.16); however:
  Version of libsqlite3-0 on system is 3.6.10-1ubuntu0.2.
xbmc-bin depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0); however:
  Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.3.3-5ubuntu4.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-bin (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-data:
xbmc-data depends on xbmc-bin (>= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-bin is not configured yet.
xbmc-data depends on xbmc-bin (<< 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1.1~); however:
  Package xbmc-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-data (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-skin-confluence:
xbmc-skin-confluence depends on xbmc-data (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-skin-confluence (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-skin-pm3-hd:
xbmc-skin-pm3-hd depends on xbmc-data (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-skin-pm3-hd (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-web-pm3:
xbmc-web-pm3 depends on xbmc-data (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-web-pm3 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc:
xbmc depends on xbmc-data (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-data is not configured yet.
xbmc depends on xbmc-skin-confluence (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1) | xbmc-skin-pm3-hd (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-skin-confluence is not configured yet.
  Package xbmc-skin-pm3-hd is not configured yet.
xbmc depends on xbmc-web-pm3 (= 1:9.11+svn26018-karmic1); however:
  Package xbmc-web-pm3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xbmc (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
xbmc-bin
xbmc-data
xbmc-skin-confluence
xbmc-skin-pm3-hd
xbmc-web-pm3
xbmc

[alanwww1]

You can reinstall xbmc with

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xbmc xbmc-data xbmc-bin

[liq456]

You can reinstall xbmc with

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xbmc xbmc-data xbmc-bin

Thanks its working now.