Slow or Choppy 1080p - is it just me?

[FNAKFHE]

I get slow or choppy 1080p.

This is random and not all the time.

I am playing my video from internal laptop drive. 100gb 7200rmp. I also tested the 320GB 7200rpm drive i have.

Playback is not perfect, it slows down and gets choppy at random.

To recover i just hit PAUSE on the remote, and PLAY. maybe it allows the buffer to full back up?

Any one see slowdown in 1080p video? (ANY CODEC!!)

[Monkeyface66]

If you can provide us a short sample of a problematic file, we can tell you if it's because of the file or the Patriot.


How to cut a small piece of your video?
1) get mkvtoolnix from here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix

2) after installing start "mkvmerge GUI".
3) load your file and go to the "Global" tab.
4) check "enable splitting", "after this size" = 100M and "max number" = 1.
5) start muxing

This will make a 100 MBytes file which you should upload somewhere.

[Exist2Resist]

Over the weekend I performed a BR ISO test over the network, and it was a little choppy. This does not surprise me as the PBO has 10/100 ethernet.
All my MKV files play fine and i have no issues with them.

Is this an MKV you are playing or a BR ISO?

[halftrojan]

10/100 ethernet should be fine for BD ISO, there is something wrong with the PBO network card. The max bitrate of a BD is 40 Mbit/s.

[Exist2Resist]

I think the network speeds the PBO is reporting are inaccurate and do not reflect the speed that it is utilizing.
Also when i was streaming the BR ISO over the network the LAN LED was a solid colour.

[microman]

I'm getting pixelation (blue and green blocks) issues when running ANY 1080p movie, also occasional freezing. I have it hooked into a gigabit switch w/ cat5e cable so speeds should be streaming fine. Changing resolution to 780p resolves the issue so presuming the pbo nic is to blame.

[Tuscani]

If connect PBO with Gigabit router to do the file transfer,for sure picture speed will be smooth and pixilation problem should be solved.(i had already try it!)But R/FForward will only get 2x,this is another issues Patriot should looking at!:

[microman]

Not resolving issue for me, it's currently connected to gigabit router w/ cat5e and still having pixelation issues. Verified laptop is getting gigabit connection through same connection. Does running 1080p 60hz vs 1080p 24hz have any effect?

[illestd0tcom]

It appears to be smoother at 1080p 24hz when watching 1080p. I too run it 100. I guess the less frames it renders, the smoother the 1080p output would be. Most movies and videos are encoded less than 30fps typically, i believe. someone correct me on that if I'm wrong.

[FNAKFHE]

If you can provide us a short sample of a problematic file, we can tell you if it's because of the file or the Patriot.


How to cut a small piece of your video?
1) get mkvtoolnix from here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix

2) after installing start "mkvmerge GUI".
3) load your file and go to the "Global" tab.
4) check "enable splitting", "after this size" = 100M and "max number" = 1.
5) start muxing

This will make a 100 MBytes file which you should upload somewhere.

Please note.

I have indicated in my original post; "This is random and not all the time."

What i mean by that is; The chopping can happen on any thing, from 1080p the way to a video that is 480i.

file format does not affect. it can be m2ts, or even a wmv or a avi. any file can exhibit this behavior.

And it happens at any time, with no warning!

and to recover, i just hit the PAUSE then PLAY to get out of the choppy playback.