H.264 AVIs half fixed in 6.2.5.

[Patilan]

6.2.5 fixed the audio sync problem in H.264 AVIs.

But Sage still plays these videos with the wrong aspect ratio.
(when Sage is set up to use SageTVPlayer)

If I play the same videos with MPlayer, the aspect ratio is correct. Which leads me to believe that Sage simply disregards the aspect information contained in the AVI headers.

[Narflex]

Submit a bug report for both of those and it'll get resolved. If you know where to upload a test clip to; then do that as well for the H.264 aspect ratio problem.

[Patilan]

Yes, I did submit a bug report.

Now, I played a little more with various such videos...

It looks like Sage displays these videos as "square" pixels. Interestingly, when I drag-drop a H.264 AVI on top of SageTVPlayer.exe, it plays it with the correct aspect! So Sage is maybe not communicating correctly with SageTVPlayer about the aspect ratio information.

[Patilan]

Here is one clip in both mpeg2 format and in H.264 in AVI format.

(very short, limited by the size of what is allowed for upload to this forum)

[Patilan]

I see that the problem still remains in V6.2.6 Beta: Sage still disregards the aspect ratio information from the AVI headers.

[Patilan]

I'm sorry to say this, but the bug is still here in V6.2.7.

I filed a bug report back in V6.2.5, and:

At 01:59 PM 8/13/2007, <xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I know what it is.

So, why is it still not fixed? Did it turn out to be something more complicated than what you thought it was?

Thanks.

[tmiranda]

I just encoded a home video into H.264 using TMPGEnc XPress 4. Nero plays the file just fine but in Sage I get garbled video. The screen is mostly gray with some flashes on the top few lines. The audio is OK.

Is this a problem with Sage or am I doing something wrong during encoding? I've just started running a few encoding tests to figure out the best settings but so far nothing plays in Sage.

I'm using 6.2.7 RC. I've tried playing the files on an MVP and on a Client.

[Patilan]

The bug is still here in V6.2.8!

Any hope on the horizon?

[Narflex]

It's on our todo list; but it won't make it into V6.2. We'll be fixing it for V6.3 though.

[Patilan]

Originally Posted by Narflex

It's on our todo list; but it won't make it into V6.2. We'll be fixing it for V6.3 though.

Thank you Narflex! That's something anyway. I appreciate the information.

[jaminben]

Can I ask what codec your using for playback of H.264 AVIs.

Please

[Patilan]

Originally Posted by jaminben

Can I ask what codec your using for playback of H.264 AVIs

I've set up Sage to use the so called SageTVPlayer.exe. (a.k.a.: MPlayer)

It's a swiss army knife of a video player. Lean and mean, it used to do the job perfectly for any video I've ever encountered, until some bug crept in here in one of these Sage betas.

[jaminben]

Thx Patilan