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+---- Thread: WMAPRO r22146 SVN Broken? (/showthread.php?tid=56339)
- rodalpho - 2009-09-14
WMV video has been broken forever, not necessarily WMAPRO audio.
- spiff - 2009-09-14
* is broken in its nature.
- johan77 - 2009-09-14
I had various trouble with WMA (and WMAPRO) which initially made me scrap XBMC and go back to Win MCE because I didn't want to re-encode my 150 CDs.
In XBMC 9.04.1 WMA worked decently though. And now I've bit the bullet and recoded all CDs into FLAC, which removes all problems related to playback, and also improves quality over my original WMA encoding.
A problem with WMA is that there are a number of different versions, and it may be difficult for users to know what version of the codecs they've used. So because of this, WMA support in XBMC may appear to some as irratic.
- rodalpho - 2009-09-14
spiff Wrote:* is broken in its nature.So your stance is that users should reencode all of their WMV media to play it in XBMC? Is that the official stance?
if so, why hasn't my bug been closed with a "won't fix"? And why do websites and docs still say the app supports WMV? Why does the app even try to render those files instead of just popping up a "not supported" box?
Speaking a bit less facetiously, putting MS and proprietary codec/container distaste aside, WMV is out there, FFMPEG supports it, and XBMC's support is broken. And has been for well over a year.
- spiff - 2009-09-14
it works to the extent it works in ffmpeg. if not, provide a sample to prove otherwise and help us debug.
yes, my stance is that everybody should DELETE their wmv files. or encode to a sane format in the first place. that's what i do. i speak for me. if the team has an official stance it would be in the wiki or @ xbmc.org
- rodalpho - 2009-09-14
I provided a sample when I opened bug 5089 a year ago. It's still broken as of today, confirmed by many other users.
I appreciate your stance and in fact I have reencoded WMV files that I plan to keep long-term. But most movies I watch once then delete, and it takes hours to reencode. So I just watch them on my desktop instead, where they play perfectly fine in mplayer.
- spiff - 2009-09-14
looking at the trac ticket, the culprit looks to be we're being fed bogus timestamps from ffmpeg. once i have the time (who knows when that will be - certainly not today) i'll look at it a bit closer.
- rodalpho - 2009-09-14
Don't tease me, man!
Seriously though, thanks for taking a look.
- johoja - 2009-09-14
spiff Wrote:looking at the trac ticket, the culprit looks to be we're being fed bogus timestamps from ffmpeg. once i have the time (who knows when that will be - certainly not today) i'll look at it a bit closer.
The problem with WMAPRO audio happened when the last merge with ffmpeg took place. Before that it was working fine.
- p1nky - 2009-09-14
thanks from me too for looking into this WMV playback issue
- saratoga - 2009-09-15
WMA Pro support was merged into the main ffmpeg SVN, so it'll probably be fixed whenever XBMC updates its ffmpeg version. At least assuming the files are decodable with ffmpeg SVN in the first place and not some odd WMA flavor that it doesn't support.
- erhnam - 2009-09-30
I have a lot of these files. Does any of you know if it's back in the latest SVN versions?
- TREX6662k5 - 2009-10-05
No change in the latest SVN's.
- erhnam - 2009-10-06
TREX6662k5 Wrote:No change in the latest SVN's.
There isn't even a bug report about this!
Same issue is described over here:
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=56521
Also with the latest SVN version I have these errors:
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] ed sample bit depth = 16
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] ed decode flags = e0
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] samples per frame = 2048
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] log2 frame size = 18
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] max num subframes = 16
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] len prefix = 1
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] num channels = 6
ERROR: ffmpeg[A6BAEB90]: [wmapro] lossless = 0
According to the ffmpeg website it is fixed in the lastest release:
Windows Media Audio Pro support is finally available in FFmpeg. It decodes all known samples flawlessly and is considerably faster than the binary decoder from Microsoft. A big thank you goes out to all the reverse engineers and programmers who made this possible. It really was a herculean effort.
Anyone would to create a bug report for this one?
- rodalpho - 2009-10-06
WMV files are also still broken.