mp4 with 5.1 AAC audio not playing on xbox 360

**Paul** · 01-14-2011, 04:03 PM

That's what I thought

Yes, we can't do much about this problem, unfortunately, since we just proved that we cannot transcode to MP4 with 6-channel AAC and WMA does not support 6-channel sound, so needs to be resampled to stereo, but FFmpeg cannot do that. So, either we need to try a different format (e.g. AVI) or those files need to be manually converted outside of Mezzmo for the time being.

**rkneeshaw** · 01-14-2011, 04:10 PM

Can we force ffmpeg to transcode to an ASF container with WMV3 for video and wmapro for audio? I think wmapro is 5.1 channel, and xbox supports it

The Xbox 360 console supports the following for WMV:

* File extensions: .wmv
* Containers: ASF
* Video profiles: WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3), VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main, and advanced up to level 3
* Video bit rate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 × 1080 at 30 fps.
* Audio profiles: WMA7/8, WMA9 Pro (stereo and 5.1), WMA Lossless
* Audio max bit rate: No restrictions.

**Paul** · 01-14-2011, 04:12 PM

No, FFmpeg does not support encoding WMA Pro, unfortunately.

**rkneeshaw** · 01-14-2011, 04:14 PM

Last one, how about an AVI container with MPEG part 2 (is this divx?) and dolby digital audio?

The Xbox 360 console supports the following for AVI:

* File extensions: .avi, .divx
* Containers: AVI
* Video profiles: MPEG-4 Part 2 (Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile)
* Video bit rate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 × 720 at 30 fps
* Audio profiles: Dolby® Digital (2 channel and 5.1 channel), MP3
* Audio max bit rate: No restrictions

**Paul** · 01-14-2011, 04:19 PM

I'll need to experiment with this - probably I'll have time on Monday and then I'll know for sure. As long as the XBox doesn't expect to find DivX tags in the AVI (which can only be put in after a file finishes transcoding), it may work.