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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Having got myth video to be able to read other network drive locations I am disappointed to see the very poor quality playback across the board with all video formats. I have copied some of the video files locally to the Mythbox to rule out network latency issues however the quality is still very poor. Playing DVD compilations in Myth Video does not allow you to just play from the parent directory level and read the ifo file and play back the VOB in the correct order like so many other DVD players . You seem to have to play each individual VOB files which is very useless even through it can play the content if is not presented as a logic package. It does not seem to honour the menu structures as you wouold expect. I’m sure here is a step I am missing that someone can help with. How do you get rid of all the questin marks on the files?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I noticed playback of videos is particularly bad with files captured with my HD Camcorder VIXIA HFS 21 which saves files natively to a .mts format at whatever resolution you chose. Myth Video is very jerky with the playback regardless to the capture resolution momentarily stalling every 6 seconds and VLC player is even worse. Movie Player make the best effort playing back footage however none are as smooth as Windows media player or PowerDVD, Real Player or Nero Media Hub in the Windows platform. I cannot imagine that playing back video files in Ubuntu should have such a performance difference so I was looking for some advice about what codecs I need to add to my Linux machine so it can play back video clips at the same quality as Windows or a mac with equivalent hardware?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have found that flip videos that are downloaded in Ubuntu are unrecognised by Movie player an myth video by default but are played by VLC without a problem. If I use video redo to edit the MP4 clips and resave in video redo as MP4 (H.264) movie player will play them fine. All of the windows applications play the flip video fine however ubuntu’s support for video is flaky. It plays the files without reporting an error but very badly making them unwatchable.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What do I need to do to narrow the performance gap so I can use my Myth box as a media centre? Do I need to remux them at different frames per second to remove the jerky playback the so degrades the quality? How can some many windows apps play the files well by default whereas Linux apps seem to need fine tuning?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What setting should I look at?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My version of Movie Player is: 2.30.2 – G Streamer 0.10.28<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>VLC is gcc version 4.4.3-4 ubuntu5<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anthony<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>