Well a couple of weeks ago the comp was moved out of my room so now I do not have internet connection to my 360 so I can stream through tversity. So now I am forced to play xvid videos off a sd card with adapter. However in my pursuit to watch top gear on my tv, two episodes will only play the first 16min on my 360. On the comp they play perfectly fine. Is there anyway to make it play the full 60 min instead of just the first 16?
If there is an error in the encode the 360 will fail to play. You'll need to do a proper encode. -hl718
I'm lazy so I usually just do my encoding in Nero Recode (though the latest revision has been screwing up sound sync massively which sucks). Otherwise there are a number of freeware tools out there. By and large encoding speed will be determined by your CPU. As long as you have a C2Duo or better you're golden. -hl718
Thats a really strange problem, it probably just has to do with the fact its reading from an SD card and not being streamed using wireless. Running out of memory or buffer room maybe.
Running off local media has nothing to do with it (aside from the rare instance where the local media is corrupt). It is most likely a poor encode. When it comes to encode quality the PS3 is going to be the pickiest about something deviating from the expected profile, the 360 will be more forgiving and the PC will be the most forgiving. -hl718
I have an XVID compatalbe DVD player so this isn't an issue. In which case I heavily reccomend an OPPO player. Plus they're easily region free modded
You can try rebuilding the AVIs using Virtualdub or AVIDemux, which will discard the bad frames (but can cause AV sync issues). I find the audio format limitations to be off-putting. Why isn't mpeg audio supported in the MP4 container? And Matroska isn't supported at all.. I wonder if there's a streaming app that can transcode a compliant AVC+AAC video file embedded in MKV without reencoding anything?
AAC *is* MPEG audio so I'm not sure why you're saying it's not supported. As for MKV, why bother when MP4 is a standard and already supported. MKV is really only used by people pirating stuff. If you're encoding your own stuff, just encode AVC video/AAC audio directly to MP4 and don't bother with MKV. -hl718
mp4 = only 1 track and aac mkv = multiple tracks, multiple subtitles not to mention dts and ac3 support among more.
I know that, but the issue is they take awhile to show the new episodes on bbc america and they cut stuff out to fit comercials. I always download the uk originals cause they are posted the night they are shown and are uncut and in hd. I already watched all of this season. I ended up re encoding that file again, but it came out to a 2.6gb file. Go figure. Used the same setting as the original file too.
I should have been more specific then, MPEG audio Layer I and II aren't supported inside MP4. I have tons of music videos where the audio is mp2/mp3 and the video is either MP4V or AVC. When the decoders for all the above are present what harm could it do to decode compatible AV formats inside a supported container? Matroska is superior to the limited MP4 but industry giants refuse to support it because it's open source.
