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Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:30 pm**

Hi, I have been using Serviio for a couple weeks now and have only been watching mkv files at 400mb's in size (45min length) and the playback has been great.

After watching a couple of mkv files at 1GB and up (7GB or more) the playback will freeze for about 10 seconds at intervals ranging from every 5min to as long as 20min in between freezes. After the 10 seconds passes the video and audio get caught back up but you miss some of the audio resulting in having to rewind. If this only happened once or twice during a movie, I could live with it, but it occurs so often that I need to find a fix.

I have transcoding enabled and under the status tab I have the WD TV Live Plus with the WDTV Live profile selected and have a green active light.

My WDTV is operating off of a wired 1Gbps connection.

My computer is more than sufficient to handle this type of video content as I used to stream content from my PC via another media server but I was having issues with it so I switched to serviio.

I played one movie and during its streaming I checked out the temporary folder at my PC that the transcoding option is set to use but I did not see any transcoded files? I am not sure if that means the transcoding is not working or if I still have another option I need to set.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:38 am**

Please post MediaInfo for the file that is not playing correctly.

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:41 pm**

General
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 6.32 GiB
Duration : 2h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 5 795 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-06-10 01:59:24
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.6.0 ('Kenya Kane') built on May 27 2012 16:44:04
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 : 12 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 36mn
Bit rate : 4 171 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.250
Stream size : 4.55 GiB (72%)
Writing library : x264 core 125 r2200 999b753
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=12 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.10 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=48 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=24 / lookahead_threads=4 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=360 / keyint_min=2 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.70 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=2:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : ES
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.65 GiB (26%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:47 pm**

This one hung up a few times to, but not as often as the above movie. Also I streamed the above movie from my WDTV Live media player flawlessy from the media player via USB stick. I monitored my computer resources during another show and waited for a hang up and didn't see any hang ups or spikes in computer resources. Running Windows 7, 64 bit, I7 4770 CPU, 16GB ram, 2GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti video card.

General
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 1.59 GiB
Duration : 42mn 27s
Overall bit rate : 5 360 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2015-10-22 20:01:02
Writing application : mkvmerge v8.5.1 ('Where you lead I will follow') 64bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.3 + libmatroska v1.4.4
DURATION : 00:42:27.040000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES : 79595
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 122257920
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP : mkvmerge v8.5.1 ('Where you lead I will follow') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC : 2015-10-22 20:01:02
_STATISTICS_TAGS : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 42mn 27s
Bit rate : 4 870 Kbps
Width : 1 916 pixels
Height : 1 076 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.099
Stream size : 1.44 GiB (91%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 42mn 27s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 117 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 1
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:53 pm**

This streams fine through WDTV from serviio media server and the only difference from the other two files is that this one isn't HD quality and is a much smaller file size of 400mb verses the other two at 1.6GB and 6.6GB.

General
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 419 MiB
Duration : 42mn 5s
Overall bit rate : 1 391 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2015-01-04 00:17:38
Writing application : mkvmerge v7.3.0 ('Nouages') 32bit built on Oct 22 2014 18:44:01
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
DURATION : 00:42:04.544000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES : 78892
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 121178112
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP : mkvmerge v7.3.0 ('Nouages') 32bit built on Oct 22 2014 18:44:01
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC : 2015-01-04 00:17:38
_STATISTICS_TAGS : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 9 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 42mn 5s
Bit rate : 1 010 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.046
Stream size : 295 MiB (70%)
Writing library : x264 core 142 r2479kMod dd79a61
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / fade_compensate=0.00 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=2 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / fgo=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1010 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 42mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 116 MiB (28%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No

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