Hi there,
I am new to XBMC and the forums, so be nice!
After many hours of trying different distros and configurations (wiping the disk each time for a fresh install) I settled on Ubuntu 11.10 as this was the first distro that installed perfectly and played video files and youtube smoothly in HD.
The issue I have is quite a big one with regards to XBMC because anything I play is about 1 FPS (literally getting between 0.2 and 1.5 FPS!). If I play the same videos from the Ubuntu desktop using any of the players, they are fine. Similarly if I play online videos like youtube and tvcatchup they work fine outside of XBMC.
Surely it must be possible to play videos within a dedicated media front-end with the same performance as your standard desktop? At the moment I cannot use XBMC and can simply use my standard desktop. This is a bit disappointing because this machine is purely for watching videos!
Any advice on how I can get the playback to be as good as Gnome (or whatever Ubuntu is using)?
Thanks,
S
I am new to XBMC and the forums, so be nice!
After many hours of trying different distros and configurations (wiping the disk each time for a fresh install) I settled on Ubuntu 11.10 as this was the first distro that installed perfectly and played video files and youtube smoothly in HD.
The issue I have is quite a big one with regards to XBMC because anything I play is about 1 FPS (literally getting between 0.2 and 1.5 FPS!). If I play the same videos from the Ubuntu desktop using any of the players, they are fine. Similarly if I play online videos like youtube and tvcatchup they work fine outside of XBMC.
Surely it must be possible to play videos within a dedicated media front-end with the same performance as your standard desktop? At the moment I cannot use XBMC and can simply use my standard desktop. This is a bit disappointing because this machine is purely for watching videos!
Any advice on how I can get the playback to be as good as Gnome (or whatever Ubuntu is using)?
Thanks,
S