Update 7/27: sneak peek: XBMC with hw acceleration

[dknlght]

" I viewed the youtube plugin configuration and there's no option for video play only video quality." that's your answer, you need to check the python source code. Again, as I've mentioned before regarding Nav-x, if the python code is specifically requesting dvdplayer, then the plugin author needs to fix it. We will not be adding hack fixes into the code to override these settings, such changes will never be accepted in xbmc mainline code.

Ok so if I understand you correctly, Your saying the reason I'm experiencing these problems is because the youtube add-on might be calling the DVDplayer directly and it not autodetecting the players. Sorry if this is a stupid question but is the AMLPlayer for playing local video files only or is it suppose to work on streaming video url as well? I downloaded the youtube video I was testing, placed the file on an SD card and played it through xbmc and the log shows that it's using the AMLPlayer and the video plays fine but video add-ons all seem to load up the DVDPlayer. So far I've tried everything to change the player to AMLPlayer like setting the playercorefactory.xml and advancedsettings.xml and all the video add-ons i have (not just youtube) Load DVDPlayer. You have to bear with me if I'm going about this the wrong way I'm not too familar with the inner workings of xbmc but I just want to make sure if I had any other options to try.

[davilla]

There are many, many different ways to play video content, some depend on their source URL. AMLPLayer does know about http:// URLs but when you start playback via a plugin, then the plugin is in control of which player is used. If the plugin says to use dvdplayer, then dvdplayer gets it. If the plugin says to use 'auto select' then xbmc inside will pick the default player and that can be amlplayer.

URL protocol also enters into the mix, for example rtmp, dvdplayer knows this protocol, amlplayer does not. We are still thinking about amlplayer/rtmp as most rtmp usage is netflix/hulu and maybe some youtube. All of those have existing Android apps and xbmc can launch any of them (see in programs). Since netflix/hulu and the xbmc plugins for them is a cat/mouse game where the plugin devs figure out the protocol and netflix/hulu devs change it all the time, it might be better to just use the existing netflix/hulu Android apps to access their content.

[sensite]

Problem with existing android apps for hulu is its SD only. Not really useful to have SD content on a big screen TV. If there was an HD Hulu app for android then it would make sense to use the real Hulu app.

[davilla]

perhaps focusing on why the Hulu app delivers SD content rather than HD content would bear more fruit.

[emveepee]

There are many, many different ways to play video content, some depend on their source URL. AMLPLayer does know about http:// URLs

If XBMC is passing http streams to libamlplayer directly, is what we have now the best we should expect until M6 devices are available? I have terrible stuttering issues with http streaming of HD mpeg-ts files after a couple of seconds with wired networking so http streaming is unusable. The linux ethernet settings on the box don't seem to be optimized which does give me a potential avenue. I have a/v sync on cifs too but 5:1 downmix might be the cause.

Martin

[dknlght]

well I went in and change the youtube plugin code to use PLAYER_CORE_AUTO and it still ended up using DVDPlayer. Is there a player core parameter for the AMLPlayer? I want to try and hardcode that to see if it actually works or not. I just made a guess and tried PLAYER_CORE_AMLPlayer but that gave me an error

[grifter]

Are there any updated builds that we can test with?

I have the 7/27 build, I'm sure there have been some strides taken on the stability since then.

[aasoror]

Are there any updated builds that we can test with?

I have the 7/27 build, I'm sure there have been some strides taken on the stability since then.

Why are you still on 7/27 ?
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[whit3fir3]

I am running into an issue on both the Nexus 7 tablet running android 4.1.1 as well as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon) phone running ICS. This has been tested with the 7/27/2012 build of XBMC on both devices. In short what happens is XBMC will load up and allow me to add a upnp video source. It finds my DLNA server (in this case minidlna version 1.0.25 running on Fedora 17) and XBMC lets me to add the video source. It then successfully scans the video source. The issue is as soon as you click on a video to attempt to play it the application crashes. You can find a copy of my logcat output on pastebin. I wanted to provide this information in hopes that this problem might get corrected soon. Keep up the good work guys and let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks,

whit3fir3

[davilla]

I am running into an issue on both the Nexus 7 tablet running android 4.1.1 as well as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon) phone running ICS. This has been tested with the 7/27/2012 build of XBMC on both devices. In short what happens is XBMC will load up and allow me to add a upnp video source. It finds my DLNA server (in this case minidlna version 1.0.25 running on Fedora 17) and XBMC lets me to add the video source. It then successfully scans the video source. The issue is as soon as you click on a video to attempt to play it the application crashes. You can find a copy of my logcat output on pastebin. I wanted to provide this information in hopes that this problem might get corrected soon. Keep up the good work guys and let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks,

whit3fir3

You might take this issue to the xbmc forums where general XBMC on Android issues are handled.