Heavy stuttering .mkv files!

Hi community! 

I have an issue with some .mkv files! They are heavy stuttering! I use WDTV (newest firmaware) live over network shares! Here is a MediaInfo of one of the stuttering files! 

Allgemein
Vollständiger Name : K:\Movies (K)\Ausnahmezustand\Ausnahmezustand.mkv
Format : Matroska
Dateigröße : 30,8 GiB
Dauer : 1h 56min
Gesamte Bitrate : 38,0 Mbps
Kodierungs-Datum : UTC 2010-02-02 10:37:58
Kodierendes Programm : MakeMKV v1.4.11 beta win(x86-release)
verwendete Encoder-Bibliothek : libmakemkv v1.4.11 beta (0.7.7/0.8.1) win(x86-release)

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format-Profil : High@L4.1
Format-Einstellungen für CABAC : Ja
Format-Einstellungen für ReFrame : 4 frames
Muxing-Modus : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec-ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Dauer : 1h 55min
Bitrate : 33,5 Mbps
Breite : 1 920 Pixel
Höhe : 1 080 Pixel
Bildseitenverhältnis : 16:9
Bildwiederholungsrate : 23,976 FPS
Auflösung : 8 bits
Colorimetrie : 4:2:0
Scantyp : progressiv
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.674
Stream-Größe : 27,1 GiB (88%)
colour_primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
transfer_characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
matrix_coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec-ID : A_DTS
Dauer : 1h 56min
Bitraten-Modus : konstant
Bitrate : 1 510 Kbps
Kanäle : 6 Kanäle
Kanal-Positionen : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Samplingrate : 48,0 KHz
Auflösung : 24 bits
Stream-Größe : 1,22 GiB (4%)
Titel : 3/2+1
Sprache : Englisch

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec-ID : A_DTS
Dauer : 1h 56min
Bitraten-Modus : konstant
Bitrate : 755 Kbps
Kanäle : 6 Kanäle
Kanal-Positionen : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Samplingrate : 48,0 KHz
Auflösung : 24 bits
Stream-Größe : 627 MiB (2%)
Titel : 3/2+1
Sprache : Spanisch

Audio #3
ID : 4
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec-ID : A_DTS
Dauer : 1h 56min
Bitraten-Modus : konstant
Bitrate : 755 Kbps
Kanäle : 6 Kanäle
Kanal-Positionen : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Samplingrate : 48,0 KHz
Auflösung : 24 bits
Stream-Größe : 627 MiB (2%)
Titel : 3/2+1
Sprache : Deutsch

Audio #4
ID : 5
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec-ID : A_DTS
Dauer : 1h 56min
Bitraten-Modus : konstant
Bitrate : 755 Kbps
Kanäle : 6 Kanäle
Kanal-Positionen : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Samplingrate : 48,0 KHz
Auflösung : 24 bits
Stream-Größe : 627 MiB (2%)
Titel : 3/2+1
Sprache : Italienisch

Text #1
ID : 6
Format : PGS
Codec-ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec-ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Sprache : Englisch

Text #2
ID : 7
Format : PGS
Codec-ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec-ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Sprache : Spanisch

Text #3
ID : 8
Format : PGS
Codec-ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec-ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Sprache : Dänisch

Text #4
ID : 9
Format : PGS
Codec-ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec-ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Sprache : Deutsch

Text #5
ID : 10
Format : PGS
Codec-ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec-ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Sprache : Italienisch

Menü
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 00
00:04:32.105 : en:Chapter 01
00:07:38.749 : en:Chapter 02
00:10:06.606 : en:Chapter 03
00:15:15.122 : en:Chapter 04
00:18:36.865 : en:Chapter 05
00:26:13.530 : en:Chapter 06
00:31:30.179 : en:Chapter 07
00:35:22.495 : en:Chapter 08
00:43:58.093 : en:Chapter 09
00:46:22.488 : en:Chapter 10
00:49:59.871 : en:Chapter 11
00:53:43.720 : en:Chapter 12
00:55:24.487 : en:Chapter 13
00:58:01.436 : en:Chapter 14
01:00:46.434 : en:Chapter 15
01:04:33.870 : en:Chapter 16
01:10:24.970 : en:Chapter 17
01:12:42.858 : en:Chapter 18
01:15:55.175 : en:Chapter 19
01:19:14.666 : en:Chapter 20
01:21:40.896 : en:Chapter 21
01:24:37.989 : en:Chapter 22
01:29:39.665 : en:Chapter 23
01:32:02.058 : en:Chapter 24
01:33:45.453 : en:Chapter 25
01:39:29.046 : en:Chapter 26
01:43:07.806 : en:Chapter 27
01:44:30.389 : en:Chapter 28
01:49:23.098 : en:Chapter 29

I hope, somebody can help and sorry for my poor english! 

Best regards 

H

Hi, this file looks like a full BR rip into MKV. Lot’s of people have reported stuttering issues with high bit rate HD type files over the network shares.

Have you tried using a USB device attached to the WD Live and seeing if the file will play OK?, or media streaming from PC, others have reported successes that way, though myself, I still have stuttering video for very high bit rates.

Gesamte Bitrate : 38,0 Mbps

This ^^ . In other posts I mentioned that the max bitrate I can get out of the WDTV live when accessing files through network shares is about 20 Mbit/s, any bitrate peaks over this and it’s stutter time. This doesn’t mean that the chiptset/memory etc… can’t handle it, only the networking code used to read the files.

If you wanna play that video flawlessly use a media server to stream the video to the WDTV. TVersity does the work just fine, and can handle even higher bitrates, just make sure it is *not* set to transcode the video, the WDTV can handle it if it is streamed properly from TVersity.

I’m also having this problem… Only when viewing an .mkv file from a network share…

I tried using a composite video cable y still the problem…

I tried selecting 720p (60Hz) and nothing…

I copied the same movie to a USB drive an it works great…

There is something wrong with the network code of the drive…

Is there a workaround???

If your accessing the files from a network share, it’s probably safe to assume that they are coming off a Windows or Mac host. You might want to look into installing a DLNA server onto the host machine and streaming them down, as suggested above.

Streaming with TVersity solved the issue! Big Thnaks @ all!