In reply to my last article about media centers.
Well, I installed xbmc this weekend and actually it kinda sucked. Installation was a breeze: kudos for that. But when I ran it, it hogged all of the cpu time of the second core. 100% constantly.
I’ve got an Ati hd3200 integrated on the motherboard and in combination with XBMC I believe that’s a bad choice. I’ve read numerous threads about people having the same problem as me 
I’m quite upset with this. I don’t blame the XBMC developers, they do a fabulous job, but still it sucks.
I hope that in the next couple of weeks this problem is solved but I don’t think it will. I’m now looking for an alternative but XBMC just looks so polished…. It’s too bad it’s not usable for me 
I’m now downloading the live cd of XBMC and see if that works ’cause I dont know who to blame: me, ati, xbmc or ubuntu…
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Have you got Compiz installed?
I had this and found that turning off desktop Effects fixed it.
Hi Peely,
Thanks for the comment. I believe I fixed the problem.
Blame ATI, there is no way to get VDPAU with ATI GPUs.
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