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The MP4 limitation applies mostly to mobile phones, not the XBox - it's different. Your assumption about slow transcoding is most probably right - that CPU is not enough to transcode high-def in real time. WMV encoding is one of the slowest one due to the fact that it's single-threaded (because of an FFmpeg limitation), so it will benefit from pure Ghz more than from the number of core (but a dual-core CPU is the recommended minimum for any transcoding).
To skip through a file, it has to be fully transcoded - was the file still being transcoded when you tried to FF?
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When I realized it was tryign to transcode that big movie I knew it would be too much for the server, so I used the xbox to navigate to a small video in a format the xbox natively supports and played that (I thought i read somewhere that if you play another video while the mezzmo is transcoding, mezzmo will stop transcoding and respond to the new request).
I think the transcoding was no longer happening on the server when I tried to play the movie because I noticed the CPU wasnt pegged at 100% any longer. Also the videos that woudl allow me to skip forward were mp4/h264/2-channel AAC so they were not being transcoded.
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Mezzmo will transcode in the background (if it's turned on), but the CPU priority of that transcoding if low (by default - you can change that), so it'll take a lot less of your CPU during that, but it will be much slower than "normal", real-time transcoding. If you start playing another video and it needs transcoding, that will take precedence, so ideally you'd want to start playing a long movie, then stop it and wait (without playing anything else). That'll make sure that this movie is being transcoded and not anything else.
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I am getting the exact same issue as stated in these posts... 6 channel not switching to 2 channel. I have tried all the methods listed here but to no avail. I am currently wanting to purchase this software as it works 10x better than Playon which I use now. However this bug is a bit of a deal breaker. I should also note that the exact movies I am attempting to play with Mezzmo (getting the above listed errors) work perfectly with Playon's software... but Playon doesn't fast forward / Rewind / Chapter Skip like Mezzmo does. Mezzmo seems to be a much slicker app and I would prefer to use it if this matter can be resolved.
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The problem with downsampling lies within the domain of FFmpeg's developers, we are not related to them in any way, so unfortunately I don't know when this will be implemented. We're testing new versions of FFmpeg on a weekly basis to check what bugs have been fixed and what new features implemented, so as soon as they've done it, we'll have it as well.
