VLC360 v1.2 -- Posted by XanTium on March 27 12:36 EST
VLC360 is a french application (MCE plugin), similar to Transcode 360(info) and MCE Video Encoder(info), that will encode XViD, DiVX and other video formats on-the-fly so you can stream them from your Windows MediaCenter PC to your Xbox 360.
As the name suggests it, VLC360 is based on VLC/VideoLan and of course it does require Windows MediaCenter 2005 as OS.

This is the first version posted here on Xbox-Scene, but here's the changelog from v1.0 to v1.2:
* You can now install VLC360 anywhere you want on your Windows MediaCenter PC.
* Update of VLC (should solve problem with crashing of interface when using special characters)
* Support of subtitles in SRT format.
* For DVDs in .img and .iso it will auto select the french language (can be changed to english see forum thread).
* Support of more formats (I have no exact list)
* VLC will start as service (background application) on your PC.

Official Site: http://jortega74.free.fr/forum/index.php?c=4
View Demo Video: here[dailymotion.com]
Download: here

Wow... .img and .iso support for DVDs? This is awesome. I'll have to give this a shot later when I get home. This looks to be a step closer to My Movies plugin integration than Transcode360 right now as it supports DVD isos.

I'm assuming that for the DVD .iso support that we have an option somewhere to change the default language back to English? I can't seam to find any other docs to download and read up on this program aside from the .msi install file.

I installed this plugin, but when I go into media center and click on vlc360, I get a white screen. Any thoughts?

hi

reboot your PC or go to start
all program
VLC360
relancer VLC



you can change the language on the videofiche.html



change the fr by en

W00t! nice way to go. Death to King Louie!

Thanks Neor.

A couple of quick questions since I can't test it right now. For the dvd .iso/.img support, I am assuming that it will just play through all of the videos that it finds in the image file. So if it's a full retail dvd iso it's decoding, VLC360 will play the videos for the previews, the menu screen, etc before VLC360 actually starts to play the actual movie files within the .iso? So this means no FF or skip options to go straight to the movie file, which means for the best setup, we will need to have .iso files that only contain the main movie file and none of the added previews and extras?

Also I see in the code that you posted that the default audio channel is 2. Does VLC360 have the capability of doing 5.1 DD out as well from .divx and .iso files?

5.1 wont work for me from Divx/xvid althoughchannel 2.

VLC360 transcode your movie to wmv with wma sound 2.0

Its my last time bothering with it, I am just right now playing a 2cd divx with ac3 Sound dolby digital with no sound at all coming over my speakers. The vid has sound on the PC and its 5 Channel according to VLC. Is the sound set to 0db or what? Cmon Neor take me searious, please.

can you send me a sample of your video

it work for me with other ac3 movie

start your movie on your xbox

open IE on your pc and tape http://127.0.0.1:8080/
clic on ?
and see if the sound is decoded

Even though I haven't gotten anything to play I think this is turning out to be an astonishing bit of software and I thank you for it.

I have set it up correctly and so on, my question lies with it's ability to see the mapped drives on the MCE. All of my media isn't stored on the MCE machine. It sits on a narly server with a huge RAID array. I've been using Transcode 360 and it's able to utilize the mapped drives. Is it just something I need to change in one of the scripts? Seems simple enough to me. I'm going to go ahead and start looking for it, but I was also wonder if you could point in me in the right direction.

Cheers!!

Found a quick fix for anyone else having issues with it...

Map your drives AFTER you start MCE on your 360, they'll show right up.

Sorry to bother. Amazing app again! Very pleased.

Hi Guys,

Can't wait to try it out. Just a quick question thought since I haven't been able to test it yet. Does your software support FF/RR capabilities.

Thank you - seems nice so far

Yes dude it does FF and RW , but it only works with the buttons on the player not on the controler or remote.

This plug-in is worth checking out, i got it playing an iso of a movie and the 360 is sending the video out in 1080i!!!!!!!!! but one problem, no sound?!?!?! i did do the french to english change, would that be why?

Hi all! I am very pleased to see all this development happening on the video playback.

I have been participating with runtime (from www.runtime360.com = transcode 360) to prepare the next generation movie playback solution for the 360. It will still involve MCE 2005 but you should expect full screen playback with pause, resume, skip forward & skip backward capabilities.

This solution will not be based on WMV9 or VLC. ffmpeg will be used instead... and you all know how good ffmpeg is at reading pretty much any files (with some exception but he, nothing is perfect). VLC is actually using ffmpeg to read most files...

