Video playback problem (not that it's slow). Garbled screen.

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So it seems that I'm unable to play back any video format besides WMV.
WMV's play back fine while other formats (e.g. xvid, divx) do not play back at all. Coreplayer crashes to today screen or shows me a green garbled screen with vertical lines.
WMP just freezes and does nothing.

Is this a known issue (I didn't find anything using search)?

Any format of audio plays back perfectly fine (as long as it is not embedded in a video).

I had this, you need to change the Video driver to Raw frame buffer and all will be well. I use TCPMP and this was what I had to do for it to work.

Originally Posted by findus

I had this, you need to change the Video driver to Raw frame buffer and all will be well. I use TCPMP and this was what I had to do for it to work.

I had done this at first initially too, but simdeo (fellow member) suggested Imageon setting, but NOT Imageon Hardware decoder. This has massively improved speed and visual quality, but you will get intermittent lines across the interface, but not in full screen mode. Settings should be:

TCPMP:
Video Driver = ATI IMAGEON
Buffering = Microdrive (ticked)
Advanced = Tick only: D-Pad, Use System Vol, Benchmark (none od these settings affect performance, just my preference - but selecting other options may adversly affect performance)

Direct Draw = YV12 and tick 'Overlay with colorkey' only.

That's it. Best performance to date and can play torrent or own DVD rips perfectly, providing they were not encoded as high as 640x480.

I'm having the same problems but cannot for the life of me find any settings on Coreplayer that will let me change the buffer settings or the driver.

I'm sure I'm missing something here.

Coreplayer version =1.0.4 build 716

It's the latest version afaik.

Adey

Ok, I found the settings in Coreplayer (yeah, I know, should have looked harder..) and all is now well.

Ok, so I've got really decent playback from standard 350mb XVid TV programs but I'm still having what appear to be buffering problems.

Does anyone know what the ideal buffer settings are?

Adey

I have found that overclocking the CPU yields in much better playback (although not perfect).
If I want to view a 640x480 video I run the CPU at 728 Mhz (what program would allow higher?), but still the fps is not up to par. I would say the playback is around 90-95%.

Originally Posted by Calavaro

I have found that overclocking the CPU yields in much better playback (although not perfect).
If I want to view a 640x480 video I run the CPU at 728 Mhz (what program would allow higher?), but still the fps is not up to par. I would say the playback is around 90-95%.

Hi Calavaro. What app are you using to o/c the CPU? & exactly what settings do you use? Oh and lastly what's the power consumtion like if left on 728 Mhz all the time?

Cheers.

Originally Posted by mackaby007

Hi Calavaro. What app are you using to o/c the CPU? & exactly what settings do you use? Oh and lastly what's the power consumtion like if left on 728 Mhz all the time?

Cheers.

we use PHM to overclock our device, if you set to 728 and push mail and bluetooth all the time, you won't last for whole day, maybe just about 7 hours. But really you don't need your device on 728 all the time, and personally i think 728 is a bit unstable, so i use 662 when my device is on, otherwise 228 the rest of the time to save battery.

You MUST disable the internal scale from the PHM setting, otherwise it won't work

Originally Posted by wu5262

we use PHM to overclock our device, if you set to 728 and push mail and bluetooth all the time, you won't last for whole day, maybe just about 7 hours. But really you don't need your device on 728 all the time, and personally i think 728 is a bit unstable, so i use 662 when my device is on, otherwise 228 the rest of the time to save battery.

You MUST disable the internal scale from the PHM setting, otherwise it won't work

Thanks for that Wu. What version of PHM are you using?

Originally Posted by mackaby007

Thanks for that Wu. What version of PHM are you using?

latest version from the website