Xvid problems with latest build

[Vigilante]

hi, i'm sorry if this has been mentioned before already, but i'm having problems with playing certain xvid movies in the latest xbmc. after about 60-75 seconds of playing the screen freezes while sound keeps playing normally. as for now this problem only occurs with 2 1cd rips that i have and not with all xvid encodes. i'm not sure if this is an xbmc bug, mplayer bug or a relax ??? bug, but i'd like to see it fixed off course http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

using: xbmc 15-11, relax 0.76 pre (xns).

ps. i've also tried using the gspot tool for identifying opendml avi's, but i couldn't see any difference between the working movies and the freezing ones.

thanks in advance for helping me out.

[Frodo]

could you try playing the movie using mplayer (for windows) ?

you can download mplayer for windows :here (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/win32-beta/)

also try if playing this movie from the xbox hd/ relax / xbms helps. there are some known problems with smb support in xbmc/xbmp

frodo

[Vigilante]

hi, i tried playing both movies with mplayer and they didn't freeze, so everything's alright when playing on pc. i also tried playing them on xbmc from dvd-r and after 60-75 seconds the video freezes again, dvd starts reading intensively and sound starts to stutter as well.

by the looks of it, this doesn't seem to be server/mplayer-related, but xbmc :(

if you want me to do more tests please let me know.

[Frodo]

try copying it to the xbox hd and then playing it from the xbox hd.
frodo

[Vigilante]

still freezing :( any suggestions?

[Frodo]

sounds like a bug then.
i could try 2 update the xvid codec, see if that helps
frodo

[Vigilante]

would be nice to see it fixed some day... it's pretty odd that the movies don't freeze on the pc build as well.

wild guess: perhaps the audio-stream (mp3 vbr) is causing the problem and not the video-stream ???

[Frodo]

ok, gonna update xbmc to use xvid 0.9.2

this is the latest official xvid release.

hopefully fixes your problem
frodo

[Vigilante]

thanks for the effort, but unfortunately, i still have the same problems with the 23-11 cvs.

i removed the audio stream from one of the avi and guess what: no more freezing. this means i was wrong about it being an xvid issue. there seems to be a problem with the xbmc mp3 decoder/codec that keeps certain mp3 vbr streams from playing properly.

awaiting orders http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif