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I have configured a new profile to allow transcoding of incompatible files to my BR player, but it seems to just stutter from the beginning and not recover. If I pause for a few seconds and resume it is fine. I am not sure why this is happening, considering the transcoder has 4 e5v3 cores to use, and is hardwired gigabit.
Irrespective, is there a setting to delay playback for a few seconds at the beginning to allow it to buffer?