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Support for Nero AVC under XBMC...
Hi all, few of you have already asked how to play the Nero Digital AVC encoded movies with the XBox MediaCenter... I've made a small guide on how to do this, upon the information I found on the XBMC forum. so...
DON'T THANK ME, BUT THANK THE GREAT GUYS FROM XBMC !!! you can download the guide at http://www.geocities.com/s4m3y/XBMC....pport-SaMe.pdf Happy coding |
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of course this also means that .mp4 files created with x264 should be supported on xbmc and not only nerodigital ones
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fantastic guide mate the updated dll worked as treat will also be useful for adding support for other new codecs and formats that are added to mplayer.
For those of you who dont have the time here is the new xbmc mplayer.dll as the guide says put this file in xbmcroot/system/players/mplayer replacing the old mplayer.dll http://www.chilledoutuk.co.uk/mplayer.rar
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Is everyone else having success with this .dll? My XBOX is on a network from my computer, but when I try to play a movie it moves real slow and stutters.
I have a 7-28 build of XBMC, and the movie is Lady Killers, encoded with Nero Digital, Standard AVC. The size of the movie was set at 1gb and it's 5.1 audio. Just curious if anyone else has a stuttering problem and if it's related to the hardware or the network, but network is very fast (ALL XVIDS work perfectly!)
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the xbox hasn't got enough cpu power to seemlessly play a high-resolution avc encoded movie... (you can read the warning in the guide) if you used HE-AAC, move over to LC-AAC, then you spare the need of replicating audio by the SBR technology used in HE-AAC. But the xbox will never be able to play AVC files at full DVD resolution (width of 720p) I had to downsample to a width of about 592p (and my height was only 240p) before I could play files without any problems.
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That seem weird that Xbox can't handle this AVC. Is the processing really that taxing? I have a P.O.S. 1089mhz AMD, flooded with Spyware, Porn, and probably 80 processes running at any given time, plus it's constantly overheating, and it has no problem running the movies I create with Nero AVC in the Nero Player. Before I got my laptop I tried to encode a nero AVC Max Def on this PC and it took 31 hours. Isn't XBOX 800 mhz with hardly any overhead? Just doesn't seem right. I feel like if the XBOX was using the Nero Digital Player it would be fine. AVC isn't that crazy is it?
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i also have the stuttering problem. (i have been working with this for some time now) avc uses post processing when playing it back. ie cabrac and deblocking. Turning these off on the encode and basicaly every other option in the nero avc, Aside from the lower resolution, options makes it run ok at best. But you loose ALOT of quality. And it turns out much worst then say an xvid rip of the same material.
Also, even with the recomplied dll i still cant play x264 files. The xbox just crashes pittifully. As for the XBOX its a 733 P3 with shared system and video ram. (this is problebly what kills the playback) ive been thinking of building a small media center pc to replace the xbox. one of the main develpers in XBMC, frodo, has ventured into making a great pc program for this purpose called Media portal. goggle it. |
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I've thought about venturing into building a PVR or HTPC. That program looks pretty nice, but the question is can a HTPC that plays H.264 and has PVR functions be build for under 500?
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i encoded wildthings with b frames turned off and 3 ref frames @ a resolution of 704x416 and a bitrate of 1000kbps and the video plays back smoothly. I find that bframes are just a bit too much to decode for the xbox.
this was with x264 i will try encoding some stuff with recode and see how that goes.
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More hints and tips on H.264 playback in XBMC is available here:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bi...ST;f=8;t=13786 BTW, also make sure you enable the "LQ-Pixel-Shader " in XBMC! PS! Very latest XBMC CVS has this new FFmpeg CVS integrated. Last edited by Cyberace; 10th August 2005 at 13:00. |
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More tips here: http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bi...ST&f=2&t=14956
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