Ethernet 100 to 1000Mbs

BoB3rt · 6 Aug 2012 at 01:00

I am experiencing some problems in video playback on my 360...

File i am playing has a total video bitrate of 2236kbps
the video is being a little choppy in the sound but is fine on the PC, so i can assume this is a network / transfer problem.

Would changing the ethernet from 100 to 1000 straighten this out do you think, if so how is it done?

I have a Gigabyte etherport but currently set at 100mb.

Thanks

hawker1986 · 6 Aug 2012 at 07:41

Are other files of a similar size working ok? If so then its probably the file. Also do you have a gigabite router? If so I would expect the two to automatically talk at 1000 if not you would need to upgrade the router.

AbsenceJam · 6 Aug 2012 at 09:53

So your file is only 2Mbit and you wonder if going from 100Mbit to 1000Mbit will help?

PiKe · 6 Aug 2012 at 09:53

Also Xbox doesn't support gigabit anyway.

crinkleshoes · 6 Aug 2012 at 10:27

BoB3rt said:
File i am playing has a total video bitrate of 2236kbps
the video is being a little choppy in the sound but is fine on the PC, so i can assume this is a network / transfer problem.

2mbit over 100mbit... either you have a severe network speed issue, or it's not the network

Sounds like a codec issue to me - either recode or re-download from an xbox compatible source.

Memphis · 6 Aug 2012 at 11:38

crinkleshoes said:
2mbit over 100mbit... either you have a severe network speed issue, or it's not the network

Sounds like a codec issue to me - either recode or re-download from an xbox compatible source.

As above. No way in hell you've got a video file that won't play over 100Mb.

crinkleshoes · 6 Aug 2012 at 12:00

Memphis said:
As above. No way in hell you've got a video file that won't play over 100Mb.

Speaking of which... I have a few that won't even play over a gigabit network (uncompressed 4K... bitrate ~6gbit)

BoB3rt · 6 Aug 2012 at 20:07

Memphis said:
As above. No way in hell you've got a video file that won't play over 100Mb.

yep i did the maths an knew this already but seen it suggested. tbh i have no idea what could cause it i will re-download the codecs on my xbox. but sometimes (PC idle) watching 30min episodes (175mb) on the xbox via PC it will mess up and the sound will jump constantly like machine gun fire is the best way to describe it not every so ofen. dunno why?

also the media extender does not like music and fast screen movment it goes very choppy (ie Big Bang Thoery Opening) works fine on dashboard player though!?

crinkleshoes · 6 Aug 2012 at 20:26

It will be the source file using codecs that aren't natively supported by the Xbox... that's all

Sorry if my assumption is incorrect... but I imagine these files aren't strictly speaking legal... if that's the case, you're entirely up to the abilities of the encoder to encode them in a format that's suitable for the Xbox.

The Xbox is very picky when it comes to codecs... that's why I built my own HTPC a while back.

HTPC + Win 7 + haali media splitter + ffdshow tryouts will play everything