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Unable to play H264 MPEG-4 XVID

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:40 am
by harshdev
Hello Guys,

Thank you for a very good product. However, a few formats are are not being played and when I compare the media information it matches the formats listed. Can you please confirm if I am doing something wrong. Details of the file as reported by VLC player on Mac:

Stream 0:
Type - Video
Codec - MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution - 624x338
Frame rate - 25
Decoded format - Planar 4:2:0 (YUV)

Stream 1:
Type - Audio
Codec - A52 Audio Aka (AC3) (A52)
Channels - Stereo
Sample rate - 48000 Hz
Bitrate - 192 kbps

Re: Unable to play H264 MPEG-4 XVID

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:18 am
by mcd2000
harshdev wrote:Hello Guys,

Thank you for a very good product. However, a few formats are are not being played and when I compare the media information it matches the formats listed. Can you please confirm if I am doing something wrong. Details of the file as reported by VLC player on Mac:

Stream 0:
Type - Video
Codec - MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution - 624x338
Frame rate - 25
Decoded format - Planar 4:2:0 (YUV)

Stream 1:
Type - Audio
Codec - A52 Audio Aka (AC3) (A52)
Channels - Stereo
Sample rate - 48000 Hz
Bitrate - 192 kbps
It would be better if you could use Mediainfo to get codec info...

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:31 pm
by tskitishvili
After upgrade to ViMU version, the folder picture do not show up in list view mode. Oddly sometimes if I move up and down the list the folder.jpg might show up.

I also do not like the fact that >| jumps to the next file. Let's say in the future that function will work to navigate MKV chapters, unless I know for sure that my MKV contains chapters, the button behavior will be unpredictable.

In majority of set top boxes (Dish Network, DirecTV and even media players) >| means skips forward N seconds and > means fast forward. Skipping the file is not the function which people use often with video files. However it is very useful for music or photo files.

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:37 am
by mcd2000
tskitishvili wrote: I also do not like the fact that >| jumps to the next file. Let's say in the future that function will work to navigate MKV chapters, unless I know for sure that my MKV contains chapters, the button behavior will be unpredictable.
By the way, most GTVs (Revue, GS7, Co-Star, LG) do not have an easy access to >>| & |<< keys on their remotes. It is usually required to hold some FN key.
So, maybe it would be better to use some other keys for chapters.

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:46 am
by proximous
mcd2000 wrote:By the way, most GTVs (Revue, GS7, Co-Star, LG) do not have an easy access to >>| & |<< keys on their remotes. It is usually required to hold some FN key.
So, maybe it would be better to use some other keys for chapters.
I don't object to multiple keys changing chapters, but it would sure be nice if the >>| & |<< keys would do 'chapters' instead of 'files' for NSZ-GT1 remotes. :D

(And I'm still a fan of >>| advancing a chapter if chapters are present, and 5 min when no chapter marks are present.)

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:52 pm
by surge
My Logitech Revue will not play this but Media Center will so it's not a corrupted file.
Is the issue the Audio track? and if so, what would be the recommended format to convert to.

General
Complete name : Once_Upon_a_Mattress_onceUponaMattress_faye_xvid/onceUponaMattress-faye-xvid.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 697 MiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate : 1 080 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 1
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate : 945 Kbps
Width : 512 pixels
Height : 288 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
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.267
Stream size : 610 MiB (88%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1

Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 82.6 MiB (12%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 83 ms (2.00 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 504 ms
Writing library : LAME3.97
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 -b 128
Language : English

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:23 am
by mcd2000
surge wrote:My Logitech Revue will not play this but Media Center will so it's not a corrupted file.
Is the issue the Audio track? and if so, what would be the recommended format to convert to.
Audio is just MP3. Should be some other issue with the file.

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:20 pm
by surge
mcd2000 wrote:
surge wrote:My Logitech Revue will not play this but Media Center will so it's not a corrupted file.
Is the issue the Audio track? and if so, what would be the recommended format to convert to.
Audio is just MP3. Should be some other issue with the file.
Any logging I can turn on?
I've tried rebooting the Revue to ensure it wasn't some glitch but still get the "Media playback error"

Re: Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:31 pm
by mcd2000
surge wrote: Any logging I can turn on?
I've tried rebooting the Revue to ensure it wasn't some glitch but still get the "Media playback error"
You would better send me the file (over Dropbox, etc).

Re: Unable to play H264 MPEG-4 XVID

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:07 pm
by harshdev
mcd2000 wrote:
harshdev wrote:Hello Guys,

Thank you for a very good product. However, a few formats are are not being played and when I compare the media information it matches the formats listed. Can you please confirm if I am doing something wrong. Details of the file as reported by VLC player on Mac:

Stream 0:
Type - Video
Codec - MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution - 624x338
Frame rate - 25
Decoded format - Planar 4:2:0 (YUV)

Stream 1:
Type - Audio
Codec - A52 Audio Aka (AC3) (A52)
Channels - Stereo
Sample rate - 48000 Hz
Bitrate - 192 kbps
It would be better if you could use Mediainfo to get codec info...
Here is the complete media info

ormat : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 702 MiB
Duration : 1h 49mn
Overall bit rate : 893 Kbps
Movie name : DR. NO [1962][ENG][AC3][DVDRIP-M333]FLAWL3SS
Director : FuXuP
Writing application : FLAWL3SS
Original source form/Name : D N

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 49mn
Bit rate : 690 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 338 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.131
Stream size : 542 MiB (77%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 49mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 151 MiB (21%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 32 ms (0.80 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 32 ms
Language : un