ReadyNAS Pro HD Video Playback Issues

mrwizard93 wrote:

Alright, here is some info that maybe someone can make heads or tails of ... I monitored the system log while plex was playing a large movie and waiting for the the movie to error out. I copied a section: 9/7/11 8:57:50.527 PM [0x0-0x255255].com.plexsquared.Plex: [matroska @ 0x3894810] Unknown entry 0x12D1E948 Here are the system logs when VLS was playing the same movie and started to stutter (this was before the plex play hence the time difference): 9/7/11 8:45:04.276 PM [0x0-0x218218].org.videolan.vlc: Missing reference picture Any ideas?

To me, these errors look like both Plex and VLC being unhappy with the content of the MKV file and not to be a network related problem.

Earlier versions of MakeMKV - prior to 1.6.9 did have problems producing good files and a new engine was added in 1.6.9 which to me at least was a big improvement. While these old files played reasonably well in VLC they caused Apple's QuickTime Player big problems. Newer files with the newer engine now play well in QuickTime Player as well.

So, my initial suggestion would be to re-rip using the latest MakeMKV if you can. If you don't have the original source media, then maybe an option would be to demux the media using something like MKVExtract and then remux perhaps using MKVMerge.