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Cogman

Cogman

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ViviTheMage said:
If shark is a flop, i'll try ffdshow next then.

what would I need haali for?
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haali is the splitter. It splits the audio and video stream from an mp4/mkv for ffdshow to process. I wouldn't uninstall shark, but rather just install ffdshow afterwords and see if it works (it should overwrite the old shark version of ffdshow).

well, neither ffdshow or haali helped....now it says files aren't supported by the 360 now.
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Weird... Can you open the files in WMP regularly? If not, are you using the x64 version of ffdshow?
 
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Cogman

Cogman

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ViviTheMage said:
Yeah, I figured that is what you meant...no luck working.

Do I need to configure shark somehow?
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Are you using windows 7 or a derivative thereof? I know that windows 7 is a little more strict about which codecs can be used (especially the x64 version).

There really shouldn't be any changes for you to make. The codec should be set to use the most sane decoders. You could change which codecs are being used when through ffdshow configure if needs be. It has been a while, so I'm not sure where the settings are to change this stuff. Seems like you can specify that MPEG-4 streams use lavc to decode their stuff from the ffdshow config menu. It also seams like you needed to specify to ffdshow that, yes, you do what to use its MPEG2 decoder.
 
ViviTheMage

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I think I might just have to get that WD live, haha.

I re-tried tversity and ps3 media server...really bad stuttering on ANY movement scenes. It wasn't worth tweaking. Tversity was even defaulted to 1024x768 and it still stuttered like mad trying to transcode.
 
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I'm not surprised that you just can't get it working. I would think that you should be able to transcode just about anything on the fly with the q9550. I don't think it's the transcoding that's the problem.

I've tried to help a couple of guys get their Xbox 360s up and running to stream movies with the exact same results you are getting, i.e. stuttering and jumping. BR rips, DVD rips... didn't matter. I think we figured out the problem after endless hours of troubleshooting. It's cuz the Xbox 360 sucks donkey balls as a video streamer. The only files that I ever got to work were h264 encoded .mp4 files with 2-channel .aac audio tracks and some dvd rips that we converted to dvr-ms files and used with the media extender. It's just plain pickier than a six-year old in front of a plate of peas.

The WD Live will be much easier for you.
 
ViviTheMage

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What bothers me is the rips worked when they were in m2ts, and now they're in mp4 and they're failing, hard.

good m2ts rip that works without codecs/playing around :


General
ID : 1
Complete name : E:\movies\Marley & Me (2008).m2ts
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 4.00 GiB
Duration : 1h 55mn
Overall bit rate : 4 960 Kbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 007 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 24.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.081
Stream size : 3.32 GiB (83%)
Writing library : x264 core 66 r1114M a933a3e
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x1:0 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=1 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=4007 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 528 MiB (13%)
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bad mp4 rip that doesn't work :


General
Complete name : E:\movies\Fast Five (2011).mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 4.00 GiB
Duration : 2h 10mn
Overall bit rate : 4 389 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-08-19 04:13:53
Tagged date : UTC 2011-08-19 11:02:27
Writing application : HandBrake 4140svn 2011072501

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2h 10mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 3 746 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Minimum frame rate : 11.989 fps
Maximum frame rate : 23.981 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.100
Stream size : 3.41 GiB (85%)
Writing library : x264 core 115
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.20 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3746 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=3 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=18500 / vbv_bufsize=18500 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2011-08-19 04:13:53
Tagged date : UTC 2011-08-19 11:02:27
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : ac-3
Duration : 2h 10mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 597 MiB (15%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2011-08-19 04:13:53
Tagged date : UTC 2011-08-19 11:02:27

Text
ID : 3
Format : Apple text
Codec ID : text
Duration : 2h 10mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 0
Stream size : 480 Bytes (0%)
Encoded date : UTC 2011-08-19 04:13:53
Tagged date : UTC 2011-08-19 11:02:27
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ONE thing I did read, that might actually make sense ... is I applied SP1 when MS released it in windows update....I wonder if that caused it to stop reading avi/mp4's? I only recently switched to mp4's, so I don't have a test of before SP1.
 
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