2011-03-09, 02:29
I originally posted this in the below thread not sure if it was still being checked, but have not seen a response on it just yet (posted 2/16/11).
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=70537
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I went away for awhile and am playing catch-up on any CrystalHD news or updates. I still have issues with the latest XBMC version (10.0 Dharma) and CrystalHD drivers built from source (r174) with VC1 codecs inside MKV containers.
Re-stating the issue (I have seen this issue mentioned a few times in other threads as well):
All of my rips are full quality rips in MKV containers. No encoding of the original codec has been done. The files that contain VC1 videos either stutter with audio playing just fine or no video with audio playing just fine. Again, this is only with VC1 files within an MKV container. The videos will play without CrystalHD enabled, but with high CPU utilization.
Also, using TSMuxer to mux the file into an m2ts container (maintaining everything else the same), the videos play flawlessly with CrystalHD enabled. Although this works, I have a lot of these files (mainly HD-DVD rips), and also lose subtitles in the process.
My setup:
Mac Mini 2.0 Core 2 Duo - 10.6.6
70012 based CrystalHD card
CrystalHD r174
XBMC 10.0 Dharma
Here are my paste bins. I did a log for both containers. The MKV which produced no video, only audio; and the m2ts which played both video and audio just fine. An item that sticks out to me for the Media Info pieces is that the MKV is reported with a 29.970 frame rate whereas the m2ts is reported with a 23.976 frame rate. Even with that said, the XBMC Logs for both show 29.970 for both files.
I also took it one step further and re-muxed the MKV with MKVtoolnix in an attempt to rule out MakeMKV, and the resulting MKV does the exact same as the original MakeMKV produced file.
Thanks for any help!
VC-1 in MKV:
MediaInfo - http://pastebin.com/ghTPQaTT
XBMC Log - http://pastebin.com/xYZqCKDi
VC-1 in m2ts:
MediaInfo - http://pastebin.com/7t9bxZS1
XBMC Log - http://pastebin.com/ZkabnicU
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=70537
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I went away for awhile and am playing catch-up on any CrystalHD news or updates. I still have issues with the latest XBMC version (10.0 Dharma) and CrystalHD drivers built from source (r174) with VC1 codecs inside MKV containers.
Re-stating the issue (I have seen this issue mentioned a few times in other threads as well):
All of my rips are full quality rips in MKV containers. No encoding of the original codec has been done. The files that contain VC1 videos either stutter with audio playing just fine or no video with audio playing just fine. Again, this is only with VC1 files within an MKV container. The videos will play without CrystalHD enabled, but with high CPU utilization.
Also, using TSMuxer to mux the file into an m2ts container (maintaining everything else the same), the videos play flawlessly with CrystalHD enabled. Although this works, I have a lot of these files (mainly HD-DVD rips), and also lose subtitles in the process.
My setup:
Mac Mini 2.0 Core 2 Duo - 10.6.6
70012 based CrystalHD card
CrystalHD r174
XBMC 10.0 Dharma
Here are my paste bins. I did a log for both containers. The MKV which produced no video, only audio; and the m2ts which played both video and audio just fine. An item that sticks out to me for the Media Info pieces is that the MKV is reported with a 29.970 frame rate whereas the m2ts is reported with a 23.976 frame rate. Even with that said, the XBMC Logs for both show 29.970 for both files.
I also took it one step further and re-muxed the MKV with MKVtoolnix in an attempt to rule out MakeMKV, and the resulting MKV does the exact same as the original MakeMKV produced file.
Thanks for any help!
VC-1 in MKV:
MediaInfo - http://pastebin.com/ghTPQaTT
XBMC Log - http://pastebin.com/xYZqCKDi
VC-1 in m2ts:
MediaInfo - http://pastebin.com/7t9bxZS1
XBMC Log - http://pastebin.com/ZkabnicU
