Topic: Transcode 360 v1.0 Beta 3 (Read 408 times)

psxpirate1 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2006, 09:58:00 PM »

Hey Mr. Noob poster grimeygutter.. My posts are just as valid as anyone else's.. I'll keep posting here whether you like it or not. Keep your personal feelings about me to yourself. You decided to take it upon yourself to decide what YOU think everyone else is thinking. This forum post is for general news about the release, not a specific troubleshooting guide thread. Get informed.

autoxerFSP21 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 16, 2006, 10:17:00 PM »

I still can't figure out how to make an encoder stretch my 4:3 vidoes to 16:9 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

amjadabbas · « **Reply #17 on:** April 16, 2006, 11:12:00 PM »

QUOTE(bmaltais @ Apr 16 2006, 11:16 PM)

Some of the problems you might have regarding the queuing might be related to the "WmeBroadcastTranscoder" folder in the Wrappers folder. Just delete it or move it somewhere else and then restart the transcode service. This is a known issue and should be resolved fairly soon.

Hope this will help some of you guys!

thanks bro! it worked for me!
btw what that folder was created for?

misterhoangdai · « **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2006, 01:20:00 AM »

thanks. deleting that folder fixed the problem for me as well =]

all my bleach episodes can play now!

DaddyO21 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 17, 2006, 02:14:00 AM »

There is still one big problem.

the transcoding still continues in the computer even after pressing stop on the 360.

still uses a lot more CPU and ram than VLC360

T360 Beta3 - CPU 65% , only leaves 58MB of Ram free

VLC360 - CPU 21% , only leaves 97MB of Ram free

Transcode360 still needs a lot of fixes.

8MM · « **Reply #20 on:** April 17, 2006, 10:43:00 AM »

Works like a charm mate!

All users make sure your firewall settings are configed for the folder as my antispyware blocked it without me knowing.....

Now it works sweet

Thanks runtime!

Now....any chance you can create some drivers for the winfast tv tuner card so i can use it on mce?

HEHEHEHEHE

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This post has been edited by 8MM: Apr 17 2006, 05:44 PM

CyborgGamer · « **Reply #21 on:** April 17, 2006, 10:47:00 AM »

QUOTE(DaddyO21 @ Apr 17 2006, 08:45 AM)

There is still one big problem.

the transcoding still continues in the computer even after pressing stop on the 360.

still uses a lot more CPU and ram than VLC360

T360 Beta3 - CPU 65% , only leaves 58MB of Ram free

VLC360 - CPU 21% , only leaves 97MB of Ram free

Transcode360 still needs a lot of fixes.

Yea same here. Good work on the progress, but my system is still struggling with Transcode360 while VLC360 is a smooth ride.

dazzler · « **Reply #22 on:** April 17, 2006, 11:34:00 AM »

I've got a problem which i think happened after updating transcode to beta 3,

When i log into mce from my xbox 360 and goto My Videos folder it says Media cannot play videos from a remote desktop (or similar) tried all the usual renewed the setup between 360 and xp mce, checked sharing rights.

Anyone heard of this before and a fix please

grimeygutter · « **Reply #23 on:** April 17, 2006, 03:26:00 PM »

QUOTE(psxpirate1 @ Apr 16 2006, 11:29 PM)

Hey Mr. Noob poster grimeygutter.. My posts are just as valid as anyone else's.. I'll keep posting here whether you like it or not. Keep your personal feelings about me to yourself. You decided to take it upon yourself to decide what YOU think everyone else is thinking. This forum post is for general news about the release, not a specific troubleshooting guide thread. Get informed.

pffft, Whatever....post count means nothing and you know it, get over yourself. You still use words like noob. Shows what kind of exhaulted master I'm talking to. I'm taking up no more of this threads space wasting my time defending myself against people like you.

The people that help out around here actually solved my problem. I now got beta3 working using helpful advice on this thread.

