[bullantt]

I have a heap of HD MKV files that where ripped as WMV and then later when i changed from Windows Media Player to XBMC i converted them to MKV this was years ago and they have been working in xbmc fine until i updated to XBMC 12 i have tried changing the audio setting i have XBMC on Linux windows and MAC OSX and have this problem accross all

i can play the files in WIndows media player and VLC player and older version of XBMC and they work fine but when played in XBMC 12 there is really bad stuttering

in XBMC 12 i can play other MKV files fine

i have the lastest version XBMC with audio set to analog i have tried everything i know and cannot find a fix

[nickr]

debug log (wiki)
mediainfo on the files.
some reporting of your hardware and playback settings.

Or perhaps we are supposed to guess all that?

[bullantt]

as i sad i have this problem on 6 computer with different OS but specs of computers are below

I have the default playback settings for XBMC i tried changing them did nothing to help set it back to default

windows 7 64bit
i7 4.2GHZ
6GB corsair dominator DDR3
asrock extreme 6 motherboard
dual GTX 460 SLI

13" 2009 macbook
intel core 2 duo
4gb ram

ubuntu linux
intel core 2 duo 2.4ghz
4gb ram
nvidia graphics card


media Info

Format : Matroska
Format_Version : Version 1
FileSize/String : 4.14 GiB
Duration/String : 1h 36mn
OverallBitRate/String : 6 150 Kbps
Encoded_Date : UTC 2009-11-05 10:15:56
Encoded_Application : WMVConverter
Encoded_Library/String : Haali DirectShow Matroska Muxer 1.9.42.1

Video
ID/String : 2
Format : VC-1
Format_Profile : Advanced@L3
CodecID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1
CodecID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration/String : 1h 36mn
BitRate/String : 5 388 Kbps
Width/String : 1 280 pixels
Height/String : 720 pixels
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9
FrameRate_Mode/String : Constant
FrameRate/String : 23.976 fps
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 8 bits
ScanType/String : Progressive
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.244
StreamSize/String : 3.63 GiB (88%)
Language/String : English
Default/String : No
Forced/String : No

Audio
ID/String : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format_Settings_ModeExtension : CM (complete main)
Format_Settings_Endianness : Big
CodecID : A_AC3
Duration/String : 1h 36mn
BitRate_Mode/String : Constant
BitRate/String : 640 Kbps
Channel(s)/String : 6 channels
ChannelPositions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
SamplingRate/String : 48.0 KHz
BitDepth/String : 16 bits
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
StreamSize/String : 441 MiB (10%)
Language/String : English
Default/String : No
Forced/String : No

[un1versal]

A screenshot of your XBMC audio settings please and what device is this machine connected to (AVR or TV?) and how.

uNi

[bullantt]

screenshot
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx6yHbq2...sp=sharing

it is connected to a computer Monitor with DVI Cable laptops use the laptop display and linux box is connected to TVs via HDMI

[jjd-uk]

Try with Speaker Configuration set to 2.0 then if no change we'll need the debug log previously requested.

[bullantt]

ok here is the log file

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=12893

[jjd-uk]

Looking at the log there looks to be a problem with the video stream.

Can you post what you have in:

System -> System -> Video output

System -> Video -> Playback

[bullantt]

screen shots of the video settings in XBMC

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx6yHbq2...sp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx6yHbq2...sp=sharing

[bullantt]

i have been seaching the web trying everything i can i cannot find a fix for this problem if anyone has anything i could try to get these files to work i would be very grateful

[nickr]

I suspect this "CodecID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1 " is the problem, i personally haven't seen this before. Maybe the codec is just too obscure.

[jjd-uk]

I suspect this "CodecID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1 " is the problem, i personally haven't seen this before. Maybe the codec is just too obscure.

That's VC1 as used on Blu-Rays

[jjd-uk]

screen shots of the video settings in XBMC

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx6yHbq2...sp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx6yHbq2...sp=sharing

1st try enabling "Adjust display refresh rate to match video"

2nd try disabling "Allow hardware acceleration (DXVA2)"

[bullantt]

I have have just tried changing both of these settings one at a time and together and there is no change this files are still unwatchable

Thanks

[jjd-uk]

Not sure then, something is causing a mass of errors when attempting playback as the log contains loads of messages starting:

CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity1

Normally I would suspect a bad rip but you say these files worked previously on a older version of XBMC (which version btw?)

It could be that the version of ffmpeg in Frodo just does not like those files, so only further thing I can suggest at the current time is to try one of the nightly builds from http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/win32/ as the ffmpeg version in use was recently bumped to the latest available stable release.

As the nightlies are unstable development builds I'd suggest trying it with the target is "xbmc.exe -p" for the shortcut where the -p is for running in portable mode.