Video Stops Playing Prematurely
#1
On rare occasions there are shows that I'm watching that just abruptly stop before their end time.
At first I thought they were bad downloads, however when playing them in VLC, they play all the way thorugh.
Not sure what is causing this to occur.

I have tested this on 2 different PC's running XMBC (same version) one of them being a VM.
The show it is occurring on this time is Ax Men 5x16

XBMC: 11.0 (Compiled March 21 2012)


http://pastebin.com/f3RCCTeK

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#2
Try them using a ffmpeg based player such as mplayer and see if they exhibit the same behavior. XBMC's player is based of ffmpeg.

Taking a quick look at the log it appears there are read errors with the file:

Code:
06:37:30 T:2976   ERROR: ffmpeg[BA0]: [matroska,webm] Read error at pos. 1032687370 (0x3d8d8f0a)
06:37:31 T:2976   ERROR: ffmpeg[BA0]: [matroska,webm] Read error at pos. 1032687371 (0x3d8d8f0b)
06:37:38 T:2564   DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_EOF
06:37:38 T:2564   DEBUG: CDVDAudio::Drain - adding 21024 bytes of silence, buffer size: 16128, chunk size: 37152
06:37:38 T:2564 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
06:37:39 T:1404   ERROR: ffmpeg[57C]: [h264] error while decoding MB 52 40, bytestream (4294967281)
06:37:39 T:1404    INFO: ffmpeg[57C]: [h264] concealing 397 DC, 397 AC, 397 MV errors
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#3
(2012-05-14, 16:50)kricker Wrote: Try them using a ffmpeg based player such as mplayer and see if they exhibit the same behavior. XBMC's player is based of ffmpeg.

Taking a quick look at the log it appears there are read errors with the file:

Code:
06:37:30 T:2976   ERROR: ffmpeg[BA0]: [matroska,webm] Read error at pos. 1032687370 (0x3d8d8f0a)
06:37:31 T:2976   ERROR: ffmpeg[BA0]: [matroska,webm] Read error at pos. 1032687371 (0x3d8d8f0b)
06:37:38 T:2564   DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_EOF
06:37:38 T:2564   DEBUG: CDVDAudio::Drain - adding 21024 bytes of silence, buffer size: 16128, chunk size: 37152
06:37:38 T:2564 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
06:37:39 T:1404   ERROR: ffmpeg[57C]: [h264] error while decoding MB 52 40, bytestream (4294967281)
06:37:39 T:1404    INFO: ffmpeg[57C]: [h264] concealing 397 DC, 397 AC, 397 MV errors

Tried playing it with smplayer and it stops at the same point.
I could re-download the episode, but is it really bad if VLC plays it all the way through?
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#4
I figured it would. I've seen this issue before. I'm not sure ffmpeg based players quit on the file while other do not. That is for the devs to figure out.
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#5
Can you tell me at what time your Ax Men file quits playing?
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#6
(2012-05-14, 19:01)kricker Wrote: Can you tell me at what time your Ax Men file quits playing?

It was at 21:50 - 21:51.
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#7
Dealing with the same issue, lots of different files, generally all HD but some SD stuff as well. Here's a debug log of one:

http://pastebin.com/B9w029jA

Interesting snippet:
Code:
22:03:10 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x496E
22:03:10 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0xEE
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x4C9A
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x17B39D19
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0xF6
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x8C
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0xC7
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x47C7
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x1AF6D911
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0xBE
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x7D31
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0xF9
22:03:11 T:4496    INFO: ffmpeg[1190]: [matroska,webm] Unknown entry 0x458B
22:03:15 T:5028   DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity - was:1212519326.598540, should be:1212529438.772165, error:10112.173625
22:03:18 T:5028   DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_EOF
22:03:18 T:5028   DEBUG: CDVDAudio::Drain - adding 1824 bytes of silence, buffer size: 35328, chunk size: 37152
22:03:18 T:5028 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
22:03:19 T:4660 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
22:03:19 T:4496    INFO: CDVDPlayer::Process - eof reading from demuxer
22:03:19 T:4496  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
22:03:19 T:4496  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: eof, waiting for queues to empty
... boring video shutdown messages follow.

The same file plays correctly on mplayer (using ffmpeg's libavcodec "0.6.1+svn20101128") so I'm not sure what's going on. vlc plays the file correctly on the same computer via the network share, so I don't think it's a network problem either.

How do I find out what ffmpeg version xbmc 11 is using on my system?
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#8
[BUMP] Did you ever figure this one out? I'm experiencing this more and more here too, on my Intel DN2820FYKH. Running Gotham Beta4.
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