Some movies won’t continue to play if I fast forward (like using the right arrow on the remote to advance 30s). The player will hang with dot-dot-dot and eventually time out. Server logs and movie file info attached.
I play MP4 videos so there is no transcoding on the server. Wired connections. I convert all my videos (from TV recordings) the same way. Some play w/o any issue and some are terrible with respect to FF or RW.
Can someone point me to why some videos, like the one attached, are not reliable?
Do these seek OK if you play them in the Plex app on a computer?
How are you converting them? I’m quite curious, that’s interesting output. Are you using a Handbrake preset, custom settings, or something else to control Handbrake?
That video stream is variable frame rate, up to 60fps. That might contribute. A lot of playback devices have very simple decoders, and things like 60fps can stress them out. Variable frame rate can also make seeking difficult.
It’s also unusual to see CBR - what are you doing to generate these as CBR? Is that deliberate? That’s typically going to produce larger files and have lower quality, though it’s not my first guess for seeking issues.
Are you converting from interlaced to progressive for “smoothness”? I’d probably go ahead and deinterlace this. This was probably filmed at 24, so there’s no additional smoothness to be had at 60fps.
Hi, Volts. If I play in a web browser it works perfectly.
I use MCEBuddy for ad removal and conversion from TS to MP4. It uses Handbrake for the transcoding.
Interesting about the variable FPS - I didn’t realize that was happening. I’ll set FPS = 29.97 from now on.
MCEBuddy must set the CBR option (I don’t see anything about it in the UI). I thought CBR was more reliable and robust (for device compatibility) than variable. I’ll have to look into this.
I don’t have an answer about interlaced vs progressive. I believe the original source is progressive. How would I deinterlace and why?
