[Dharma Beta2] Stutter on a blu-ray rip

I've created a bug report ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10581

pennant Wrote:I've created a bug report ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10581

Gah... guess I'm gonna have to get around to re-doing those tests and posting logs

Life intrudes far too much sometimes...

Still no dice with Beta 4 unfortunately.

I'd be interested to know if and when this gets sorted. I've recently moved to XBMC, and bought a Revo 3610 and shoved XBMC Live on it. I started ripping blu-rays with flac soundtracks. I actually bothered to sit down yesterday evening and watch The Matrix, and it kept dropping frames randomly. After tearing my hair out, I found this thread. I then stripped out the flac, expanded to LPCM, muxed it back in - and hey, presto! The problem disappeared.

I think for now, I'm going to have to keep an alternate DTS/AC3 track in there. I can't justify LPCM.

Yeah I'm going with AC3 now. I'm not going to pretend that I can hear the difference between lossless audio and AC3.

I'll probably just re-rip mine with the original HD audio tracks (I know I'll only get DTS from the DTS-HD MA tracks but I can live with that), I haven't even switched my box on for over a week, been too busy with work.

pennant I will get around to re-doing those tests and posting logs maybe with some samples I just haven't had the time recently it's been absolutely manic at work. It won't be this weekend cause I'm in London but hopefully next weekend I'll have some time to myself to get it done!

Mnementh Wrote:I'll probably just re-rip mine with the original HD audio tracks (I know I'll only get DTS from the DTS-HD MA tracks but I can live with that), I haven't even switched my box on for over a week, been too busy with work.

I may do this - TrueHD is fine, and DTS-core at 1536Kbps is acceptable.

One day it may be fixed (so I can go back to flac), or one day we may get an open source decoder for DTS-MA (so I don't need to use flac).

Filespace isn't really an issue, and the difference between flac and the original track isn't too huge anyway.

I've been trying to work out which of my rips have this issue.

Not sure if it's a coincidence - but it seems from the ~15 Blu-ray's I've recently ripped, the ones with problems were those with LPCM or TrueHD sources converted to flac. All the DTS-MA sources I've converted to flac don't exhibit this problem.

Anyone else able to comment?

i use aac -q1.0 . i cant hear the difference between aac at q=1.0 and flac so to me it's the same.

csmager Wrote:I've been trying to work out which of my rips have this issue.

Not sure if it's a coincidence - but it seems from the ~15 Blu-ray's I've recently ripped, the ones with problems were those with LPCM or TrueHD sources converted to flac. All the DTS-MA sources I've converted to flac don't exhibit this problem.

Anyone else able to comment?

I'll look into this from my end and let you know...I have been busily re-ripping the DTS-HD + Dolby TrueHD tracks for my blurays.

NOTE: the real greasy one for me was The Dark Knight which is Dolby TrueHD...