I’ve been using the Hub for a month or so and it’s awesome overall, BUT there’s a BIG problem. A number of the movies I’ve loaded onto the Hub don’t play smoothly. It’s like a constant jittering, which obviously ruins most movies, action movies especially. The same videos though move completely fine on my macbook.
I have no idea why this is happening but it’s making me question ever having bought the device, cuz it’s happening with dozens of videos. If it matters, all the videos are stored right on the Hub (I don’t even own a separate external hard drive).
I usually don’t transfer using the network. Usually I download the movies onto my mac then put them onto a usb stick then tranfer them from the stick onto the hub.
Here’s my video info output as mediainfo displays it for one of the movie files (thanks for the link btw).
Also, to clarify, I’m playing right off the Hub hard drive so I don’t think the network has anything to do with it. And I know the file is kind of small for a movie file, but frame rate-wise it plays fine on the mac, but like a lot of my other files it’s not progressing right on the hub.
I’d like to change those video settings you mentioned but I can’t figure out how. I’ve flipped through the various settings and can’t find any of what you described.You are talking about settings on the Hub right?
If you could send me a step by step description that’d be excellent.
Thanks again, I tried your suggestion but it made no difference. Anyone else have any ideas.
I don’t understand why certain video files are playing smoother on my tv through my mac then they do when I load them onto the hub then play them. This is really frustrating.
Here’s the answers to your questions everybody, and thanks again for all your help:
I don’t encode my own software. I just download the files from the net, put them on usb stick, and transfer them onto the hub. Only common denominators I’ve found for this files that are jittering is that they’re all avi files that are 1000mb or smaller. But that still doesn’t explain why the framerate works fine on my Mac but not the hub.
Firmware on my hub is currently fully up to date.
I redid the scan with that program. Here’s all the info it gave me in text format:
Bit rate : 748 Kbps
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.390
Stream size : 446 MiB (85%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 23mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 121 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 72.1 MiB (14%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 26 ms (0.65 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 548 ms
