Topic: 1080i Video, What Cache Settings Are Best? (Read 106 times)

Blackbolt · « **on:** December 08, 2006, 02:33:00 AM »

QUOTE(sp44 @ Dec 8 2006, 01:49 AM)

I tried a bunch of settings and playing videos would still crap out. Anybody have some settings that work at 1080i?

Thanks!

I am not 100% sure, but you can't watch videos in 1080i with XBMC, its not powerful enough. The XBOX only has 64mb of ram, and its running XBMC with half of that ram. The processor is only a 733mhz and the graphics card aint much, so try 720p instead.

X3lectric · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2006, 01:13:00 PM »

QUOTE(sp44 @ Dec 9 2006, 12:42 AM)

If my TV could do 720p I'd try that. Anybody know what version of XBMC would work. Some older version maybe?

http://forums.xbox-s...a...e=4&order=1

Try a search thats what I did.

colt45joe · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:04:00 PM »

eh.. i watch videos and DVDs just fine in 1080i

but if you are trying to watch videos that are 1920 x 1080 (1080i).. then thats impossible.

soo, what videos are you trying to watch?

X3lectric · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2006, 10:41:00 AM »

QUOTE(sp44 @ Dec 10 2006, 02:55 AM)

Yeah I didn't see anything in that search.

That Link works fine still for me...

http://forums.xbox-s...a...e=4&order=1

And if it doesnt for you do a search for 1080i thats it.

QUOTE(colt45joe @ Dec 11 2006, 03:11 AM)

eh.. i watch videos and DVDs just fine in 1080i

but if you are trying to watch videos that are 1920 x 1080 (1080i).. then thats impossible.

soo, what videos are you trying to watch?

Are you sure you havent made a mistake there with you statement? or is it me?

X3lectric · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2006, 01:30:00 AM »

QUOTE(sp44 @ Dec 15 2006, 07:39 AM)

I'm talking about Divx or Xvid files not actual 1080i files or DVD's.

I think you answered your own question.

TBH Im not sure if xbmc at all will play all HD content regardless of container.

Thats me out.

UK_joker · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2006, 02:30:00 PM »

QUOTE(colt45joe @ Dec 17 2006, 10:52 PM)

i watch divx, xvid, avi anime/tv shows on xbmc at 1080i, and they play perfectly fine.

Only your dashboard would be 1080i though

Your movie files would be whatever they were encoded at, most likely 480p or 576p at best

Nubbs · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2006, 03:38:00 PM »

720p looks the best from everything i have tried.

nickman · « **Reply #7 on:** December 18, 2006, 01:35:00 PM »

Man this subject is a mess.

Some people are talking about material that are hdtv (1280*720 or 1920*1080) and other are talking about the xbox running in hdtv modes (1280*720 or 1920*1080).

Just to make things clear. That is not the same thing.
Playing a dvd (720*567 or 720*480) and upsapling it to hdtv (1280*720 or 1920*1080) wich is possible.

On the other hand playing an h.264/xvid/"put codec here" that is native 720p or 1080i does not work in moste cases. It will work if you encode it in shit quality. But then it´s better to just make a good quality HR encode instead and upsample that.

And to say that 720p looks best is a bit of modification. With a tv that has a native reslolution of 1920*1080 then i would bet that the xbox does a better jobb scaling the movie to 1080i then letting the tv do the jobb. Or to let the xbox scale to 720p and then have the tv scale 720p to 1080i.

Man this subject is a mess.

Some people are talking about material that are hdtv (1280*720 or 1920*1080) and other are talking about the xbox running in hdtv modes (1280*720 or 1920*1080).

Just to make things clear. That is not the same thing.
Playing a dvd (720*567 or 720*480) and upsapling it to hdtv (1280*720 or 1920*1080) wich is possible.

On the other hand playing an h.264/xvid/"put codec here" that is native 720p or 1080i does not work in moste cases. It will work if you encode it in shit quality. But then it´s better to just make a good quality HR encode instead and upsample that.

