xbox hd transcoding

[sixties keith]

ok so using buzz's method i can convert hd rips using ffmpeg on windows for playback on the xbox with no problems. For films and tv series i dont mind but conversion takes time especially when you are converting something you don't intend to keep such once watched such as live sports

However recently Ive been messing with the plexbmc plugin and trying to get transcoding to work when i remembered something buzz said about transcoding on the fly using mediatomb.

Unfortunately im using a windows based machine and it seems its only for other operating systems such as mac etc so was just wondering if anyone transcodes on the fly to the xbox from a windows pc and if so whats alternative to mediatomb you use?

[Dan Dar3]

You could try these two - with VLC you should be able to transcode existing streaming (from URLs), not just files, although the post below is for files.

VLC streaming & transcoding to XBMC for Xbox
http://dandar3.blogspot.com/2010/12/vlc ... c-for.html

PS3 Media Server streaming & transcoding to XBMC for Xbox
http://dandar3.blogspot.com/2010/12/ps3 ... oding.html

[sixties keith]

i didn't know media tomb was only on mac etc was hoping to use it along with ffmpeg.

ok thanks ill check these different ones out and give them a try. Have you used them for xbox use before? doesn't really matter about streams as it will nearly always be pre downloaded files

[sirkingchase]

I wrote a Plex DLNA profile for us. Xbox will play anything I throw at it. Run Plex Media Server, add this DNLA profile, and point you XBMC4xbox upnp at your server.

My original post is at Plex forums, unfortunately it received no love, I thought about posting it here somewhere but I dont know where it would be appropriate. Wiki maybe?

https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/ ... =xbmc4xbox

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Client name="XBMC" >
  <Identification>
<Header name="User-Agent" regex="xbmc" />
  </Identification>
    <TranscodeTargets>
<VideoProfile container="mpegts" codec="h264" audioCodec="ac3" />
    </TranscodeTargets>
  <DirectPlayProfiles>
    <VideoProfile container="mp4" codec="h264" audioCodec="aac" subtitleFormat="ttxt" />
    <MusicProfile container="mp3" codec="mp3" />
    <PhotoProfile container="jpeg" />
  </DirectPlayProfiles>
  <CodecProfiles>
    <VideoCodec name="h264">
      <Limitations>
        <UpperBound name="video.width" value="720" />
        <UpperBound name="video.height" value="600" />
        <UpperBound name="video.bitDepth" value="8" isRequired="false" />
      </Limitations>
    </VideoCodec>
    <VideoAudioCodec name="aac">
      <Limitations>
        <UpperBound name="audio.channels" value="2" />
      </Limitations>
    </VideoAudioCodec>
    <VideoAudioCodec name="mp3">
      <Limitations>
        <LowerBound name="audio.samplingRate" value="32000" />
        <UpperBound name="audio.samplingRate" value="48000" />
        <Match name="audio.samplingRate" regex="32000|44100|48000" />
      </Limitations>
    </VideoAudioCodec>
  </CodecProfiles>
</Client>
 

[hawsey]

Great thanks for that
BuZz is there any chance of adding this to the xbmc build? Dont know much about coding so apologies if this is a stupid request :$ .
I just recently set up a Pms and I am sure there could be quite a few people our there who will use this.
Cheers

[sixties keith]

@sirkingchase

this is great news, ive been playing away with profiles trying to get the transcoding to work. i did make a profile and looking at the server log its not picking the xbox up under the xbmc profile but was unable to get it to work.

i did find an xbox profile on a plex thread thinking about it so it could well have been urs. i also started a plex thread (EDIT - just checked the link and it was indeed ur thread )

http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... lex#p20393

anyways ill update my profile with this code. do some testing and report back.


also to anyone adding the profile save it as xbmc - this is because there is an xbox 360 profile and its picked up alphabetically therefore xbmc is picked up first

[Geeba]

Yeah great stuff!

I was going to say cant this be done with Plex Media Server! and well and behold here it is!

[sixties keith]

Has any1 else tested this code? i tried several different video formats but no joy. i get either stuttering video or a crashed xbox

[sirkingchase]

I test it again and it still works, for me...

All my content is strictly h263, running a Phenom II X6 on Linux.

The latest xbmc4xbox build would hang when trying to find UPnP devices. I uploaded xbmc4xbox 3.33 and it found the UPnP and I can play all content.

[sixties keith]

i tried streaming a hd mp4 rip which played but had frame drops during high action / movement scenes. i also tried a 720p rip but this crashed the xbox altogether.

however its worth mentioning im using the beta 2 build with the plexbmc addon but still no joy for me. ive had a look at other profiles in the plex folder and find the others to have a lot more content than the newly created xbmc profile.

ill do more testing and let you know. cheers

btw this is the other plex thread - http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... f=6&t=2479