5 Second pausing with 1080p DTS films.

[romprod]

Has anybody been able to fix the ongoing issue with 1080p DTS video pausing every 5 seconds?

I thought I had fix it be using a different SD card but now the problem is back again and I can't pin it down to anything at the moment.

I'm running the videos from a Windows Server 2008 R2 box using samba. I know this setup to work absolutely fine as it has in the past been used to stream these exact files to a PCH-200 a few months ago before the damn thing blew up.

I'm now currently running RC3 but have had this problem with RC2 but did get it working magically and put it down to the SD cards. But with the same SD card now the fault has come back.

The same film in 720p also with DTS runs fine so it points to this not being a DTS issue maybe? I havn't tried a non DTS film in 1080p tho.

Things I've tried;

Different psu
Removed all USB devices
2x Class4 and 2x Class10 Kingston SSD cards
Sync Playback to display = Audio Clock
Disabling/Enabling DTS Enabled Receiver
Disabling/Enabling Dolby AC3 receiver
Clocked the CPU at 850
Formated each SD card using the http://www.sdcard.org tool and then re-installed
Unset "Settings - Video - Playback - Adjust display refresh rate to match video"
m.min_free_kbytes=20480
<cachemembuffersize>5242880
<cachemembuffersize>12582912
rpi-update

Ideas? Suggestions?

[s7mx1]

Set screen refresh rate to 30Hz within xbmc and unset "sync playback to display"

(06-24-2012 10:24 PM)romprod Wrote:  Has anybody been able to fix the ongoing issue with 1080p DTS video pausing every 5 seconds?

I thought I had fix it be using a different SD card but now the problem is back again and I can't pin it down to anything at the moment.

I'm running the videos from a Windows Server 2008 R2 box using samba. I know this setup to work absolutely fine as it has in the past been used to stream these exact files to a PCH-200 a few months ago before the damn thing blew up.

I'm now currently running RC3 but have had this problem with RC2 but did get it working magically and put it down to the SD cards. But with the same SD card now the fault has come back.

The same film in 720p also with DTS runs fine so it points to this not being a DTS issue maybe? I havn't tried a non DTS film in 1080p tho.

Things I've tried;

Different psu
Removed all USB devices
2x Class4 and 2x Class10 Kingston SSD cards
Sync Playback to display = Audio Clock
Disabling/Enabling DTS Enabled Receiver
Disabling/Enabling Dolby AC3 receiver
Clocked the CPU at 850
Formated each SD card using the http://www.sdcard.org tool and then re-installed
Unset "Settings - Video - Playback - Adjust display refresh rate to match video"
m.min_free_kbytes=20480
<cachemembuffersize>5242880
<cachemembuffersize>12582912
rpi-update

Ideas? Suggestions?

[romprod]

(06-24-2012 10:29 PM)s7mx1 Wrote:  Set screen refresh rate to 30Hz within xbmc and unset "sync playback to display"

Just set this and the problem is still there. Also tried toggling the "Adjust display refresh rate to match video" and still the same issue.

[xbs]

Try setting A/V sync to Audio Clock.

[romprod]

(06-24-2012 11:07 PM)xbs Wrote:  Try setting A/V sync to Audio Clock.

Just tried and still the same symptoms :/

[SocalS4]

(06-24-2012 11:16 PM)romprod Wrote:  

(06-24-2012 11:07 PM)xbs Wrote:  Try setting A/V sync to Audio Clock.

Just tried and still the same symptoms :/

I'm too still have a few 1080P Movies with DTS over 10GB pause here and there. In RC2 i was able to get rid of it. Same test movie in RC3 pausing. I'm going to work on it some tonight and see whats going on. I stream over NFS from a CentOS server.

[romprod]

Ditto with RC2, I did manage to get rid of the problem by changing some of the things listed in my first post.

[xbs]

Here sometimes the same movie plays with 1 or 2 pauses at the beginning of playback and no more pauses, other times it's keep pausing in regular intervals.
We need to find out what's causing this behaviour first...
Is it network related? Is it CPU?
I don't think it's either one alone but a combination of factors, that's why it's random.

[romprod]

I'll try to borrow a USB HDD for tonight so I can load the same files onto that as well as plugging the USB HDD into a powered hub. I don't have a USB mem stick big enough otherwise I would have tried this by now.

I surprised that many more people are not experiencing the same problem!

[Tomcoleman]

i tested 720p DTS and 1080p DTS of wrath of the titans both played fine off USB Pen drive.

Over network the 1080p stutters on a 100mb FDX lan.

Maybe either a poor network driver or the network LAN takes CPU time...