Vesh
2004-06-10, 22:21
<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>this is not a feature request</span>
i've searched here for information about 3ivx playback. seems results are spotty depending on container, so i thought getting this movie to play smoothly (it plays in xbmc [06-06] but choppy - lots of chunkiness, droppeds, earlies, lates) in xbmc was hopeless.
but then i tried it in xbmp and it plays smoothly except for a very bright, saturated strip of discoloration on the top of the video. i've played the movie on the pc in media player classic though ffdshow ("other mpeg4", libavcodec) and the edges as well as the picture quality are sharp and solid so i'm fairly certain the playback performance in xbmc and the discoloration in xbmp are not the result of a bad encoding job.
gspot proved it's uselessness by simply calling it standard quicktime. i've opened the file in a hex editor and all i can be sure of is that the audio is mp4a. i suspect the video is 3iv2 since in xbmc, without modifying codecs.conf, it's playing through the ffodivx "ffmpeg mpeg-4" videocodec set.
am i sunk? is it hopeless? is there no way to get it to play with the clarity of xbmc with the performance seen in xbmp? or do i just have to wait for some kind soul to get something going on the xbox 3ivx codec end? =p
i've searched here for information about 3ivx playback. seems results are spotty depending on container, so i thought getting this movie to play smoothly (it plays in xbmc [06-06] but choppy - lots of chunkiness, droppeds, earlies, lates) in xbmc was hopeless.
but then i tried it in xbmp and it plays smoothly except for a very bright, saturated strip of discoloration on the top of the video. i've played the movie on the pc in media player classic though ffdshow ("other mpeg4", libavcodec) and the edges as well as the picture quality are sharp and solid so i'm fairly certain the playback performance in xbmc and the discoloration in xbmp are not the result of a bad encoding job.
gspot proved it's uselessness by simply calling it standard quicktime. i've opened the file in a hex editor and all i can be sure of is that the audio is mp4a. i suspect the video is 3iv2 since in xbmc, without modifying codecs.conf, it's playing through the ffodivx "ffmpeg mpeg-4" videocodec set.
am i sunk? is it hopeless? is there no way to get it to play with the clarity of xbmc with the performance seen in xbmp? or do i just have to wait for some kind soul to get something going on the xbox 3ivx codec end? =p