Picture lag and screen pixelating

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Im having some problems with my WD TV Live Hub. They have allways been there i think :- 

Many of the movies i try to watch have minor lagging and the screen often get full of pixels and jups a second or so. Sometimes the audio gets of sync after a while. This happends about every 20-60sec and is really annoying!

I’ve tried to disconnect the ethernet cable and i have done some resets but that does not help.

Does anyone know what i can do?

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If it does this via USB playback, it’s probably a bad encode. Please post the full TEXT output of MEDIAINFO for such a file.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net

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All my movies are on local storage. 

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This is the media info from a movie i tried to watch yesterday. It started lagging more and more, and after about 15minutes it just stopped playing and sent me back to menu…

General
Unique ID : 193062289914372207878010728069874429099 (0x913E71CC93049EAB8AAF6BF70A55ACAB)
Complete name : Z:\µTorrent\Competed\The Losers 2010 720p\The Losers 2010 720p.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.90 GiB
Duration : 1h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 2 810 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-07-18 18:43:13
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.8.0 (‘I Got The…’) built on May 24 2011 03:12:58
Writing library : libebml v1.2.0 + libmatroska v1.1.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 10 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 36mn
Nominal bit rate : 2 500 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.150
Writing library : x264 core 115 r1995 c1e60b9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=10 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=2.00:1.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-4 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=10 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=15 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=10 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=2500 / ratetol=2.0 / qcomp=0.40 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 1h 36mn
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

5

Nobody having the simular issue then i gues…It could’t be the HDMI cable could it?

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I think it has something to do with the video file itself and you should download a better copy of the movie.

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Is this a file you converted yourself or one you downloaded (possibly pirated) from the internet? If you converted it yourself then what software are you using to convert? If it is a pirated movie, then too bad.