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MKV file x264 choppy playback - keisuji - 2013-06-17
hi guys i have a problem with some mkv tv series of mine. all the other files i have play well in xbmc. only a few mkv tv show videos playing choppy.
The same videos play perfectly in VLC/MPC on the same machine though, which suggests there's nothing wrong with the machine or the file.
And in xbmc on my pi and on my gaming pc the video plays fine.
My system win7, hd graphics 2000 i5, 4 gb ram.
Thanks in advance
here is a mediainfo of one file i try to play
http://pastebin.com/3PAx1Zzi
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - ConfusedTA - 2013-06-17
My guess is audio settings - this file has AAC audio, and my guess is that your receiver doesn't support AAC, but you've got the AAC option enabled in the audio output settings, hence it is unable to correctly play the file.
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - keisuji - 2013-06-17
i have tried to disable it but it does not solve my problems?
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - jjd-uk - 2013-06-17
A debug Log_file (wiki) showing you play a file would be of help
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - keisuji - 2013-06-17
hope it helps here is the debug log
the video i treid in the debug log is a episode of game of thrones it start in line 2591
http://pastebin.com/N11ned3A
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - jjd-uk - 2013-06-17
Try the following audio settings:
Audio output: Analog
Speaker configuration: 2.0
Audio output device: here try both "Directsounnd - HDMI" and "WASAPI - HDMI"
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - keisuji - 2013-06-17
i set this up with these seetings but no luck the same problem :-(
here is a new debug log playing the same file
http://pastebin.com/DaCNu1pu
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - jjd-uk - 2013-06-17
Ok perhaps not audio then.
Could you be clearer on what you mean by choppy playback? how choppy? is it occasional stutter or constant stutter?
Could you upload to somewhere like ImageShack or snag.gy screenshots of:
1. System -> Video -> Playback
2. System -> System -> Video output
3. Codecinfo (wiki)
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - keisuji - 2013-06-17
ok i tried different video settings and i fixed my problem :-)
i need to disable allow hardware acceleration (dvx2) in video->playback
thank you jjd-uk for trying to help me
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - debennett2 - 2013-06-17
The fact that this otherwise-awesome front end software cannot correctly support analog audio properly is driving me insane. I'm not trying to troll here but every piece of advise or article or how-to I've seen is had I this or that. Nothing analog other than the advice to use 2.0 if nothing works here or there. Just such a shame that I'm considering other front ends because of lack or both a decent video or audio playback platform.
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - ConfusedTA - 2013-06-17
The Analog/HDMI/Optical output option only sets the default options for the rest of the screen - and setting it to Analog and 2.0 basically says "XBMC should process all audio, and not pass anything through" - it's a good "failsafe" option.
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - scott967 - 2013-06-18
(2013-06-17, 13:06)keisuji Wrote: hi guys i have a problem with some mkv tv series of mine. all the other files i have play well in xbmc. only a few mkv tv show videos playing choppy.
The same videos play perfectly in VLC/MPC on the same machine though, which suggests there's nothing wrong with the machine or the file.
And in xbmc on my pi and on my gaming pc the video plays fine.
My system win7, hd graphics 2000 i5, 4 gb ram.
Thanks in advance
here is a mediainfo of one file i try to play
http://pastebin.com/3PAx1Zzi
It's interesting that I had a somewhat similar (AFAICT) problem with a particular mkv file, which was also built by mkvmerge. What I was doing was appending a two-sided DVD rip I had first re-encoded from MPEG-2/AC3 to AVC/AAC into a single file. It seemed to play in other software but was choppy in XBMC. So I redid my file. This time I used the MPEG-2 video tracks and AC3 audio, did the append with mkvmerge, and when all was done used X264/FAAC (handbrake library) to convert to AVC/AAC/AC3 passthrough. This time it worked.
This was using both WASAPI and directSound and the Realtek MB driver/sound. Two systems, one converting to analog and the other SPDIF with passthrough to AVR for AC3.
scott s.
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RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - stryderr - 2016-02-04
(2013-06-17, 15:31)keisuji Wrote: ok i tried different video settings and i fixed my problem :-)
i need to disable allow hardware acceleration (dvx2) in video->playback
thank you jjd-uk for trying to help me
This
Fixed the problem for me
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - Derek - 2016-02-04
Bad rip would be my first thought, disabling hardware accel wouldnt be something i'd be keen to do to get a single mkv working. I would re-rip it using proper tools/settings.
RE: MKV file x264 choppy playback - texascritter - 2017-03-07
(2013-06-17, 15:31)keisuji Wrote: ok i tried different video settings and i fixed my problem :-)
i need to disable allow hardware acceleration (dvx2) in video->playback
thank you jjd-uk for trying to help me
This partially fixed my problem, the video on all my x264 files (about 80% of my files) was in a weird kind of slow motion while the sound was fine. Disabling hardware acceleration fixed the slow motion problem but caused the audio to stutter constantly. ConfusedTA's comment gave me some insight into fixing that:
(2013-06-17, 16:34)ConfusedTA Wrote: The Analog/HDMI/Optical output option only sets the default options for the rest of the screen - and setting it to Analog and 2.0 basically says "XBMC should process all audio, and not pass anything through" - it's a good "failsafe" option.
My audio settings were already set that way but I'd noticed "sync playback to display" which also disables passthrough audio, turning on that option fixed the audio problem.
My equipment: Two 2010 Mac Minis, both using HDMI hookups, one to a monitor running El Capitan, one to a TV running Sierra. Kodi v15 worked, all my x264 files played fine, audio and video. But v16 and v17 had this problem, happy to find this fix, love Kodi otherwise!