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General => Users => Topic started by: usaf-lt-g on December 01, 2008, 06:09:05 am
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any updates to this?
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Might be an obvious question, but have you installed the codecs available in the software menu during setup?
Advanced>Advanced>Add remove software
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I played a .mkv file just the other night with no additional setup. My results were better although not great. During a slow moving scene the video quality was outstanding, once the action started going it would chop up a bit, and the left side of the screen would always be flooded with green pixels. One thing to note is I do not have a proper video card in any of my MD's yet. This was all just playing through the VGA output on my mother board, I am hoping that an nvidia card will fix this issue but I figured I would share my results.
Also I played the same video across the LMCE network on a windows based machine just to rule out the network side of things. It played perfect (this machine has a 512mb nvidia card).
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I played a .mkv file just the other night with no additional setup. My results were better although not great. During a slow moving scene the video quality was outstanding, once the action started going it would chop up a bit, and the left side of the screen would always be flooded with green pixels.
I also see the green pixels in .mkv files. Although in my observation there is no correlation between how fast a scene is changing and their presence.
In 1080P videos I also get chop in scenes with lots of motion. I'm using the following:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE Dual Core Processor AM2 Windsor 2.4GHZ 512KBX2 65W 90NM
Graphics: Integrated GeForce 6 GPU (in the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 on the ASUS M2NPV-VM mobo)
I'm wondering whether I need to upgrade my processor, GPU or both to remedy the choppiness problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Alex
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Alex,
Are your green pixels always mainly on the left side of your screen? That is one thing I found strange is mine were almost always on the left edge and never across the halfway point of the screen.
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This has to do with a buggy libxine that shipped with 0710.
It should be gone in 0810.
-Thom
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Yup, green blocks from the left side of the screen are due to the version of xine(libxine)/mkv files.
If you are using UI2 with alpha blending, going back to UI2 with overlay MAY fix the issue, but it sounds like a video card and/or cpu processing issue. 1080p is pretty hard on video and decoding it can tax a cpu as well.
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yet another reason I hope Santa brings me LMCE 8.10 for Christmas....
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Yup, green blocks from the left side of the screen are due to the version of xine(libxine)/mkv files.
If you are using UI2 with alpha blending, going back to UI2 with overlay MAY fix the issue, but it sounds like a video card and/or cpu processing issue. 1080p is pretty hard on video and decoding it can tax a cpu as well.
Its a common problem and shifting to UI2 with overlay will not fix it...
See Thom's post... its a bug in Xine.
810 does indeed seem to fix the 'Green blocks' bug
All the best
Andrew
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Yup, green blocks from the left side of the screen are due to the version of xine(libxine)/mkv files.
If you are using UI2 with alpha blending, going back to UI2 with overlay MAY fix the issue, but it sounds like a video card and/or cpu processing issue. 1080p is pretty hard on video and decoding it can tax a cpu as well.
Its a common problem and shifting to UI2 with overlay will not fix it...
See Thom's post... its a bug in Xine.
810 does indeed seem to fix the 'Green blocks' bug
All the best
Andrew
Oops, I wasn't clear. Yes, the green blocks are due to libxine and mkv, I had the same issue myself and gave up on converting to mkv format. I was talking about the choppy picture problem when suggesting UI2+overlay may help. I forgot to mention what I was referring to when I switched to the other issue. :)