Stuttering on remote server , local network all fine.

hello,
after 10 days of testing serviio:
At home is WDTV live Hub box, that is connected via OpenVPN to a remote server where serviio is running.

Most movie in .mkv format plays fine without any stuttering or sound mutes.
But when i play a 1080p with DTS Sound movie from remote server it stutters after the intro where the distributors are shown. (paramount, icon, etc)
The same movie runs fine when played from a upnp server in local network. Without stuttering - all fine.

The bandwidth is okay. Remote Server has outgoing 200Mbit, and home is connected to internet via 100Mbit.
bandwidth tool shows on remote server outgoing 8Mbit when playing the 1080p DTS movie. So, the reason can not be bandwidth.

Also i noticed on a series ( Justified ) , i have reproducebale stuttering at the same timestamps in the intro.
Also these episodes are played fine when watched over local network upnp server.

The Mediainfo of the 1080p movie with DTS:

General
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Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Is there anything i can do?

I found some threads here, where some guys played around with outcommenting something, so that all is transcoded. But thats not what i wanted.

The 1080p movie also stutters when played over the mediabrowser.

Do i have to give serviio more RAM ?

i see serviio is started Xmx512M Xms20M , do i have to tune these?

any hints or tipps?

thank you

marko

ps, filesystem is XFS

[Illico]

I think its a network bandwidth problem.
Could you check the video bitrate with this tool : viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2133

This is for Windows only.... You know a tool on Linux too?

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Illico, ist still same...........

[Illico]

Try:
- Start playing file
- Press pause on your device renderer (TV, player)
- Wait few seconds/minutes (for serviio/ffmpeg to transcode)
- Resume playback
- Do you still have stuttering (in same place) ?

Illico, i´ll try.

at moment, the transcoding of the film is 'only' started when i start play over the mediabrowser.
When i start the film over player ( WDT Live Hub), i cant see any trasncoding file generated in /tmp.

but i will try this, start film , pasue when stuttering, wait some mins, and start again.

i will report you
thanks

marko

Illico,

Try:
- Start playing file
- Press pause on your device renderer (TV, player)
- Wait few seconds/minutes (for serviio/ffmpeg to transcode)
- Resume playback
- Do you still have stuttering (in same place) ?

I pressed 'pause' and wait for 10~15 mins, ticked play still stuttering ( same place ),
i also stopped film, resumed - stillstuttering ( same place ),

so this all doesnt solve anything.

i dont think its an serviio bug or error, i think the movies (i have this with some other mkv 1080p) use too high bitrate? (am i right?)

so how can i tell serviio at example to transcode all mkv with bitrate higher than 'Bitrate: 4800 Kbps' at example?

thanks

marko

[Illico]

...
i dont think its an serviio bug or error, i think the movies (i have this with some other mkv 1080p) use too high bitrate? (am i right?)

Probably yes...

so how can i tell serviio at example to transcode all mkv with bitrate higher than 'Bitrate: 4800 Kbps' at example?

There is no options threshold for higher bitrate.
What is the profile used ?
You can make a custom profile that transcode all mkv.
Then when you have problem with some high bitrate, switch to this custom profile on serviio console (then switch back after movie viewed)

Illico,

There is no options threshold for higher bitrate.
What is the profile used ?
You can make a custom profile that transcode all mkv.
Then when you have problem with some high bitrate, switch to this custom profile on serviio console (then switch back after movie viewed)

-oh, ok... thought it works the way like 'transcode if movie is mkv and bitrate is higher then 4800kbps' at example.........
- the profile i used is "WDTV Live", i choosed it cause i play the movie with my 'WDTV Live HUB'

can u guide me, or show me an guide how to do this?

at last, why are the movies played well, when upnp server is placed in local lan?
so its serviio bug maybe?

would be great if you can guide me ( and myabe later sone other people can use the info) how to do this profile thingy.

best regards

marko

[Illico]

Edit ../serviio/config/profiles.xml (backup before) :
Add following code just before the last </Profiles> element, save, restart serviio service or reboot PC.
Select the custom WDTV Live * on serviio console when you have problem with high bitrate video, and retry (no need to restart pc or services).
In this example all video will be transcoded to mpeg2video. If you still have stuttering problem, try to add maxVBitrate="15360" option.

