2010-06-13, 13:58
.:B:. Wrote:Okay.
Bah... I don't know why this always happens to me. I installed the same package as before (31021), play the same file that dropped frames on me every few seconds, and now all of a sudden it barely drops any! Anyway there are still framedrops, so here we go.
Media info for the first test file
Media info for the second test file
Xbmc log file
The initial dropped frames occur when the movie is loaded (which should be normal as I understood), the ones at 10:46 were caused by pulling up the OSD. The first test file ran pretty smoothly (it dropped as many frames as the second one though the past days). Playback of the second file starts at 10:53:57 more or less. First major in-move dropped frames occur around 10:59:03, where I could see the card's buffer unfill dramatically. I checked CPU usage and that was fine at the time. Network traffic looked fine too (150 KBps upstream torrent traffic, router can handle that just fine), I also tried with rtorrent not running yesterday to make sure it wasn't interfering, frames were still being dropped at the same rate.
Crystalhd kernel module and userspace library are both 1.0.3.
I hope I'm not wasting your time, yesterday it was all choppy and dropped frames galore, and a lot of the time the CrystalHD buffer wouldn't even fill past 50%.
I'm having similar issues. Sometimes everything is working ok, a reboot later without touching the installation I'm having a lot of frame drops with the same movie. I'm on ubuntu karmic with 1.0.3 libs and switching between 28744 and svn trunk. I notice that the current SVN builds have less frame drops when you start a movie and on skipping, but they seem less stable
overall.
For example Shutter Island 1080p mediainfo plays almost fine @ 28744, unwatchable @ svn trunk.
r28744log: http://pastebin.com/KbxWKtpF
r31087log: http://pastebin.com/RgDeui21
