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So, yeah you don't have a general 24.0 hz problem, this was btw. a direct bluray rip. Make sure your network is not the issue. But yeah, we are getting offtopic :-) as this is about windows and not a general problem as proven by my sample.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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I tried this sample (msclust.mp4) and have not seen any issues. Using latest AMD Omega 14.12 driver.
My HDTV has 24Hz mode, which plays 23.976 fps videos at a +0.001% speedup rate, and 24fps videos at the exact rate. Also, I haven't noticed any frame drops (except perhaps in the very beginning, the first second of the sample).
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I have the exact problem with 24hz files and Kodi Helix. System is AMD 5350, Asrock AM1H-itx, 8GB, SSD and Windows 8.1. Latest Catalyst drivers.
Whenever I play 24hz content I get skipped frames, about 1 every minute. 23.976hz, 25hz etc all play perfectly. I have not tried Windows 7 and hope this can be resolved for Windows 8.
Does anybody have a good workaround? Older catalyst drivers? Downgrading Windows or Kodi? I love my current system but this small annoyance is getting to me...
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Use sync display to video with resample option. This will slow down audio a bit to convert 24 to 23.976 Hz. For passthrough it will repeat the audio every now and then. Even though this sounds bad in theory, it is not really audible.
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Just a follow up: I went ahead and installed Windows 7 and all problems with skipped frames and stuttering playback etc are gone. Seems that 24Hz content sets the refresh rate to 24Hz and not 23.976 like it did in Windows 8.1.
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2015-01-18, 03:18
(This post was last modified: 2015-01-18, 17:08 by rob77.)
I'm running windows 8.1 on a nuc and see the same behaviour. The skipped frames are once a minute or so but not really noticeable unless you look really closely at end credits. Is the only fix to downgrade to windows 7 or enable sync display to video?
Cheers
Edit: I enabled "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen" which I had disabled before and now I do not get any skipped frames on 24 hz or 23.976 hz material. I don't know why this is and what downsides there are to using a full screen window but I will keep an eye out for any changes.
Edit 2: Using full screen window has created stutter on live TV so its back to the drawing board. It works okay for a few minutes and then the frame rate goes wrong. This was tested with 60hz material.
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I never got it working correctly so I installed windows 7. Now it is working as it should.
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2015-08-23, 07:42
(This post was last modified: 2015-08-23, 07:43 by WilliamG.)
I've just started encountering this issue in Windows 10 with my PAL imported Shaun the Sheep Blu-ray which I remuxed to an MKV, on my Haswell NUC. VERY annoying to have 120 dropped frames over the course of the movie. Kodi thinks the movie is 23.976hz but it's a 24.000hz movie. I had to resample the audio to make it work without dropping so many frames.
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This issue has been worked around in Kodi 16 Jarvis for windowed fullscreen mode (not for true fullscreen).
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This is crazy. Does nobody in Europe use Kodi for Blu-ray remuxes? I assume since they're all 24.000hz for the most part, this issue has to be super prevalent, but nobody seems to care... Crazy!
