SMS Bug Reports

<G> · #1 08-19-2005, 03:58 PM

Please post bugs in SMS here. More detailed guidelines for reporting bugs will be posted here shortly.

neo333 · #2 08-19-2005, 09:04 PM

this is an odd bug EEUG

Ok , since you changed the SMS version to 1.3 with AC3 compadibility a few of my avi files are playing there audio with 2X the speed

I hope you can fix this

Mr. Worm~~ · #3 08-19-2005, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neo333

this is an odd bug EEUG

Ok , since you changed the SMS version to 1.3 with AC3 compadibility a few of my avi files are playing there audio with 2X the speed

I hope you can fix this

Can you give more info please, about A/V codec, bitrate, etc.
As much info you attach will help, tks

EEUG · #4 08-19-2005, 09:30 PM

...f..k, I know the problem (I suppose you have mono sound in your clips). Patch will come up during weekend. Sorry

...

Edit: try this one. Should work now. Sorry again. Have a nice weekend

...

Ironchef86 · #5 08-19-2005, 10:22 PM

I'm experiencing freezing of a movie which played fine all the way through on previous versions of SMS. About 3 minutes into the movie the picture freezes and the audio continues, then the audio stops and a loud buzzing noise is heard. I'm using a NTSC tv, I've also tried Mr. Worm's version of SMS 1.3 NTSC and still experienced the problem, as well the as the one EEUG just released a few minutes ago.

Info from GSpot:
xvid file 640 x 360 with MP3 audio 48000Hz 128 kb/s total (2 chnls)
size is 699mb

quick edit: I deleted the settings in the mc for SMS and so far the video has played past the point of freezing. Will continue to test and report back.

update #2: Seems like I got my hopes up too quickly. Only played a few more minutes than before and the same result occured.

EEUG · #6 08-19-2005, 10:40 PM

...must have that movie to see what's going on there

. Is there any way to share part of it somewhere?...

Ironchef86 · #7 08-19-2005, 11:04 PM

Let me see if I can cut a part of it with virtualdub, though I'm pretty inexperienced with video encoding I'm not sure if the encoding would still be the same as the original. Let me try right now.

Just tried cutting a piece with virtualdub and saving it. It ends up being a RAW avi file which is huge. I would try to reeconde it if I knew how, but I'm thinking if I do reencode it it would have a different effect. Any idea how to cut a clip while still retaining the encoding?

EEUG · #8 08-19-2005, 11:19 PM

...hold on, I've reproduced the problem here

(I was too "good" with MIPS assembler). Althoght I could revert to C routine back in the moment, it's quite interesting, so the update will come tomorrow

. Sorry...
...and thank you for efforts...

emcepl · #9 08-20-2005, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ironchef86

Any idea how to cut a clip while still retaining the encoding?

Avi Splitter 1.23 @ http://www.media4pc.com/
Just mark a part of the movie, check - save without recompression, save. 2-3 secs and it's done

strikeuk · #10 08-20-2005, 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ironchef86

Let me see if I can cut a part of it with virtualdub, though I'm pretty inexperienced with video encoding I'm not sure if the encoding would still be the same as the original. Let me try right now.

Just tried cutting a piece with virtualdub and saving it. It ends up being a RAW avi file which is huge. I would try to reeconde it if I knew how, but I'm thinking if I do reencode it it would have a different effect. Any idea how to cut a clip while still retaining the encoding?

The reason yours was in raw format is because it's selected as full processing mode on default just select video and change it to direct stream copy so it retains its video format. Then just file and select avi as... .

Anyway glad you found the bug eeug, i'm also having the problem with it.

neo333 · #11 08-20-2005, 12:48 AM

Awesome EEUG,

I just tried the update just now and it looks like you figured out my problem

EEUG · #12 08-20-2005, 01:26 AM

...SVN contains a new one which doesn't hang anymore (at least in my case

). Too late here to fiddle with tags to insert a link, so I hope that somebody will do it. And "I'm hitting the hay"...

mastaalien · #13 08-21-2005, 09:02 PM

Tested a Avi file with ac3 sound.
Works fine, sometime i had the feeling its a little bit asynch. but maybe it has to do with pause option?
It also had a little yellow pixelthing in the picture (on the bottom in the black)
And the sound was very quiet. Had the volume on like 80% were normal is like 25% and 40% is screaming.
Bug Report cause the sound was so low. If you need i will upload a sample of the movie, didn't it right now cause my inet connection is f*** up.

Quote:

--- File Information ---
File Name: sample.avi
File Name (with full path): f:\test\sample.avi
File Size (in bytes): 731,971,584

--- Container Information ---
Base Type (e.g "AVI"): AVI(.AVI)
Subtype (e.g "OpenDML"): OpenDML (AVI v2.0),
Interleave (in ms): 40
Preload (in ms): 512
Audio alignment("split across interleaves"): Split
Total System Bitrate (kbps): 0
Bytes Missing (if any): 0
Number of Audio Streams: 1

--- Video Information ---
Video Codec Type(e.g. "DIV3"): xvid
Video Codec Name(e.g. "DivX 3, Low-Motion"): XviD
Video Codec Status(e.g. "Codec Is Installed"): Codec(s) are Installed
Duration (hh:mm:ss): 01:26:22
Frame Count: 129558
Frame Width (pixels): 568
Frame Height (pixels): 312
Frame Aspect Ratio (e.g "1.3333"):
Frame Aspect Ratio (e.g. "4:3"):
Pixel Aspect Ratio ("SAR"):
Display Aspect Ratio ("DAR"): 1.821
Frames Per Second: 25
Video Bitrate (kbps): 675
MPEG-4 ("MPEG-4" or ""): MPEG-4
B-VOP ("B-VOP" or ""): B-VOP
QPel ("QPel" or ""):
GMC ("GMC" or ""):
H264 ("H264" or ""):

