Video stuttering
#1
After long time using the ATV2 I've found the first set of videos that can't be played. The video stutters really bad, maybe around 1 frame per second is played.

Here is what MediaInfo says about it:

Code:
General
Complete name                            : Forbrydelsen (The Killing) - S01E01 - HDTV - 2007 - English
Hardcoded Subtitles.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom
File size                                : 584 MiB
Duration                                 : 54mn 22s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 1 502 Kbps
Writing application                      : Lavf52.92.0

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 4 frames
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 54mn 22s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 404 Kbps
Width                                    : 832 pixels
Height                                   : 468 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
Standard                                 : PAL
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.144
Stream size                              : 545 MiB (93%)

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID                                 : 40
Duration                                 : 54mn 22s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 96.0 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 36.8 MiB (6%)

Shouldn't AVC be hardware decoded?
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#2
yes look into your xbmc log and search for "vtb" or "videotoolbox" - if hw decoder failed you should find it with these keywords...
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi: NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ (wiki)
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#3
Update on this problem. Actually the problem is totally different. It is some sort of incompatibility with Netflix and this never happened before, then started happening once in a while (like when I created this thread) and nowadays it is happening almost everytime. When I play something in Netflix and then I get out and start XBMC the hardware acceleration does not work. But then I get out of XBMC and start it again and everything works. So nowadays after using Netflix I have to start XBMC, close XBMC and start XBMC again.

Pretty weird. This is the last stable XBMC version. Did someone experienced this before?
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#4
We heard already that netflix doesn't cleanup after usage. Before it was about 5.1 audio which didn't work when netflix was run before xbmc. Nothing we can do about. Basically exiting XBMC kills the AppleTV2 process and "clears" out all stupid stuff which was leftover from netflix. Thats why XBMC works after the second try.
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi: NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ (wiki)
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