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I Handbrake all my movies to save space on my server but to keep the HD audio I mux back in the PCM and TrueHD tracks that Handbrake does not support. These compressed files play fine through the XBMC's player with the exception of movies and concerts with PCM mono or PCM 2.0 tracks. On those the video stutters unless I switch over to a different audio track. (PCM 5.1 plays fine as do all DTS-HD and TrueHD tracks)
Is there some setting in XBMC I could possibly change to correctly this? The same files play without stuttering with MPC-HC and VLC so I could just launch one of those as an external player for these files only however I would prefer to stick w/XBMC's native player for everything since it's more remote-friendly for FF, RW, chapter forwarding and back, etc. Thanks.
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Did you make these mkv files yourself? if so how?
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I rip my blurays with MakeMKV then in order to save space on my server I compress the files with Handbrake at CQ 21 and if the movie has a PCM or TrueHD audio track I Handbrake the video portion only and use MKVmerge to mux all original audio tracks from the full rip into the compressed MKV.
This method has worked just fine with all TrueHD tracks and w/all other PCM tracks (3.0, 5.1 and 7.1). It's only PCM mono and stereo that create this issue. Which I could just re-rip the movies and keep the full rips saved to my server instead of the Handbrake versions, since I'm probably only saving myself about 1 TB of space. It's just the bother of getting the disks back from my parents where I store them and re-ripping them all again make me more inclined to just keep VLC as the default player for these compressed MKVs instead, since VLC doesn't have a problem w/them.
BTW, I've discovered that MPC-HC is a little glitchy with these files too. It doesn't stutter nearly as much as XBMC but there is occasional tearing, etc. even though MadVR doesn't show any dropped frames. So apparently it's not just an XBMC issue, if that helps to know.
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Nevermind. Installed MPC-BE and it plays these files fine (w/HDMI passthru, unlike VLC) so I set up the playercorefactory to launch it as the default player for these and will just leave it alone now. Thanks anyway.