+- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv)
+-- Forum: Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=33)
+--- Forum: General Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=111)
+---- Forum: Linux (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=52)
+---- Thread: What video container is best for XBMC? (re: faster video seeking, and DVB-S capture) (/showthread.php?tid=134265)
What video container is best for XBMC? (re: faster video seeking, and DVB-S capture) - SofaKng - 2012-06-18
I have a lot of MPEG-TS (H.264 video with AC3 or MP3) inside of a .TS container. XBMC can play these back without any problems, but when I try to skip ahead 30-seconds (or fast forward, etc), it's a bit sluggish and the picture often gets pixelated, takes a while to catch up, etc.
I've been reading about H.264 and how reference frames work, so I'm wondering if that's my problem... (which can only be fixed by re-encoding the entire video I think)
However, does XBMC work with certain containers better than others? For example, .MKV or .MP4 (container) seems to be much faster and skip forward-backward is often instantaneous.
Does anybody have any experience with MPEG-TS (w/H.264) files?
EDIT: Also, the strange thing is that recording/playing back the same recordings on my satellite DVR is often much better... (ie. it skips 30 seconds faster, and just seems to handle the DVB streams "better")