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LuckyStrike

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Registered: 2012-02-15

Posts: 13

HTPC Struggles To Play HD Content

I built a HTPC running Arch 64, 4 gigs of ram and a ASRock AMDE350 M1 APU and it does not play HD content well at all.  Unfortunately this motherboard does not support OCing so that isn't really a possibility.  This happens in VLC and XBMC.  The specs seem like it should do at least 720, because I have a laptop with roughly the same specs also running Arch and it has no problems with it.

Any ideas?

LuckyStrike

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Registered: 2012-02-15

Posts: 13

Re: HTPC Struggles To Play HD Content

Anyone?

Holeyshoe

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Registered: 2011-09-11

Posts: 9

Re: HTPC Struggles To Play HD Content

Do you have the proper graphics drivers intalled?
Try running lspci and posting the output.

% lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti] (rev a1)

Last edited by Holeyshoe (2012-02-22 14:11:45)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: HTPC Struggles To Play HD Content

Come on, guy. Don't make us google your specs for you. It's nice to hear that you have 4 GB of RAM (lol not really), but RAM is irrelephant here. The CPU and GPU are what matter in HD playback.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1

Radeon HD 6310

What does top say when you play something in VLC ? 100% CPU ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … celeration

Last edited by DSpider (2012-02-22 19:26:39)

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Darksoul71

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Registered: 2010-04-12

Posts: 319

Re: HTPC Struggles To Play HD Content

Install the proper drivers (fglrx) and use a player which support hardware decoding (e.g. mplayer or smplayer).
The last time I played around with h264 decoding together with my ATI HD4670 I couldn't get it to work nicely. Neither with radeon, nor with fglrx.

vaapi is still heavy work in progress. I think it will take another 6-12 month unless we see stable hardware h264 acceleration with noveau & radeon.

I also run an AMD e350 box but added a GeForce 9500GT for stress-free HD experience.

Under Windows though 1080p is no issue with the E350.

Last edited by Darksoul71 (2012-02-23 06:28:34)

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My archlinux x86_64 host:
AMD E350 (2x1.6GHz) / 8GB DDR3 RAM / GeForce 9500GT (passive) / Arch running from 16GB USB Stick