2009-12-29, 12:12
Hello,
I am making great progress with my XBMC Live 9.11 Camelot on an Acer Revo R1600, but a very annoying problem sits currently at the top on my list: The inability to properly FastForward, Rewind, Resume and Skip when playing back WMV-HD files.
Said files are mostly encoded from .MKV with Encode360 which uses the Windows Media Encoder 9 from MS, so they are fully standard compliant. Most are also multichannel files with 6 channel AC3 or DTS. I converted them to reduce file size but mostly because I used to use the XBOX360 to stream HD content until my XBMC HTPC was ready, as the XBOX360 cannot play .MKV's.
Anyway, the audio is not an issue, that works fine, however unlike .MKV and .AVI (DivX) files which can be controlled during playback in XBMC, all the WMV-HD files seem to restart at the beginning whenever any kind of fast forward, skip or resume is attempted. These same files forward and skip just fine if played through the basic "Videos" Media Player in the Xbox 360, so I doubt they can possibly be ALL corrupt or problematic.
Has anyone else noticed XBMC playback control problems with WMV-HD files, or does anyone know how to fix this?
P.S. To allow testing I have re-encoded an 86MB public domain mini-movie called "Elephant's Dream" from AVI to WMV-HD using VC1 codec and linked it for download HERE (link valid for 1 week from post date). Please let me know if you can replicate my problems with this or other WMV-HD
I am making great progress with my XBMC Live 9.11 Camelot on an Acer Revo R1600, but a very annoying problem sits currently at the top on my list: The inability to properly FastForward, Rewind, Resume and Skip when playing back WMV-HD files.
Said files are mostly encoded from .MKV with Encode360 which uses the Windows Media Encoder 9 from MS, so they are fully standard compliant. Most are also multichannel files with 6 channel AC3 or DTS. I converted them to reduce file size but mostly because I used to use the XBOX360 to stream HD content until my XBMC HTPC was ready, as the XBOX360 cannot play .MKV's.
Anyway, the audio is not an issue, that works fine, however unlike .MKV and .AVI (DivX) files which can be controlled during playback in XBMC, all the WMV-HD files seem to restart at the beginning whenever any kind of fast forward, skip or resume is attempted. These same files forward and skip just fine if played through the basic "Videos" Media Player in the Xbox 360, so I doubt they can possibly be ALL corrupt or problematic.
Has anyone else noticed XBMC playback control problems with WMV-HD files, or does anyone know how to fix this?
P.S. To allow testing I have re-encoded an 86MB public domain mini-movie called "Elephant's Dream" from AVI to WMV-HD using VC1 codec and linked it for download HERE (link valid for 1 week from post date). Please let me know if you can replicate my problems with this or other WMV-HD