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pdasterly
Jul 05, 2015Guide
stuttering blu-ray
Having stuttering problems with my setup, I have rn104 with blu-ray iso files, router is linksys wrt1900ac and media player is kdlinks a300 with gigabit port. Running all cat6 cabling. trying to narro...
StephenB
Jul 06, 2015Guru - Experienced User
Often its not a bottleneck btw.
TonV wrote: Jumping into this discussion, earlier on you mentioned it played perfectly on a PC, did you actually stream from your RN to the PC? If so, that would mean the media player is the culprit...
I've seen similar issues, old media player stutters, even if it has a Gbit interface, in the end the bottleneck seems to be the Sigma or other chip in the media player
A lot of media (particularly MKVs floating around) are not completely compliant to the H.264/AVC standard, or are damaged in some way. Media players use hardware decoders - often designed for set top boxes and bluray players, which only receive fully compliant bitstreams. Software decoders tend to handle out-of-spec media better than most of the hardware implementations.
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