2014-05-13, 16:22
I just got a FTV to mess around with as a possible replacement to aging Boxee Boxes. I thought I was pretty familiar with the limitations of the box (no VC1 hardware decoding) but am running into some weird problems with H.264 playback with default settings under Gotham 13.0 final.
When I play my rip (straight rip, no re-encoding) of the BD Gravity, I get green macro-blocking across the screen throughout playback. This rip (and the original disc) playback fine on my other devices running XBMC.
Does anyone have any ideas? Should I update to a newer nightly or is there a setting I need to change? I've noticed that some H.264 play fine, and others have various issues... I was playing my rip of Frozen and it seemed to play fine for about an hour and then it also started getting severe macro blocking on screen... yet I played back Thor - The Dark World and from what I could tell the entire thing played fine and it is a very high bitrate movie.
Here's the media info for the MKV file;
When I play my rip (straight rip, no re-encoding) of the BD Gravity, I get green macro-blocking across the screen throughout playback. This rip (and the original disc) playback fine on my other devices running XBMC.
Does anyone have any ideas? Should I update to a newer nightly or is there a setting I need to change? I've noticed that some H.264 play fine, and others have various issues... I was playing my rip of Frozen and it seemed to play fine for about an hour and then it also started getting severe macro blocking on screen... yet I played back Thor - The Dark World and from what I could tell the entire thing played fine and it is a very high bitrate movie.
Here's the media info for the MKV file;
Code:
General
Unique ID : 237708378534141768474073837793409301333 (0xB2D4F7EAB47A5CE1BA5DA09CE350FB55)
Complete name : /Volumes/Movies/Gravity (2013)/Gravity (2013).mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 15.4 GiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate : 24.2 Mbps
Movie name : Gravity
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-02 04:06:49
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.8.9 darwin(x86-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.8.9 (1.3.0/1.4.1) darwin(x86-release)
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=20
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 22.2 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.446
Stream size : 14.1 GiB (92%)
Language : English
Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 561 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Title : Surround 5.1
Language : English
Text
ID : 3
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : English
Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:13:08.788 : en:Chapter 02
00:21:33.458 : en:Chapter 03
00:29:12.625 : en:Chapter 04
00:39:59.814 : en:Chapter 05
00:48:49.009 : en:Chapter 06
00:57:00.291 : en:Chapter 07
01:08:08.250 : en:Chapter 08
01:15:27.105 : en:Chapter 09
01:23:50.525 : en:Chapter 10