This is my first post here so Hello Everyone.
After reading dozens of tutorials, wiki guides and forum posts I surrendered in attempts to finally make my xbmc a joy and decided to post my issue here as a last cry for help.
The problem seems simple (video shattered and blocked) and solution obvious - incorrect audio settings. Unfortunatelly far from it;(
I have literally spent dozens of hours reading forum posts and trying different configurations and settings and result is still the same - video on some movies is crap!
First of all specs of my platform:
MB: Asus P8H77-V LE
CPU: i3-2130
Ram 8gb A-data
HDD: Sandisk 64GB SSD + 1TB WG Green + 2TB WD Green
GPU: internal - signal via HDMI port into my Onkyo onkyo tx-nr 806 and from there into full hd plasma screen
All above running Win 8 x64 with all available updates. The newest audio and video drivers from vendor's site are installed.
So far I have tried:
- reinstalling to Windows 7 x64 and playing with all audio settings possible based on wiki tutorials.
In Windows 8:
- followed tutorial on correct audio settings
- tried diferent settings including analogue, digital and HDMI output option.
- tried switching off every possible format in case my player cannot decode it - so i turned off one by one: ac3, dts, truehd..etc.
- changing resolutions
- switching different encoding modes - hardware, software
- tried stable frodo 12.1 and beta 12.2
- i run windows RAM mem test and intel processor test - all passed and ok
NOTHING of the above helped. The video on some movies is great and with no problems throughout the movies. However on some movies it is impossible to watch.
I only watch .mkv containers, x264 coded. Problems concern all SD, hdtv and full hd resolutions.
One thing i could not change is the audio controller driver. In wiki guide it says that microsoft/intel audio hardware driver must be replaced with original vendor driver. That i couldnt do for my amplituner as official win8 audio driver downloaded from asus page doesent want to install. The driver file is the same for all systema from xp to win 8 so maybe win8 is nor really yet supported - only guessing here.
Of course the movies that play horrible on xbmc plays flawlessly on VLC;( they also play perfectly on my ipad4 xbmc when playing over the network, but not on my primary entertainment device - brand new htpc in living room![Sad]( "Sad")
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I ran out of options and have no idea if theres a solution available i can apply and fully enjoy the xbmc experience on my htpc;(
Example of movie that looks shattered and blocked:
http://speedy.sh/QyqRZ/video.mkv
and screenshots from that movie watched on my htpc:
http://imageshack.us/g/441/048za.png/
and ofcourse log from opening that file
http://www.speedyshare.com/gjKUd/xbmc.log
If anyone has any idea what could be the problem, feel free to post ideas. Thanks in advance!![Wink]( "Wink")
After reading dozens of tutorials, wiki guides and forum posts I surrendered in attempts to finally make my xbmc a joy and decided to post my issue here as a last cry for help.
The problem seems simple (video shattered and blocked) and solution obvious - incorrect audio settings. Unfortunatelly far from it;(
I have literally spent dozens of hours reading forum posts and trying different configurations and settings and result is still the same - video on some movies is crap!
First of all specs of my platform:
MB: Asus P8H77-V LE
CPU: i3-2130
Ram 8gb A-data
HDD: Sandisk 64GB SSD + 1TB WG Green + 2TB WD Green
GPU: internal - signal via HDMI port into my Onkyo onkyo tx-nr 806 and from there into full hd plasma screen
All above running Win 8 x64 with all available updates. The newest audio and video drivers from vendor's site are installed.
So far I have tried:
- reinstalling to Windows 7 x64 and playing with all audio settings possible based on wiki tutorials.
In Windows 8:
- followed tutorial on correct audio settings
- tried diferent settings including analogue, digital and HDMI output option.
- tried switching off every possible format in case my player cannot decode it - so i turned off one by one: ac3, dts, truehd..etc.
- changing resolutions
- switching different encoding modes - hardware, software
- tried stable frodo 12.1 and beta 12.2
- i run windows RAM mem test and intel processor test - all passed and ok
NOTHING of the above helped. The video on some movies is great and with no problems throughout the movies. However on some movies it is impossible to watch.
I only watch .mkv containers, x264 coded. Problems concern all SD, hdtv and full hd resolutions.
One thing i could not change is the audio controller driver. In wiki guide it says that microsoft/intel audio hardware driver must be replaced with original vendor driver. That i couldnt do for my amplituner as official win8 audio driver downloaded from asus page doesent want to install. The driver file is the same for all systema from xp to win 8 so maybe win8 is nor really yet supported - only guessing here.
Of course the movies that play horrible on xbmc plays flawlessly on VLC;( they also play perfectly on my ipad4 xbmc when playing over the network, but not on my primary entertainment device - brand new htpc in living room
.I ran out of options and have no idea if theres a solution available i can apply and fully enjoy the xbmc experience on my htpc;(
Example of movie that looks shattered and blocked:
http://speedy.sh/QyqRZ/video.mkv
and screenshots from that movie watched on my htpc:
http://imageshack.us/g/441/048za.png/
and ofcourse log from opening that file
http://www.speedyshare.com/gjKUd/xbmc.log
If anyone has any idea what could be the problem, feel free to post ideas. Thanks in advance!