  Code:

      <Profile id="custom" name="WDTV Live *" extendsProfileId="14">
      <Transcoding>
         <Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="*" />
         </Video>
      </Transcoding>
      <OnlineTranscoding>
         <Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="*" />
         </Video>
      </OnlineTranscoding>
   </Profile>

Illico,

ok, at first - your xml snippet works.
i still got stutter problems and followed your tipp, added maxVBitrate="15360"...
still stutter problems.... then downgraded to maxVBitrate="7000".
with maxVBitrate="7000" it works. The movie plays fine....

so my conclusion is, that all my problems with stuttering is that the Bitrate mustn´t be over 7000.

i am hot now to solve this. do i told you that the upnp server ( serviio ) is not in the local lan?

setup here is:
'HOME (WDTV Live) / OpenVPN' ==> 'REMOTESERVER / OpenVPN ( serveriio )'

txqueuelen 1000 is set on the REMOTESERVER, so it should be enough for more then maxVBitrate="7000".

so is this all network related or serviio related?

marko

[Illico]

Serviio read source file from remote storage (first load), transcode the movie (second load) then stream to media renderer (third load).
There were 2 network transferts and one transcode processing.

For network transfert, you have to analyse it.

For transcode processing, if you catch the ffmpeg command line used (on detailed logging file), then try the same command line in a local windows terminal, you can find the transcoding process rate (fps) that should be > x2/x3 than frame rate (30fps)

Serviio read source file from remote storage (first load), transcode the movie (second load) then stream to media renderer (third load).
There were 2 network transferts and one transcode processing.

For network transfert, you have to analyse it.

For transcode processing, if you catch the ffmpeg command line used (on detailed logging file), then try the same command line in a local windows terminal, you can find the transcoding process rate (fps) that should be > x2/x3 than frame rate (30fps)

the serviio is running also on the remote server.
i can catch the command line used for ffmpeg, easy way. the remote server where serviio runs is a linux server.

HOME(WDTV)-OpenVPN <==========> RemoteServer[linux]-OpenVPN ( Serviio, movies also lying on this server ).

so what should i do with the commandline?

[Illico]

...
For transcode processing, if you catch the ffmpeg command line used (on detailed logging file), then try the same command line in a local terminal, you can find the transcoding process rate (fps) that should be > x2/x3 than frame rate (30fps)

hi,
ok i started the ffmpeg command in console
it starts then with this:

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Press [q] to stop, [?] for help


then some blocks of this kind:

Last message repeated 15 times
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Last message repeated 16 times
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[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=47878 size=77614

and so on...........................


then it seems keeping stable between 23-30 fps with:

frame= 2761 fps= 23 q=11.0 Lsize= 100428kB time=00:01:55.32 bitrate=7134.1kbits/s
video:93772kB audio:5406kB subtitle:0 data:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.260779%
Received signal 2: terminating.


sorry, when i am a bit weird now, what can we get out of this information?

marko

is this telling me its serviio related?
or network related?

hi,
ok i started the ffmpeg command in console
it starts then with this:

