Weren't you saying over in another thread that your mp4 files were all playing jittery on Xbox One?
(Note - I'm not trying to start something here, nor am I trying to be clever...I'm genuinely asking if there could be a connection, as I have a lot of avi files archived into a corner of my server)
Plex is most likely trying to trans-code his XviD (avi) files in a (mp4) container when he just renamed everything to .mp4
There can be significant differences on how a codec is handled depending on the container (aka wrapper) But Yeah.. i am done with this to, and i agree with Atrus,
Yea they were jittery until I found the setting in the Xbox One app. Once I switched it to 720p all my movies play great. It doesn't matter if they are .avi or renamed .mp4 with a h264 codec.
Ive even converted some mkv videos directly to mp4 with the same result. Hopefully the next Plex update will make the quality setting stick instead of having to adjust the quality setting upon every reboot.
You can’t just rename the file from avi to MP4 and it magically becomes an MPEG 4 container. Next you’ll be saying that you took the be letters of your vw bug and replaced them with Porsche letters so now you drive a porsche and your bug does 0-60 in 2.9 seconds
Everyone keeps saying you can’t do this and you can’t do that but I’m not hearing any reasons why. I would think as long as both containers can handle a common codec I don’t see why it shouldn’t work. It works fine for me in plex and every other software I’ve tried. Anyone else care to do a real world test besides me?
Most video players do not care much about the file extension but only the codecs inside; so a xVid won't become a h264 if you name it mp4 and some player that doesn't handle your file codec won't play it whatever you name it, but will play any file it can actually play with whatever extension it is supposed to handle as only what's inside the container really matters, the extension just helping the player to recognize a file faster.
For the Xbox, I'd say that if it can play a renamed avi to mp4 file without transcoding, then the player in it has more capacities to handle files that Microsoft said it to have. But it is still just a lure and you may find an avi file that will just make your machine choke because the xbox player doesn't handle its codec.
Yea that makes sense. I'll try converting an mkv straight to mp4 instead of avi renamed to mp4 and see if that makes a difference. My bet is it won't though.
You don’t need to re-convert the video if both Codecs are the same (h264) MKV to MP4. However you do need software that is able to rewrap it proper into the new container. Because there is no actual re-converting of the video this method is fast with no quality change. Use MKVtoMP4, The software is free and supports subtitles, tagging and other useful options and is all adjustable. It essentially will remux everything and rewrap it into the new container for you without re-conversion.
Of course that method is only when there is no change in codec type and only audio and container, XviD To h264 will need re-converting.
