I have two Vero 4Ks in separate rooms, content supplied on a NAS over fast ethernet (all wired). Both of them have frame skipping and stuttering on certain videos.
Adjust display rate is on. Sync playback to display is off. One Vero has audio passthrough enabled, the other does not, frame-skipping occurs on both.
I have added caching via the advancedsettings.xml, and have updated to the latest development version of OSMC (via http://apt.osmc.tv jessie-devel main), but this makes no difference.
I’m not sure what to try next, so any suggestions would be appreciated!
Logs available here: http://paste.osmc.io/wijuzojono
Upload a debug log.
You have some NFS errors in your log. Does copying the file over and playing locally help?
Debug log available here: Dropbox - Error
I will test the playback from a local source, and will report back.
Please upload the log via the official Pastebin.
Apologies. All logs - with debugging enabled - are here: http://paste.osmc.io/mehebileqa
Nothing obvious in the log there (but been a long day).
Let me know if local storage improves things.
I’d also like to know output of:
cat /sys/devices/virtual/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/disp_cap
And
cat /sys/devices/virtual/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/disp_mode (when playing and before playback)
Moving the files to local storage does not improve anything; playback still stutters. The player debug info shows the “skip” count gradually increasing over the duration of the video.
The output of “disp_cap” is:
480p60hz
576p50hz
720p60hz
1080i60hz
1080p60hz
720p50hz
1080i50hz
1080p30hz
1080p50hz*
1080p25hz
1080p24hz
2160p30hz
2160p25hz
2160p24hz
smpte24hz
The output of “disp_mode” when playing, before and after playback is the same:
VIC:31
Is this when you are watching ‘The Matrix’?
If so, I don’t think 50Hz is an appropriate frame rate, so it explains the skip count. I found an issue where smpte modes will try and match frame rate (unsuccessfully) and then pick a totally inappropriate mode.
I suspect if you change Kodi’s GUI to 1080p, and play the movie, it will be fine. If so, then this should be easy for us to fix.
Sam
Weirdly and annoyingly, I’ve just noticed that all of the Vero’s settings have somehow been reset to defaults while I was carrying out the tests via SSH. I have changed the settings to re-enable audio passthrough and always adjust display refresh rate.
During playback, “disp_mode” is now:
VIC: 32
Outside of playback, “disp_mode” is:
VIC: 31
Did you try setting the GUI to 1080p and playing the film?
The frame skipping occurs on multiple videos.
Kodi’s GUI is already set to 1080p - this is the setting under Settings > System > Display> Resolution, right? There are two 1920x1080p modes listed here, but neither of them resolve the problem. I think the frame rate reverted to 50Hz in my last test as every setting got reset to default as mentioned above.
The problem still occurs with “Adjust display refresh rate” set to “Always” or “On start/stop”, which I understand should change the refresh rate to 24Hz or whatever the video frame rate is.
Yes – but as explained there is a bug for smtpe TVs. If the GUI is set to 4K, it may not always switch refresh rate, because it can’t find an appropriate mode for smtpe resolution. I will address this soon. It doesn’t look like the issue here though if you say your GUI is at 1080p.
Let’s focus on one problematic file for now.
- Can you play the Matrix on the other Vero connected to the other TV? If so, anything different, like display capabilities (4K vs 1080P)?
- Are you sure the refresh rate is being adjusted? VIC 32 == 1080p50Hz.
- Can you run
sudo apt-get install mediainfo, then run mediainfo on the Matrix file. I would like to see how it’s been encoded.
Sam
Great, thanks for explaining and for your patience Sam.
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The ‘Matrix’ video (and others) also skip on the other Vero & TV. Settings are all the same, except that audio passthrough is turned off and the audio output is set to PCM instead of HDMI.
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Checking the TV info shows that the TV refresh rate is adjusting from 50Hz in GUI to playback at 24Hz.
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mediainfo result as follows:
General
Unique ID : 153154215847308468990370324088727928448 (0x73386DD5A0A73CE1B5355C014D9DFE80)
Complete name : The Matrix (1999).mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 19.2 GiB
Duration : 2h 16mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 20.2 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-11-18 15:02:05
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.8.14 win(x64-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.8.14 (1.3.0/1.4.1) win(x64-release)
Video
ID : 1
Format : VC-1
Format profile : Advanced@L3
Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 2h 16mn
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 16mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 624 MiB (3%)
Title : Surround 5.1
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : TrueHD
Codec ID : A_TRUEHD
Duration : 2h 16mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 3 345 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Title : Surround 5.1
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
There are more audio tracks listed, but I have removed them from the output as it was rather long. I can post the info if you need it.
@Sorenson: What about the idea to put the video on a fast (USB 3,0) stick and test this without the local network? Fast Ethernet is not that fast ( 100 mbit) and not all NAS creates a good bandwidth.
With that you would know at once whether your local network is part of the problem or not.
@JimKnopf Thanks for the suggestion but as mentioned above, I have already tried this with the same results - video playback stutters and skips regardless of whether over network or from local USB 3.0 storage, so I don’t think it’s a network issue.
The problem is not consistent, with certain files skipping and others playing back smoothly, so I’m in the process of trying to identify which videos skip and how they are encoded to see if there’s a pattern.
Maybe you could try playing some of the Kodi sample files if they have the same problem. If so, we could establish if it’s only happening with your setup or not.
I still haven’t bought that 4K OLED yet so I won’t be able try it myself.
Haven’t seen that in a while.
Try disabling Amcodec video acceleration and see if it improves (albeit temporarily)
Sam
After disabling Amcodec video acceleration, playback of this file has massive stutter and video is running at about 50% speed. I’m still looking through other files to see which ones skip and which ones play fine, to see how they’re encoded.
I notice there is a new version of OSMC out, but mine seems to be stuck on 17.1-RC2 with no updates available (I’ve switched back to the regular update channel). I’ll check for updates again in a bit, and will test to see if anything has improved.
Beware that as stated in the comments of the latest osmc update, you might still see the version being rc2 even if the update was successful and you are indeed running the very latest version.