XBMC won't play my 1080I contents

XBMC won't play my 1080I 25fps contents. when i select a video i can hear the sound but no video and it doesnt even switch to video screen. I know my projector doesnt do 25fps, so i even turn off the switch display to match video frame rate, still nothing. help please


here is the log.

file was trying to play F:\Human Planet The Complete Series\Episode 1 - Oceans - Into the Blue.m2ts

http://pastebin.com/v9tEfHMC

20:11:51 T:3748 M:2838716416 ERROR: ffmpeg[EA4]: [vc1] Interlaced frames/fields support is not implemented
20:11:51 T:3748 M:2838716416 ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
20:11:51 T:3748 M:2838716416 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerVideo - video decoder returned error
20:11:51 T:3748 M:2838716416 ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
20:11:51 T:3748 M:2838716416 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerVideo - video decoder returned error

From what I read it is VC-1. format and from what I have researched, ffmpeg lacks support for this format (or is buggy for VC-1).

Have a look here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=105110&page=2

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82462

great info and good reading mate. thank you. I guess there's no solution for this, hopefully the new nightly build address this issues. In the mean time i will just use MPC with madvr with LAV. But I like having all my movies and video in XBMC,

I'm just experiencing the same issue on one of my files, is there any solution/workaround to this in Eden? I tried disabling DXVA2, but that didn't change anything.

FYI...you dont want to use 1080i anyway...the "i" which stands for interlaced video means that half of the pixels are virtual...so really your 1080i video is a 720 pixel video that blurs during fast movement because your computer/tv has to process the other virtual half of the 1080 pixels...long story short...720p is a better quality video than 1080i...1080p, is the best...and 1080i is only slightly better than 480...so if this were the olympics, 1080i gets a bronze medal, 720p gets the silver, and 1080p gets the gold.

I know that interlaced is crap, but still there are movies out there that get released in that manner on BD, can't change that. As far as I know this is a valid combination (also one would clearly choose progressiv format, if there was a choice) and I think it should be in the interest of every media player software to be able to play that content. Zoom Player and Windows Media Player have no problems playing that resolution-/codec-combination.

Amount of crap depends on the method deinterlacing. AMD has VA algorithm, that does crap less. XBMC's on-board decoder can't play interlaced video rightly, it's a fact. Everything else is excuses.