Hello,
I have an HTPC which worked / works fine. It uses a Geforce 210 low profile card.
I am running OpenElec 3.0.2
This week I watched Jack the Giant Slayer 1080p mkv and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 1080p mkv (files are 11 gb and 8 gb).
But it looks like the movie has some weird color blur (divX effect), half 3d effect, ghosting on some parts of de movie.
Some parts are crystal clear and some are bad, happens mostly on fast / busy scenes and dark scenes.
Are new movies in a different codec or is the machine getting old ?
Or does a new version of OpenElec solves the problem (could not find something in the notes pointing that way).
Only you can tell us what codecs your movies are in. DO some troubleshooting. XBMC produces logs. XBMC show a lot about what is going on if you press O during playback. mediainfo shows lot of info about your file.
So you have these tools, the rest of us have to guess what is going on with your system.
if only 1 movie is looking strange, consider the movie being badly encoded
I have the same problem running Openelec 3.0.5 and xbmc Frodo 12.2 on a Zotac ID34BR through a gigabit network. The media is being served through a Zyxel NSA 320 with two drives in raid 0 setup. I have no stuttering just ghosting, trailing, or whatever the proper technical term it is. I notice it very slightly on some films, not at all on others, I just ran across one film which was really bad and that was Mama. I tried messing around with all of the video settings but tbh I don't know what half of them do. I tried searching for this problem but only came across people who were having hosting or crosstalk on 3d files. I thought it was the copy of the film I had, which was 1080p, so I watched a 720p copy of it and the same thing. Here is info on the film while playing 720p version:
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D(Audio: dts (DTS), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 1536 kb/s) P(aq:99%, Kb/s:1472.81, rr:0.99959, att:0.0 dB)
D(Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x688 [SAR 1:1 DAR 80:43])
C( ad: 0.025, a/v: 0.041, edl:-, dcpu:0% acpu:35% vcpu: 1% cache:0 B 100% )
W( fps:23.98 CPU0: 12.2% CPU1: 6.2% CPU2: 28.6% CPU3: 2.0% ) S( refresh:24 missed:0 speed:+0.100% sync: +0% avg: 0% error: 0%)
Here is mediainfo on 720p file:
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Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 3.46 GiB
Duration : 1h 40mn
Overall bit rate : 4 952 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-04-23 16:01:25
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun 6 2010 16:18:42
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 9 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate : 3 344 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 688 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.85:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.158
Stream size : 2.34 GiB (68%)
Writing library : x264 core 68 r1195bm 5d75a9b
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=0.0:2.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=1 / thread_queue=1 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=crf / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.06 GiB (30%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Here is mediainfo on 1080p version:
Code:
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 8.05 GiB
Duration : 1h 40mn
Overall bit rate : 11.5 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-04-26 16:10:55
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.8.0 ('No Sleep / Pillow') built on Sep 2 2012 15:37:04
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Bit rate : 10 000 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 040 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.85:1
Frame rate mode : Variable
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : x264 core 112
Encoding settings : cabac=0 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=umh / subme=5 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=0 / open_gop=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=10000 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=3 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.06 GiB (13%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
and my xrandr:
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openelec:~ # xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1040mm x 580mm
1920x1080 60.0 + 59.9 24.0* 60.0
1440x480 60.1
1280x720 60.0 59.9
1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
720x480 59.9 60.1
640x480 75.0 59.9 59.9
xbmc.log with debugging on, please. While playing that movie. The spec looks (from a first look) quite okay. The CABAC=No is not that usual, but nvidia should cope with it.
And please post your log to pastebin or xbmclogs etc, not inline here.
Logs
here, video begins playing at line 1853
Additionally, screenshots with debugging on while film is playing. Screenshot #2 ghosting clearly visible.
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Ok..so I have obtained a third copy of the same film which doesn't show any of the issues I seem to be having with the film. So it looks like wsnipex was correct in my situation. But now what I would like to figure out is what aspect of the encoding of these video files is causing these issues so I know what to look for in the media file info. Here is the mediafileinfo of the third copy that is good:
Code:
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 7.92 GiB
Duration : 1h 40mn
Overall bit rate : 11.3 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-06-11 07:47:09
Writing application : mkvmerge v3.2.0 ('Beginnings') built on Feb 12 2010 16:46:17
Writing library : libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate : 9 856 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 040 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.85:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.206
Stream size : 6.70 GiB (85%)
Writing library : x264 core 133 r2334 a3ac64b
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=11 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.08 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=12 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=0 / bitrate=9856 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=40000 / vbv_bufsize=40000 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.60 / zones=137443,143315,b=0.4,deblock=1:2
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.06 GiB (13%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : Dutch
Default : Yes
Forced : No
I have also upgraded to openelec 3.1.1 last night.