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[Bomb Bloke]

I've said it once, I'll say it again: MKV files are containers, it's the codec and quality settings of the file that affect how XBMC will play it back.

Though such things are usually to do with MPlayer anyway.

[elitegamer360]

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Feb 28 2007, 02:08 PM)

I've said it once, I'll say it again: MKV files are containers, it's the codec and quality settings of the file that affect how XBMC will play it back.

Though such things are usually to do with MPlayer anyway.

nothing new! but any one know a good converter mkv to avi (xvid,divx), I tried MKV TO AVI CONVERTER , River Past Video Cleaner and both ofthem suck =.="

[keopsx]

QUOTE(Mag Lite @ Feb 27 2007, 06:09 AM)

Has the PC DVD drive detection been fixed? Last build it hung every time you inserted a disc, and yes I did include the proper lines in advancedsettings.xml.
Worked fine up till the recent builds.

Hello, I have the same problem, when a cd puts in the external reader the xbox is hung, some solution?

[zerocool_ie]

hi guys

IMDB seems to be OK for me, sometimes it takes a while, but hasn't locked up on me yet.

The issue I am having is that the movie info is not being added to the database. It downloads the thumb and info, but the next time I bring up the info, it goes to the net to retrieve it again.
 
Maybe a database delete is in order..?

Any thoughts?

Cheers

[contingent]

QUOTE(DMAddict @ Feb 27 2007, 11:07 PM)

Regarding the stutter, tell me what you guys think from these screen shots. The stutter for me appears always during high action scenes. Take a look at the cache number. Normal scenes cache above 40%. Once it goes below 10% I get the stutter. Also, look at the fps. That drops as well. I've tried tweaking some of the cache settings, but it doesn't seem to help. Any ideas?

I dont know if you tried using one of those new MPlayer.dll files or not but "mplayer_070214.zip" plays that company man 960x544 xvid perfectly for me. Stable 80% cache, fps, and 0 dropped frames. My cache settings in xbmc are 256k for anything concerning local network and im using the feb16build.

[gav1577]

QUOTE(elitegamer360 @ Feb 28 2007, 03:37 PM)

when playing back mkv's I get this drop in fps and becomes like slow motion, I dont know if this can be fixed or the box cant handle Mkv's.  

That slow motion ur talking about i get it all the time with avi files   after skippng forward or back through a movie

[rramoutar]

QUOTE(zerocool_ie @ Feb 28 2007, 02:40 PM)

hi guys

IMDB seems to be OK for me, sometimes it takes a while, but hasn't locked up on me yet.

The issue I am having is that the movie info is not being added to the database. It downloads the thumb and info, but the next time I bring up the info, it goes to the net to retrieve it again.
 
Maybe a database delete is in order..?

Any thoughts?

Cheers


 

I had this problem a couple of builds back and deleting the database did solve the problem...

[navanman]

I'm got a bug with HD temperature in this build. There is some changes to system info in this build with lots more info.

Here is a screenshot


and debug log:
http://pastebin.com/891016

[elitegamer360]

QUOTE(gav1577 @ Feb 28 2007, 09:54 PM)

That slow motion ur talking about i get it all the time with avi files   after skippng forward or back through a movie

my friend I dont have any problems with avi's, might I suggest that you backup your settings and delete the XBMC folder anddo a fresh install. you might have several files corrupting your codec, appologies if you already tried that but then try the test mplayer it might fix your problem.

ahhh I remeber once I had a problem with an avi file but it turned out that the file was poorly coded so might be from that, try other avi's & see how it goes.  

[Bomb Bloke]

Argh! You guys don't get it, do you? MKV, AVI, it makes no difference. Both of them will stutter under certain settings and both of them will play fine the rest of the time. You want some concrete reasons, provide the encoding details.

As contingent says, the in-testing MPlayer builds provide much better performance then the old one.

[gav1577]

QUOTE(elitegamer360 @ Mar 1 2007, 01:40 AM)

my friend I dont have any problems with avi's, might I suggest that you backup your settings and delete the XBMC folder anddo a fresh install. you might have several files corrupting your codec, appologies if you already tried that but then try the test mplayer it might fix your problem.

ahhh I remember once I had a problem with an avi file but it turned out that the file was poorly coded so might be from that, try other avi's & see how it goes.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

thanks for the help but i checked the files and they are not badly interleaved i always do a fresh install and and have tried the new mplayer dll still the same problem however if i use dvd player to play my files it works perfect could someone else who is having a problem with mkv or avi give it try using dvd player assuming ur using xvid not x264  and let me know how they play thanks ' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ahh almost forgot to ask what are the ideal local network video/audio cache settings even though i have tried various settings what do u guys think higher or lower settings when streaming  ?

This post has been edited by gav1577: Mar 1 2007, 01:47 AM

[gav1577]

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Mar 1 2007, 02:03 AM)

Argh! You guys don't get it, do you? MKV, AVI, it makes no difference. Both of them will stutter under certain settings and both of them will play fine the rest of the time. You want some concrete reasons, provide the encoding details.

As contingent says, the in-testing MPlayer builds provide much better performance then the old one.

i always encode all my xvid files using megui 58% profile Didees SixOfNine.cqm 1400mb  

[elitegamer360]

QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Mar 1 2007, 12:03 AM)

Argh! You guys don't get it, do you? MKV, AVI, it makes no difference. Both of them will stutter under certain settings and both of them will play fine the rest of the time. You want some concrete reasons, provide the encoding details.

As contingent says, the in-testing MPlayer builds provide much better performance then the old one.

not trying to be rude but what do you suggest the optimum setting that we should use!? although for me I have no problem what so ever except with 1 mkv movie and to mention that I'm using the default XBMC settings.

my problematic movie info

Format               : Matroska
File size            : 700 MiB
PlayTime             : 1h 47mn
Bit rate             : 914 Kbps
Encoded date         : UTC 2006-08-30 22:14:58
Writing application  : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release)
Writing library      : libebml-0.7.5 & libmatroska-0.7.7

Video #0
Codec                : Intel H.264
Codec/Info           : Intel H.264
PlayTime             : 1h 46mn
Width                : 768 pixels
Height               : 432 pixels
Aspect ratio         : 16/9
Frame rate           : 23.976 fps
Resolution           : 12 bits

Audio #0
Codec                : Vorbis
Bit rate mode        : VBR
Channel(s)           : 2 channels
Sampling rate        : 48 KHz

[skyzerr33]

What's wrong with http://t3ch.xil.us/ is the site down?

[koscica]

I had a skipping problems with a divx file and I tryed to increase the cashe, but it did not work. Then I accidently turned of cashe while watching the file and to my suprise I had a smooth playback. This only happens with this particular file and it doesn' matter whether I stream it form NAS server or play it form xbox hard drive.