MPEG-2 ("MPEG-2" or ""):
Interlaced ("I/L" or ""):
Progressive ("Prog" or ""):
Top Frame First ("TFF" or ""):
Bottom Frame First ("BFF" or ""):
3:2 Pulldown ("3:2" or ""):
Picture-per-field ("PPF" or ""):

- Aspect Ratio Related:

Broadcast standard: "PAL" (else blank)
Broadcast standard: "NTSC" (else blank)
src:"VCD", "SVCD", "CVD", or "DVD (else blank):
Instructions to convert to VCD, first part:
Instructions to convert to VCD, second part:
Instructions to convert to SVCD, first part:
Instructions to convert to SVCD, second part:
Instructions to convert to CVD, first part:
Instructions to convert to CVD, second part:
Instructions to convert to DVD, first part:
Instructions to convert to DVD, second part:
Instructions to convert to AVI, first part:
Instructions to convert to AVI, second part:

--- Audio Information ---
MPEG Stream ID (e.g. "0xbd"):
MPEG VOB file Substream(e.g. "0x80"):
Audio Codec (e.g. "AC3"): 0x2000(AC3, Dolby Laboratories, Inc) AC3
Audio Codec Status (e.g. "Codec Is Installed"): Codec(s) are Installed
Audio Sample Rate (Hz): 48000
Audio Bitrate(kbps): 448
Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"): CBR
Audio Channel Count (e.g. "2" for stereo): 5

EEUG · #14 08-21-2005, 09:21 PM

...568/16 is not an integer number

. Same for 312. This concerns a "yellow pixelthing". I didn't bother myself with resolutions which are not dividable by 16. Yes, this can be considered as "intended" bug. One day I'll try to put my hands on it. Quet AC3 sound: I think it depends on encoder. I've also got different AC3 movies with different audio "levels". In the program there's one hardcoded constant concerning this. If I'll increase its value some movies will be screaming like hell then

. "little bit asynch": quite possible. A/V sync is still not ideal. There will always be a difference at least +- 40ms...

mastaalien · #15 08-21-2005, 09:55 PM

ah ok, forgot to check the resolution thing. my fault.
and for the ac3sound, well in that case i will search a tool to boost up the volume in the file directly.
for the +-40ms, yes i think its a a/v sync issue, cause it was really "a little bit" like almost not noticeable. but when i'm testing i consentrate on such things, but for watching its ok. keep up the amazing work

Ironchef86 · #16 08-22-2005, 12:18 AM

Just a few things I've noticed since using SMS for over a month now. As the video is about to end, say there is about 3 minutes left in the movie, the sound chops for a few seconds.

Secondly if you play a 4:3 movie and then right after play a 16:9 movie, 90% of the time there will be a little horizontal bar which was part of the 4:3 movie attached to the 16:9 movie on the bottom. Of course this is only for 4:3 tvs, at least I would think so.

EEUG · #17 08-22-2005, 09:25 AM

...I know about the first issue (no idea yet why it's happening). For the second issue check dimensions of the movie (if they not dividable by 16 then it can happen (see previous page of this thread), otherwise it's indeed a bug which will be fixed I-don't-know-when

)...

Causea · #18 08-25-2005, 02:25 PM

The host support seems to have the same lockup problem as the linux kit had. The whole system just freezes after some network activity..

Don't know if any help but this fixed my linux-kit:
http://playstation2-linux.com/projec...?release_id=68

Mr. Worm~~ · #19 08-26-2005, 03:19 AM

I've played several movies and no hangs at all, also remember to move in the upper section to other active interface before closing ps2client, in that case it hangs, for example HDD or CDDAFS...

dlanor · #20 08-27-2005, 02:09 AM

@EEUG:
As is often the case I have both good and bad news:
The good news is mainly that the new height scaling seems to work very well. The movies that previously had lots of artifacts below the real picture now look clean, and without losing any of the speed. Tested resolutions include 640x272, and 1008x428.

Another good thing is that the CD support works very well now, though my half-dead PS2 laser doesn't allow me to test DVD disks. Hopefully others will report on that.

The bad news is that I concur with others in saying that the AC3 sound level is erroneous. I know and agree with your argument that raising the sound level constant of SMS can make some AVIs too loud, but I disagree with you on the choice of those AVIs as the standard to judge this by.

The proper standards to use should be what normal encoders produce with default settings, and AVIs produced that way are extremely quiet in SMS as compared to other media players. Ideally two AVIs encoded from the same movie should sound the same, when one uses AC3 and the other uses MP3, with both encoders using defaults for all settings. But that is not the case with SMS, even though it is so (approximately) with other players.

If it had just been a case of a few dB, I wouldn't have mentioned it here, but rather in the 'Feature request' thread. But the volume difference is such that I consider it a bug.

Since you said this is caused by a simple constant, it should be quite easy to fix. I could help with experiments to find the correct value, though I'm not really familiar with those parts of the code. But if you just tell me where to find that constant definition I'll have a go at it.

Edit: Though I hear a distinct difference between AC3 and MP3, such that AC3 needs a lot more boosting, I do believe that MP3 also needs a slightly higher volume level. Of course, it may be hard to find any setting that satisfies everybody, but perhaps the constant may be replaced by a variable, which could be saved to the config file...

Best regards: dlanor