A beta of this new solution should be available within the next two weeks (hopefully closer to a week) but all depend on runtime ability to write the integration in MCE!

I hope the next version of T360 will be able to do as good as VLC360. The .iso playback is certainly a nice feature that I hope we can integrate.

Cheers!

This is great. My Laptop could not handle transcode 360, but this work great! Keep up the good work!

Yeah, that was one of the major things I've noticed with VLC360. The significantly lower cpu usage and significantly reduced wait times. Not to mention the XBMC style text only navigation through directories makes things quicker. I just wish you could turn off the damn "carebear" icons in MCE and just go text only. Over a wireless connection it takes forever to load all of the icons for a megaton of movies.

Again, well done and I"m excited to see what comes next.

Is there any way to adjust the screen aspect ratio or height and width
I cant view the full subtitles when built onto the video they are to low


by the way this is great

so another guy without sound, its on AC3 right mcvolfan?
@neor: I will see the decoding when i come home tonight. Where can I send a sample to? I will cut a piece with virtualdub. How big should it be?

Love this thanks guys but one of my .img files is not working anyone see the problem here?
Stream 0
Codec
mpgv
Language
Type
Video

Stream 1
Codec
a52
Language
English
Type
Audio

Stream 2
Codec
spu
Language
English
Type
Subtitle

Stream 3
Codec
spu
Language
Francais
Type
Subtitle
General
Duration
2:24:59

[quote name='neor' date='Mar 27 2006, 08:08 PM' post='3323934']
hi

reboot your PC or go to start
all program
VLC360
relancer VLC


I am also haveing the same problem with just haveing a white screen after running it in MCE, i tried rebooting and running relancer VLC, still same prob, just a white screen.

Any ideas?

Will this plugin be able to stream movies from a rar archive lika VLC can?

hello... first of all... thank you for this... and second, a question.... can i use other fonts for subtitles and can i make them bigger? ... text is too small.....

send me small sample of your video to ex : http://rapidshare.de/

and send me a mail with the link and the problem at neor@fr.fm please

I tried this out last night and it works amazing! Transcode 360 worked pretty well but regularly the video would freeze (either audio or video) and the thought of starting the file over from scratch made me just go recode to MPG2 or WMV.

Every file I threw at VLC360 v1.2 worked without any problems and the ability to reliably pause is simply amazing.

Thanks for the excellent work neor! I am excited to see what you have planned for v1.3 and beyond.!

for your trooble of sound

test with



samplerate=48000

on VideoFiche.html line 108

or replace the file with this

using your latest videofiche after restarting vlc360

Neor, funny thing is, it works for the second CD but not the first CD. They should be encoded in the same manner ?!
I made a snipet from CD1 and i can play the audio with VLC360. (audio is played)
snipet:
Codec
XVID
Sprache
Typ
Video
Auflösung
640x352
Framerate
23.976000
* Stream 1
Codec
a52
Sprache
Typ
Audio
Kanäle
5
Abtastrate
48000 Hz
Bitrate
448 KB/s
* Allgemein
Laufzeit
0:00:35
* Meta-Information
Einstellung
HAS_INDEX IS_INTERLEAVED
Input [Close]
Input (MRL)
File Disc Network Fixed image

playing the CD1 (audio not played):

Stream and media info [Close]
* Stream 0
Codec
XVID
Sprache
Typ
Video
Auflösung
640x352
Framerate
23.976000
* Stream 1
Codec
a52
Sprache
Typ
Audio
Kanäle
5
Abtastrate
48000 Hz
Bitrate
448 KB/s
* Allgemein
Laufzeit
1:02:57
* Meta-Information
Einstellung
HAS_INDEX IS_INTERLEAVED
Input [Close]
Input (MRL)
File Disc Network Fixed image

Guess i dont have to send you a working snipet but why is there no audio when playing CD1?

Peter

put your divx on gspot and send me the resultat

done

Great programs Thanks! I am having some problems with this. Once I start playing a video I get an error message stating that it is has encountered a problem and will now close, however, the video plays for another 30 minutes before it freezes. Is there a fix for this? Thanks in advance for anyones help!

thanks to the devs for a great little app, i to am having a few teething probs as well, seems that i am not getting very stable throughput on my network and i'm reaching around 80/90% cpu usage whilst playing back both xvid and mpeg streams resulting in pixelation and freezing. could this be a codec issue? i'm a total noob as far as all this transcoding business goes so any help would be greatly appreciated. btw i have the k-lite codec pack installed..

cheers in advance

smash.

