2008-09-28, 22:32
Hey guys,
I've been having a lot of problems with HD mkv playback. Here is the description of my problem:
I will be streaming a 720p mkv file via gigabit ethernet when suddenly the video will freeze on a certain frame. The audio will freeze as well, playing a short (half second?) clip over and over again. This happens for between 5-15 seconds, after which the video either resumes playback or sometimes it kicks me back to the menu.
Things to note:
a) This does not happen if I copy the file to the computer's HD and play them there, then they play 100% fine.
b) This doesn't always happen in the same spot - it could freeze somewhere and if I rewind it it'll play past that same spot with no problems.
c) Sometimes movies of the same resolution streamed from the same spot play with no problems, and sometimes the problem occurs every few minutes.
The debug log: http://pastebin.ca/1213031
I start playing the movie around line 650. Line 813 is where the playback froze, and as you can see absolutely nothing happened for the next 17 seconds while it sat there frozen. It then booted me back to the menu. It should be noted that directly after I made this debug log I played the file again skipped to the part where it had skipped before and it played past it fine.
This is on a fresh install of Windows XP. Probably unrelated, but also noteworthy is the warning for missing DLL files at lines 514-523.
Any suggestions of what to try? I tried increasing the cache and it didn't seem to help. It's clearly not the network speed, I can copy the whole file to the XBMC computer in 3 minutes so streaming it should be no problem. I also watched a few minutes of the same file from my Vista computer with MPC and it played with no problems.
I've been having a lot of problems with HD mkv playback. Here is the description of my problem:
I will be streaming a 720p mkv file via gigabit ethernet when suddenly the video will freeze on a certain frame. The audio will freeze as well, playing a short (half second?) clip over and over again. This happens for between 5-15 seconds, after which the video either resumes playback or sometimes it kicks me back to the menu.
Things to note:
a) This does not happen if I copy the file to the computer's HD and play them there, then they play 100% fine.
b) This doesn't always happen in the same spot - it could freeze somewhere and if I rewind it it'll play past that same spot with no problems.
c) Sometimes movies of the same resolution streamed from the same spot play with no problems, and sometimes the problem occurs every few minutes.
The debug log: http://pastebin.ca/1213031
I start playing the movie around line 650. Line 813 is where the playback froze, and as you can see absolutely nothing happened for the next 17 seconds while it sat there frozen. It then booted me back to the menu. It should be noted that directly after I made this debug log I played the file again skipped to the part where it had skipped before and it played past it fine.
This is on a fresh install of Windows XP. Probably unrelated, but also noteworthy is the warning for missing DLL files at lines 514-523.
Any suggestions of what to try? I tried increasing the cache and it didn't seem to help. It's clearly not the network speed, I can copy the whole file to the XBMC computer in 3 minutes so streaming it should be no problem. I also watched a few minutes of the same file from my Vista computer with MPC and it played with no problems.
...Gents I am getting the same issue...any ideas..?? Is it becasue of the size of the data being streamed..I a have noticed with large streams, the image will tend to freeze..