bunka config # ffmpeg -threads 4 -i /raid5/media/download/complete/lhd-wwhuncut-1080p/lhd-wwhuncut-1080p.mkv -y -threads 4 -c:v mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 7000k -maxrate:v 7000k -bufsize:v 7000k -r 24000/1001 -g 15 -c:a ac3 -b:a 384k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f vob /tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-1560-custom-ORIGINAL.stf
ffmpeg version 2.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 17 2014 18:53:52 with gcc 4.7.3 (Gentoo 4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --cxx=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ --ar=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar --optflags='-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe' --extra-cflags='-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe' --extra-cxxflags='-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe' --disable-static --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --disable-stripping --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --disable-indev=v4l2 --disable-outdev=v4l2 --disable-indev=alsa --disable-indev=oss --disable-indev=jack --disable-outdev=alsa --disable-outdev=oss --disable-outdev=sdl --enable-bzlib --enable-runtime-cpudetect --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-gnutls --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-iconv --enable-network --disable-openssl --disable-ffplay --disable-vaapi --disable-vdpau --enable-zlib --enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libaacplus --disable-libfaac --disable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --disable-libwavpack --disable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --disable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --disable-libcdio --disable-libiec61883 --disable-libdc1394 --disable-libcaca --disable-openal --enable-opengl --disable-libv4l2 --disable-libpulse --disable-x11grab --disable-libflite --disable-frei0r --disable-fontconfig --disable-ladspa --enable-libass --disable-libfreetype --disable-libsoxr --enable-pthreads --disable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-libopencore-amrnb --disable-libfdk-aac --disable-libopenjpeg --disable-libbluray --disable-libcelt --disable-libgme --disable-libgsm --disable-libmodplug --disable-libopus --disable-libquvi --enable-librtmp --disable-libssh --disable-libschroedinger --disable-libspeex --disable-libvorbis --disable-libvpx --disable-libzvbi --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-neon --disable-vfp --disable-mips32r2 --disable-mipsdspr1 --disable-mipsdspr2 --disable-mipsfpu --disable-altivec --disable-amd3dnow --disable-amd3dnowext --disable-avx --disable-avx2 --disable-fma3 --disable-fma4 --disable-mmxext --disable-sse3 --disable-sse4 --cpu=core2
libavutil 52. 66.100 / 52. 66.100
libavcodec 55. 52.102 / 55. 52.102
libavformat 55. 33.100 / 55. 33.100
libavdevice 55. 10.100 / 55. 10.100
libavfilter 4. 2.100 / 4. 2.100
libavresample 1. 2. 0 / 1. 2. 0
libswscale 2. 5.102 / 2. 5.102
libswresample 0. 18.100 / 0. 18.100
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '/raid5/media/download/complete/lhd-wwhuncut-1080p/lhd-wwhuncut-1080p.mkv':
Metadata:
encoder : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0
creation_time : 2011-06-20 15:40:22
Duration: 02:18:32.97, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 16484 kb/s
Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 255.255000
Metadata:
title : 00:00:00.000
Chapter #0.1: start 255.255000, end 916.082000
Metadata:
title : 00:04:15.255
Chapter #0.2: start 916.082000, end 1487.653000
Metadata:
title : 00:15:16.082
Chapter #0.3: start 1487.653000, end 1961.459000
Metadata:
title : 00:24:47.653
Chapter #0.4: start 1961.459000, end 2431.929000
Metadata:
title : 00:32:41.459
Chapter #0.5: start 2431.929000, end 3433.263000
Metadata:
title : 00:40:31.929
Chapter #0.6: start 3433.263000, end 4026.689000
Metadata:
title : 00:57:13.263
Chapter #0.7: start 4026.689000, end 4478.140000
Metadata:
title : 01:07:06.689
Chapter #0.8: start 4478.140000, end 4857.436000
Metadata:
title : 01:14:38.140
Chapter #0.9: start 4857.436000, end 5662.490000
Metadata:
title : 01:20:57.436
Chapter #0.10: start 5662.490000, end 6508.168000
Metadata:
title : 01:34:22.490
Chapter #0.11: start 6508.168000, end 7147.974000
Metadata:
title : 01:48:28.168
Chapter #0.12: start 7147.974000, end 7653.479000
Metadata:
title : 01:59:07.974
Chapter #0.13: start 7653.479000, end 8312.972000
Metadata:
title : 02:07:33.479
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x816 [SAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
Stream #0:1(ger): Audio: dts (DTS), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 1536 kb/s (default)
Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: dts (DTS), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 1536 kb/s
Stream #0:3(ger): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle, 1920x1080 (default)
[mpeg2video @ 0x1bdad00] impossible bitrate constraints, this will fail
Output #0, vob, to '/tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-1560-custom-ORIGINAL.stf':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf55.33.100
Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 255.255000
Metadata:
title : 00:00:00.000
Chapter #0.1: start 255.255000, end 916.082000
Metadata:
title : 00:04:15.255
Chapter #0.2: start 916.082000, end 1487.653000
Metadata:
title : 00:15:16.082
Chapter #0.3: start 1487.653000, end 1961.459000
Metadata:
title : 00:24:47.653
Chapter #0.4: start 1961.459000, end 2431.929000
Metadata:
title : 00:32:41.459
Chapter #0.5: start 2431.929000, end 3433.263000
Metadata:
title : 00:40:31.929
Chapter #0.6: start 3433.263000, end 4026.689000
Metadata:
title : 00:57:13.263
Chapter #0.7: start 4026.689000, end 4478.140000
Metadata:
title : 01:07:06.689
Chapter #0.8: start 4478.140000, end 4857.436000
Metadata:
title : 01:14:38.140
Chapter #0.9: start 4857.436000, end 5662.490000
Metadata:
title : 01:20:57.436
Chapter #0.10: start 5662.490000, end 6508.168000
Metadata:
title : 01:34:22.490
Chapter #0.11: start 6508.168000, end 7147.974000
Metadata:
title : 01:48:28.168
Chapter #0.12: start 7147.974000, end 7653.479000
Metadata:
title : 01:59:07.974
Chapter #0.13: start 7653.479000, end 8312.972000
Metadata:
title : 02:07:33.479
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 1920x816 [SAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], q=2-31, 7000 kb/s, 90k tbn, 23.98 tbc (default)
Stream #0:1(ger): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 384 kb/s (default)
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 -> mpeg2video)
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dca -> ac3)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help


