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[strangeduck]

Some AVI files that I watch in XBMC don't seem to display correctly - like, the aspect ratio is messed up. For example:

method.and.red.102.pdtv-lol.avi
The resolution is 640x352 (according to GSpot) and it displays fine in XBMC.

method.and.red.101.pdtv-lol.avi
The resolution is 624x352 (according to GSpot), a smaller width of 16 pixels - but, when the video is rendered, the width is significantly higher (almost to the top of my screen, despite the fact that it's a widescreen rip) than the other AVI mentioned above, so all the people look really skinny etc. It looks completely normal playing it on my PC.

Zoom/stretch are off. I can't think of what else to do to fix this. Ideas?  <

[solidus1299]

try screen calibration  <

[nimbles]

may be that you need to change from using ffmpeg to xvid for your video playback (thats a new release, and likely to have been encoded with xvid 1.0+, so xvid may be the better option- i had a similar problem with one of the later simpsons pdtv rips), the change needs to be made in the codecs.conf file, in the mplayer folder.

unfortunately the xbmc help forum is down that had info on how to edit the files, i'm not at home at the moment so can't remember off the top of my head what the ammendment is, if you trawl through the threads on here i think someone posted the required ammendments here too

its essentially removing a ";" thats infront of xvid,xvix.... in the xvid section, and adding  a ";" infront of the same line thats in the ffmpeg section (directly above the xvid section), in the codecs.conf file (edit it with any text editor) sorry i couldn't be more specific     <

[nimbles]

ok xbmc forum is up here is the "how to"- posted by Gamester17

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Edit the /mplayer/codecs.conf file with a text editor (ex. Notepad) like this; Change: QUOTE videocodec ffodivx info "FFmpeg MPEG-4" status working fourcc DIVX,divx fourcc DIV1,div1 divx fourcc MP4S,mp4s; ISO MPEG-4 Video V1 fourcc M4S2,m4s2 fourcc xvid,XVID,XviD,XVIX fourcc DX50,dx50,BLZ0 DX50 fourcc mp4v,MP4V format 0x4 fourcc UMP4 fourcc 3IV2,3iv2  ; 3ivx Delta 4  format 0x10000004  ; mpeg 4 es driver ffmpeg dll mpeg4;opendivx out YV12,I420,IYUV to QUOTE videocodec ffodivx info "FFmpeg MPEG-4" status working fourcc DIVX,divx fourcc DIV1,div1 divx fourcc MP4S,mp4s; ISO MPEG-4 Video V1 fourcc M4S2,m4s2 fourcc DX50,dx50,BLZ0 DX50 fourcc mp4v,MP4V format 0x4 fourcc UMP4 fourcc 3IV2,3iv2  ; 3ivx Delta 4  format 0x10000004  ; mpeg 4 es driver ffmpeg dll mpeg4;opendivx out YV12,I420,IYUV and then change: QUOTE videocodec xvid info "XviD (MPEG-4)" status working fourcc DIVX,divx fourcc xvid,XVID,XviD format 0x4 driver xvid out YV12 out I420 out YUY2 out UYVY out YVYU out BGR32,BGR24,BGR16,BGR15 dll "libxvidcore.a" to: QUOTE videocodec xvid info "XviD (MPEG-4)" status working fourcc xvid,XVID,XviD,XVIX fourcc DIVX,divx format 0x4 driver xvid out YV12 out I420 out YUY2 out UYVY out YVYU out BGR32,BGR24,BGR16,BGR15 dll "libxvidcore.a" PS! Got confirmation from Elupus that XviD 1.0.0 Final has indeed been implemented into XBMC CVS a couple of days ago by Elupus himself

This post has been edited by nimbles: Jul 1 2004, 01:58 PM <

[strangeduck]

Sweet, I'll give that a shot. I don't have the offending file anymore (disk space issues) but that sounds like it'd fix it. Thanks a ton for the help.  <