1080P VC1/H264 Remux playback??

[jemerald]

Hi,

Is MediaPortal's internal player able to playback 1080P VC1/H264 encoded video packed in .ts files?

Currently I have installed FinalCodec 1.7.0908, and MediaPortal v0.2.3.0. I am able to playback the Video files using the players (mplayerc, kmp, bsplayer) that came with FinalCodec. But when playing with MediaPortal's internal player, the H264 encoded files are played in a very strange aspect ratio (only a small part of the actual video is shown), and the performance is horrible. And VC1 files cannot be played at all (just blank screen).

Is there some settings I have missed, or is MP not currently supporting the REMUX formats?

[Spragleknas]

Which codec did you choose for playing HD video in setup?

[jemerald]

I have tried the following ones without any success:

ffdshow, Ulead, CyberLink, Elecard, LEAD, Sonic.

Which one shall I use? Has anyone had success on playing these top quality REMUX videos?

I love the MP's interface and absolutely hated when I need to use external player.

Any comment welcome.

[Spragleknas]

First: System specs
Second: Logs

Then: Try uninstalling that codec pack... What is "Finalcodec"? I see it is 400+MB!!!! That could probably cause "codec hell". All (well 99 %) you need is FFDshow, IMO.

[jemerald]

Final Codec is a 54MB codec+player package. It includes ffdshow and lots of others. It's one of few codec package that can playback the latest VC1/H264 REMUX video files.

Just for testing sake, I have uninstalled final codec and installed the latest ffdshow (20071014), and choose ffdshow in the MP movie player setting page.

I firstly tested video playback with windows media player, it cannot find the right codec. Then things gets real bad.

When I try to use MP to open VC1 videos, it cannot open it at all (blank screen doesn't show) and MP just freezed. And when I try to open a H264 video, it firstly shows a blank screen and then MP crashed.

If you would like to try and play some REMUX videos (they are the latest and the best HD videos that has identical video quality as the Blu-ray/HD-DVD that they are ripped from), check out the following page for a list of torrents that you can download from the page below:

*link removed by infinityloop*
NO WAREZ HERE !

[jemerald]

sorry for the link...

[jemerald]

Has anyone had ANY success on playback the REMUX HiDef videos?

[bilis4]

Just curious? If you set as external player Powerdvd do you have any success?

Yannis

[JackTramiel]

I played a .ts file with 1080p H264 content fine. Renamed it to mkv and use CoreAVC 1.5.0.1 Pro as codec.

[jemerald]

Originally Posted by bilis4

Just curious? If you set as external player Powerdvd do you have any success?

Yannis

Thanks for your comment and I just did a test.

PowerDVD itself can only playback the H264 encoded REMUX videos. for VC1 encoded ones I just get blank screen and PowerDVD's response gets very slow.

Setting it as the external player gives me the same result as using it outside MP.

But the main point of my question is that I want to use the internal player instead of switching between programs. Otherwise I could just use Mediaplayer classic or KMP.

Originally Posted by JackTramiel

I played a .ts file with 1080p H264 content fine. Renamed it to mkv and use CoreAVC 1.5.0.1 Pro as codec.

Hurraaay~~~~~ rename the file from .ts to .mkv seems to do the trick, for both H264 and VC1!!!

Just wondering why it makes so much difference just to change the extension. Is MP's internal player using different splitter for the two extensions? Any developer out there that may have some hint?