Example of stuttering HEVC playback on Apple TV 4K

On My Roku Ultra - for the datapoint (for my own thread and for a ‘work-around’ test - @ljunkie may also find this interesting).

I tried a Remux of my ‘Remux’ (Xmedia Recode -older version) and it did nothing - ALL these files are Remuxed with XR to MKV while converting the audio to AC3 5.1 and including the subs.

I then re-acquired the original offender: Signs (2002) - and ran it through MKVToolNix V45.0 both with the subs and without, put 'em both in Other Videos and they both are stutter free at The Mother Of All Stutter Points - 36:20.

The video is in Direct Play, the AAC 5.1 audio is being transcoded to AC3 5.1.

If that’s ‘the work-around’ so be it (for now), but I’m not really looking forward to “Re-Acquiring” 500 items to run them through MKV-TN 45!

I also have to experiment and find some (convenient) way to get that audio to AC3 - and I don’t have time right now. I’ll report back…lol

Yep - you wouldn’t have to do much to convince me of that…