I have been mucking around with video encode for a while now using Handbrake without any success. (just recently tried EncodeHD on a Windows machine with no luck) So far all music and pictures play well through uShare to my XBox 360. I am able to get some of my videos to play on the XBox (using Skifta) that were recorded by my phone but in very crummy quality.
So far I have tried an xbox.plist file found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1350522 or by checkout out the uShare tag 0.9.3 to extract resources.plist - still no luck.
Here is a similar superuser posting - Connect Ubuntu 11.04 to xbox 360
The uShare configuration, /etc/ushare.conf
, is easy enough to setup and well documented online in a number of forums. The issue seems to be the encoding... or perhaps Skifta can share images and music with XBox?
At any rate, I would expect to be able to select my Ubuntu (12.10) PC from the xbox, which I can do, and play movies, which are listed but not playable.
EDIT: I just tried removing the audio on one of the videos that was partially playing. I tried to played the new video only this time it didn't work at all. This is what I used:
avconv -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -an output.m4v
Other than changing from .mp4
to m4v
I'm not sure why it wouldn't work :-/
Here are the properties of the partially working video from ffmpeg -i input.mp4
:
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 180000.00 (180000/1) -> 90000.00 (180000/2)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'input.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isom3gp4
creation_time : 1946-07-11 02:03:10
Duration: 00:03:08.97, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 7706 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (Baseline), yuv420p, 1280x720, 7599 kb/s, PAR 65536:65536 DAR 16:9, 28.47 fps, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 1946-07-11 02:03:10
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, mono, s16, 96 kb/s
Metadata:
creation_time : 1946-07-11 02:03:10