Playback of HD Transport Stream Videos (.TS)

[gatogonzales]

I'm a newbie to XBMC and totally impressed by this fine piece of software. It does already almost everything I was hoping for, with just one - for me quite painful - exception.

I have have a large archive of videos in Transport Stream Format (.TS), which I mainly recorded with my Dreamboxes (DM7020 and DM800) and so far I'm not able to playback these videos with XBMC 8.10.

Playback for PAL (576p) videos starts after a pretty long buffering time, but tends to stop after a while with the sound looping in a 2-3 sec loop.

With the HD videos (720p and 1080i) I only get a grey screen with artifacts in the upper 20% of the screen and the sound playing in the background. Also the automatically generated Thumbnails look like that.

System is an Asus M3N78 Board, AMD Athlon 6000+ (3.1 GHz) Processor and 4GB RAM running Windows XP Pro SP3. Both VLC 0.9.8a and Media Player with CCCP Plugins are able to play these files w/o problems on this box.

Is there any hope to get this running or do I have to live with the fact?

As this is my first posting in this forum, please apologize if I might have missed something or did not 100% follow the board rules.

Thanks
Gonzo

[robbo430]

I'd like to add to this. To get a .ts file to run without artefacts you have to go into the video menu while the video is playing and set the interlaced video handling to autoselect. Unfortunately for HD videos (1080i) you will end up with a stuttering video because the video CPU is maxed out (press 'o' on your keyboard) even though the overall CPU usage is still only 50-60%.

Is there anyway to fix this, or is this due to to the CPU not having enough grunt to de-interlace and decode the video in software? (using a dual core athlon @ 2.8ghz per core)

'tis a shame if this can't be sorted as xbmc runs every other file beautifully.

Can post a sample if devs are interested.

Cheers

Rob

[robbo430]

Oh, forgot to say ther is a less elegant way of fixing this - use an xbmc compile with externalplayer integrated. Use the contextmenu to play with... externalplayer and point it towards media player classic. Make sure set rendering mode to generic (not VMR7 or 9) and have the cyberlink codec installed.

Thats why I would like an autolaunch external player dependant on file extension (.ts) as this would integrate these problem files a lot more elegantly.

Cheers

Rob

[vdrfan]

If you want it to be fixed, you will have to file a new bug report and attach some sample files.

[ryansebiz]

If you want it to be fixed, you will have to file a new bug report and attach some sample files.

I second this request. I use Beyond TV which captures all QAM (SD & HD) as .tp transport stream files. "Videos" sees the folders my shows are in but it doesn't see the individual episodes.

[vdrfan]

In order to list the .tp files in Video section you will have to add the extension via advancedsettings.xml. See advancedsettings.xml - <videoextensions> (http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cvideoextensions.3E) for more information on this.

Note, this is no guarantee XBMC will play those files.

[ryansebiz]

In order to list the .tp files in Video section you will have to add the extension via advancedsettings.xml. See advancedsettings.xml - <videoextensions> (http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cvideoextensions.3E) for more information on this.

Thanks vdrfan. This worked for me. Now I can playback my Beyond TV QAM HD shows in XBMC!