Stuttering with MP4/M4V files since 0.7.1

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After recently upgrading to 0.7.1 I’m having issues with stuttering while playing m4v and mp4 movies. MKV movies seem fine however. .7.0 didn’t display this issue.

RPi-2 on wifi, plays most things fine but is choking on m4v and mp4 movies, plays really fast for a few seconds and then starts skipping.
RPi-B on LAN, same but also is skipping when playing certain mp3 files. Issue reported in a different thread.

PMS: .9.12.11 on Synology NAS DS415+. I tried .9.12.12 but it stuttered even more actually. Nearly no CPU use while the movie is stuttering so I don’t think it’s transcoding.

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Please enable debug logging in Preferences and attach both RasPlex and PMS log to this forum topic.
If possible also a link to a sample file you are having problems with.

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Logs created and I sent you a PM with the download information

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Attached logs to this post, working on a way for the movie file to be shared out properly.

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I am also having the same issues you describe. I switched back to 0.70 and can confirm issue is not there anymore.

For what it’s worth, also running PMS on a Synology (DS112) Direct Play.

Exact issue: Stuttering and skipping every few seconds, jerky.

Happening on more than 1 video with surround sound. Videos confirmed working normally on other player and rpi 0.70.

No log for player as I have reverted. Will try to upload log for PMS later

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I’ll have to roll back myself, this is impacting a third of my movie library. Plays real fast for a few seconds, then starts skipping

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I have experienced similar. Videos have a herky jerky quality to them. Does not occur on all mp4’s.
RasPlex 0.7.1, PMS Version 0.9.12.13

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Try changing the sync to audio or sync to video settings from default or turning on adjust display refresh rate to match video.

Regards

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@NedtheNerd said:
Try changing the sync to audio or sync to video settings from default or turning on adjust display refresh rate to match video.

Regards

Thanks, I tried your suggestions, but it didn’t have any effect. Just to clarify - I’m not experiencing audio/video sync issues, just a jerky video. Simple remux to mkv or force transcode and the the jerkiness is gone.

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I too am having this problem. If I force transcoding then it works. I didn’t have this issue on 0.7.0

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hope this can be fixed in next release…currently 0.7.0 working good

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Went back to 0.7.0 and everything is peachy. =P~

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I’m new to Rasplex so when I saw the issue I thought I was alone. Glad I found this topic as I’m going to try out the 0.7.0 release.

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I am also having this problem. I did notice that the stuttering seemed to reduce considerably if I disabled FFMPEG AVIO. I still get the occasional stutter but before disabling this feature it was every 20 seconds.

I have not tried anything else. I am hesitant to go back to 0.7.0 because that release is listed as retired and not as stable or even pre-release. Is 0.7.0 stable enough I should give it a try? I’ve never tried it. I upgraded from 0.6.0.

Also, I notice it doesn’t appear in the rasplex installer’s download list. I guess I would need to go to Github and download it manually? I would have gone back to 0.6.0 but the menu’s appear to be considerably more snappy after this upgrade and I really hate to give that up :slight_smile:

I am configured for Direct Play whenever possible and there was no trans-coding while playing my sample movie.

My setup:
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B running Rasplex 0.7.1
Wired 1Gig network connection to 1Gig Uplink
PMS on Windows 8 PC with 12GB RAM on i7 quad core.
PMS 0.9.12.11

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Wanted to report back - this problem is fixed in Rasplex 1.0.0.

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Can someone mark this as answered please.

Regards.

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@NedtheNerd said:
Can someone mark this as answered please.

Regards.

Isn’t the originator of this thread the only one that can do that? Otherwise I would agree, this should be marked as answered as well. Release 1.0.0 has solved this issue.

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I think Ned is asking a forum admin to mark it solved, which I believe is standard practice.

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@astrofisher said:
I think Ned is asking a forum admin to mark it solved, which I believe is standard practice.

Got it. Thanks!