Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:01 pm
After upgrading to 1.4.1 choppy play and freezing
I upgraded to 1.4.1 last night on my Fedora 20 server last night and I have been having nothing but problems since with video playback.
Turning on DEBUG in the logs did not provide me with any useful information.
I did notice in the logs a message:
That I see ~ every 10 minutes. I don't have the logs from 1.4 to know if this was present there. It also seems like the hangups are not related to this activity (they have occurred in between the 10 min window). I was having a bunch of errors related to some m4v files not being able to detect media type, but I removed these and restarted serviio and I am still seeing problems (this was an experimentation anyhow)
All of my movies are my MKV rips from MakeMKV (either blu-ray or dvd). For blu-ray's I have down-converted the video stream via ffmpeg to a lower bit rate ~ 15Mbps. (they are about 12.0-15gb down from 24+). All video has been playing fine for over a year until this upgrade. I have a myriad of devices I play them on but my main device (that I care about) are my two WDTV Live boxes. These are connected to a GB/s network to the server (even though they only have 100Mbps network adapters). All routers, network devices, and WD TV Live boxes have been cold-booted (power jack removed, 10+ second wait time and hard start) The last WDTV Live update was well over a month ago and I have seen at least 100+ movies since then (my daughter was home for a while and we watched a lot of Disney flicks!) without issue. While WDTV can be finnicky, I do not believe it is the issue here, nor do I think there is issues with the network. I believe it is on the server side only.
At random times (sometimes about 20 minutes in but can be periodic) it will freeze, skip ahead or outright stop playing on my movies. As everyone knwos this is frustrating.
I have monitored the System monitor when this happens. Everything drops off. and I mean everything. CPU 0%, network 0% .... the whole thing just goes out to lunch. Then a few seconds latter everything spikes and it goes back to normal until the next random event (sometimes in minutes and sometimes seconds latter).
My Server is more than capable. E5 Xeon (8 cores) with 8GB RAM running Linux - there is other software on there but nothing that would cause this - a glassfish application server, mysql etc. - they consume RAM but not to the level that should be interefering. I am running the videos from a RAID-6 disk array (6 disks) that output whopping read speeds (so that is not a bottle neck) and the RAID is in good condition without errors.
I am running the latest version of Java JDK
I did try and compile ffmpeg as well and here is what I am using from that:
Also, if 1.4 available somewhere? It looks like the download link only has the latest. I would have liked to revert to 1.4 (I didn't back it up) and try that to compare.
-Jason
Turning on DEBUG in the logs did not provide me with any useful information.
I did notice in the logs a message:
That I see ~ every 10 minutes. I don't have the logs from 1.4 to know if this was present there. It also seems like the hangups are not related to this activity (they have occurred in between the 10 min window). I was having a bunch of errors related to some m4v files not being able to detect media type, but I removed these and restarted serviio and I am still seeing problems (this was an experimentation anyhow)
All of my movies are my MKV rips from MakeMKV (either blu-ray or dvd). For blu-ray's I have down-converted the video stream via ffmpeg to a lower bit rate ~ 15Mbps. (they are about 12.0-15gb down from 24+). All video has been playing fine for over a year until this upgrade. I have a myriad of devices I play them on but my main device (that I care about) are my two WDTV Live boxes. These are connected to a GB/s network to the server (even though they only have 100Mbps network adapters). All routers, network devices, and WD TV Live boxes have been cold-booted (power jack removed, 10+ second wait time and hard start) The last WDTV Live update was well over a month ago and I have seen at least 100+ movies since then (my daughter was home for a while and we watched a lot of Disney flicks!) without issue. While WDTV can be finnicky, I do not believe it is the issue here, nor do I think there is issues with the network. I believe it is on the server side only.
At random times (sometimes about 20 minutes in but can be periodic) it will freeze, skip ahead or outright stop playing on my movies. As everyone knwos this is frustrating.
I have monitored the System monitor when this happens. Everything drops off. and I mean everything. CPU 0%, network 0% .... the whole thing just goes out to lunch. Then a few seconds latter everything spikes and it goes back to normal until the next random event (sometimes in minutes and sometimes seconds latter).
My Server is more than capable. E5 Xeon (8 cores) with 8GB RAM running Linux - there is other software on there but nothing that would cause this - a glassfish application server, mysql etc. - they consume RAM but not to the level that should be interefering. I am running the videos from a RAID-6 disk array (6 disks) that output whopping read speeds (so that is not a bottle neck) and the RAID is in good condition without errors.
I am running the latest version of Java JDK
I did try and compile ffmpeg as well and here is what I am using from that:
- Code:
ffmpeg version 2.1.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on Feb 25 2014 08:24:47 with gcc 4.8.2 (GCC) 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)
libavutil 52. 48.101 / 52. 48.101
libavcodec 55. 39.101 / 55. 39.101
libavformat 55. 19.104 / 55. 19.104
libavdevice 55. 5.100 / 55. 5.100
libavfilter 3. 90.100 / 3. 90.100
libavresample 1. 1. 0 / 1. 1. 0
libswscale 2. 5.101 / 2. 5.101
libswresample 0. 17.104 / 0. 17.104
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
Also, if 1.4 available somewhere? It looks like the download link only has the latest. I would have liked to revert to 1.4 (I didn't back it up) and try that to compare.
-Jason
