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ok the 720p settings will not work without dropping frames in places even when using a max bitrate as low as vbv 3500000 with MP3 220 - 260. I just encoded planet earth, pole to pole 1280 X 720p used DVD player. For the most of it was watchable but I'm still getting dropped frames and some slow downs when water scenes are involved and a part where a massive flock of birds is shown(goes really bad). I'm now going to try the 960 X 540 settings as I had very good results with this using a sample clip. Will report results ASAP
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First I would like to say I really appreciate your work. I have been following the various threads on this stuff for awhile now and have been using xvid4psp with somewhat good results. I wanted to try your method so that I could increase my bitrate. I followed your tutorial and my 4.4gb mkv became a 4.3gb mkv. I kept the dts sound and have it passed through to my receiver. When played on the xbox using dvd player it drops about a frame every two seconds. that is better than i would have got before with the same bitrate but still not perfect. Please help with what i need to do to get it to play smoothly.
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2009-09-16, 06:47
(This post was last modified: 2009-09-18, 20:06 by thebaum.)
there is something else i have found that might be causing my dropped frames. I have the xbox connected to the tv with monster hd cables and an optical cable from the monster cables to the receiver. when i play a movie with dts or ac3 sound it plays through the receiver (which picks it up correctly) AND through the tv. So is the xbox sending the signal through AND decoding it? In XBMC I have digital output selected with both ac3 and dts selected and output to all speakers NOT selected. this makes me think that my dropped frames are due to the xbox still decoding the audio signal. Any help on this would be much appreciated.
The interesting thing is that when i research this problem, everyone wants to be able to do this but they are told its not possible! well its possible for me!
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2009-09-17, 02:03
(This post was last modified: 2009-09-18, 20:10 by thebaum.)
okay i have to to adjust some of the settings. I lowered the max bitrate of a 1280x720 encode to 4600 instead of the 5700 but i still get a lot of dropped frames, not as many as before but still way too many. Everything in this guide works great for movies less than 720 but i just cant seem to get these ones to work. I feel like I am so close to getting this to work right. Please help!
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Can anyone out there help me? Please Im soooooo close!!!!!
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ok, so if im reading this right, we can finally play 720p movies by encoding with this process?!?!
at above poster, try playing with "dvdplayer" rather than the default mplayer. this is what i do for x264 anime movies and they play just fine without re-encoding atm.
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thanks for the reply, but i have tried using the dvdplayer to no avail!
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oh, sorry then. xD
can someone post the settings for the profile because for some reason, when i go to load the settings, nothing really loads up for me. =/