.avi playback quality in .99.5

[navyguy]

In .98.13 I had no problems, video looks fine. However after installing .99.5 (clean install) .avi files playback extremely pixelated through my MVP although on my computer they play clearly. .mpg files playback fine on both MVP and my computer with either version.

I went back to .98.13 just to see and all is well again. I'm assuming I'm missing a config with the new version or something else easy but...

Anyone have any ideas?

Log files didn't show anything out of the ordinary, and all was working just quality was very poor.

Hope someone has some ideas

[sub]

The version of ffmpeg changed in this release. It is responsible for doing transcoding of AVI files for playback on the MVP. I would have expected any difference, and didnt specifically notice any, but I only tried this a couple of times. You can tweak it (target bitrate etc) by editing the <MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLine> setting in config.xml.

[navyguy]

Man, if only commercial tech support was so quick

I'll play around with that and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the quick response Sub!

[navyguy]

Fixed.

That did the trick, thanks again Sub!

[groover km]

I have the exact same problem; I've tried messing around with bitrates to no avail.

A long shot on xmas eve, but could you (or someone else) post your solution to this problem?

TIA.

[sub]

So RAW AVI can be played now? Divx and Xvixd also?

No, its still transcoded to MPEG2 on the fly for playback on the MVP.

[groover km]

Okay, PLAN B:

(I am going to be in soooo much WAF shite if I don't get this back up and running for xmas :o )

Can I just replace the FFMPEG folder in third party to go back to 98.13 performance?

Or am I looking at a reinstall/ uninstall-rollback?

Been messing with this for 2.5hrs now...

[sub]

Can I just replace the FFMPEG folder in third party to go back to 98.13 performance?

You'd also need to remove a few "K"s from the <MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLine> setting. The -b bitrate format changed in ffmpeg. For example, the old version would require "-b 1000" wheras as new included version now requires "-b 1000k".

[Erdinger]

Fixed.

That did the trick, thanks again Sub!

Hi, I have the same problem. Can you post the sentence you use in config.xml for FFMPEG command?.

Thx

[groover km]

After sub's help above, this is what I changed mine to - note the higher bitrate and the 'k' :

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 5000k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>
<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE

Hope this helps.