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How-Long
03-20-2004, 06:53 PM
For some reason, many of my Xvid video files play slow motion on my XBMP and also skip some frames at many scene too. It doesn't skip frames all the time but at some part, it just skip a whole bunch of frames at once. Does anyone else is experiencing this same problem with their divx videos?

Is it becuase the Xbox hardware is too low to play some type of Divx file? Becuase 64mb of ram is a little less and i know that for sure since my old AMD PC sometimes can't even open a Divx file :(

nimbles
03-21-2004, 04:00 AM
No, the cpu is not the problem.

It is likely to be the avi's. xbmp was never able to play open dml avi's properly. It could also be that you have "badly encoded" audio. I had a few files that suffered from the symptoms you are describing, turned out to be an bad mp3 encoding- simplest way to rectify it was to demux (split) the audio and video in a program called vdubmod, re-encode the audio in a LAME MP3 based encoder, and then remux (join) again with vdubmod- using direct stream copy.

As you may or may not know xbox media player has ceased to be updated since about last november, and it had been only bug fixing for about 3-4 month before that (since the 2.4 point release).

First thing i would suggest is to try out xbox media center, it is the current project that the team is working on and it plays way more formats and codecs are alot more uptodate, plays open dml avi's and is now pretty stable- i've not had it lock up randomly for about 3-4 months

If the problem persists then I think you are gonna have to look at the demuxing and remuxing of the offending files into an avi but also you could try .ogm and .mkv containers, both of which are more advanced than the avi container- and are playable in xbmc

How-Long
03-21-2004, 09:26 AM
Thanks, it was becuase of the audio that you're talking about. It de/remux it with Tmpeg