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Keltik

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« on: January 07, 2004, 01:12:00 AM »
I've been using XBMP for a good while to play my music collection (over 500 albums on the HD) but have just started playing around with video - what I was trying to do was chuck some cartoons on the HD for my son

I copied a set of X-Men cartoons from the PC to the hard drive (the files are a mix of mostly AVI and a couple of MPG)

The MPG's play fine but the AVI files start and then the picture freezes, while the sound continues in the background. My problem is I don't know what format these files are (XVid - Divx etc) and don't know jack about encoding these formats - I was able to drop a couple of the AVI's into Nero and create an SVCD but I'd rather just have them on the Xbox HD as they are - any help or links to posts I've missed (yes I did do a search)

Thanks

Keltik
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Morien

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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2004, 04:47:00 AM »
You should do the following:
1) Update to the latest version.
2) If that didn't work download VirtualDubMod from http://www.doom9.org, open the movies in it and go file: file information. check the video codec and make sure it's compatible with XBMP, if not convert to mpeg (http://www.Tmpgenc.net).
3) If it is compatible in VirtualDubMod go Streams: Streams list and save the audio as a wav (don't worry it won't be big, just compatible), then disable it and save the video. Save it with the Video mode as 'Direct Stream Copy'. Then open that video (should have no audio), go to Streams: Streams list, then add the wav, then save it (make sure to use direct stream copy again.

Hope this helps
Morien
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Keltik

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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2004, 11:51:00 PM »
Once again  I bow to the knowlege of the mighty forums - in other words cheers guys - updated XBMP to a Dec release - not only does it play the vids mentioned it has a whole host of improvements in it (apart from I haven't worked out how to add my mp3's to playlist hmmm)

Thanks again

Keltik
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steel102

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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2004, 03:59:00 PM »
hello,

i was having a sort of similar problem, and tried morien's suggestion but it didn't work.
the video is divx 5 and the sound is VBR mp3 @ 256 kbps. the video works fine in xbmp, but there is no sound at all, it works fine on my computer though. i checked the file in vdub, and it said that the "mp3 vbr headers" or something were messed up. it said i could change them to cbr headers, but it might make the audio off-sync. i went ahead and tried it, and indeed, the audio was offsync. i then tried the stuff that morien suggested, but when i add the wav file, the audio is still off-sync! the original file is still ok, i saved it with the re-written cbr headers under a different name. i am totally stumped to why this is happening, as the video works fine on my computer. any ideas?
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Wolverine X

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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2004, 05:09:00 PM »
smile.gif
And sometimes if you have movies with *.wmv is always freeze and i don't know why. Maybe there is still a bug inside XBMP  rolleyes.gif
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KXXX

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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2004, 01:46:00 PM »
I've had the same problem basically XBMP cant handle VBR audio to well, well not the version I have "October realease"
I havn't tried the December release yet so i dont know about that one. Use Virtualdub to extract the audio file and convert to CBR instead of VBR this should solve the problem.
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