Video Stuttering With Ac3 Sound... Options

[stholt]

Anyone else been having issues with divx/xvid files with 5.1 ac3 sound? It seems like every way I try to get this to work, while watching it streamed over a network hardline through WMP11, about every five minutes or so the video stutters/skips for a second or two and then it's fine. I've demuxed the video and converted the ac3 to a stereo mp3 and remuxed it and the whole thing plays just fine(I've done this on more than one source), so i figure it's something with the divx/xvid/ac3 "support" MS has given us. Any thoughts? I usually use VirtualDubMod for the muxing, is there a better program out there? I like to use divx/avid because I get almost realtime encoding with great quality, whereas WMV takes 12-15 hours to encode.

[septurious]

Sounds correct to me reddragon72,

I've done the same as you and come to the same conclusions.

1. If you don't want AC3 5.1 Surround Sound it will work with AC3 2 Ch.
2. If you divide you movies so they don't run into the OpenDML container they work fine.

I have a few movies divided into Chunks and they playback fine with AC3 5.1 but as you said it's frustrating to play them back, but more, it's frustrating for me to figure out how many pieces I need! *Sigh* Annnd I have to setup several different AVS scripts to run through em all etc etc, it would be easier to just encode the stupid things to WMV.

Now I know if you stream the file from your PC as an AVI it has the same behavior, but has anyone tried doing the on the fly conversion to WMV while streaming? Or did that process not have 5.1 Surround Sound?

I too would be highly surprised if Microsoft ever fixes this which means the AVI container for HD w/5.1 surround sound is dead :-(( That really sucks.