New azbox software out

[donaldelee]

Power Supply

With the over clocking by acceleration, is this causing the excessive draw on the current; thus, causing the power supply to burn out?

 

[AcWxRadar]

With the over clocking by acceleration, is this causing the excessive draw on the current; thus, causing the power supply to burn out?

No, there is very little current draw change with the hardware acceleration turned ON. The power supply issue is something else entirely.

RADAR

 

[meinename]

The hardware acceleration setting determines where the video is decoded
Either on the CPU of the unit (hw accel off), taking processing time away from other functions and slowing the unit down, or on a dedicated video processing unit (normally refered to as a graphics processing unit in the rest of the computer world).

Now the GPU usually will be special enough to do the normal codecs and color schemes and help alot when you turn "hw accel on". But if you scan in some funky new thing that makes the azbox bog down it's nice to be able to let the general purpose CPU take a swing at decoding it since the code required for this funky channel has been written for the Azbox GPU

Hardware acceleration isn't a speeding up of the Azbox.
It's using video processing to a dedicated chip.

 

[mr3p]

The hardware acceleration setting determines where the video is decoded
Either on the CPU of the unit (hw accel off), taking processing time away from other functions and slowing the unit down, or on a dedicated video processing unit (normally refered to as a graphics processing unit in the rest of the computer world).

Now the GPU usually will be special enough to do the normal codecs and color schemes and help alot when you turn "hw accel on". But if you scan in some funky new thing that makes the azbox bog down it's nice to be able to let the general purpose CPU take a swing at decoding it since the code required for this funky channel has been written for the Azbox GPU

Hardware acceleration isn't a speeding up of the Azbox.
It's using video processing to a dedicated chip.

If what you are saying is true, what is the downside to leaving hardware acceleration turned on?

 

[comfrey]

The hardware acceleration setting determines where the video is decoded
Either on the CPU of the unit (hw accel off), taking processing time away from other functions and slowing the unit down, or on a dedicated video processing unit (normally refered to as a graphics processing unit in the rest of the computer world).

Now the GPU usually will be special enough to do the normal codecs and color schemes and help alot when you turn "hw accel on". But if you scan in some funky new thing that makes the azbox bog down it's nice to be able to let the general purpose CPU take a swing at decoding it since the code required for this funky channel has been written for the Azbox GPU

Hardware acceleration isn't a speeding up of the Azbox.
It's using video processing to a dedicated chip.

I believe that your explanation of hardware acceleration is correct, but that's not what the AZBOX is doing. All I've ever read in the forums is that this setting increases the speed of the CPU.
I'll love to be proven wrong and that in fact it is using the GPU.

 

[meinename]

If what you are saying is true, what is the downside to leaving hardware acceleration turned on?

The downside would be if you came a cross a feed that used some scheme that the developers didn't write a method to pass through the GPU.

Just as an example that's highly unlikely:
Let just say you run across a feed that is is transmitted in VC1 (the default codec for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD) instead of MPEG2 or MPEG4.
And (in this example) the Azbox has no software telling how to accelerate this through the GPU.
The system will bog down and stutter as the feed is fed to the GPU only to be rejected and sent back to the CPU for processing. If you were to turn off hardware accelleration you could get a watchable show.

Otherwise I personally would leave the he accel on almost all the time.

 

[meinename]

I believe that your explanation of hardware acceleration is correct, but that's not what the AZBOX is doing. All I've ever read in the forums is that this setting increases the speed of the CPU.
I'll love to be proven wrong and that in fact it is using the GPU.

The GPU may just be one of the popular DSP chips that can do MPEG2 and MPEG4 decoding

Please give links to those statements saying that it overclocks the system.

I know the name (hardware accelleration) is decieving, but in Linux meda centers that is what hardware acceleration is. Offloading processing from the weak CPU to a specialized processor.

 

[comfrey]

The GPU may just be one of the popular DSP chips that can do MPEG2 and MPEG4 decoding

Please give links to those statements saying that it overclocks the system.

I know the name (hardware accelleration) is decieving, but in Linux meda centers that is what hardware acceleration is. Offloading processing from the weak CPU to a specialized processor.

This is one of the places that mention overclocking. New 0.9.4690 patch - Satpimps

I've also read it on the azbox forum site.

 

[comfrey]

This is one of the places that mention overclocking. New 0.9.4690 patch - Satpimps

I've also read it on the azbox forum site.

Here's the forum entry, even the moderator says the CPU speed changes with this setting.

At the command line.

cat /proc/cpuinfo


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[meinename]

Well talk about opening my mouth the one time I needed to keep it shut.
Oh well...

 

[Babadem]

New release:

azbox-0.9.4923-patch.bin | added new movie subtitle menu option | fixed seek in wma | fixed detection of avi duration time | corrected sub file format

 

[Mr Tony]

new software out dated the 18th

fixed the antenna settings when using diseqc 1.2 | fixed the teletext synchronization (rec) | fixed the reservation process

 

[Babadem]

new software out dated the 18th

fixed the antenna settings when using diseqc 1.2 | fixed the teletext synchronization (rec) | fixed the reservation process

One thing I don't understand is this; they fixed one problem and in the process they break another thing. I hope they get to fix the issue of not being able to record high bit HD signals. The update before this disabled streaming, and created lots of problems (the box was slow to respond) with the receiver if you added the IPTV "txt" file. I had to go back to 4829.

 

[sanjap]

whatever the case, the people at azbox are doing what others should emulate. They are constantly providing updates.
Thumbs up! AZBOX.

There is a saying that once you go AZBOX, there is no turning back.

 

[sanjap]

Update to the latest software is failing on the premium plus. Is anyone able to get it loaded on their AZBOX premium plus?

 

[donaldelee]

Updade Firmware

Update to the latest software is failing on the premium plus. Is anyone able to get it loaded on their AZBOX premium plus?

My Azbox HD Premium Plus updated with no problem. It appears to be working great!

 

[putney]

azbox-0.9.4991-patch.bin

azbox-0.9.4991-patch.bin

fixed udp stream feature | improved recording process | improved multimedia playback | fixed hang when playing mkv with dts tracks

AZBox Snapshots

 

[pback]

New bin out, 0.9.5006-patch.bin

updated youtube | updated sat network infos

AZBox Snapshots

 

[pro96]

New bin out, 0.9.5006-patch.bin

updated youtube | updated sat network infos

AZBox Snapshots

loading it now see how well it does.

 

[putney]

The latest:

azbox-0.9.5006-patch.bin

updated youtube | updated sat network infos

AZBox Snapshots