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Mr. Wilby

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Xvid Playback Problems
« on: January 08, 2004, 04:24:00 AM »
bump. Same problem for me with many xvid encoded files. Any ideas? Using version from 07-01-04.

Cheers  <
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JRSiebz

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Xvid Playback Problems
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2003, 04:05:00 PM »
The latest cvs build of XBMC (12-07-2003) listed the following in its decription:
-updated: use xvid codec instead of ffmpeg codec for playing back xvid movies

Using the previous XBMC build (12-03-2003) my large xvid clips played flawlessly.  Now in the latest build, the video is extremely jerky and not in sync with the audio.   I guess I liked the ffmpeg codec ;-)

Just checking to see if anyone else had a similar problem.  I've also had problems with xvids playing well on my pc.  I guess i'm just a divx fan.

I love the addition of the web server though.  Great idea.

Just so you wanna know it was a 348 MB Family Guy episode in XVid which caused the problem in the new build.  :-)
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tslayer

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Xvid Playback Problems
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2003, 05:34:00 PM »
Well, you can switch it back I think by modifying the:

mplayer/codecs.conf file.

Search for : fourcc XVIX

and replace with: fourcc xvid,XVID,XviD,XVIX

That should hopefully set you back to using ffmpeg.

Let us know if it is working again.

TS
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JRSiebz

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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2003, 12:07:00 PM »
in the codecs.conf file i altered the following
the bold text shows what i added
now the other codec is used and the video renders faster

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,BLZ0 DX50
 fourcc 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
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JRSiebz

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Xvid Playback Problems
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2003, 12:08:00 PM »
and it works in the 12-08-2003 release also
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jw_2000_uk

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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2003, 12:14:00 PM »
:D Thanx for the info TSLAYER had this problem with bruce almighty xvid.edited the conf file and now plays fine all the way through, was unwatchable before doing this far to jumpy.

Cheers. Maybe this should be a Sticky? very usefull information if ur having this problem.

This post has been edited by jw_2000_uk: Dec 8 2003, 08:15 PM
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nike00

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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2003, 04:35:00 PM »
I just tried this but still have the same problem playing some xvid files. Mainly two that I've been testing.  One of them (Internal Affairs) - it plays the opening credits smoothly but as soon as that goes away it starts playing stills, frame by frame.  Another movie (The Core), it plays perfectly for the first 13min, but then I get a garbled up screen and it freezes.

Here are the file info from Gspot.

CODE

Internal Affairs.avi
Size 700MB

Video Format
 4CC: xvid - Name: XviD
Audio Format
 Name: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
 Bitrate: 121 kb/s (60/ch x 2 ch) VBR LAME3.93a¯ - FS: 48000Hz
Stream Type and A/V Interleave
Type: OpenDML AVI
I/L: 100 ms (2.5 frames), p=480 - IMRR: 0.32


The Core is similar except it has AC3 audio.

Any idea on how to get it to work?? Thanks.
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