Mkv's on xbox 360 extender

Submitted by blahism on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 18:06

Streaming MKV with Windows 7

first of all, a sincere THANK YOU is in order :) I've been begging for this support and MS has delivered some basic (all though low quality) support of MKVs with haali but with divx mkv support my mkvs look great. However i've run across a few bugs.

Windows 7 7100

* about 30 minutes into a 720p movie sometimes i get "You have been disconnected from Windows Media center" msg and then i immediately reconnect. Unfortunately there is no resume so i have to do 30 second skip since ffwd isn't working

* if you skip a lot of sections sometimes the audio drops out completely.

A couple of my mkv's throw an MCE error asking to restart or reboot (as if they're not recognized) - i tried running graphedit on them to get the correct video/audio types however graphedit crashes with the divx container support - already posted that in another thread.

Thanks again!

Same problem here, i stream

Submitted by johoja on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 17:14.

Same problem here, i stream m2ts files in 720p with the same streams in them just fine. So it's got to be something with the Divx Source filter for MKV's.

Any timeline on when it'll be fixed, seems to be a pretty big showstopper bug.

same...

Submitted by romaink on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 23:52.

I'm having the same problem here.

I can duplicate the

Submitted by Rgreenpc on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 06:26.

I can duplicate the disconnect issue on a wired gigabit network.

Im seeing the same thing

Submitted by jagowar on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 09:28.

I do want to say this ides is awesome and look forward to this getting more reliable. I do have a few issues I would like to see fixed.

The 30 min or so bug is popping up on my system as well.

For some reason files in my collection that have 640 ac3 audio will not play (gives a codec issue). Will this be included in future releases or do I need to find a way to convert my 640 audio to 448? (and it might even be the way the audio is identified as why it will not play)

I have a test high bitrate 1080p file and it still glitches some (but is much better than any other option I have tried). Will this aspect get improved as well with new releases?

turns out the movies that

Submitted by blahism on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 20:09.

turns out the movies that don't work are DTS audio. I still have a problem with movies causing MCE to disconnect after about half an hour.

I wonder if MS will open up DTS support in MCE on the 360

MediaInfo can give you

Submitted by DigitAl56K on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 20:19.

MediaInfo can give you information about the file contents if you're looking for a simple solution. I'm not certain that your disconnects are related to our source filter. Does this happen with any other type of 720p media? Does your network normally handle high-bandwidth content well?

I watch lots of tv in ATSC

Submitted by blahism on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 10:00.

I watch lots of tv in ATSC OTA HD and never seen this issue. Xvids all play fine without crashing MCE at all.

Even if there was network congestion i would usually get the "buffering" alert.

Just seems like MCE crashes handling the media type and i can immediately reconnect.

This is going over 100mbit full duplex through 1 switch from the pc to the xbox 360.

I'm not sure what could cause this. Fresh install of 7100. Anyone else able to watch a full movie at 720p h264/ac3 audio?

About 20 Min a disconnect occurs.

Submitted by robeest on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 15:33.

I too experienced this behavior. I am using Windows 7 Build 7000. The two files I have tested have the following media info:

General
Format : Matroska
File size : 4.37 GiB
Duration : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate : 6 875 Kbps
Writing application : x264.exe
Writing library : mkv2rls v1.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile :
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate : 6 098 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 6 233 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 696 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.285
Stream size : 3.87 GiB (89%)
Writing library : x264 core 67 r1145 d2e1e1c
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=6233 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 417 MiB (9%)
Title : English AC3 640kbps
Language : English

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : English
Language : English

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here is the second file:
General
Format : Matroska
File size : 4.37 GiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate : 6 949 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2009-04-12 14:05:44
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile :
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate : 6 170 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 6 306 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 688 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.860
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.292
Stream size : 3.88 GiB (89%)
Writing library : x264 core 67 r1134M b8808bf
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=6306 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=50000 / vbv_bufsize=50000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 413 MiB (9%)
Language : English

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Hope this helps.

Looks like ehshell is

Submitted by blahism on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 06:25.

Looks like ehshell is crashing on the divx dll. I finally had time to loook through my alert log and these crashes appear to be when my xbox kicks me out of the app:

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Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 5/1/2009 8:31:17 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: media-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: ehshell.exe, version: 6.1.7100.0, time stamp: 0x49ee983b
Faulting module name: DivXMFSource.dll_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x49fa4502
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0959078a
Faulting process id: 0xbe4
Faulting application start time: 0x01c9cabb25ee7882
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe
Faulting module path: DivXMFSource.dll
Report Id: 8c27eb23-36b0-11de-a01c-00112f8625a3

@blahism: Thanks!

Submitted by DigitAl56K on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 10:00.

Thanks blahism! That's really helpful. We'll make sure our devs get that info :)