Comments on: Much progress on video

By: elan

elan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:11:47 +0000

@andy: It uses ffmpeg for decoding, albeit an unoptimized version for now, so the CPU usage should be similar to other players that also use ffmpeg. However, as a real world example, I’ve found skipping through MKV files to be quite a bit faster than with other players I’ve tried. The XBMC core code is well written!

By: andy

andy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:01:33 +0000

Now that video is working, are there any CPU usage benchmarks available? Is there any decoding work being offloaded to the GPU?
Looking sweet.

By: Ezrem

Ezrem — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:41:41 +0000

@elan -

I submitted the stack trace to your bug tracker. Hopefully this is where you want it, as I couldn’t find an email address anywhere.

Thanks so much to your whole team for this! I have been hoping to get rid of my XBOX for ages!

By: yaneku

yaneku — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:18:17 +0000

btw. elan, what cable are you using for digital output? have you enabled something in osx?

By: yaneku

yaneku — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:57:11 +0000

I have Audio Output to Digital and enabled AC3/DTS Capable Receiver. Maybe it’s my old Sony reciever thats crap but strange that it works using VLC. Let me know if you come up with something I can test.

By: elan

elan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:07 +0000

@yaneku: Make sure you go to Audio Hardware settings and set the Audio Output to Digital and enable AC3/DTS Capable Receiver. The log looks right. That’s all I can say for now, sadly. It works flawlessly on my Marantz SR-7000.

@Qwan: Apple remote will act like cursor keys, so it will do something, but XBMC really needs a more fully keyed remote. You can tweak KeyMap.xml to help out. I’m thinking of using a bluetooth Apple keyboard, and perhaps getting a wireless Xbox360 controller working.

@Matt: One individual was kind enough to donate some great beer to the cause.

@Jasper: Subs are known broken.

@everyone: Thanks so much for your kind words!

If you’re getting a crash (playing videos, for example), a stack trace helps me greatly. Do the following to obtain one:

$ gdb XBMC
> run
…. crash …
> where
… send me this output …

By: bouriko

bouriko — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:40:44 +0000

Elan for president !!!!!! ^

By: yaneku

yaneku — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:30:21 +0000

Ok. Now I’ve tried the digital output using a minijack-toslink cable. All I get is noise i my speakers. My reciever doesn’t realize that it should decode the dts signal and tries to play it as a regular signal (probably?). The same movies with dts/ac3 works in VLC when enabling S/PDIF. Regular movies/music in xbmc works fine.

When I try to play a dts or ac3 movie I get this debug text:

Asked to open device: [iec958]
Asked to create device: [iec958]
Device should be digital: [1]

By: Qwan

Qwan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:27:01 +0000

Does the apple remote work yet?

By: elan

elan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:54:46 +0000

@yaneku: I use the backspace key to move up a directory. You can have a look at UserData/KeyMap.xml to discover the full set of keys, as well as modify bindings.