Pulling out hair with my Revo 3700 Xbmc Wifi

[blackster]

Hi Folks

I'm having problems getting the wifi to work on my Acer Revo 3700 while running XBMC Live Installed on HDD

I've been at this for 3 nights now and I'm one step away from throwing it out of the window.

Installation of XBMC is fine, all the audio is working as it should and running 720p and 1080p video smooth as butter, however I cannot get the wifi running under it, I've followed loads of guides from differing sites but none of them work (unless I'm doing something wrong)

I'll admit I'm not a linux boff, but I can get my head around most things, but this is loosing me sleep!!

I've tried to hard wire the revo 3700 to enable me to get drivers via the terminal but it aint having any of that either.


I've tried installing Windows 7 and running it within that but it's some much slower and the 1080p video lags a little (even with all drivers, Inc Nvidia updates)

just looking for some help.

Cheers

Pete

 

[Buchanan0204]

I have the 3700 and run XBMC within Windows 7. Never installed the live version of XBMC so have no idea about setting up the Wifi.

1080p plays fine within XBMC providing you flick the right switches in the settings of XBMC.

I would just install 7 again, then turn on the appropriate settings. It will play your blurays fine. It is a little slower to start with and not as snappy as a linux install. However. The added productivity of having a fully working PC under it is well worth the small drawback. Great for downloads etc. Not to mention the wifi works

 

[blackster]

I have the 3700 and run XBMC within Windows 7. Never installed the live version of XBMC so have no idea about setting up the Wifi.

1080p plays fine within XBMC providing you flick the right switches in the settings of XBMC.

I would just install 7 again, then turn on the appropriate settings. It will play your blurays fine. It is a little slower to start with and not as snappy as a linux install. However. The added productivity of having a fully working PC under it is well worth the small drawback. Great for downloads etc. Not to mention the wifi works

Hi There, cheers for your reply, Are you running Windows 7 x86 or 64bit

also did you install all the drivers from the supplied acer cd-rom or did you manually download all your drivers?

I've been playing about with XBMC in Windows 7 64bit again and it's very flakey video playback, I've been reading about enabling the ION2 power but I've got the latest drivers installed so would think they already are

btw I'm running 4gb ram just incase anyone is wondering

 

[Shadz]

I don't know if you would want to try this but there is another App that does pretty
much the same thing as XBMC does but I foind that it works a lot better its called
Plex, you can take a look at it at http://www.plexapp.com

I use this at home on my Windows7 64bit system and stream media around the house
with it and it works fine.

 

[Buchanan0204]

Hi There, cheers for your reply, Are you running Windows 7 x86 or 64bit

also did you install all the drivers from the supplied acer cd-rom or did you manually download all your drivers?

I've been playing about with XBMC in Windows 7 64bit again and it's very flakey video playback, I've been reading about enabling the ION2 power but I've got the latest drivers installed so would think they already are

btw I'm running 4gb ram just incase anyone is wondering

Just running the 32 bit version. No need for x64 as I only have the standard 2Gb installed. More than enough for all it does.

You have to enable

"Allow hardware acceleration (DXVA2)"

You will find it in Settings>Video>Playback

If your still struggling. I will post a screenshot of my settings for you.

I never used drivers from Acer or from the disc. Both are always outdated. Download the latest drivers from Nvidia. Use the autodetect hardware thingy... it's easier than looking in the menus for ION and making sure you have the right one.

Go into device manager and make sure you have no yellow exclamation marks. Windows 7 installs most of the drivers that matter anyway. No need to install anymore other than graphics.

Do a WEI test. Make sure it's all OK.

Let me know how you get on with that.

P.S. Don't give up. It does work

 

[blackster]

Just running the 32 bit version. No need for x64 as I only have the standard 2Gb installed. More than enough for all it does.

You have to enable

"Allow hardware acceleration (DXVA2)"

You will find it in Settings>Video>Playback

If your still struggling. I will post a screenshot of my settings for you.

I never used drivers from Acer or from the disc. Both are always outdated. Download the latest drivers from Nvidia. Use the autodetect hardware thingy... it's easier than looking in the menus for ION and making sure you have the right one.

Go into device manager and make sure you have no yellow exclamation marks. Windows 7 installs most of the drivers that matter anyway. No need to install anymore other than graphics.

Do a WEI test. Make sure it's all OK.

Let me know how you get on with that.

P.S. Don't give up. It does work

Hi Again,

Thanks for your help, it seems I'm finally getting somewhere

ok installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, installed the NVidia ION driver and had to do a little software install from the acer site to get the wireless working with WPA.

Installed XBMC and run directly in windows, adjusted all the settings to run on 1080p HD TV etc.

Enabled DXVA2 and it seems to improved the stuttering that I had (not sure if thats because I was running 64but windows also)

Installed the youtube add-on and thats running fine but buffers a lot with my wireless.

The only thing that I'm having problem with is still the playback

when playing 720p or 1080p MKV files I get pixel breakup when i use the skip forward & back either 1 min or 10 min function, it corrects itself after about 20 seconds but it's very anoying

In the video settings i've got the following :

Render Method : Default
DXVA2 : Enabled
Refresh to match video : Disabled
Sync Playback to display : Disabled

Is there anyway of tweeking something else to rid of this problem?

Thanks for your help mate, I'd given up using it with Windows 7, like you said it comes in useful (using it to post on here now)

 

[blackster]

Just added a screen shot of the problems that i'm still having below

I've played with lots of settings and video rendering but still not right.

Tried lots of MKV files all with same problem, they work perfect on my Xtreamer so I know it's not them