Shibathedog Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 I download movies/shows on a daily basis and have never had a problem watching anything. I tried to keep up to date most of the time. Haven't had any issues on the version I'm on now. It plays games fine too. The only problems I ever had with playing back video on XBMC is with store bought DVDs. (Go figure) Sometimes it seems like XBMC just doesn't like the way the menus are put together and it messes up in various ways.
waal Posted October 14, 2010 Posted October 14, 2010 I've been using MKV with XBMC (any build) for a long time and I never had any issue. The only limit is loading large videos like 720p but it happens with any format and it is a known fact.
Shibathedog Posted October 15, 2010 Posted October 15, 2010 nah I watch em all the time. I even download a lot that have multiple audio tracks and that even works fine.
exobuzz Posted October 16, 2010 Posted October 16, 2010 version 2.0 then patched in fanart etc for non database....removed alot of stuff etc...as I did alot of work on xbmc I pulled the sources apart and picked what I wanted and added in things like large usb support and xmv support...dvd to xbox ripping....it was when 2.0 skin engine came out was the base code....with alot patched in from time to time xbmc4xbox is happy to receive any patches against the current code which lives on sourceforce (trac dev site here http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/xbmc4xbox/). as someone mentioned, http://www.xbmc4xbox.org is the best place to keep up with the development. the dvdplayer core of xbmc4xbox is more capable than mplayer with some formats, especially with some h264 for example. I would say the current svn releases are the most stable it has been for some time, and slimmer than a year ago. some improvements are on the front page of http://www.xbmc4xbox.org if you mkv is h264 and full hd, it isnt going to work btw. lower res h264 will be fine. (certainly ive played 850x400 ish h264), although it depends on bitrate and encoding settings too. for playing back 1280x720p video, you can transcode to something like xvid or ffmpeg's mpeg4 codec. the forums over at the forementioned site are useful if you have questions on the functionality etc.
BritneysPAIRS Posted October 16, 2010 Posted October 16, 2010 good to see....ill take a look sometime....but I have highly optomised it myself as it was getting really cluttered for the poor xbox...and I wanted it silky smooth but at some point....ill release it... it has CoinOPS arcades conole and handhelds and dvd2xbox built in though and also some of the patchs are MS code like xmv support....xbmc dev wouldnt except this stuff
exobuzz Posted October 16, 2010 Posted October 16, 2010 (edited) good to see....ill take a look sometime....but I have highly optomised it myself as it was getting really cluttered for the poor xbox...and I wanted it silky smooth but at some point....ill release it... it has CoinOPS arcades conole and handhelds and dvd2xbox built in though and also some of the patchs are MS code like xmv support....xbmc dev wouldnt except this stuff xmv isn't possible due to the source license yeh, but interesting. maybe one day someone will reimplement it. I guess it could be done as a separate plugin though and still comply (at least on xbmc side, the plugin would still be dodgy, but no more dodgy than xbmc builds i guess ). Still interesting to see your patches though. You will release the source though right with your binary ? Edited October 16, 2010 by exobuzz
hangover Posted November 17, 2010 Posted November 17, 2010 I've been using MKV with XBMC (any build) for a long time and I never had any issue. The only limit is loading large videos like 720p but it happens with any format and it is a known fact. 720P is fine as long as the files are encoded correctly with a specific bitrate, mkv's are best for size/quality . There are still nightly builds of xbmc available at xbmc4xbox.org and the forum there is very active with a steadily growing number of members.
psyko_chewbacca Posted November 29, 2010 Posted November 29, 2010 I would really like to get ahold of this XBMC build you are talking about ( . ) ( . ). Could we continue this conversation on hotmail? psyko_chewbacca ---@--- hotmail.com Thanks
BritneysPAIRS Posted November 29, 2010 Posted November 29, 2010 its only in BETA and alot diff than XBMC at present...think of it as more of an Ipad interface than full windows interface....and thats the real difference
psyko_chewbacca Posted November 29, 2010 Posted November 29, 2010 Well I was looking for that large USB drive support. I have a Xbox in a car and it would be nice to be able to plug external HDDs to transfert music to it! I don't really care about the interface as long as the web server works and it plays music.
jrvmc Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 How is Beta development on your XBMC build? This build sounds nice for a beta release, i can help with testing or arranging a beta team.
ace9094 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 WOW... XBMC build sounds cool.... anywho if anyone can PM a link to the best build of xbmc, Im looking to finally finish my arcade machine.... (its past the 12 month stage) I really wanna finish it PS EPIC is running sweet on the machine
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