M8 AVI playback issues

[marty17]

I have been reading elsewhere about a lot of AVI playback issues.
I suffer them also, it hasn't made any difference what ROM or Player i use, XBMC or an Android Player.

Dropping frames, Audi sync and complete stopping of the video as audio continues.

Anyone else suffer these problems. It is not on all AVI files, but many.
I will also add horrible interlace issues too.

Deselecting Hardware Accelerators does improve the issues.

[no_spam_for_me]

AVI is only a container (like mkv also) so it's not helpful to talk about problems with AVI without knowing which format is inside the container (e.g. xVid ...) ...

[firestorm2yk]

Playback Issues

I have been reading elsewhere about a lot of AVI playback issues.
I suffer them also, it hasn't made any difference what ROM or Player i use, XBMC or an Android Player.

Dropping frames, Audi sync and complete stopping of the video as audio continues.

Anyone else suffer these problems. It is not on all AVI files, but many.
I will also add horrible interlace issues too.

Deselecting Hardware Accelerators does improve the issues.

Recently ive been mucking around with different roms and versions of xbmc and so far ive gotten the smoothest experience by doing the following:
Install finless rom 1.8 – Thanks finless, I’ll keep donating for all the hard work you put in!
Use the 1008mhz cpu patcher
Uninstall the default version of xbmc that comes with the rom
Install spmc , 13.3.0 apk found in the below link
http://spmc.semperpax.com/
Once installed, make sure decoding method is set to software and allow multi threading software decoding is enabled.
Open notepad and paste the following into it:
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>52428800</cachemembuffersize>
</network>
</advancedsettings>
Save it as advancedsettings.xml
Next you’ll need a file manager with root access. I recommend es file explorer - it's free from the app store.

Copy the advancedsettings.xml file you just created to :
Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/

You might need to create the xbmc and userdata folders.
Shut down spmc and start it up again.
Test it and see if it works ok for you.
Keep in mind I use my m8 via an Ethernet connection so not sure how this will perform over wifi.

[Guest]

Copy the advancedsettings.xml file you just created to :
Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/xbmc/userdata/

there is a dot . (meaning hidden system folder) before ie: .xbmc/userdata/

/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/