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.

[misteromar]

I had problems with a xvid encode that had AC3 5.1. (Played via WMC, xbox 360 extender)

I encoded the audio to AC3stereo but still had slight stuttering.

I look at their specs and it seems to me it is mp3 only for xvid .avi For h264 it is faac stereo only. But also I think the problem only occurs with encodes with high resolution. So AC3 audio and high resolution, 720 or above, then stuttering occurs. It happens with HD tv rips and some high quality movie rips.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945416