Certain HD movies play fine in VLC but stutter in XBMC
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Some background info:

I'm running xbmc eden and I've got over 500 movies in my library with bit rates ranging from 5 mb to 15+ mb. The vast majority of these movies play perfectly as far as I can tell, but some of them experience a bit of noticeable judder at regular intervals. I've tried fiddling with the a/v sync settings as well as playing the offending files on two different machines (a llano machine and an ivy bridge machine with gtx 570) with no success. I was wondering if there is something I can do to fix playback on xbmc it by remuxing or transcoding. I use mkvmerge for remuxing but I've never transcoded anything before.

Here is some media info I took from my library. I hope it helps.

Example movie with judder:


Quote:General
Unique ID : 204032125258882215132923139791211468880 (0x997F28706A0A42CF9F346207CF201850)
Complete name : D:\HD Movies\Amélie (2001)\Le.Fabuleux.Destin.d'Amélie.Poulain.2001.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-CtrlHD [remuxed].mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 11.0 GiB
Duration : 2h 1mn
Overall bit rate : 13.0 Mbps
Movie name : Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Encoded date : UTC 2012-06-11 14:18:50
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.5.0 ('Healer') built on Apr 6 2012 21:43:24
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Attachment : Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 1mn
Bit rate : 11.4 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.305
Stream size : 9.50 GiB (86%)
Title : Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Writing library : x264 core 65 r1046M 71d34b4
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy_rd=0.8:0.6 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-4 / threads=8 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=11450 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.80
Language : French
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.28 GiB (12%)
Title : DTS
Language : French
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression mode : Lossless
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression mode : Lossless
Language : Polish
Default : No
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 1
00:08:51.406 : en:Chapter 2
00:21:17.067 : en:Chapter 3
00:38:45.573 : en:Chapter 4
00:47:21.380 : en:Chapter 5
00:57:06.506 : en:Chapter 6
01:11:08.764 : en:Chapter 7
01:17:06.872 : en:Chapter 8
01:25:15.235 : en:Chapter 9
01:32:21.369 : en:Chapter 10
01:44:57.666 : en:Chapter 11
01:51:26.054 : en:Chapter 12




Example movie without judder (plays flawlessly):

Quote:General
Unique ID : 231514757339603216868860536886821205057 (0xAE2C1ED0C0468C78B276B16958293441)
Complete name : D:\HD Movies\Kung Fu Panda\Kung Fu Panda (2008)\Kung.Fu.Panda.2008.x264.BDRip-HDclub True-HD [remuxed].mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 7.99 GiB
Duration : 1h 32mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 12.4 Mbps
Movie name : HDclub
Encoded date : UTC 2012-06-08 18:25:35
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.5.0 ('Healer') built on Apr 6 2012 21:43:24
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Attachment : Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 32mn
Nominal bit rate : 7 500 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 810 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.201
Writing library : x264 core 65 r1016M dbc5ef0
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy_rd=0.9:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=7500 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=21 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.70
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 32mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 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 : 995 MiB (12%)
Title : DTS
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : TrueHD
Codec ID : A_TRUEHD
Duration : 1h 32mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 4 950 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossless
Title : True-HD 4950 Kbps
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Audio #3
ID : 4
Format : Vorbis
Format settings, Floor : 1
Codec ID : A_VORBIS
Duration : 1h 32mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 80.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 52.7 MiB (1%)
Title : Commentary
Writing library : libVorbis 1.1.1/1.1.2 (UTC 2005-03-04)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 5
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression mode : Lossless
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 6
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression mode : Lossless
Title : Commentary
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
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