[etheesdad]

Hi am running Atlantis Beta 1 on XP (sp2)

machine:
2.4 ghz single core
512meg ram
Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller. Driver:6.14.10.4396

am trying to play back xvid avi's about 700meg in size.

the avi's are valid. I have played them in my stand-alone player and in vlc with no probs.

They play for about 15 seconds, then freeze. XBMC itself does not hang - just playback that stops and will not continue - image on screen is a still frame from the point at which it stopped playing.

I wondered if it might be a network problem, so tried running them from local HD but it does the same thing.

Any ideas?

[althekiller]

Pastebin a debug log please.

[etheesdad]

http://pastebin.com/m6ed811f2

[jmarshall]

Can you try creating a short sample from that file and seeing whether it does the same thing? If so, could you upload it to megaupload or similar so we can reproduce?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[etheesdad]

Hi Jonathan

Its not a single file. I have about 40 of these (dvdrips from various sources). They all do the same thing.

I dont have a video cutting tool to make the sample. Can you recommend something?

Jim

[jmarshall]

Virtualdub perhaps? Problem is that it may just fix the problem.

None of my files do this, so if the files are available elsewhere, another option is to drop a hint as to how to obtain them.

Cheers
Jonathan

[etheesdad]

well they're dvdrips, available from any torrent site. group include hls, axxo, arrow, etc

[treefour]

Not sure if this will help but here's my experience with the same sort of problem and what I did to fix it...

Is the audio AC3 or DTS?

As I said, I had the same sort of problem as did this person http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=37718 , it had to do with having digital audio selected in XBMC. In my case conflicting drivers (I think)HDMI VS SPDIF was not allowing the audio to pass through properly. So I just disabled my HDMI audio driver in the Vista control panel, and everything works hunky dory ( mostly :p )!

[etheesdad]

Johnathan

Thankyou so much for all your help. It was the Audio drivers. I am setting up XBMC on a box thats destined to go in my lounge room and hadnt yet hooked up speakers. When I got the Audio drivers installed, the playback problem ceased to be a problem.

Thanks also to above poster. Im using XP but it looks like theres a theme there.

Really appreciate the help guys. Thankyou

Jim

[darxide]

I am having a similar problem my videos stop randomly. XBMC returns me to the video library menu. It's not the vvideo files because they play fine on my xbox w/ xbmc. the audio settings are set to analog. any ideas?

[Elhandro]

I am having a similar problem my videos stop randomly. XBMC returns me to the video library menu. It's not the vvideo files because they play fine on my xbox w/ xbmc. the audio settings are set to analog. any ideas?

I am having the same exact problem.....and its happening with all of my media. A file will play anywhere from 5 to 10 min and then XBMC returns right back to the video librbary menu.

My setup is

gforce 6600
2 gigs of ram
1.1 Ghrtz

If anyone has any ideas, please post something. It doesnt matter whether the file is HD or SD....same error.

Thanks in Advance

[althekiller]

Xbox is likely using mplayer to play the files. ffplay would be a better comparison tool. Regardless, a debug log and sample if possible are going to be needed.

[Dam0]

elhandro,

ive had similar experiences if i dont map the shares in windows first, and therefore i just play the content via xbmc for windows smb.

regards,
Dam0