Ubuntu 10.4 and Acer Revo Help

Johnny Utah · 23 May 2010 at 11:48

Hello everyone

This is my first post on these forums, and im after a bit of help. Ive installed Ubuntu 10.4 on my Revo 3610, and everything is going great except for watching HD video. The movie stutters a bit but is watch able, but the sound is badly out of sync with the video. Ive installed the Nvidia driver version 195.36.15, and ive also installed Mplayer as i read that this supported hardware acceleration for the ion chipset. In Mplayer preferences, i have selected vdpau from the drop down box for video output, which helped reduce the stutter, but the sound is still out of sync. Is there something that ive missed? Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks in advance....

kkelly · 26 May 2010 at 23:43

Hi there,

I've found watching HD video only appears to be watch-able if watching it via xbmc

Nefarious · 28 May 2010 at 13:05

Have you tried installing Boxee?

I can provide more help if you want to stick with your current setup, but programmes like XBMC and Boxee tend to automatically sort various settings without making you want to killl the first male born of every household.

Illusion · 28 May 2010 at 18:47

XBMC is great, I use this for all my video nowadays. Similar hardware to you - ION chipset but on a Zotac mobo in a custom SFF PC.

I used to use Mplayer before I discovered XBMC though and this too managed to play HD MKV's fine. I take it you have tried multiple HD videos and all are the same? Did you compile Mplayer yourself?

Johnny Utah · 2 Jun 2010 at 12:54

Hi guys, thanks for the advice. I finally managed to get hardware decoding to work after spending the best part of a day downloading and installing various packages. This is my first time using Linux, and im very impressed with the results now that i can watch HD video. Will definitely look into installing XBMC or Boxee, any good tutorials on how to do this?

Thanks....

craptakular · 2 Jun 2010 at 13:03

Johnny Utah said:
Hi guys, thanks for the advice. I finally managed to get hardware decoding to work after spending the best part of a day downloading and installing various packages. This is my first time using Linux, and im very impressed with the results now that i can watch HD video. Will definitely look into installing XBMC or Boxee, any good tutorials on how to do this?

Thanks....

what distro?

jack.mitchell · 2 Jun 2010 at 15:45

Learn to use wiki's. One of the most important aspects when you first start using linux.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux