2008-09-16, 09:00
Recently I've been having a problem with streaming HD movie playback (mkv):
The movie plays fine for 5-15 mins, then suddenly stalls on a single video frame and plays the same audio clip over and over for 5-30 seconds, then finally resumes and speeds up super fast to catch up to where it'd be if it had been playing the whole time. This happens a lot on 1080p movies and hardly at all on 720p movies, and never on SD movies.
The only entry in the log that is any different than usual is the "stillframe detected" message saying that it's going to lock to 24fps. Then there's no entries for x seconds while the video is stuttering, and finally it resumes playing.
I had similar behavior occur in Media Player Classic, so I it's either not actually an XBMC problem or else it's a similar bug in both players. Regardless, I was hoping somebody could tell me what would cause the "stillframe detected" message to come up in my logs. The computer is connected to the fileserver through a gigabit switch so there is plenty of bandwidth for streaming video (I can copy a whole 1080p video between the computers in 3 minutes, bandwidth is definitely not the issue, hehe). Does anybody have any idea what would cause this situation to occur (so I can try to remedy it)? If I copy the movies to the computer with XBMC they play fine, but that's obviously a temporary solution.
Thanks in advance for the help.
The movie plays fine for 5-15 mins, then suddenly stalls on a single video frame and plays the same audio clip over and over for 5-30 seconds, then finally resumes and speeds up super fast to catch up to where it'd be if it had been playing the whole time. This happens a lot on 1080p movies and hardly at all on 720p movies, and never on SD movies.
The only entry in the log that is any different than usual is the "stillframe detected" message saying that it's going to lock to 24fps. Then there's no entries for x seconds while the video is stuttering, and finally it resumes playing.
I had similar behavior occur in Media Player Classic, so I it's either not actually an XBMC problem or else it's a similar bug in both players. Regardless, I was hoping somebody could tell me what would cause the "stillframe detected" message to come up in my logs. The computer is connected to the fileserver through a gigabit switch so there is plenty of bandwidth for streaming video (I can copy a whole 1080p video between the computers in 3 minutes, bandwidth is definitely not the issue, hehe). Does anybody have any idea what would cause this situation to occur (so I can try to remedy it)? If I copy the movies to the computer with XBMC they play fine, but that's obviously a temporary solution.
Thanks in advance for the help.