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[party_captain]

I have a couple of videos that I have tried to play using My Videos.  

XBMC outputs at 1080i with no issues on my HDTV, but when I play the video the screen goes black and freezes only a reboot will unfreeze it?  

Am I missing something, is there a max resolution for XBMC?
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[JayDee]

Think of that you have a 733 cpu and 64mb of ram.

HD material often needs a high end cpu and a good peice of ram to play fine on a pc.

You can get better results by getting the Friendtech DreamX, (1400 cpu and 128mb ram)  <

[party_captain]

I was thinking along those lines, it is a lot to ask an Xbox to do.  

I was just surprised that it crashed instead of trying to run the video and having it skip, slur, run choppy or slow etc. <

[Jaidee]

I had the same result.

Tried to run a 1080 res file, didn't do anything, just black screen and crash.

Thing is, I can't play this file on anything, not even on my PC! 2.8GHz, 1gig of RDRAM, using VLC to play, and it still skips, any ideas?  <

[kingroach]

don know about xbox but if u hav 2.8ghz cpu than maybe the problem is in ur graphics card. Try setting your screen resolution greater than 1080 like 1024x762.  <

[verboten]

QUOTE (kingroach @ Jun 23 2004, 03:06 PM)

don know about xbox but if u hav 2.8ghz cpu than maybe the problem is in ur graphics card. Try setting your screen resolution greater than 1080 like 1024x762.

Umm... 1024X762 is lower than 1080. 1920 x 1440  would be greater

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[ChrisF]

QUOTE (party_captain @ Jun 20 2004, 08:25 AM)

I was just surprised that it crashed instead of trying to run the video and having it skip, slur, run choppy or slow etc.

Try a 720p resolution file.  Some have gotten these to play and from what I gather the results were choppy etc..

1080 res is asking too much.  <

[kingroach]

according to windows media HD website you need 3.0ghz to play 1080i and at least 2.4ghz and 64mb graphics card to play 720i hi def files.  <

[Butcher_]

The xbox probably crashed due to lack of memory. a 1080 file is HUGE, the amount of memory just to store a single frame of output is significant.

XBMC can render 720 videos at close to realtime speeds (around 20 fps), you need a bit less power on a dedicated video processing machine like xbox than a PC.  <

[overc00k]

I have a panasonic HDTV 1080i (BBE - High Definition Sound). Using HDTV AV Pack ( monster cable + Digital output ). I did a fresh install of XBMC 1.0 and its working perfectly. Did you turn on support 1080i in m$ dash?, using HDTV av pack?. Who knows..

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[ChrisF]

QUOTE (overc00k @ Jul 2 2004, 08:38 AM)

I have a panasonic HDTV 1080i (BBE - High Definition Sound). Using HDTV AV Pack ( monster cable + Digital output ). I did a fresh install of XBMC 1.0 and its working perfectly. Did you turn on support 1080i in m$ dash?, using HDTV av pack?. Who knows..

We all have HD setups.  The Xbox can't play those files regardless of what resolutions you turn on in the dash and how you configure your setup.  It can upscale resolutions from around DVD quality (480p) to HD (720p/1080i) but as far as playing native 720p and 1080i files...that is exactly what this thread is about.  Eventually it comes down to memory and processing power (or video processing power).  With Xbox it's a no go.  <

[Morien]

QUOTE (ChrisF @ Jul 2 2004, 10:06 AM)

We all have HD setups.

 

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