2012-04-03, 19:26
It doesn't seem to happen with all movies, but it's very noticeable with Band of Brothers. I ripped the full Blu-Ray using pass-through video and audio with DVDFab. So it's the full size .mkv - around 25 GB.
I am streaming it from a NAS box. During playback I checked utilization on CPU and memory on both the NAS and the HTPC. NAS CPU utilization was very low (3-4%). The memory use was also very low. On the HTPC (Windows 7) box the CPU ran at about 40% and the memory was somewhere in the middle (I have 4GB total). The network throughput topped out around 40% or 40Mbps. It's a 100Mbps link.
The only thing left that I could think of which might cause it was a limitation of SMB sharing. So last night I installed the Windows 7 native NFS client and mounted an NFS share from the NAS. I played it again and it's still having the same issue.
Basically, about every second or two the video will skip forward a split second. There's no pixelation or anything, but it's not smooth. The audio comes across just fine.
Any other thoughts at what I should be looking at? I like the full size rips because I had trouble finding a bit rate that would still look good consistently.
I am streaming it from a NAS box. During playback I checked utilization on CPU and memory on both the NAS and the HTPC. NAS CPU utilization was very low (3-4%). The memory use was also very low. On the HTPC (Windows 7) box the CPU ran at about 40% and the memory was somewhere in the middle (I have 4GB total). The network throughput topped out around 40% or 40Mbps. It's a 100Mbps link.
The only thing left that I could think of which might cause it was a limitation of SMB sharing. So last night I installed the Windows 7 native NFS client and mounted an NFS share from the NAS. I played it again and it's still having the same issue.
Basically, about every second or two the video will skip forward a split second. There's no pixelation or anything, but it's not smooth. The audio comes across just fine.
Any other thoughts at what I should be looking at? I like the full size rips because I had trouble finding a bit rate that would still look good consistently.