And to say that 720p looks best is a bit of modification. With a tv that has a native reslolution of 1920*1080 then i would bet that the xbox does a better jobb scaling the movie to 1080i then letting the tv do the jobb. Or to let the xbox scale to 720p and then have the tv scale 720p to 1080i.

mlapaglia · « **Reply #8 on:** December 23, 2006, 09:49:00 PM »

yes. lol

if your movie is in 720p and you are displaying your dashboard in 1080i, the movie's resolution will still be 720p.

QUOTE

Just to make things clear. That is not the same thing.
Playing a dvd (720*567 or 720*480) and upsapling it to hdtv (1280*720 or 1920*1080) wich is possible.

he is correct here. upscaling is completely different than playing a 1080i video

saggar · « **Reply #9 on:** December 25, 2006, 07:46:00 PM »

I can't access 1080i? I have set the M$ dash to widescreen and now i have the relative 16:9 and i have it set to widescreen but it won't let me choose 720 or 1080. all I can select under resolution is 4:3, auto, and 16:9. Man I feel liek a noob, but I just can't figure it out!

nickman · « **Reply #10 on:** January 05, 2007, 12:38:00 AM »

QUOTE(mlapaglia @ Dec 24 2006, 05:56 AM)

yes. lol

if your movie is in 720p and you are displaying your dashboard in 1080i, the movie's resolution will still be 720p.
he is correct here. upscaling is completely different than playing a 1080i video

Both right and wrong.
If you have autoselect screenmode that would be true. But if you set xbmc to display videos on 1080i it will upsample it to 1080i.

I run all my videos in 720p even crappy webcasts because my tv's scaler is doing a much worse job at scaling to 720p (wich is my screens native res anyway) then xbmc.

QUOTE(saggar @ Dec 26 2006, 03:53 AM)

I can't access 1080i? I have set the M$ dash to widescreen and now i have the relative 16:9 and i have it set to widescreen but it won't let me choose 720 or 1080. all I can select under resolution is 4:3, auto, and 16:9. Man I feel liek a noob, but I just can't figure it out!

I realy REALY hope you have a HD cabel (component) plugged in.
If not that is the problem. The cable enables the hd resolutions (480p/720p/1080i) on the xbox.

QUOTE(sp44 @ Jan 4 2007, 05:54 PM)

And your cache settings are? All I'm trying to do is play divx/xvid files or VOB's from my computer to my Xbox. They crap out when I do this. Which is why I asked if anybody had any luck especially with MC360. I use to get it work a long time ago with PMIII but the updates with XBMC have changed this. BTW, they are not 1080 files.

You would get more help if you post in XBMC forum instead of here. (Has more to do with xbmc then this skin anyway). If it´s not a memory because of the skin issue that is.

Blackbolt · « **Reply #11 on:** January 05, 2007, 04:50:00 AM »

Yep I bought a Component cable when I got my HDTV for my xbox 1. But when I plugged it in, it wouldnt work. I promptly found out that PAL users cant use component connections, at all!!!

To use a component cable if you have one, set your xbox to NTSC video mode, and then in the Xbox Dashboard enabled the 480p, 720p and 1080i resolutions, then you will be able to use those resolutions for other apps, including XBMC. MC360 in 720p looks outstanding!

saggar · « **Reply #12 on:** January 05, 2007, 04:16:00 PM »

Ahh, thanks BB, got it all fixed up now!

MoRoToRiUm · « **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2007, 10:54:00 PM »

I could add more input to the matter, but just wanted to input a solution to make mine work great. If you do a fresh install or update of XBMC with out saving your user settings, the cache settings go back to default. Some XVid and AVI files I've run into problems with lag on these settings. I simply go into my video settings, up the cache to about 4096 and you're good to go.

Anyone have a dead xbox I can get adventurous with stealing some RAM chips? I recall XBMC building support to utilize the extra RAM...

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