Screemer said:that's a very interesting situation.Skoopman said:UranusKiller said:you have answered you're own questions there, it will never play HD http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/wiki/h264
I already know that, but I'm not talking about HD-Videos. I'm talking about a problem with the MKV container. As I already said, H264 is working perfectly with the MPEG-4 container, but not with MKV. So the problem should be the MKV container not the h264 codec. H264 Videos with MKV container cannot be played with a resolution higher than 640x??? pixel, MP4 works fine even in 720x??? pixel. So my guess is that the problem is the container, but I would like to hear it from a programmer.
Ok I was testing today, again. So I was a little wrong with the MP4-File because the resolution is only 688 x 288. Anyway it plays smoothly, H264-Videos with MKV container do not. Frameskipping starts if the resolution is higher than 640 pixel. The movie I tested was 12 Rounds 2009 R5 LINE-SecretMyth (Kingdom-Release), get the sample and try it out for yourself, I won't provide any links of course. The second file I tested was Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen 2009 BRRip XviD AC3-SANTi. Resolution is 720x304, DivX codec and Avi container. Plays like a charm and looks sweet, no problem with AC3 decoding. As you see, the Wii can play movies with resolutions up to 720 pixel smoothly. After that I tried some 480p trailers from Apple in MOV-format. Resolution 848 x 352, H264 codec, Quicktime container. It played, but skipped some frames. The "large" trailers with 640 pixel resolution played of course smoothly. I would love to see if the Wii could handle this resolution with a DivX codec, I believe it can, but I don't have any DivX material with that resolution.
Just a question, is the output on my Wii really 720 pixel or is it downscaled to 640 pixel? Because I can't find any settings to force the Wii to up or downscale a video, I guess It's not even possible.
I don't understand why in the wiki http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/wiki/h264 the h264 codec is stated as HD. It's just a codec and yes it is mainly used for HD-movies. But it is only used because it can hold more information within less space, the best examples are low quality rips with h264 codec and mkv/mp4 container. Anime are about 50-80 Megabyte small!
In the end I guess that the most important part is the encode itself, if it wasn't done correctly you will have problems later.
BTW: The testing was done via SMB, not SD-card.
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