XBMC on Hackintosh

[lawrence_craig]

Hi All,

I have the following build:

GA-H55N-USB3 with XFX HD 5770.

I have got everything running perfect including audio from spdif. The system profiler recognises that I have an 5770 with graphic enabler = No.

When using XBMC, standard def 2.1 video files work. However when trying to use 720 or 1080 files with 5.1 it crashes. Plex crashes as well. I dont have a clue where to begin to be honest. When I go to audio midi set up, it only states I have 2 channels out and can only configure the speakers as stereo. Any help would be great.

Thanks.

 

[lawrence_craig]

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[toleda]

Hi All,

I have the following build:

GA-H55N-USB3 with XFX HD 5770.

I have got everything running perfect including audio from spdif. The system profiler recognises that I have an 5770 with graphic enabler = No.

When using XBMC, standard def 2.1 video files work. However when trying to use 720 or 1080 files with 5.1 it crashes. Plex crashes as well. I dont have a clue where to begin to be honest. When I go to audio midi set up, it only states I have 2 channels out and can only configure the speakers as stereo. Any help would be great.

Thanks.

Two different issues:
1. HD Video - it sounds like your 5770 is not properly enabled. What framebuffer is loading? To find the framebuffer: Terminal, type ioreg | grep ATY . It is usually Vervet.
2. 5.1 Audio - unfortunately, encoded digital audio is not supported with the ALC892 over optical in OS X. Recommend HDMI audio, requires dsdt edits.

 

[Sandbird]

Maverics 1.9.4
ATI 5770
P5B Premium mobo

Sorry for reviving such an old thread but i am having a similar problem (and with the same GPU, ati 5770).
All online videos play fine on 320p but from 480p and above all i see is a grey screen during playback.
Sound if fine...playback is crap. I didnt do anything fancy with my graphics drivers....Multibeast did everything after i installed the OS.
The HD movies i have on my disk work fine....only online videos act this way.

My ioreg | grep ATY

    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@0  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002f0, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (6 ms), retain 8>
    | |   |   | | +-o ATY_ATY,RadeonFramebuffer  <class AMDFramebuffer, id 0x1000002f3, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (4 ms), retain 18>
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@1  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002f1, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (1 ms), retain 8>
    | |   |   | | +-o ATY_ATY,RadeonFramebuffer  <class AMDFramebuffer, id 0x1000002f9, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 15>
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@2  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002f2, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (1 ms), retain 8>
    | |   |   | | +-o ATY_ATY,RadeonFramebuffer  <class AMDFramebuffer, id 0x1000002ff, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 15>

and from my XBMC log when the video starts playing:

20:27:31 T:2959855616  NOTICE: Open - VDADecoder Codec failed to open, currently in use by another process
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: vda-h264 - Failed
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video:  - Opening
20:27:31 T:2959855616  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: ff-h264 - Opened
20:27:31 T:2959855616  NOTICE: Creating video thread
20:27:31 T:2968977408  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayerVideo start, auto delete: false
20:27:31 T:2968977408  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
20:27:31 T:2959855616  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
20:27:31 T:2959855616  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: passthrough - Opening
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: passthrough - Failed
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: FFmpeg - Opening
20:27:31 T:2959855616   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: FFmpeg - Opened

EDIT: hmm In About this Mac my graphics card shows as
ATI Radeon HD 5000 1024 MB....is that ok ?