issue between r1542 and r1563 of x264

[supernater]

I play most of my x264 movies on my modded xbox using XBMC. I recently updated megui (after not updating for a lonnnggg time) and I noticed that my movies didn't play on XBMC on my xbox when the movies were encoded using the r1649 build of x264. After a series of tests comparing various versions of x264 I realized that the issue is between versions r1542 and r1563. XBMC uses mplayer. However, these movies play fine on my windows computer using smplayer. Is this a bug? Where do I report this?

[Dark Shikari]

Have you tried updating XBMC?

[supernater]

I just did. I am currently using T3CH's build, the latest is July 8, 2010. The issue is still there.

[Dark Shikari]

"Didn't play" isn't an error message.

[supernater]

Sorry about that, I'll post the log as soon as I figure out how to get this info from XBMC.

[supernater]

Here is my XBMC log



18:06:37 M: 56000512 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: Starting XBMC4Xbox. Built on Jul 8 2010 (SVN:30442, compiler 1310)
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: Q:\
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: q:\UserData
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: Q:\
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: Z:\
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: The executable running is: F:\apps\XBMC\default.xbe
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: Log File is located: Q:\xbmc.log
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: Unmapped drive T
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: Mapping drive T to Harddisk0\Partition6\apps\XBMC\UserData
18:06:37 M: 55980032 NOTICE: Setup DirectX
18:06:37 M: 55955456 NOTICE: Mapping drive C to Harddisk0\Partition2
18:06:37 M: 55955456 NOTICE: Mapping drive E to Harddisk0\Partition1
18:06:37 M: 55955456 NOTICE: Unmapped drive D
18:06:37 M: 55955456 NOTICE: Mapping drive D to Cdrom0
18:06:37 M: 55955456 NOTICE: Mapping drive F to Harddisk0\Partition6
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: Mapping drive G to Harddisk0\Partition7
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: Mapping drive X to Harddisk0\Partition3
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: Mapping drive Y to Harddisk0\Partition4
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: Unmapped drive Z
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: Mapping drive Z to Harddisk0\Partition5
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: load settings...
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: Mapping drive P to Harddisk0\Partition6\apps\XBMC\UserData
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: q:\UserData
18:06:39 M: 55951360 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
18:06:39 M: 55799808 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
18:06:39 M: 55799808 NOTICE: Checking resolution 10
18:06:39 M: 55799808 NOTICE: Setting autoresolution mode 4
18:06:39 M: 55799808 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
18:06:39 M: 55799808 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
18:06:39 M: 55779328 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
18:06:39 M: 55779328 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
18:06:39 M: 55779328 NOTICE: No advancedsettings.xml to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
18:06:39 M: 55779328 NOTICE: Default Video Player: mplayer
18:06:39 M: 55779328 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
18:06:39 M: 55779328 NOTICE: Per AV pack settings are off
18:06:39 M: 55902208 NOTICE: q:\UserData\sources.xml
18:06:40 M: 50614272 NOTICE: Network: Using dashboard IP settings
18:06:40 M: 50286592 NOTICE: Checking the Date!
18:06:40 M: 50286592 NOTICE: start dvd mediatype detection
18:06:40 M: 50216960 NOTICE: initializing playlistplayer
18:06:40 M: 50216960 NOTICE: DONE initializing playlistplayer
18:06:41 M: 50208768 NOTICE: load default skin:[Project Mayhem III]
18:06:41 M: 49623040 NOTICE: Unmapped drive D
18:06:41 M: 49516544 NOTICE: Mapping drive D to Cdrom0
18:06:42 M: 47230976 NOTICE: initialize done
18:06:42 M: 47230976 NOTICE: Running the application...
18:06:43 M: 43864064 NOTICE: start timeserver client
18:06:43 M: 43798528 NOTICE: XBFileZilla: Starting...
18:06:43 M: 43732992 NOTICE: ES: Starting event server
18:06:43 M: 42606592 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777
18:06:43 M: 42057728 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777
18:06:44 M: 41431040 NOTICE: XBFileZilla: Started
18:09:01 M: 30687232 NOTICE: Display resolution AUTO : NTSC 4:3 (4)
18:09:09 M: 13398016 ERROR: mplayer generated exception in video_read_frame
18:09:09 M: 13406208 ERROR: mplayer generated exception in video_read_frame
18:09:09 M: 24137728 ERROR: CMPlayer::CloseFile() - Unknown Exception in mplayer_close_file() - uninit_others
18:09:09 M: 25444352 WARNING: CGUITextureManager::ReleaseTexture: Unable to release texture osd_button_videoSELNF.png
18:09:09 M: 25468928 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:09 M: 25497600 FATAL: Error freeing tracked dll resources
18:09:09 M: 31387648 ERROR: CMPlayer::Unload() - Exception: Access violation
18:09:09 M: 31387648 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:09 M: 31375360 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:10 M: 31363072 ERROR: Unable to open database: q:\UserData\Database\MyVideos34.db (183)
18:09:10 M: 31363072 ERROR: Unable to open q:\UserData\Database\MyVideos34.db (old version?)
18:09:10 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:10 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:11 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:11 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:12 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:13 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:13 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:14 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:14 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:15 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:15 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:16 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:16 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:17 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:17 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:18 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:18 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:19 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:19 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:20 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:20 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()
18:09:21 M: 31363072 ERROR: exception in CApplication::Process()

The previous version of XBMC that I had was T3CH XBMC 2009-06-01 9.04.1-FIXED-Babylon. This version also produced the error. After compressing with various versions I found that videos encoded with r1542 worked but switching to r1563 and later cause XBMC to freeze.

[Dark Shikari]

The only thing I can imagine is that XBMC has a 3-year-old version of ffmpeg, but I doubt they would be so stupid to use something that outdated... file a bug report with them.

[supernater]

Will do. I'll check what version of ffmpeg they use. Wouldn't surprise me if they are using an older version. XBMC for the original xbox isn't even supported by them anymore, I guess they don't want to develop for a dead platform with 64 MB RAM and a 700 MHz processor. I was poking around online and I found this post on an x264 builder, named JEEB, regarding x264 r1563 (the first version where the issues start)...

And another bites the dust... 64bit ffmpeg built without SSE optimizations because of this (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/102906). But seriously, has anyone had any bugs come up with mine or someone else's 64bit ffmpeg-based 64bit builds? Personally I think this issue should be looked into more thoroughly.