WB movies pausing every few seconds.

Hi all.

I’ve been asking questions for the last few days, and I’m hoping that no one is sick of me yet. :smile: I have one more question. I’ve got my movies transcoding to the Xbox one, my h.264 MKV files, and they play well. But WB titles stop and start, and I can’t get it to stop. I’m not sure what to do to get it to change. I’m going to use Google drive to attach the log file, and hopefully, someone can help me out.

drive.google.com/open?id=0B1zjmLDupNE4T2N6a0lGNUd2VnM

I’ve checked most of my movies, and it’s only the Dolby WB movies. I’m transcoding if that makes a difference.

Hi there. The reason you’re seeing pausing is because your CPU is not powerful enough to handle transcoding that media in realtime. That’s what the Completed: [127.0.0.1:33328] 206 PUT /video/:/transcode/session/40gepvuetvz0/progress?progress=0.0&size=-22&speed=0.6&remaining=11707 (18 live) 1ms 326 bytes lines in your log indicate (the speed value needs to be over 1.0 in order to keep up). Using subtitles will always trigger a transcode at the moment, as will changing the quality settings.

Thank you. I just tried changing quality settings, and audio. I went down to 2Mbps 720p and AC3 audio, and it still pauses. I guess I just don’t have the processing power in my NAS to transcode those movies. It’s wierd, there’s only 6 in my whole collection that have that problem.

In that case you will want to avoid transcoding where possible. Check the codec compatibility list here. Create optimized versions if possible.

Will do. Thanks.