2009-06-09, 20:47
ronie Wrote:Thanx for the list. I would be nice for skinners to have a 'somewhat' complete list of the most popular codecs, so i'll add these:Ah, good to know about those. Do you have good logo images for the codecs?
video: vc1
audio: wmapro
ronie Wrote:I would like to second this request. I've become quite used to the way Media Info Plus is handling things and MIP has no problem spotting the difference between DIVX, XVID DX50, and DIV3. Also MIP does support more resolutions (SD, 480, 540, 576, 720, 1080) and can detect whether it's interlaced or progressive. And finally, Media Info Plus seems to handle DVD's (VOB files) quite well.
Don't get me wrong, i would really prefer a build-in detection method in XBMC instead of using a separate application for it, but at this point i don't see why i should switch to something less accurate ?
What are the criteria for the SD, 540 and 576 resolutions? Which movies would fall in these categories? How does SD differ from 480 or 576? I can't really figure out what 540 is for.
I think the problem with DVD is that there are lots of VOBs and it is not obvious from the filenames which one has the correct streams for the actual movie. I guess that for movies the first 1GB sized stream would have the correct information but for multi-movie or multi-episode disks this can be different. I also don't know how the DVDs are represented in the library which could make it difficult to find the correct file and stream.
watzen Wrote:Amuse me... why would you need to know whether it was encoded with xvid or divx, they both produce comparable results, that are inferior to h.264?
To display a XVID or DIVX logo depending on which one was used instead of just using a generic MPEG4 logo for everything. This is about skinning and skinning options not about picture quality.