2011-01-06, 10:29
Robotica Wrote:Great to see you so active on this Alan. I think this soon will beat ION.Do you know how VAAPI handles color correction, sharpening, de-interlacing and divx upscaling?And simultaneously audio over HDMI and SPdif?
I have another good news. With updated drivers (Git 04.01.2011) from xorg edegers ppa (just do "sudo apt-get update" than "sudo apt-get upgrade". ALL my h264 files play perfectly smooth. Even the 30fps very high bitrate (over 40Mbps) Bluray files play perfectly :-)
About the other things you asked:
-Audio over HMDI is perfect. You can use 8channel LPCM sound up to 24bits and 192khz. Also when implementation will be ready by the Audio Engine developers, native passthrough of DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD will work on this hw and drivers.
- Spdif also works as expected (i have not tested simultaneous hdmi-spdif sound)
- Divx hq upscaling with OpenGL shaders works perfectly with new drivers
- Deinterlacing only works with software decode so far. But that looks great. Great developer Bobo1on1 promised that he can implement the OpenGL based deinterlacing we use for software decoding to be also usable with VAAPI decoding. In that case that will be perfect.
I have only 2 issues remaining.
- Auto refresh rate WITH smoothvideo TOGETHER still not working. Only separatelly. Bobo1on1 told that this is caused by thread Video Reference Clock hanging when screenmode change. This problem can be eliminated if we can stop this thred while screenmode change happens. I will try to look into the code to help him fix this.
- I realized that in some cases when i start a video i have horrible playback with only a few fps speed rendering. If i pause and restart it goes back to normal. Maybe the cause of this thing is something similar to what we have with the previous problem.
That is it. I think we will have a system that is in par with ION pretty soon.
