[SOLVED] MP4 x264 choppy playback

Hi Guys,

I've been happily using xbmc for a while now; it has played everything I have thrown at it so far. However, I have recently started using Any Video Convertor to convert some of my videos from MKV to MP4 using the x264 codec. I am finding that all the videos that I have converted are not playing back properly in XBMC audio and video are horribly choppy. These same videos play perfectly in VLC/iPad though, which suggests there's nothing wrong with the machine or the file.

I have been playing with some of the settings, changing the full screen, rendering and hardware acceleration options but nothing helps. Is there anything I can do other than wait for an update to xbmc?

Thanks in advance,
Rich

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http://pastebin.com/BvueGtZa

Need debug log and/or MediaInfo ran on one of the problematic files.

Also, some of your MKVs might already be using the x264 codec, and you might be able to save some time re-encoding by remuxing the file to MP4 rather than re-encoding.

I believe your are wasting time re-encoding, just as Ned Scott suggested. MKV is merely a container and so is MP4. What you should be doing mostly is de-muxing the file from MKV and re-muxing into a MP4. This should be a quick and lossless process. If your mkvs have been made within the last few years, they are indeed most likely to be h264 or x264. No reason to re-encode to the same codec.

Thanks for the tip guys. It took me about 2 hours to convert a single video last night!

Here are the info you requested:



http://pastebin.com/BvueGtZa

Has anyone got any suggestions?

As far as my own knowledge on this stuff goes, it should work with that file. Maybe a dev can shed more light on this, or it could be a Windows issue that I am unfamiliar with.

Thanks Ned.

Can any devs shed some light into this for me please?

For anyone else that is stuck with this problem, the answer is to ditch Any Video Converter and get Handbreak. I don't know what AVC was doing to the mp4's but I converted the same file using the 2 converters and the AVC version was choppy, the Handbreak version was smooth as silk.

Thanks for the input guys. Much appreciated.

Good to know. Thank you for reporting back wih your solution.

This is more of a workaround then a solution. For some reason XBMC can not play these files and it should. Other players can and its a bug in XBMC that it does not play them properly. I can play the file perfectly smoothly with other players even on the same machine (ie iPad)