I have had no problems so far. This was my installating process.

First I uninstalled all other codecs I had installed then I...

1. Downloaded and Installed K-Lite Codec Pack 2.71 FULL (Full includes ffdshow).
2. Downloaded and installed VLC360 1.2 and replaced the file in the dir with VideoFiche. (changes audio to english)
3. Ran the vlc360.bat file.
4. Rebooted and everything worked great.

So I managed to watch/stream a full movie on a P4 2.4Ghz with 448MB RAM (Inspiron 5100 laptop) with about an average of 40% cpu usage and pretty much full RAM usage. This was not possible with Transcode 360.

thanks for the info cyborg will give it another shot!!

This is a fantastic tool and signs of a very positive future for MCE integration.

I have to ask something though.

I have tried watching a few videos I have d/l like the new 24 series and they are fine but then I have tried watching some others like a DVD Xvid rip which only plays in 4:3 rather than the 16:9 that 24 plays in. I have checked the files on my PC to ensure that they do display in 16:9 and they are ok through Media Player. Please help as I hate watching squashed videos!!! TIA

Press INFO on your remote (dont know the button for the controller) and select zoom. I use the last option since it makes the best fullscreen for me...

thanks for the quick response but I don't want to zoom in on a picture that is still gonna look out of proportion.

The file is in widescreen format and plays correctly in media player on the PC so why won't it play in the correct format via the 360???

Also I am too having issues playing files with an .img extension anybody figured this out yet? I have used the K-lite codec pack mentioned in the previous page and that hasn't helped with either issue.....

*EDIT* Apologies my friend as I just thought I would checkout the differences in zooming after I replied to your post. It works as it goes! There are a couple of options and either the second or third one seems to do a 16:9 without losing anything on the edges. I had no idea that function was there and took what you said as just zooming in to fill the screen and losing out on some of the picture too. Very sorry and thankyou for the help!!!

Still need the help on the .img files though

I installed this, rebotted and when I click on VLC360 from the menu it just goes to a ligh blue screen and I see noing else. Am I doing something wrong?

I think you are skipping the step where you navigate to the install folder (from Widows Explorer or My Computer)
C:\Program Files\dun74\vlc360
and double click the vlc360.bat file.

After that everything should run smooth.


To neor: Thanks for making such a great little app! I find it very useful and it works well for me. It gets me one step closer to using the XBox 360 to its full potential. Thanks again!

This is a trange behavior of the 360 itself... Don't ask me why... but I am starting to think that it was made like this intentionally by MS.

By the way I have found a work around and it is currently integrated in the next release of transcode 360. It simply involves changing the resolution of the resulting transcoded video and specifying the proper aspect ratio. Unfortunatly VLC does not easilly allow this to be done...

Keep an eye for the next release of T360 and it should fix your problems... By the way, the next release should allow to pass original AC3 and MP2 audio stream to the 360 without requiring a transcode... therefore the DVD rip with 5.1 AC3 should playback in full 6 channel audio! Cool!

Great program! I have one question, when I use subtitles in VLC360 the text is yellow, but when I use Transcode 360 it's white, how come?

How do i turn on subtitles on a movie when Playing a DVD ISO file.?

Hi,

Great doftware- this worked perfectly were all else failed!

I have one question though - the system is used by my wife whilst im out and navigating through the C drive etc into my movie folders etc can be quite a task.

Is there any way to start in a lower folder and see everything underneath that rather than seeing A C D Drives completely?

Hope this can be achieved.

Graham.

Hi all,

Does anyone know where to contact the author of this program, and if he speaks english?

I have not been that much interested in streaming DivX and Xvid, but streaming DVD's is a must have feature for many people.

I myself have looked into streaming DVD's with VLC, but I was not able to find a codec combination that worked.

Without a doubt, it would be awesome for many users to integrate between this program and the "My Movies" add-in I do for Media Center.

Please let me know where to contact the author.

Regards,

Brian Binnerup
"My Movies" Author

go here to see the reply

http://jortega74.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60

reply is here

http://jortega74.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?p=178#178

go to
http://jortega74.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?p=179#179

Is there a way to make it go directly into My Videos folder?

http://jortega74.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61