Post by: Xbox-Scene on April 15, 2006, 05:52:00 PM
Transcode 360 v1.0 Beta 3-- Posted by XanTium on April 15 19:16 EST
Runtime released a new version of Transcode 360(info):
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I'm happy to announce the release of Transcode 360 Beta 3, the newest version of the XviD / DivX playback solution for Xbox 360 and Media Center Extender devices on Windows Media Center 2005. Once more this beta release is provided in advance of the final release to encourage community feedback and to help us better understand the areas we need to focus on.
New in this release:
After a lot of painstaking testing we believe we've addressed the aspect ratio issues that affected Beta 2, and for the most part AV sync, playback choppiness and a couple of issues that should make for easier installation (notably MPEG2 codec co-existance). Additionally, Beta 3 also features support for subtitles.
To enable the optimum transcoding solution T360 now supports multiple transcoding engines: ffmpeg, mencoder and Windows Media Encoder plug-ins are provided. As I mentioned in my previous post, mencoder has been selected as the best candidate for our solution as it offers us lots of flexibility supporting a staggering 299 codecs. It is this then that we will be primarily focused on supporting.
If you have a little programming experience you're welcome to create your own custom plug-in wrappers, or contribute to the project by improving on what we have. Full C# source code for the majority of the plug-ins is included as part of the distribution.
I'll be taking it a bit easy now at least for the rest of the holiday. That said, I'll pop into the forums over the next couple of days to provide answers to some of the frequently asked questions. The plan over the short term is to update the online documentation as its beginning to look a bit dated.
Finally I would like to thank my team of testers who've been working with me to iron out the bugs, as well as you the community for your support and generous donations. Many thanks! Happy downloading!
Official Site: http://www.runtime360.com
Download: here
Post by: misterhoangdai on April 15, 2006, 09:58:00 PM
Post by: Moltdar on April 15, 2006, 11:12:00 PM
Post by: grimeygutter on April 15, 2006, 11:14:00 PM
This post has been edited by grimeygutter: Apr 16 2006, 06:17 AM
Post by: psxpirate1 on April 16, 2006, 12:01:00 AM
Post by: misterhoangdai on April 16, 2006, 01:26:00 AM
QUOTE(psxpirate1 @ Apr 15 2006, 09:32 PM) 
What's the big deal with people streaming with their pc's? The 360 isn't doing any of the real processing. It's like buying a cake from the store and saying you made it yourself! PHONEY!
well if there was a way to transfer video to the 360's harddrive i'd much rather do that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif).
i can't stand watching video on my computer monitor
Post by: angelcrying on April 16, 2006, 02:47:00 AM
thank you
Post by: grimeygutter on April 16, 2006, 03:20:00 AM
QUOTE(psxpirate1 @ Apr 16 2006, 01:32 AM)
What's the big deal with people streaming with their pc's? The 360 isn't doing any of the real processing. It's like buying a cake from the store and saying you made it yourself! PHONEY!
Why are you even here posting here, this post in no way furthers the thread or your worth as a human being.
Post by: xeeker on April 16, 2006, 05:24:00 AM
2. How can I make the subtitles bigger?
3. How can I make the resolution higher?
If it's possible to do these three things this is best program ever!
Post by: lancer on April 16, 2006, 06:45:00 AM
QUOTE(psxpirate1 @ Apr 16 2006, 06:32 AM)
What's the big deal with people streaming with their pc's? The 360 isn't doing any of the real processing. It's like buying a cake from the store and saying you made it yourself! PHONEY!
i understand what your saying, having to have to have another system actually doing the processing takes resources making the 360 a mere extension cord, but this prgram has did what the mircrosoft couldnt, and for not having your xbox modded this program is a dam savior.
much appreciation to runtime 360 for making this, its been very helpfull and the quality is kickass, as it keeps the rez of the file intaced.
Post by: spankytheking on April 16, 2006, 09:23:00 AM
Anybody know how to automatically remove the buffer file after the file has been played?
mine seem to stay there and take up hard drive space
Thanks
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Post by: psxpirate1 on April 16, 2006, 11:22:00 AM
QUOTE(grimeygutter @ Apr 16 2006, 09:51 AM)
Why are you even here posting here, this post in no way furthers the thread or your worth as a human being.
My human worth? You actually have a scale of human worth based on the content of their posts?
Wasn't my intent to feel "better" about myself.. Just bringing up a point. May have ben a bit harsh, but yes I do understand what it's used for. I was referring to the people who think their xbox is actually doing all the processing. I'll stick to my XBMC for all my video needs.. WAY more convenient for my tastes.
Post by: Xbox Pimp on April 16, 2006, 11:52:00 AM
Post by: grimeygutter on April 16, 2006, 05:46:00 PM
QUOTE(psxpirate1 @ Apr 16 2006, 12:53 PM)
My human worth? You actually have a scale of human worth based on the content of their posts?
Wasn't my intent to feel "better" about myself.. Just bringing up a point. May have ben a bit harsh, but yes I do understand what it's used for. I was referring to the people who think their xbox is actually doing all the processing. I'll stick to my XBMC for all my video needs.. WAY more convenient for my tastes.
We all know xbmc is better okay, my point was why are you posting this here instead of a new thread. Nobody said anything here about the 360 itself doing anything. This is for people with problems with this program. Nobody cares about your opinion on something noone here was discussing in the first place.
Post by: bmaltais on April 16, 2006, 09:45:00 PM
Hope this will help some of you guys!
Post by: psxpirate1 on April 16, 2006, 09:58:00 PM
Post by: autoxerFSP21 on April 16, 2006, 10:17:00 PM
Post by: amjadabbas 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?
Post by: misterhoangdai on April 17, 2006, 01:20:00 AM
all my bleach episodes can play now!
Post by: DaddyO21 on April 17, 2006, 02:14:00 AM
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.
Post by: 8MM on April 17, 2006, 10:43:00 AM
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
Post by: CyborgGamer 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.
Post by: dazzler on April 17, 2006, 11:34:00 AM
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
Post by: grimeygutter 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.
Post by: psxpirate1 on April 17, 2006, 11:51:00 PM
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Post by: bmaltais 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
Post by: Juiced2k on April 20, 2006, 03:07:00 AM
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)
Post by: DaddyO21 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
Post by: RUNTiME on April 20, 2006, 04:54:00 PM
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:
For more help check out the T360 forums.
This post has been edited by RUNTiME: Apr 21 2006, 12:13 AM