Unable to play some videos

[ri0t1985]

Hi all,

Ive been using shark007 with my xbox360 windows media center player, and although some video's (in fact most) video's play fine, some video's simply give a black screen, and no sound after its done buffering.

If i remove all codecs from my windows 7 computer, the video's DO play, but at reduced resolution compared to my PC.

I wonder if there was anyone that could help me fix this problem as the show im currently watching the most (House MD) is the one with the most files that have problems.

I've configured my Shark007 (64bit) with the help of this guide:
http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.p...ack-magic/


Also, heres an example of a file that works just fine:

Code:

General
Unique ID                                : 220279752657993677892982447402854515614 (0xA5B85651569CA2F8916B4CC51036039E)
Complete name                            : D:\TV\The Big Bang Theory\Season 3\The Big Bang Theory - 3x04 - The Pirate Solution.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 1.09 GiB
Duration                                 : 21mn 18s
Overall bit rate                         : 7 343 Kbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2010-09-22 09:14:10
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v4.1.1 ('Bouncin' Back') built on Jul  3 2010 22:54:08
Writing library                          : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 9 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 21mn 18s
Bit rate                                 : 6 699 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.303
Stream size                              : 999 MiB (89%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 80 r1376M 3feaec2
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.3 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-4 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=6699 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.80 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=40000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / ip_ratio=1.20 / aq=1:0.50
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
Duration                                 : 21mn 18s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 640 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 97.5 MiB (9%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

And one that gives me trouble:

Code:

General
Unique ID                                : 179670780592953986973542721992914596774 (0x872B5569ECD850DC9C98A74173CB73A6)
Complete name                            : D:\TV\House\Season 7\House - 7x12 - You Must Remember This.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 2.18 GiB
Duration                                 : 43mn 58s
Overall bit rate                         : 7 110 Kbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2011-08-20 16:14:25
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v4.8.0 ('I Got The...') built on May 24 2011 03:12:58
Writing library                          : libebml v1.2.0 + libmatroska v1.1.0

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 5 frames
Muxing mode                              : Header stripping
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 43mn 58s
Bit rate                                 : 5 605 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.254
Stream size                              : 1.68 GiB (77%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 116 r2057 0ba8a9c
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=5605 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Muxing mode                              : Header stripping
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 43mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 475 MiB (21%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

I suspect it MAY have something to do with the header_stripping or the difference Reframes, but i don't know enough about codecs to know for sure.

Again, any help is appreciated

[Shark007]

The xbox cannot play files containing DTS audio.

Quote:Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS

[ri0t1985]

Is there a way to convert DTS to something else?

[Shark007]

(02-01-2012 12:33 PM)ri0t1985 Wrote:  Is there a way to convert DTS to something else?

my software is a playback solution.
Sorry, but I do not have the knowledge you seek.

[ri0t1985]

I've converted a file using Popcorn MKV audio converter to use dolby instead of DTS. This seems to work, so i'm now trying it on all the files

[ri0t1985]

Converting all my video's to not use DTS but use Dolby surround has fixed the problem. However, its still weird that the video's would play (albeit in crappy quality) when i had no codex installed