2010-05-20, 15:56
Hi everyone. I've been browsing these forums looking for the status of CrystalHD, and I'm baffled.
I setup an ATV + Ubuntu 8.04 + XBMC back in the days where XBMC had a dedicated CrystalHD branch, and the only driver we had was leaked. And it's working great: it can play hours of 720p and 1080p rips, it never stutters. It only stutters at the start and when I pause it, and only for a couple of seconds.
But now I'm browsing these forums, and there's lots of complaints of frequent stuttering, bad 1080p issues, etcetera. Even dan1son said recently "Just have to pause/resume every 20 minutes or so when it starts stuttering."
I have nothing like that. How come? Sure the initial stuttering happens, but what's 10 seconds at the start of a movie.
The reason for this post is that I was planning to update my setup to the new drivers, a more bare-bones OS (it's running under full gnome atm!), and a recent xbmc version, but now I don't know. I would really rather not have to pause/unpause every 20 minutes, or get unbearable stuttering after some playback time.
I'm just curious as to why these new versions seem to have more issues than the old ones.
Cheers
I setup an ATV + Ubuntu 8.04 + XBMC back in the days where XBMC had a dedicated CrystalHD branch, and the only driver we had was leaked. And it's working great: it can play hours of 720p and 1080p rips, it never stutters. It only stutters at the start and when I pause it, and only for a couple of seconds.
But now I'm browsing these forums, and there's lots of complaints of frequent stuttering, bad 1080p issues, etcetera. Even dan1son said recently "Just have to pause/resume every 20 minutes or so when it starts stuttering."
I have nothing like that. How come? Sure the initial stuttering happens, but what's 10 seconds at the start of a movie.
The reason for this post is that I was planning to update my setup to the new drivers, a more bare-bones OS (it's running under full gnome atm!), and a recent xbmc version, but now I don't know. I would really rather not have to pause/unpause every 20 minutes, or get unbearable stuttering after some playback time.
I'm just curious as to why these new versions seem to have more issues than the old ones.
Cheers