Boxee Very Slow

[celticfan]

I have been having a problem with Boxee, It is incredibly slow navigation through the menus I am running it on

Ubuntu 8.04 i386

Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
Ram - 1002 MiB
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller

I have looked at the other posts http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=345 (Open GL) I have tried

glxinfo | grep -i direct

What I get is

direct rendering: Yes

I ran sudo /usr/boxee/run-boxee-desktop

$ sudo /usr/boxee/run-boxee-desktop
[sudo] password for :
cd: 38: can't cd to /usr/boxee/3rdparty/rtorrent
29/08/08 19:29:19#DEBUG#bxbgprocess.cpp:142(Start)#bg process initialized. 1 worker threads created.
29/08/08 19:29:19#DEBUG#bxcurl.cpp:54(Initialize)#curl initialized. version <7.18.0>

Running Boxee test...
is rtorrent running: 0
stopping rss...
stopping file scanner...
stopping torrent client...
stopping boxee...
Boxee: asked to stop
Stopping boxee background processor
BXBGProcess, Boxee Feed Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x901ea5c
Stopping metadata engine
BXMetadataEngine: asked to stop
Stopping audio processor
BXBGProcess, Resolver Audio Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x901ef90
Stopping video processor
BXBGProcess, Resolver Video Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x901ef24
stopping watchog...
Application: delete item loader...
BXBGProcess, Directory Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x93c35f4
BXBGProcess, Item Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x93c3588
BXBGProcess, Directory Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x93c35f4
BXBGProcess, Item Loader, asked to stop, this = 0x93c3588
Boxee: asked to stop
Boxee: already stopped
BXBGProcess, Resolver Audio Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x901ef90
BXBGProcess, Resolver Video Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x901ef24
BXBGProcess, Boxee Feed Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x901ea5c
CRITSEC[0x8f84c04]: Trying to enter destroyed section.
CRITSEC[0x8f84c04]: Some other thread trying to leave our critical section.
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8f8a608
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8f8a608
CRITSEC[0x901b484]: Trying to enter destroyed section.
CRITSEC[0x901b484]: Some other thread trying to leave our critical section.


Thanks in advance for any help

[tsella]

hi there,

try http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=189&highlight=vsync

but i doubt boxee will work very well with an Intel 915 igp. the bare minimum is really 945 (GMA950)

[celticfan]

Hi,
Thanks for that, I now have Boxee running at a much better speed... and you are right its struggling.

Thanks for the help

[Master_of_Disaster]

Hi, I am using an ASRock ION 330 HT with Ubuntu 9.10 installed and for me installing the Nvidia video driver helped to let boxee react like lightning. :)

Go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and install the driver: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 185) [recommended].
If this is not clear enough, check out page 4 from this PDF http://www.asrock.com/support/note/Ubuntu(9.10)IR.pdf.

Cheers!

[darcilicious]

Okay, this is your second post responding to threads 18+ months old -- perhaps the first one was enough?

[tedrogers]

Hi,

Whilst I did the vsync modification, and this did improve things ever so slightly (I now only have to wait 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds between moving the mouse and it moving on screen!!!), Boxee is still unusably slow!!!

I tried a range of values for vsync (i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.) and setting the value to "off" is best, but still unusable.

I've already got page tearing in Ubuntu 10.10 - I don't think the drivers offer full 3D acceleration yet.

Is there anything I can do?

Thanks.

[dadein]

Hardware Video Acceleration (VDPAU) in Linux is only supported in Boxee with NVIDIA GeForce 8 series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU) and later cards only.

[tedrogers]

Thanks!

Guess I'm best off uninstalling then.

Shame, it looks good on my Mac in work.

[mojo6911]

You can buy a PCI version of the Nvidia 8400GS for around $50 or less. It works great with VDPAU.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007853%20600007313&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%208%20series