[gilgongo]

For anyone wanting to stress test their hardware with XBMC, I've put up a permanent bittorrent seed of the "Killa Bird Scene" test file here.

It sorts the men from the boys.

[yellowman]

Another clip to test with could be:
Ducks.Take.Off.1080p.QHD.CRF25.x264-CtrlHD

RUNTIME.........: 16s:666ms
SIZE............: 219 MB
FRAMERATE.......: 29.97 fps
BITRATE.........: 106 Mbps
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1080
SOURCE..........: RAW input from HD film camera

Should make most peoples hardware stutter...

[althekiller]

The 2160p version of that Duck scene could be interesting too. If only I could source it...(or the 1080p for that matter).

[phunqe]

BITRATE.........: 106 Mbps

Ehhh, what's the point in testing with that? Not even Blu-ray has that kind of bitrate. Speccing a computer to play that one is a serious waste of cash in my opinion.

[papaf]

Yes, that was sort of what I already said about Killa. I unserstand that, if you play that you play anything. But I think you could end up with very overkill hardware, using that approach. After all, killa is known to have been incorrectly encoded, so basically we're testing against a known incorrect file...

This one is similar. As phunge said, 106Mbps is waaay over the line. Again, playing this would give everyone plenty of confidence to be able to play anything, but is it really worth to be able to?

[Gamester17]

BITRATE.........: 106 Mbps

Ehhh, what's the point in testing with that? Not even Blu-ray has that kind of bitrate. Speccing a computer to play that one is a serious waste of cash in my opinion.

I could say the same about the 'Killa Sampla' (BBC Planet Earth Bird Scene), crazy bitrate spikes = badly encoded.

[sandos]

Why would bitrate-spikes mean badly encoded? Sounds like spikes is exactly what you want if you want to minimize the overall bitrate and quality, ie. VBR encoding. I would agree though that this scene in particular doesn't seem to need spikes though, looks like the amount of information needed should be fairly constant.

[gilgongo]

I could say the same about the 'Killa Sampla' (BBC Planet Earth Bird Scene), crazy bitrate spikes = badly encoded.

If there's a better clip to use, let me know and I'll seed that as well.

[harryzimm]

Try this Cloverfield sample. stutters on my shuttle xpc with amd x2 5600 @ 3.2ghz.
http://rapidshare.com/files/143732777/Sa...p.rar.html

[knop3se]

Cool, i could play the Killa Sampla without problems i think, didnt notice any lag by eye anyways.

My Specs below:

[althekiller]

Check the codec info (press 'i' while the video is playing). It'll show you dropped frames, a/v sync, etc.

[knop3se]

Cloverfield samlple played fine too. I'm happy! :-)

[knop3se]

Check the codec info (press 'i' while the video is playing). It'll show you dropped frames, a/v sync, etc.

Pressing "i" didnt show me any codec info, but maybe that could be because i'm using Mediastream skin? I'm on XBMC for windows btw... also i'm playing the video on my monitor set to 1680x1050 right now. But i'm planning to buy a Samsung 46 inch LCD tv on friday and then i can try at 1920x1080.

[Player4]

Is there any testsample in blu-ray image format, so that i could check if my computer is capable of playing blu-rays before buying a drive? cloverfield plays fine, killa sample stutters at the end.

[knop3se]

Well, i found out that the key to press isn't "i" but "o" and now i see that 5 frames are dropped, but it still looks smooth though.

Now i will probably buy a new Samsung LE-46A558 tomorrow but i've read that it might have a huge "juddder" problem with 24p material, so im kind of torn right now, should i go ahead and buy it and hope for the best, or not? hmm...