XBMC VIDEO SETTING PROBLEM FINLESS 1.7 ON MK808B

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Hi all
Followed instructions on how to install XBMC and really works great however have found that some movies/streams are displayed as lines (in the old days I would go to back of tv and rotate 2 knobs horz/vert to fix) -what setting do I have to change to correct video display?-I tried vert syn enable & other switches in video settings with no success.
Thanx
Steven

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Is it possible to make a screenshot?

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Is it possible to make a screenshot?

Will try when I get home
Steven

[showkit]

Will try when I get home
Steven

I use archos video player and if I get horizontal lines I pause the video and go into settings and force software decoding. the player will restart and that often fixes.

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I use archos video player and if I get horizontal lines I pause the video and go into settings and force software decoding. the player will restart and that often fixes.

Thanx will give it a try.
Attached see screenshot

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I assume this is with the HW accel build of XBMC? I had the same with a single file. But that one plays just fine now. So only thing i can think of that fixed it is the build from 3-4-13 which i currently have installed.
(http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/...rmeabi-v7a.apk)
Maybe that will fix it for you too. If not using software decoding will probably fix it. Your screenshot shows SD content so that shouldn't be a problem. But if you also use HD content i'll be a problem since (as far as i know) you can just switch between SW and HW decoding like under windows. You'll have install a different version.

But you can give the same file a try gave me the same problems as you're having right now. If you also get the same problems with it then "upgrading" to the 4-3-13 build might fix it.
Here is the testfile: http://henslfuk.eu/testvideos/Saving...201520x848.mkv

EDIT: Lewy20041 just mentioned in another thread that the 4-3 build just puts the HW accel into a newer build of XBMC. No change to the decoder itself. If that's the case it shouldn't fix anything for you. Not sure why all of a sudden i can play that file now...

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I assume this is with the HW accel build of XBMC? I had the same with a single file. But that one plays just fine now. So only thing i can think of that fixed it is the build from 3-4-13 which i currently have installed.
(http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/...rmeabi-v7a.apk)
Maybe that will fix it for you too. If not using software decoding will probably fix it. Your screenshot shows SD content so that shouldn't be a problem. But if you also use HD content i'll be a problem since (as far as i know) you can just switch between SW and HW decoding like under windows. You'll have install a different version.

But you can give the same file a try gave me the same problems as you're having right now. If you also get the same problems with it then "upgrading" to the 4-3-13 build might fix it.
Here is the testfile: http://henslfuk.eu/testvideos/Saving...201520x848.mkv

EDIT: Lewy20041 just mentioned in another thread that the 4-3 build just puts the HW accel into a newer build of XBMC. No change to the decoder itself. If that's the case it shouldn't fix anything for you. Not sure why all of a sudden i can play that file now...

"I assume this is with the HW accel build of XBMC?" Correct I used the link from the forum in the post above explaining how to install Xbmc. I need HD content as well so not quite sure what I should do. U mention using software should I try and install archos video player as mentioned above ?
Will I still be able to specify which player plays which type of video?

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With software dedoding i mean using the codecs used by the XBMC internal player. If you install any non-HW accel build of XBMC it will use software decoding (meaning the CPU will decode the video not the GPU (graphics chip)). This might solve the corrupted video problem but you wont be able to play HD content because the CPU is not fast enough.
You can setup XBMC to use an external player like MX player or the Archos player. You start with the XBMC interface, but as soon as you start a video it'll launch one of those players and play the file. Any XBMC features of course wont work during playback sine you're not in XBMC anymore.

I dont know much about settings it up that way since i want/need to use the internal XBMC player and with HW accel. So im not sure if an external player will work in your situation.
Have you tried the saving private ryan trailer i gave you the link to? I just went from the 1.7b to the 1.7a ROM (for MX1/2) to see if i could reproduce the corrupt video image with that trailer, but using the latest (3 april) HW accel build it still plays fine for me.

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With software dedoding i mean using the codecs used by the XBMC internal player. If you install any non-HW accel build of XBMC it will use software decoding (meaning the CPU will decode the video not the GPU (graphics chip)). This might solve the corrupted video problem but you wont be able to play HD content because the CPU is not fast enough.
You can setup XBMC to use an external player like MX player or the Archos player. You start with the XBMC interface, but as soon as you start a video it'll launch one of those players and play the file. Any XBMC features of course wont work during playback sine you're not in XBMC anymore.

I dont know much about settings it up that way since i want/need to use the internal XBMC player and with HW accel. So im not sure if an external player will work in your situation.
Have you tried the saving private ryan trailer i gave you the link to? I just went from the 1.7b to the 1.7a ROM (for MX1/2) to see if i could reproduce the corrupt video image with that trailer, but using the latest (3 april) HW accel build it still plays fine for me.

Tried the trailer u suggested -works perfectly no probs. Well I don't see a simple solution until somebody comes up with the exact cause
Thanx for your help

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Just noticed under video settings you can enable of disable "allow hardware acceleration". So if you disable that it will be using software decoders. You can see if that fixes your problem. You'll need to re-enable it when ure watching HD content i guess.

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Just noticed under video settings you can enable of disable "allow hardware acceleration". So if you disable that it will be using software decoders. You can see if that fixes your problem. You'll need to re-enable it when ure watching HD content i guess.

Great !!! U hit on it-- y"re The MAN
Many thanx, just shows one never stops learning!

[michaelgchu]

Upgrading to the April 3rd version worked for me

I assume this is with the HW accel build of XBMC? I had the same with a single file. But that one plays just fine now. So only thing i can think of that fixed it is the build from 3-4-13 which i currently have installed.
(http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/...rmeabi-v7a.apk)
Maybe that will fix it for you too
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Hello there. I realize this thread has not been active in a while, but I wanted to let people know that upgrading to the 3-4-13 version is what worked for me.

I just started playing with XBMC last week, using the Feb.19 HW-enabled version. Out of the 10 movies I had loaded on my MK808B (running Finless 1.7), 3 gave the exact problem shown in the screen capture above. I inspected the attributes of all 10 movies (e.g. codec, aspect ratio) and could not find anything unique to the three failing videos. I then found your thread and gave the Apr.3 test build a try, and lo and behold all 10 videos now play fine!