MKV starts skipping about 1h30m into movie

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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Last night I picked up the new WD TV Live and ran two updates that brought me up to  1.03.10.   My wife and I then watched 2 movies back-to-back.  The WD TV is connected to my network via 100MB ethernet and the movie files are on my Windows Home Server (WHS), also connected t my network via 100MB ethernet.  I have the WD TV connecting to the server using Samba on the WD TV.

The first movie we watched was encoded as follows:

SOURCE…: Blu-ray AVC DTS-HD MA5.1-CtrlHD
RUNTiME …: 02:10:18
ViDEO BiTRATE…: x264 @ 5701 kbps
FRAME RATE…: 23.976
AUDiO 1…: English DTS 5.1 Ch @ 1509 K
RESOLUTiON…: 1280 x 534
FilE SiZE…: 6.56 GiB

This movie played back perfectly, no issues.  We then fired up a second movie and it was flawless up until the last 30 minutes when it started skipping and stuttering.  I had to reboot the WD TV twice before it would finally play the last 30 minutes uninterrupted.

SOURCE…: BluRay 1080p AVC DTS-HD MA7.1-CHDBits
RUNTIME…: 1h 54mn
BITRATE…: 6 667 Kbps
FRAME RATE…: 23.976 fps
AUDIO…: English DTS 5.1 1510 Kbps
RESOLUTION…: 1 280x544
FILE SIZE…: 6.56 GiB
VIDEO CODEC…: x264, 2pass, L4.1

Any ideas why the second movie would play perfectly for 1:30 but ■■■■ the bed in the last 30?  I did notice that the WD TV was very warm, it is out in the open with nothing blocking the vents.

thanks!

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Do you have any USB devices connected to the WD, while network streaming? I noticed some skipping with the “media library” turned on, and the “get content info” turned to auto. Try turning these to off and manual, and try it again. 

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Nope, no USB devices attached.

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Try turning off “media library” even if you do not have a USB device attached. It seems to slow down the system, and could cause the network skipping you are seeing.

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I’ll give that a shot, thanks.