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Xvid compression
J_K_M_A_N:
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--- Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on December 15, 2006, 06:30:22 pm ---I always run XBMC in 1080i and make it use the best available resolution. Some things actually come pretty close to HD. Did you get it up and running yet?
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I keep reading that the Xbox just doesn't have enough memory for 1080i, despite having the software for it. What is your experience? Most reports say it ends up dropping frames and/or just bombing out on some stuff.
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Funny you should ask. This is the first movie I have ripped and converted to xvid. If I leave it in dvd file format it seems to work fine but it won't play the xvid file at 1080i. If I lower it to 720p it plays fine. Again, if I leave it in regular dvd file format, it works in 1080i. Kind of a bummer. I would rather run them all at 1080i but I have had to force mine to 720p.
On a brighter note, I have the 1.0 gig file of the green mile and a 1.9 gig file and both look about the same which is pretty good. It isn't dvd quality but for a movie ripped to a computer and streamed to an xbox, it isn't too bad. I can live with it. So I think I am going to go with 70% compression and let the file sizes fall where they may. I think that will give me an average of about 1.0 to 1.4 gig files. Maybe a few under 1.0 gig.
J_K_M_A_N
shmokes:
--- Quote from: boykster on December 15, 2006, 07:54:12 pm ---Once I moved to 42" (plasma) and larger (85" 720p projector) I've not been happy with any compression on DVD's. I just rip removing special features and menus (main movie only) and playback using ZoomPlayer / Nvidia Purevideo codec + FFDshow on my HTPC with an Xseries radeon via component video output (at 720p).
Looks good to me :cheers:
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Yeah . . . not everyone has a RAID 5 box with multiple terabytes of storage space. :P