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Not sure if it's worth mentioning, but it *seems* to play ok in Plex. But I've a feeling the video quality isn't as good.
I'm happy to dial down a setting if this movie just is too much for my hardware, just don't know how to go about that.
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2010-11-16, 01:17
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-16, 01:36 by Soul.)
Did some digging around and have tried this:
<skiploopfilter>8</skiploopfilter>
It's now much better, though occasionally still stutters. Odd that I didn't used to have to have any special settings for it to play though.
Tried values up to 48 and still getting some dropped frames/stutter. So gone back to 8 again.
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Not to highjack the thread or anything, but i have the same problems.
got a imac 27" i5 quad core, connected to the TV, and am i experience shutter/skipped frames on most of my stuff. Cpu usage is only like 10% so there is something weird going on.
Same movies worked perfect in boxee/plex.
Tried with vertical sync enabled/disabled, synch refresh rate to display, etc etc, nothing seems to work
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the problem appears to be the 10.6.4 and 10.6.5 VDA implementation.
If you really want to be stutter free, 10.6.3 is a must for now unfortunatly
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you sure, cause im not having the same problems on boxee/plex.
10.6.3 is not a option for me
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I'm not using VDA anyway, so that doesn't explain my problem. I have no hardware acceleration, and Plex/Camelot don't/didn't have problems.
I'm wondering if Dharma jus has a higher quality output, that my older hardware just can't cope with now...
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Well i turned off vda now, i didnt notice much increase in cpu power.
Which is kinda okey i guess, since i got a quad core, cpu is still hovering around 80% idle. Just tested office 720p, seems to work great now after turning hardware acc off.
Have to try with a movie tomorrow though, to see if the skipping of frames have gone away
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I'm on 10.6.3 using Dharma RC1. The first video I viewed was just fine, but then every subsequent video was dropping frames like crazy.
I disabled VDA and now not a single dropped frame.
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I'm having a similar problem to this which looks like a frame refresh or dropped frame line across the top 1/4 of the image. (files are .mkv and play fine in vlc)
Stupid question but how do I toggle vda on/off to see if it is that.
For info I'm running a new mac mini over hdmi
Thanks guys and sorry for the newbie question.
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the mac mini 2010 does not appear have a 10.6.3 install disk so the only problem free version that has VDA support is 10.6.3. However the drivers for the mac mini 2010 appear to be missing om the 10.6.3 version.
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