crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

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crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby doodzen » 13 Feb 2012 15:28

I compiled crystal-hd drivers from git, and VLC 2.1.0 with it, and it works pretty well, except that on 1080p I have this problem with all videos:
The video does run perfectly smooth, but every couple of seconds, like maybe 5 to 10 there will be a "lag spike" occuring. :/
The hardware is a core duo 1.7 ghz notebook, which should be fine afaik.
The videos I've been watching have been loaded from the internal hard disk drive, not over network.

Solved it already, turns out just increasing disk and/or file cache by a factor 10 got rid of the lags.

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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 13 Feb 2012 18:29

Hmm, h264?
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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby c-m » 26 Feb 2012 18:18

How did you get your crystalhd card to work with VLC?

I'm running Linux Mint 11 and have VLC 2.1.0 installed - which supposedly has Crystalhd support.

I have the crystalhd 970012 card and the drivers installed.

How do i tell vlc to use the card? And how can i tell whether vlc is using it or not?

Thanks

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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 27 Feb 2012 11:18

Never tried with a 00012. vlc --list | grep crystal should tell you that it runs.
vlc --codec crystalhd to make it run.
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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby c-m » 27 Feb 2012 17:58

I get the following:

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carl@mini ~ $ vlc --list | grep crystal VLC media player 2.0.0 Twoflower (revision 2.0.0-0-g421a4fc) carl@mini ~ $
I also get:

[0x9df68a0] avcodec decoder error: Decoder `crystalhd' not found

when trying to run with --codec crystalhd

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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 27 Feb 2012 18:18

Means you do not have cystalhd compiled in.
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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby c-m » 27 Feb 2012 18:39

so i can't use a debian or ubuntu binary i need to manually compile vlc?

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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 29 Feb 2012 15:46

Well of course. Debian abd Ubuntu are never going to include plugins that depend on some crappy proprietary SDK.
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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby c-m » 29 Feb 2012 19:43

Is there a guide somewhere on how to compile VLC 2.x.x with crystalhd support?

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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Mar 2012 11:19

Add the SDK and --enable-crystalhd at configure time.
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Re: crystalhd bcm970015 and 1080p

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 01 Mar 2012 12:51

Compile VLC for Linux/Unix like normal except for what JB just said...
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