All those associated with Transcode 360.....YOU ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

To all those that help out others.....YOU ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

To those that bitch about peoples efforts to help the community....please go find something in the real world to do. You have way to much free time.

psxpirate1 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 17, 2006, 11:51:00 PM »

Hey.. I got nothing against the transcode project. I do however, take exeption to little tools such as yourself. I brought up the point of the 360 not doing any actual processing. Big deal. You will need to keep defending yourself if you keep acting like a little bitch. Ok.. let's play "lets see who can kiss the most ass on this thread to garner support for my arguement" Go ahead.. make it your "virtuous mission to silence the nay-sayer" It'll be fun. Flame on 'lil "Noob" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

This post has been edited by psxpirate1: Apr 18 2006, 06:56 AM

bmaltais · « **Reply #25 on:** April 18, 2006, 07:54:00 PM »

QUOTE(dazzler @ Apr 17 2006, 12:05 PM)

I've got a problem which i think happened after updating transcode to beta 3,

When i log into mce from my xbox 360 and goto My Videos folder it says Media cannot play videos from a remote desktop (or similar) tried all the usual renewed the setup between 360 and xp mce, checked sharing rights.

Anyone heard of this before and a fix please

I think you did not installed T360 the right way. During the install it ask about configuring the Transcoding and Broadcast service. Make sure you select the second option "Run service under dedicated...".

All should be good!

QUOTE(DaddyO21 @ Apr 17 2006, 02:45 AM)

There is still one big problem.

the transcoding still continues in the computer even after pressing stop on the 360.

still uses a lot more CPU and ram than VLC360

T360 Beta3 - CPU 65% , only leaves 58MB of Ram free

VLC360 - CPU 21% , only leaves 97MB of Ram free

Transcode360 still needs a lot of fixes.

I am ready to bet that overall the CPU utilization is equal or less than VLC. OK, I will concede that while transcoding T360 will suck as much CPU cycles as possible but it will complete the transcoding at aroung 2 to 3 times faster than the actual video length... this is why we call it faster than real time.

By the way, VLC360 uses WMV8 codec... which is really not the best for picture quality. T360 uses high bit rate MPEG2 and has a really good PQ.

This post has been edited by bmaltais: Apr 19 2006, 02:56 AM

Juiced2k · « **Reply #26 on:** April 20, 2006, 03:07:00 AM »

Thanks for the great app (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Anyways, I was wondering if it was possible to transcode mpeg videos encoded using h264 or x264?

Once again Thanks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

DaddyO21 · « **Reply #27 on:** April 20, 2006, 02:21:00 PM »

QUOTE(bmaltais @ Apr 19 2006, 02:25 AM)

I am ready to bet that overall the CPU utilization is equal or less than VLC. OK, I will concede that while transcoding T360 will suck as much CPU cycles as possible but it will complete the transcoding at aroung 2 to 3 times faster than the actual video length... this is why we call it faster than real time.

By the way, VLC360 uses WMV8 codec... which is really not the best for picture quality. T360 uses high bit rate MPEG2 and has a really good PQ.

No , VLC360 uses less CPU and does the same job that T360 does , i see the same image quality from both.
But T360 just sucks all the power from my Hyper-Threaded 3Ghz CPU

RUNTiME · « **Reply #28 on:** April 20, 2006, 04:54:00 PM »

Dude T360 sucks all available idle CPU power to transcode the file, freeing up your PC to do whatever you want ASAP, all other solutions (including the early T360 Beta 1) only transcode as much as required to display the next couple of frames - but since they (including VLC) all use WMV the CPU isn't being used efficiently, thats the difference with T360 Beta 2 and later (which use less expensive encoding and do it real fast i.e. not wasting idle CPU cycles).

Case in point: my Athlon 64, transcodes a 700MB file in 10 mins, I can start watching as soon as the process starts, in the meantime if I want to use the PC for something else no problem as T360 uses idle cycles. Ten minutes later the process ends and my PC can idle or whatever. With VLC you get the same consistent CPU utilization for the entire duration of video playback.

Bottomline: theres no way WMV encoding (e.g. VLC360) is cheaper on CPU cycles than MPEG2 encoding (T360 Beta 2+).

> the transcoding still continues in the computer even after pressing stop on the 360.

Read the Quick Start Guide - there's a section labelled 'How to stop the transcode of a file you no longer want to watch'... Simply clicking stop/pause stops playback, but considering you might want to come back to your video at a later point T360 will continue until the file is completely transcoded or you explictly tell it to stop:

(IMG:http://jmel.us/runtime/images/t360-manual/stop.png)

For more help check out the T360 forums.

This post has been edited by RUNTiME: Apr 21 2006, 12:13 AM

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