05-02-2007, 04:47 AM
Ding ding ding, we have a winner! The files i get via bittorent are encoded with the xvid codec. I used ffmpegx to convert a file to divx at the exact same bitrate and the resulting file CAN be fast forwarded thru. Apparently the eyehome doesn't deal as well with xvid for some reason.
What is interesting to me is that all three formats, divx, xvid, and mpeg4 are supposed to be very close cousins. Yet the eyehome deals with them all very differently.
divx - plays back well, can fast forward and rewind
xvid - plays back well, cannot fast forward or rewind
mpeg4 - rarely will playback at all
So I don't know if the problem is in the firmware, the decoder chip, or in the servlet.
Dave
What is interesting to me is that all three formats, divx, xvid, and mpeg4 are supposed to be very close cousins. Yet the eyehome deals with them all very differently.
divx - plays back well, can fast forward and rewind
xvid - plays back well, cannot fast forward or rewind
mpeg4 - rarely will playback at all
So I don't know if the problem is in the firmware, the decoder chip, or in the servlet.
Dave