icedtrip Wrote:@Observer
I played your clip and got just the same black screen and audio. I am using tsMuxeR GUI 1.9.9 Snow Leopard Build with tsMuxeR 1.10.6 (by VoxMac). I was able to use my rip of The Matrix to produce an m2ts file. I also ran your clip and it produced an m2ts file, but with an error. The clip still plays, so I believe the error was due to the MKV file reporting the original length of the movie rather than the length of the clip (an issue with using 'split'?? not sure).
However, like I mentioned before, below are links to the same 1 minute clip in both MKV and m2ts containers I made from my rip. The MKV has the issue I have described and provided logs for, the m2ts file plays just fine. Both files are 130-140MB. I have also included the m2ts file produced using your clip.
MKV - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2810404/The.Matrix.Clip.mkv.zip
m2ts - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2810404/The.Matr...p.m2ts.zip
Observer Clip m2ts - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2810404/Observer...p.m2ts.zip
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icedtrip - Thanks for the help with the files...see below for comments
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davilla - Does any of this help; how can we help you to help us ?
The.Matrix.Clip.mkv
This clip played a bit, with both sound and video, but was very jumpy. I notice from the log, that for some reason it is trying rescale back to 1280x720 ? and not play at the full 1900x1080 resolution? Also the audio AC3 pass-through does not appear to be working properly. Looking at the Media Info it seem to have the codec assigned to "E-AC-3". Of course on would actually like to be able to select the TrueHD audio on stream #2, that my processesor will downgrade to DTS, but that is covered on a different thread.
The.Matrix.Clip.m2ts
Again this clip was not smooth, and had aspect ratio problems, squashed horizontally, and pushed to the bottom of the screen and again forced resolution to 1280x720. Same problem with Sound. In general if would be good to use the same logical clip form the movie so that one can do a comparison.
Observer Clip m2ts
After some initial flickering, this clip seems to play normally, beyond the same screen resolution down-conversion to 1280x270, and audio pass-through worked more successfully, the clip seemed shorter then the original it was converted from.
Questions:
- Rescaling?
Why is this happening, the CrystalHD is supposed to support 1900x1080 right? My Apple TV is set up as 1080p HD resolution. But all logs have the following:
Quote:... DEBUG: CrystalHD: Format Change Detected. Flags: 0x00030000
... DEBUG: ----------------------------------
... DEBUG: TimeStamp: 0
... DEBUG: Picture Number: 0
... DEBUG: Width: 1280
... DEBUG: Height: 720
... DEBUG: Chroma: 0x001
... DEBUG: Pulldown: 9
... DEBUG: Flags: 0x00000000
... DEBUG: Frame Rate/Res: 0
... DEBUG: Aspect Ratio: 1
... DEBUG: Color Primaries: 0
... DEBUG: MetaData: 0
... DEBUG: Session Number: 0
... DEBUG: TimeStamp: 0
... DEBUG: Custom Aspect: 0
... DEBUG: Frames to Drop: 0
... DEBUG: H264 Valid Fields: 0x00000000
- MKV Container Support?
I expect other users of XBMC are to some degree techy/geeky but what we really want to be able to do is rip our Movies with the tools available MakeMKV on OSX and make the file available to the Apple TV (via NAS) and be done. I personally don't want to have to do "extra" processing on the file to get it to work. Its unfortunate that there is the dependency on the capabilities of another tool as the means to get content to the player, and that is somewhat limiting on some platforms, but it's the path of least resistance to more adoption. Is this a more general XBMC issue or something specific to the CrystalHD integration ?
- Audio Selection?
It seem that, if I am interpreting the logs correctly, there is also a challenge in being able to pass through the AC3 track directly with out re-muxing it:
Quote:... DEBUG: CoreAudioRenderer::InitializeEncoded: Unable to identify suitable output format.
... DEBUG: CoreAudioRenderer::Initialize: No suitable AC3 output format found. Attempting DD-Wav.
Again is this more of an XBMC issue? but I'd expect that player to just pass the audio stream directly to the spdif output untouched, with no remapping required. Audio Track selection has been discussed to some degree here. Without a more complex remote control I don't know how to select a different audio track on the AppleTV as I can't get that pop-up menu at the top of the picture to appear as I can when running on a regular mac.
What are next steps ?
Again all help greatly appreciated ! If I can help in any way please let me know.