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NicolTIP#018: How use ION acceleration with XBMC 10.0 and Windows 7

  • Artigo

Starting from version 10.0 XBMC can use hardware acceleration to render video (DXVA 2 support for H.264, VC-1, and WMV9) on Windows 7 too(https://mirrors.xmission.com/xbmc/releases/10.0-Dharma-changelog.txt). This is very useful if you have, like me, a ION based media center with a ATOM processor or similar that is not able to manage 1080p movies.

you can find this flag in XBMC under:

  • Home –> Settings –>Video –> Allow Hardware acceleration

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With hardware acceleration disabled, my dual ATOM 1.6Ghz is not able to render well 1080p videos, and the CPUs are heavy used.

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With hardware acceleration enabled, the video goes smoothly and the CPUs are almost idleSmile.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2011
    Yes! I was looking for this. Thank you for the info. I have an AsRock ION 330 and never got my cd-player to work to play dvd's. It works perfectly to install xbmc-live from cd but simply won't play dvd's. Changing to Win7 tomorrow  :-D