Problems with .ts playback

[invictive]

Hi there, I hope this is the right place to post this...

I am having problems playing back 1080i .TS files in boxee.

Computer Specs:
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Latest version of boxee & flash player
Intel D920 Dualcore 3ghz
2gb ram
Velociraptor Harddrive
Radeon HD4850 w/ 1gb ram

File Details:
Size: 5.5GB
1080i H.264
MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Video Bitrate: 16358 kbps

The problem is that the video is always very choppy (almost like its in slo-mo) with all sorts of lines running through it, occasionally I get flashes where the whole screen turns green as well. Playback in WMP or VLC is very smooth. There are no issues with the sound in boxee.

Anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing this? I was planning on adding some 1080p files, but it seems kind of pointless if it can't even do 1080i.

Thanks for your help!

-invictive

[darcilicious]

Known issue:

http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-3747

How are your .ts files encoded? Mine are from the Hauppauge HD-PVR / SageTV.

How are your 1080p files encoded -- that's what will have the highest impact on Boxees ability to play such files.

[invictive]

I couldn't tell you how the 1080i .ts file is encoded as I didn't do it myself, here are the details though:

Allgemein
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-TS
File size : 5,25 GiB
Duration : 47min
Overall bit rate : 16,0 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35,5 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Ja
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Duration : 47min
Bit rate mode : variabel
Bit rate : 14,1 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 40,0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 Pixel
Height : 1 080 Pixel
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25,000 FPS
Standard : Component
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : oberes Feld zuerst
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.272
Stream size : 4,63 GiB (88%)
colour_primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
transfer_characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
matrix_coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177


As for the 1080p, I am using RipBot264 (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/RipBot264) to rip BluRay's to my PC.

It doesn't look like anyone is working on that bug report? Seems like it's been around for a while.

I tried disabling Hardware assisted decoding, but that made it far worse. I also tried all of the interlace settings, but they seemed to have no effect.

Randomly I just got it to work! But then I stopped the file and started it again and it was back to its usually choppiness.