problem when I fast forward from hard disk

[detroit1]

Hi I have been testing with 'The Restless' which is
a Korean movie encoded to xvid/divx with a large
subtitle file containing 4 subtitles of which two are
Korean and two are English. The file was from god-knows-where-torrent.
I was able to fast forward on the DVD I burned, but
due to a disk I/O error, I was in a situation where
my DVD didn't work. So I tried two things... playing
the file from a network share, and playing the file
from the local drive. In both cases, the goddamned file
would not fast forward. To make matters worse,
if I tried to play from the DVD the whole fucking program
would crash and I would have to hard restart. That is
fucking weak. Anyway, I could neither fast forward to
the 1.21hr position, or skip ahead using the right arrow.
I guess I could send someone a copy of the disk if it
would help Frodo or whoever reads these. I was using
the 11/04 build from the torrent file.
Thanks.

[jmarshall]

Seek, don't fastforward. Many files with dodgy indexing don't like fastforward. Notice that virtually no applications implement fastforward for this reason.

If you can't get past a certain point in the file, it's probably broken.

Also: We'd appreciate it if you'd tone down the language a bit.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[pike]

also Frodo hasn't worked on XBMC for many years

[detroit1]

Seek, don't fastforward. Many files with dodgy indexing don't like fastforward. Notice that virtually no applications implement fastforward for this reason.

If you can't get past a certain point in the file, it's probably broken.

Also: We'd appreciate it if you'd tone down the language a bit.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Well, see what's odd is that 'seek' and 'fast forward' both worked when playing from the DVD but NEITHER worked when playing from the HDD or SMB share. This suggests a different sort of problem to me.

[jmarshall]

Same file on a dvd disk, or a real DVD vs an AVI file?

[Gamester17]

Collect a debug log and upload it it pastebin.com
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xbox_Media_Center_Online_Manual

I also bet that the video-file/movie is broken (corrupt).

[detroit1]

Same file on a dvd disk, or a real DVD vs an AVI file?

Hi, the same exact file is able to fast forward and seek when played from a DVD disk. But there was a bad part on the disk about 1hr 20minutes into the AVI, so I copied the file to the HDD and also to a SMB share. The file was able to play but not skip ahead in any way. The controls were unresponsive.

I tried to just skip over the bad place on the DVD but that lead to complete system lockup.

I'll try to do that debug thing when I have time on Monday.