2009-05-13, 00:44
sunnytofino Wrote:(im a newbie on here... so pls forgive if this has been stated before)
how come the h.264 stuff from apple trailers streams fast and plays fine without any dropped frames....doesn't this prove that the xbox CAN handle h264 HQ streams... (and to my eyes, these apple streams DO look very very good)
is this 'apple' h.264 codec somehow different to even the lowliest (800k) BBC stream?
(thanks DINK and others who have worked so hard on this -- maximum respect)
The trick is that the BBC IPlayer streams use a different transport protocol to tranfer the H.264 data from server to client. The documentation for which hasn't yet been released.
A patch exists for the Linux and Windows XBMC code branch which fixes a significant syncing problem but it hasn't yet been ported to the XBox branch. Expect this to happen sometime soon and when it does for the H.264 800 streams to play on an Xbox and to look good. Also expect that when a build with this patch is released for it to get a big mention on this thread.
Cheers
Dink