To play videos at 720p and 1080p, with XBMC at first sight it does not work very well.
I know that the graphics card is not very powerful, but looking at the use made of the CPU seems to not using the 2 cores have the Atom 330. Looking a bit
see that ffmpeg is not multithread, there looks to be the problem and looking for a little more I see that mplayer can be compiled with ffmpeg-mt which is the experimental multithread ffmpeg version.
So get to work, install mplayer-mt this repository:
https: / / launchpad.net / ~ rvm / + ppa-packages
Once it is installed need to configure XBMC for HD video playback with the multithreaded version of mplayer you just installed.
This searching the XBMC wiki link find this tells us how. Summarizing
need to edit the file's contents ~ / .xbmc / userdata / playercorefactory.xml with this content:
\u0026lt;playercorefactory>
\u0026lt;players>
\u0026lt;player name = "MPlayer" type = " ExternalPlayer "audio =" true "video =" true ">
\u0026lt;filename> / usr / bin / mplayer \u0026lt;/ filename>
\u0026lt;args>-fs -lavdopts threads=4 -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all "{0}"</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>true</hidecursor>
<forceontop>true</forceontop>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filename=".*720.*
\u0026lt;/ playercorefactory>
With this as the name of the file you want to play have 720 or 1080, MPlayer will be used instead of the default player for XBMC.
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