xbmc problem

[chasha420]

Hi guys, I'm running gnome3 (sabayon-8 ) with this version of xmbc:

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 @@ Package: media-tv/xbmc-10.1 branch: 5, [sabayonlinux.org]

The problem is for some reason every video played through xbmc seems to be in green and reddish colours and not in natural colors. I've also tested this by playing a local file through vlc and then on xmbc.

Also for some reason xbmc seems to be quite unstable, crashing a lot sometimes & gets stuck for a few minutes or something....leaving me with no other option to go to virtual console TTY1, etc. and then kill it.

Anyway, I want to know if there is a way to fix this? Perhaps resorting to an older version of xbmc might fix these issues? If so how do I do that actually since I'm not really a pro with Portage.

Thanks for your time!

[dudumomo]

Hi chasha420,

I had a similar problem with XBMC 2 years ago with my ATI graphic card.

What is your graphic card (ATI will not be a surprise) with the latest drivers?

If I remember, I had to change something in XBMC with the video output or rendering.
Will try to check or you can directly ask XBMC community

[chasha420]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try tweaking the video settings and see if anything helps.

Also I don't have a dedicated graphics card, I'm running xbmc on my old laptop which came with an integrated intel graphics card.

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# lspci | grep Graphics
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)


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# eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
  [1]   ati
  [2]   xorg-x11 *


Anyway let me know if I should provide more info.

Thanks!

[Fitzcarraldo]

Go to XBMC's Playback Videos Settings menu and try changing the playback settings:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Se ... s#Playback

Change the rendering method etc. If VDPAU and/or VAAPI are enabled, disable them. Play around with those and you'll probably find it gets rid of your problem. I had a similar problem on my nettop (with an NVIDIA GPU) a couple of years ago, and turning off VDPAU fixed the problem (despite the fact that VDPAU is for NVIDIA and my GPU supposedly supports it).

[chasha420]

Hi Fitz,

I'm not much concerned with XBMC at this point but just for the sake of it I did try turning off VDPAU but the problem still persists...I guess something else is wrong. Anyway thanks for the help, appreciate it