HD AUDIO AMD GPU's now available

[fritsch]

Okay.

Sadly, I cannot help you in any way without logfiles - you could send me your box as an alternative. Als you could test with a lan cable - to see if the other things like Video etc. are working properly to have a good setup when the WLAN issue is sorted out. Which adapter is it? Which kernel module? dmesg | pastebinit, e.g.

Thanks for testing and sorry for the discomfort.

[crystalgipsy]

I'll get all the info I can for you tonight.

I did manage to get a live USB running on my lenovo as I also found the issue here that was causing the infinite loop on start up. I was updating to the new builds using the update directory rather than a new install and I had an xorg.conf in my .config. I had copied this xorg in to the live verion of this build and It would not load. As soon as I removed the xorg.conf the machine would load up xbmc.

It seemed to run ok for the time I tested, and audio seemed locked down and not drifting on 23.976/24 although I was running in to buffering of the same content on this machine as well. So I need to investiagte if my network was playing up last night or its something else to do with this build. I use a wireless bridge on the lenovo and its normally perfectly fine with nor buffering ever. I always use the same full BD rip of Avatar to test with as it pushes it all to the max.

Having the vdpau mixer on though caused issues with colourspace. I am having to output limited colours 16-235 due to my new AVR not liking full range RGB so everything appears crushed in full range. With the mixer on the gui is ok but video is too lifted so that blacks are too grey and the image is washed out. If I turn the miser off all is ok. Is this a know bug with the VDPAU mixer? Do I need to use it and if so what advantages should it bring?

[fritsch]

I would suggest using the mixer as it speeds up things.

There is btw. another setting in "Expert" Level to calc to 16..235

[crystalgipsy]

I had already found that setting and set it to 16-235. Mixer off correct 16-235 levels, mixer on way too washed out, almost like its applying it twice.

[fritsch]

Yes, that's a problem. Leave that second setting off.

[crystalgipsy]

Ok tested again on the Lenovo. The colours regardless of what settings I use are incorrect. If left with no 16-235 setting then the blacks and whites are all crushed . Switching on the 16-235 makes it better but checking on a Belle-Nuit colour test chart you can see its still not correct. In 16-235 colours white should show as 235 and above but on the chart you still see a clear difference between 235 and the other shades of white up to 255, 255 looks to be peak white, while 235 looks grey. This is also the same on my revo system so something totally screwed up here.

Running 3,2,3 on the same machine using FGLRX not VDPAU then all the colours are 100% correct. My settings are set to output full range RGB.

I tried a custom Xorg in the .config folder to set the colourspace options there but with a custom xorg it wont load the Gotham build.

Overall audio sync ais good though. Skips a few frames here and there but apart from the colour being off playback for early vdpau is good.

What logs do you need for Gotham build on Lenovo? And which logs from the Revo with the wlan problem on Gotham?

[fritsch]

Sadly: None.

What you report is what I have expected. There is currently no possibility to change the Color Range and or Output format. This has to be bugfiled at bugs.freedesktop.org. I thank you very much for testing. OE 4.0 still has some time. We hope that mesa / radeon driver catches up until then.

[crystalgipsy]

How about the issue I am having with wireless on my revo system with all the latest releases but not on the older ones. It uses a Netgear WNDA-3200.

[SailAway]

I'm running on a Richland APU (A10-6700) , and an ASRock FM2A85X-ITX. I've had issues with OpenELEC for the past couple of weeks.

First, I was stuck at the splash screen for 3.2.1. And now after downloading multiple builds (generic, fusion, OSS) for 3.2.3, only the OSS build allows me past the splash. Regardless, I cannot seem to calibrate my system to play GUI sounds or music or audio from video sources.

...

I had the same issue with a quite similar configuration: Richland APU (A8-6500), A85 chipset (ASUS F2A85-M). Couldn't get beyond the splash screen for a variety of builds (Fusion 3.2.3, 3.2.1, 2.99.2, Generic x86 3.2.3): xmbc wouldn't start, but the linux core was running (ssh worked). With Generic OSS 3.2.3 xbmc did start, but no chance to get audio from that system (no matter if HD audio was enabled or disabled in BIOS).

At last, I managed to set up a running system with the older Fusion 3.1.7 build. That seems to be the only one working with this configuration (maybe also some other 3.1.x builds I hadn't tested). I hope future (Fusion) builds will fix this issue so we can againg participate in updates.

[fritsch]

We were forced to downgrade the AMD GPU driver again ... 13.6 had too much issues:
- Non accelerated material had sever drop when using Bobbing deinterlacing
- BOBlight caused drops and stutter in combination
- Ultra Slow Menus with Vsync = disabled

Therefore we switched back to Catalyst 12.10

In the meantime we have dropped XVBA / fglrx completely. The future version will run with AMD OSS drivers.