[marcus d]

Right guys.

I came over from media portal as xbmc seemed to offer exactly what I needed which it does...to a point!

This is the first instance of a play back prob I have encountered (on media portal this was a daily issue).

I shot some video on my mobile which was mp4 and I converted it to an AVI hoping this would play ok in XBMC. When I try and play back I get audio but no video, below is a ' report ' from Mediainfo :-

Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\27102009018.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 2.62 GiB
PlayTime : 2mn 44s
Bit rate : 137 Mbps
Writing library : VirtualDub build 32618/release

Video #0
Codec : RGB
PlayTime : 2mn 44s
Bit rate : 135 Mbps
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 640 pixels
Aspect ratio : 0.550
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 23.999

Audio #0
Codec : PCM
Codec/Family : PCM
Codec/Info : Microsoft PCM
Bit rate : 1536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Video0 delay : 18s 90ms
StreamSize : 22.9 MiB
Coherency/PlayTime : 164784


WTF is and RGB codec, never come across this before ??

I used Cucusoft to convert the file yet have never had this issue before, nor changed the set up in. Once converted I rotated the file using Virtualdub as I said it was taken on a mobile but in landscape mode and this was the only way I could see to rotate it.

Any thoughts guys

[spiff]

sample file please?

[marcus d]

Sorry for the dumb reply but are you asking for a copy of the file that I have the issues with ? If so how do I go about uploading this as its 2.62 MB in size !

Thanks

[SlaveUnit]

Use mediafire.com or megaupload.com . There are lots of filesharing sites.

[wierd0n3]

he meant GB. Thats alot of data from what i assume is your phone.

is the original file that massive? have you tried playing it in XBMC? mp4 is fairly well supported in XBMC

I use MediaCoder to convert my video. Just use the wizard to set the options, and it should be perfect

[marcus d]

sorry yes I did mean GB !!! Doh

I will try n upload to one of those site when back home.

As for the file size the original from my mobile werent that big cant check as deleted once converted.

They play fine in windows media player but dont wanna go down that route. The original format mp4 from the phone wouldnt play in xbmc

Not from the suspect file but anotehr taken on my mobile, media info reports the following :-

General #0
Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\TO DO MOBILE\15042009056.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format/Info : ISO 14496-1 version 2
Format/Family : MPEG-4
File size : 6.45 MiB
PlayTime : 21s 56ms
Bit rate : 2569 Kbps
StreamSize : 17.7 KiB
Encoded date : UTC 2009-04-15 20:27:50
Tagged date : UTC 2009-04-15 20:27:50

Video #0
Codec : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec settings/BVOP : No
Codec settings/QPel : No
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/Matri : Default
PlayTime : 20s 741ms
Bit rate : 2503 Kbps
Bit rate mode : VBR
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 28.205 fps
Minimum frame rate : 7.360 fps
Maximum frame rate : 31.250 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.312
StreamSize : 6.19 MiB
Encoded date : UTC 2009-04-15 20:27:50
Tagged date : UTC 2009-04-15 20:27:50

Audio #0
Codec : AAC LC
Codec/Info : AAC Low Complexity
PlayTime : 21s 56ms
Bit rate : 96 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 247 KiB
Encoded date : UTC 2009-04-15 20:27:50
Tagged date : UTC 2009-04-15 20:27:50



Any thoughts guys

[spiff]

just splitting off a small sample (a few mb) of the file should do it. there's tons of mp4 splitter sw out there, google.

[therealjoeblow]

Right guys.

I came over from media portal as xbmc seemed to offer exactly what I needed which it does...to a point!

This is the first instance of a play back prob I have encountered (on media portal this was a daily issue).

I shot some video on my mobile which was mp4 and I converted it to an AVI hoping this would play ok in XBMC. When I try and play back I get audio but no video, below is a ' report ' from Mediainfo :-

Complete name : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\27102009018.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 2.62 GiB
PlayTime : 2mn 44s
Bit rate : 137 Mbps
Writing library : VirtualDub build 32618/release

Video #0
Codec : RGB
PlayTime : 2mn 44s
Bit rate : 135 Mbps
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 640 pixels
Aspect ratio : 0.550
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 23.999

Audio #0
Codec : PCM
Codec/Family : PCM
Codec/Info : Microsoft PCM
Bit rate : 1536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Video0 delay : 18s 90ms
StreamSize : 22.9 MiB
Coherency/PlayTime : 164784


WTF is and RGB codec, never come across this before ??

I used Cucusoft to convert the file yet have never had this issue before, nor changed the set up in. Once converted I rotated the file using Virtualdub as I said it was taken on a mobile but in landscape mode and this was the only way I could see to rotate it.

Any thoughts guys

RGB and PCM are uncompressed video and audio respectively, that's why your file blew up to 2.6gb (just look at your bitrates - 135Mbps for video and 1536 kbps for audio!). It was most likely the 'rotation' step in Vdub that did that; if you don't specifically select and configure both a video and audio compressor in Vdub, it saves the new video file uncompressed.

A better way to convert and rotate your video in one step is with MeGUI, using 'DirectShowSource' in your avisynth script to serve the video and 'TurnLeft' to do the rotate. The correct syntax is:

DirectShowSource("path/to.avi")
TurnLeft()
... (the reset of your script for resizing and any other filtering you want to do, if any)

Cheers
The REAL Joe

[marcus d]

thanks guys

just getting to grips with virtualdub so will stay with that as opposed to change and try and find some setting to alter to compress audio and video.

Does anyone know if I could ' re-do ' my prob clips with virtualdub and compress audio/video and change the video to something xbmc can handle ??

Cheers