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I tried to stream an episode of Horizon to my Panasonic TX-42PVT30B but experienced the problems in the subject.

The source file is x264/AAC in MKV. My TV only supports AAC in MP4, MOV or TS containers. So I created a rule to transcode to MPEG2-TS and AC3:

<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac" />
</Video>

However, near the beginning there is some break-up between audio/video and around 17:34 the video and audio break down completely.

If I play the file in Media Player Classic Home Cinema x64 on Windows 7 SP1 then it plays fine.
If I transcode the MKV with tsMuxer to TS/H264/AC3 then it also plays fine when streamed.

File properties and the output from tsMuxer follow:

General
Unique ID : 252279090025133653928121879257246286925 (0xBDCB2F75357E7845AFCAFAE95F47444D)
Complete name : C:\Users\Public\Videos\Horizon - 50x10 - Out of Control.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.50 GiB
Duration : 58mn 26s
Overall bit rate : 3 663 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-03-14 07:37:40
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.4.0 ('Piper') built on Mar 10 2012 13:34:39
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 6 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 58mn 26s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2164 da19765
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=150 / keyint_min=15 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 58mn 26s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.10.6 http://www.smlabs.net
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1280:720p Frame rate: 25
H.264 stream does not contain fps field. Muxing fps=25
H264 bitstream changed: insert nal unit delimiters
H264 bitstream changed: insert pict timing and buffering period SEI units
Decoding AAC stream (track 2): Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 2
Decoding PGS stream (track 3): Resolution: 1280:720 Frame rate: 25
B-pyramid level 1 detected. Shift DTS to 2 frames
H264 bitstream changed: insert SPS/PPS units
Processed 87663 video frames
Mux successful complete.
Muxing time: 52 sec

enable detailed logging (see signature). Play video and then look in the log for the ffmpeg command that transodes it. Run that command in a console and when the transcoding is complete add the file created to serviio and see if it still stutters and has problems.

also what is your network setup and the computer specs running serviio.