mp4 with 5.1 AAC audio not playing on xbox 360

[Paul]

Hello,

Can you please post FFmpeg information about one of those files (in Mezzmo right-click on the file and use the "Get FFmpeg Information" command) - I can then check it against the profile to see what's happening.

[Koekebeest]

Thank you for your quick reply.
Here is the ffmpeg information for one of the files that didn't work.

FFmpeg version SVN-r25446, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 12 2010 10:38:21 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffplay --prefix=/media/windows-share/ffmpeg --extra-cflags=-U__STRICT_ANSI__ --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 50.32. 3 / 50.32. 3
libavcore 0. 9. 1 / 0. 9. 1
libavcodec 52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
libavformat 52.81. 0 / 52.81. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
libavfilter 1.50. 1 / 1.50. 1
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'D:\Files\Videos\Big Bang Theory\Season 2\The.Big.Bang.Theory.2x01.The.Bad.Fish.Paradigm.7 20p.HDTV.x264.AC3-DIMENSION_track1.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 1
compatible_brands: isomavc1
Duration: 00:21:21.28, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3426 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 3272 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1(und): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 149 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 41

[Paul]

Thanks for the file info.

It fails because FFmpeg cannot resample 6 channels to 2 channels - we'll need to find a solution for this. Please send a message to support (at) conceiva (dot) com and once we have a working solution, I'll send you an updated device profile.

[RMerlin]

Maybe the trick we did with the WDTV profile would work - transcoding from AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1? If the Xbox 360 can pass AC3 to the receiver, that would do the trick.

[Paul]

I'll give that a try as well - thanks for the suggestion.

[rkneeshaw]

Any update on this?

I've been evaluating tversity but they seem to have the same problem. Does Mezzmo have a solution for those of us with H.264/AAC 5.1 mp4 files and want to stream to xbox 360 without converting all our video files?

[Paul]

I think that the XBox360 does not support AC3 in an MP4 container at this point. Maybe they'll add it in a future firmware update, but for the time being I don't think it's possible, unfortunately.

If anyone was successful in playing MP4 files with h264 video and AC3 audio on the XBox, please let me know.