[AppleTV] Action scenes not so smooth for 720p MKV on Apple TV

Hi,

I am new to this forum. I have XBMC on my old xbox and decided to get an appletv last week right on the day XMBC and Boxee was possible on it.

Anyway I found that the video tends to stutter a bit (?dropped frames) especially on high action scenes. MKV is slightly worse. On Boxee it is fine. I prefer XBMC at the moment for offline videos (Not supported on boxee)

Any suggestions? I thought of reducing the quality of video but will take some re-encoding, if so what is best settings? I thought maybe I can tweak something in XBMC to make it run better.

Thanks

zul277 Wrote:Hi,

I am new to this forum. I have XBMC on my old xbox and decided to get an appletv last week right on the day XBMC and Boxee was possible on it.

Anyway I found that the video tends to stutter a bit (?dropped frames) especially on high action scenes. MKV is slightly worse. On Boxee it is fine. I prefer XBMC at the moment for offline videos (Not supported on boxee)

Any suggestions? I thought of reducing the quality of video but will take some re-encoding, if so what is best settings? I thought maybe I can tweak something in XBMC to make it run better.

It would help us to have a copy of the mkv in question. PM me and I'll give you the location of an ftp server to place it on.

I have one also that doesnt play well if you need a 2nd example

Same here.....none of my mkv's play (TV shows like Prison Break, CSI...).

(well they do play....but it's not pleasant to watch)

Same problem here... 720p MKV very "unsmooth"... also tried 720p mp4 thats plays perfect on "native" Appletv, don't run that smooth in xmbc...

I've tried playing and MKV via a network share and an the MKV on the ATV. Playback with both is very "unsmooth".

The same video played on a PopCorn Hour A100 has no issues.

Same here, 720p MKV plays well most of the time but gets jumpy when there is a lot of action. I'm on 100Mb wired LAN playing media on a SMB share.
Any settings we might tweak to get smoother playback?
I'm back to original xbox and AVI files for a while I guess.

make sure the software upscaler is off.

I would need to get a sample of the video content to see if you are seeing a user setup issue or some other issue.

Software upscaler is off in my settings.

Same thing here on all 720p MKV TV shows downloaded.... it accelerates through frames for about a half-second, then continues playing smoothly for about 5 seconds, then restarts again the accelerated frame rate. Endless loop.