I’ve noticed that certain DVD rips made using makemkv have choppy playback on Plex for Nvidia shield. For example, my seasons of Arrested Development ripped from my actual DVDs seem to not always have th smoothest of playback (think of not smooth / choppy divx video from the early 2000s especially apparent with scenes with a camera pan or a sweeping motion). I have framerate matching turned on in the Plex settings on the Nvidia shield. The same files play normally using Kodi on the same shield.
Not sure if it’s something going on framerate wise or what, but it makes certain DVD rips an eyesore to watch. Alot of my content is sourced from my purchased retail DVDs and the smoothness factor is bothering me.
My 1080p bluray rips do not suffer this issue whatsoever.
Based on your description, this feels like an issue with interlaced video. This is common with DVD rips. When deinterlacing, Plex uses FFMPEG’s Yadif algorithm with the “send_frame” option, choosing to preserve spatial resolution rather than temporal (thus the perceived lower frame-rate).
Unfortunately, we as users don’t have any control over the chosen algorithm; well, at least not easily.
You could potentially encode the file with Handbrake/ffmpeg after ripping and tweak the deinterlacing options to suit your needs.
Thanks for the quick reply. I’m more of a path of least resistance guy and prefer makemkvs ease of use and then not fussing with much in handbrake. I think I’ll just keep running these types of rips in Kodi using Plex Kodi connect to keep the Plex organization of things. Funny how Kodi doesn’t display this issue. I appreciate the knowledge.
I don’t use Kodi myself, but my guess is it uses a different deinterlacing algorithm. Or, possibly, Yadif with different parameters. They all have strengths and weaknesses, be it a loss in resolution, image quality, or frame rate. (Though, a lot of that depends upon the original source).
