05-31-2013, 04:54 PM
I bought Arctic MC001-XBMC and used it first with OpenELEC. However, I wanted the device to be more than a media center. I wanted MPD, rsync, bells, whistles and other stuff so I installed Ubuntu 13.04 64‐bit. There were some issues, but I was able to tackle most of them (HDMI audio was disabled by default, fglrx drivers not installing, kernel not new enough to support TV card and so on). Now I have the hardest one left: hardware video acceleration with XBMC.
I am not able to play 720p mkv files without lag when there’s lots of stuff moving in the video. Not in XBMC from Ubuntu repository or PPA – even though I tried all different settings for video playback. Neither does it work with MPlayer in desktop environment. However, 720p and even 1080p videos run smoothly with VLC in the same environment. So do they in XBMC running on OpenELEC.
So my question is: how to enable that video acceleration OpenELEC and VLC are able to use with Ubuntu version of XBMC? Is there an option when compiling it or how to do it? I tried to search the answer from the OpenELEC sources but I didn’t succeed.
Thanks in advance (and sorry for abandoning OpenELEC
),
laiti
I am not able to play 720p mkv files without lag when there’s lots of stuff moving in the video. Not in XBMC from Ubuntu repository or PPA – even though I tried all different settings for video playback. Neither does it work with MPlayer in desktop environment. However, 720p and even 1080p videos run smoothly with VLC in the same environment. So do they in XBMC running on OpenELEC.
So my question is: how to enable that video acceleration OpenELEC and VLC are able to use with Ubuntu version of XBMC? Is there an option when compiling it or how to do it? I tried to search the answer from the OpenELEC sources but I didn’t succeed.
Thanks in advance (and sorry for abandoning OpenELEC
),laiti