then some blocks of this kind:

Last message repeated 15 times
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=30727 size=35445
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=32751 size=35445
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=34775 size=35445
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
Last message repeated 16 times
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=33728 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=35734 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=37758 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=39782 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=41806 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=43830 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=45854 size=77614
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=410 size=1536
[vob @ 0x1ae0020] buffer underflow st=0 bufi=47878 size=77614

and so on...........................


then it seems keeping stable between 23-30 fps with:

frame= 2761 fps= 23 q=11.0 Lsize= 100428kB time=00:01:55.32 bitrate=7134.1kbits/s
video:93772kB audio:5406kB subtitle:0 data:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.260779%
Received signal 2: terminating.


sorry, when i am a bit weird now, what can we get out of this information?

marko

is this telling me its serviio related?
or network related?

with maxVBitrate="15360",

i get more of these buffer underflow,...

[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=543 size=1536
[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=1004 size=1536
[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=1483 size=1536
[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=426 size=1536
Last message repeated 36 times
[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=905 size=1536
[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=210 size=1536
[vob @ 0xed2020] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=491 size=15364 bitrate=12956.1kbits/s
Last message repeated 5 times
frame= 8100 fps= 48 q=3.0 Lsize= 547546kB time=00:05:38.16 bitrate=13264.1kbits/s
video:525006kB audio:15852kB subtitle:0 data:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.236478%
Received signal 2: terminating.

[Illico]

...
frame= 2761 fps= 23 q=11.0 Lsize= 100428kB time=00:01:55.32 bitrate=7134.1kbits/s
...
video:93772kB audio:5406kB subtitle:0 data:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.260779%
Received signal 2: terminating.

sorry, when i am a bit weird now, what can we get out of this information?

As you can see, the ffmpeg command line transcode your source to mpeg2video and ac3 in mpeg/vob container.
The transcoding process rate is around 23-30fps, but your display rate is 23.98 frame per second...conclusion your transcoding process is too slow compare to the video frame rate...then video stuttered.
Transcoding process should be minimum x2-x3 the frame rate : 100fps is good

Why your transcoding is too slow...I don't know ! ( cpu load, disk /raid5/media/ access rate ??)

hi,
thanks for enlighting me a bit

maybe its worth a test to set the /tmp folder for transcoding into RAM.
Reading from raid5 should be fast enough.

ffmpeg 2.2.2 here in use.