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Video Playback on htpc (i3-2100) pixelated and stuttering..

post #1 of 12
6/11/11 at 10:13pm
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As the title suggests.. the video playback from local or online is stuttering and pixelated.. i did observe that files which stuttered/pixelated (2 of them were mkvs) and the one which didnt stutter was avi..

only tried some.. they stutter like jayleno show..but not conan..

This is throught xbmc playback.. same files that pixelated on xbmc played fine in vlc..
I have v-sync enabled
I have xbmc running on full screen not windowed
I have adjust refresh rate of video to match screen.

What else can i do???

Solution: Disable hardware accelaration
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post #2 of 12
6/11/11 at 10:25pm
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Originally Posted by hardrock_121 View Post

As the title suggests.. the video playback from local or online is stuttering and pixelated.. i did observe that files which stuttered/pixelated (2 of them were mkvs) and the one which didnt stutter was avi..

only tried some.. they stutter like jayleno show..but not conan..

This is throught xbmc playback.. same files that pixelated on xbmc played fine in vlc..
I have v-sync enabled
I have xbmc running on full screen not windowed
I have adjust refresh rate of video to match screen.

What else can i do???

Let me see if i have this straight, So it's only some local files and some online content? Is it the same files and same online content that does it? Or will some stuff work sometimes and the same stuff not work other times? Will the same files play ok in other players? Could the online content be a bandwidth thing or have you tried the same online content in other players as well? Let's just focus on the files for now, does the stuff that work always work or does it vary? Is it just certain files that won't play right?
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post #3 of 12
6/11/11 at 10:28pm
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What else can i do???

Try them outside of XBMC?
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post #4 of 12
6/11/11 at 10:46pm
Disabled "DXVA2"?
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post #5 of 12
6/11/11 at 11:04pm
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Try them outside of XBMC?

did that as i mentioned ..tried to play them in vlc and they play fine.. i ve played these files several times on another pc and they play fine too...
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post #6 of 12
6/11/11 at 11:07pm
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Originally Posted by joeydrunk View Post

Let me see if i have this straight, So it's only some local files and some online content? Is it the same files and same online content that does it? Or will some stuff work sometimes and the same stuff not work other times? Will the same files play ok in other players? Could the online content be a bandwidth thing or have you tried the same online content in other players as well? Let's just focus on the files for now, does the stuff that work always work or does it vary? Is it just certain files that won't play right?

-the same file will not play no matter how many times u try
-online content could bee bandwidth but i doubt that.. normally on a browser it plays well
-these same files will play fine on vlc
- I DID OBSERVE THAT ALL H264 AND AVC FILES ARE NOT PLAYING PROPELRY.. XVID/AVI FILES SEEM OK.. I M READING THE CODEC FROM THE COVERART DISPLAY IN XBMC.
-Also just installed shark007 codecs.. but didnt make any difference.. I didnt reboot tho.. not sure if that makes any difference.
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post #7 of 12
6/11/11 at 11:12pm
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-the same file will not play no matter how many times u try
-online content could bee bandwidth but i doubt that.. normally on a browser it plays well
-these same files will play fine on vlc
- I DID OBSERVE THAT ALL H264 AND AVC FILES ARE NOT PLAYING PROPELRY.. XVID/AVI FILES SEEM OK.. I M READING THE CODEC FROM THE COVERART DISPLAY IN XBMC.
-Also just installed shark007 codecs.. but didnt make any difference.. I didnt reboot tho.. not sure if that makes any difference.

It's definitely a setting in Xbmc, did you enable both match screen to video and playback to screen res(something like that) unchecked both of them and enable dxva.

Oh, are you using the internal native player?
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post #8 of 12
6/11/11 at 11:14pm
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Disabled "DXVA2"?

I hate to say this but it worked after disabling this..no idea why ..

i tried every other option ...except this earlier..

Can u tell me why it didn't work with hardware acceleration... i wud except it wud gain performance right?
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post #9 of 12
6/11/11 at 11:23pm
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ok yet another qtn.. dnt want to create multiple threads for this...
i have a movie folder which has 3 files.. when i add it to xbmc and view it under movies.. i see 3 files in it..is there a way i can see only one folder per movie..and not see as many as the files...?
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post #10 of 12
6/11/11 at 11:23pm
Simply XBMC's DXVA video playback pipeline is optimized for AMD and NVIDIA, but not for Intel (yet). Software mode is device-independent and works fine whatever graphics device you use.
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post #11 of 12
6/12/11 at 10:53am
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Simply XBMC's DXVA video playback pipeline is optimized for AMD and NVIDIA, but not for Intel (yet). Software mode is device-independent and works fine whatever graphics device you use.

Interesting... given the intel is the most popular platform i would guess they would have started from intel.. but i guess they were optimizing it for graphic cards and not for on chip processor... :/
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post #12 of 12
6/12/11 at 10:59am
Intel graphics is the most popular in the office.
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