I just played The Witcher… and all the content that was previously broken is now working again. Even after a reboot. It’s incredible! Do you have any idea why that is?
For something that comes and goes, it can often be the cables that connect your device to the world. Having said that, dodgy HDMI cables don’t usually produce the effect you posted above.
Of course your AVR may be influencing things. I can’t recall if you’ve tried a direct connection between Vero and TV.
I tested a direct connection between TV and Vero yesterday and it still stuttered. I don’t think it’s the AV or HDMI cable. The user ‘theoldfarter’ has the same problem, but after playing The Witcher, files that stuttered work again. ‘Sam_nazarko’ knows about this issue.
Does the “The Witcher” fix survive a cold boot, too?
Not for me, normally.
I just turned on the 4K+ after it is off at the wall for 24 hours and started to play a 4K movie.
Four out of five times doing that would result in the video file playing ‘bad’ (choppy, jerky, blocky: the same thing called by different names). The fifth time, it would play the files OK.
There is no ‘actual’ number of times cold boot plays either good or bad. It is random.
There are more bad plays than good though.
I quite expected the movie that I am playing now, would play bad, but it plays fine.
And it’s really only HEVC related?
That is a term I have not thought about as I just look to see if the movies have 4K or 2160p in their titles and HDR as well. Are all 4K & 2160p movies HEVC?
3D & 1080p play OK.
Hm, does it help if you play a h.264, MVC, … video before the HEVC one?
After a cold start, the familiar content stutters again. Only after playing “The Witcher” everything works again without problems.
And yes, it only affects HEVC 4K content, but not all.
For me it only works with “The Witcher” in 4K HEVC - HDR… other content hasn’t brought success so far.
Excuse my ignorance but what does MVC stand for?
MVC = codec for 3D content
I only have this, which I have not played. I will put it on a USB stick to try over the next few boots when the 4K stuff plays bad & report back.
Star.Wars.The.Clone.Wars.S07E02.HDR.2160p.WEB.H264-PETRiFiED.mkv
If you give me the name of a 4K movie in h264, I will go get it and try it.
MVC = “Multi View Coding” is used for 3D content. Views for both “eyes” are encoded in one frame. The standard doesn’t limit the number of eyes (or views) to two, it could even be more than 2.
That’s ok, I just want to narrow it down a bit. If playing a different video format can also solve that issue, then we can try to limit our search.
The problem is very tricky… it can only come from the November update. Before it ran without problems. I think many users haven’t noticed it as it doesn’t affect all content.
All my 3D content plays fine. I have SBS, OU & ‘full’ size, which I believe you know as Frame Packed.
Is this what you mean in reference to MVC?
This is exactly what mine looks like, as well. It’s not every movie, but it’s happening to movies that were previously working without issues up until about a week ago. It’s only my 4K HEVC movies. All of my movies are remuxed.
Correction:
It looks like this has been misnamed as all the other episodes have H265 in their titles.
Ah… do you mean that when I find a 4K movie playing bad, then play a Frame Packed 3D movie and then see if the 4K still plays bad or OK, like what The Witcher is doing?