2014-04-19, 07:44
(2014-04-19, 02:07)tennisbgc Wrote:(2014-04-19, 01:17)Scott R Wrote: Sorry if I'm repeating well known observations, but I finally got around to sideloading XBMC today (nightly Gotham build). Full bitrate Blu-ray MKV (h.264) content seems to play smoothly. Surprisingly, HDTV MPEG-2 content (1080i and 720p Windows Media Center .WTV files) also seem to play smoothly. Not surprisingly, VC-1 Blu-ray encodes are unwatchably choppy. My testing thus far has been with a bedroom 1080p TV, so I'm just testing stereo audio at this point. Next up will be my living room 5.1 setup. I do not rip high def audio tracks, so I don't care about that. Regular Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 is all I need.Your saying all your h264 full blurays play fine, no weird artifacts. My ouya does this with 80% of my full bluray h264 movies. What movies have you tested?
So the big drawbacks for me are:
1) Lack of VC-1 support (anyone know if this format is being used more or less than it was before for new Blu-ray encodes?)
+1 one on these observations. Any hope to eventually have software decoding for VC-1? Also, I have issues with high bitrate (>20mbs) m2ts files not playing both when contained within an iso bluray rip as well when created by a panasonic camcorder. XBMC time outs with "busy" message on screen.