Hello. For the last 2 days I have been trying to get XBMC on my old Asus 751h. At first I tried using the dedicated linux distros only to find out after hours of scurrying the web that poulsbo (GMA500) is not supported in Linux (they say it's supported in the new 3.x kernels but it's just the stuff is gonna appear on your screen support, it is not usable). After a while I gave up and reverted to Windows 7 for which I found a IEMGD driver for GMA500 that supports full hardware acceleration, opengl and has much better performance than the old 2010 GMA500 driver.
After stripping down the windows install and installing XBMC I have the following >MINOR< problems:
1. Some of the confluence menus are messed up graphics wise. they are severely upscaled and going from left to right down. It looks horrible.
2. The FPS in the interface is 6fps@1080p whereas playback of 720p material@1080p is perfectly smooth. Smooth 1080p playback is theoretically possible but I don't have any 1080p movies. 720p playback using DXDA in MPC results in only 50% CPU load so 1080p should work just fine but the 6fps menus make it a pain to use 1080p so I just keep it @ 720p.
Interface@720p is 30fps. It is usable.
After stripping down the windows install and installing XBMC I have the following >MINOR< problems:
1. Some of the confluence menus are messed up graphics wise. they are severely upscaled and going from left to right down. It looks horrible.
2. The FPS in the interface is 6fps@1080p whereas playback of 720p material@1080p is perfectly smooth. Smooth 1080p playback is theoretically possible but I don't have any 1080p movies. 720p playback using DXDA in MPC results in only 50% CPU load so 1080p should work just fine but the 6fps menus make it a pain to use 1080p so I just keep it @ 720p.
Interface@720p is 30fps. It is usable.