After a lot of research and testing I've finally found what I think is the best way for me to convert videos to a format you guys can watch easily. Especially I'm very happy to finally have a good way to encode 30 fps without framedrops. I also modified my encoding program to be able to use the WMV9 codec without having to use the WVC1 codec a lot of people had trouble with, without any noticeable quality loss. Our friends the Mac users will be happy to learn that these new videos should work perfectly with Flip4Mac too. So as a test please download this video and let me know if you have problems or not watching it, and if it is smooth. If you stream your videos to your 360 via a Media Center PC, please give this a try too!
Update : I forgot to mention that the small pauses you can see from time to time are due to a playback bug in the spring update of the 360 dashboard. For example you should notice to such pauses in the first camera mouvement after the Capcom logo. If you see more, something's wrong :p
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The 2nd link on the page seems to be working...
Yup, it sends a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 header
Instead of video/x-ms-wmv
I say this is a keeper. (I'm using WMP 11)
Not one single slowdown on my desktop BlimBlim.
This one is much better!
I left Firefox open with quite a few tabs, plus windows explorer, and then I played the video. Amazing!!! I hadn't seen this trailer yet. This game is looking good, the graphics are incredible too :D
BTW, if it helps, here are my specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz)
Geforce 6600 256MB.....overclocked.
1GB RAM
Windows XP
Media Player 10
Previous LP trailer i didnt have any sound.
CPU is AthlonXP 2600+
But it's playing them superb :)
CPU is AthlonXP 2600+
http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html
ATi Radeon 9600XT 128 MB
1 GB RAM
Ubuntu
MPlayer
Works perfect.
By the way, your CPU does most if not all of the work when you're trying to play high resolution video. If you have an older CPU, you can compensate for this by having a newer graphics card, like one from nVidia for example that is capable of using their PureVideo acceleration to offload the video decoding from the CPU to the GPU. Using that program resulted in MUCH improved performance on my 3.0ghz P4/6600GT computer- i.e. the couple year old 6600GT is still much better at decoding video than my couple year old CPU.
Ati Radon 9800 A-I-W
1GB 3200 RAM
WMP v10
works like a dream