[SOLVED] High Bitrate 4K Movie Unwatchable on Minix U9-H

**wrxtasy** · April 20, 2018 at 2:35 AM

Glad it's all sorted and turned out to be something simple.

We were all scratching our heads !

Marked the thread as Solved.

Tyler Durden · April 20, 2018 at 7:13 AM

Yes. Very happy it was an easy fix. I had envisaged having to try and replace all my cat5e cables for cat6!

I can only assume that the cable wasn't quite seated correctly in the switch or may have been dirty and that taking it out and putting it back in must have resolved it.

movie78 · April 20, 2018 at 3:24 PM

I am also going run this test on my Minix and see where the problem is coming from.

run ethtool eth0 via ssh and look if duplex & speed are OK

Should be:

Speed: 1000Mb/s

Duplex: Full

Hope this helps..

Tyler Durden · April 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM

It seems your issue is with something else.

movie78 · April 20, 2018 at 3:44 PM

Quote from Tyler Durden

It seems your issue is with something else.

I haven't run the command yet, will try it later...

movie78 · April 20, 2018 at 5:17 PM

This my results from testing...

Code

LibreELEC (community): 8.90.6 (S912.arm)
LibreELEC:~ # ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                             1000baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: external
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: ug
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x0000003d (61)
                               drv link timer ifdown ifup
        Link detected: yes

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I think the issue is playing ISO UHD files..

Tyler Durden · April 20, 2018 at 5:21 PM

That network test seems to check out fine.

Try extracting the largest file from the stream folder of the ISO and playing that instead.

Tim_Taylor · April 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM

Quote from movie78

I think the issue is playing ISO UHD files..

Agree.

I have only one UHD ISO file - Playback sucks

Ripped .mkv is playing smooth.

movie78 · April 20, 2018 at 5:49 PM

Quote from Tim_Taylor

Agree.

I have only one UHD ISO file - Playback sucks

Ripped .mkv is playing smooth.

Don't have any issue playing UHD ISO on Nvidia Shield, there should be a way to fix it as this a very solid media player.

Tim_Taylor · April 20, 2018 at 5:53 PM

Quote from movie78

Don't have any issue playing UHD ISO on Nvidia Shield, there should be a way to fix it as this a very solid media player.

I don´t know - could be hardware limitation of our cheap S90x boxes

shablamy · August 2, 2018 at 1:57 PM

Hey Guys, I'm having this issue too. Here is my raw test file from my Gopro Hero 6: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zbc7ztuddzrnz4ufdlkkslksjqehh-qj

My network is on:

Speed: 1000Mb/s

Duplex: Full

I've also tried directly inserting the sdcard and playing the file/s from there - same issue. Footage starts to play then pauses with a buffering/loading sign.

GOPRO raw footage:

General

Complete name : GX010003.MP4

Format : MPEG-4

Format profile : Base Media / Version 1

Codec ID : mp41 (mp41)

File size : 3.73 GiB

Duration : 6 min 45 s

Overall bit rate : 79.1 Mb/s

Encoded date : UTC 2018-07-28 08:35:28

Tagged date : UTC 2018-07-28 08:35:28

Random 4k UHD file(Plays no problem):

General

Complete name : The.Revenant.2015.2160p.UHD.BluRay.X265-IAMABLE.mkv

Format : Matroska

Format version : Version 4 / Version 2

File size : 17.9 GiB

Duration : 2 h 36 min

Overall bit rate : 16.4 Mb/s

Encoded date : UTC 2010-02-22 21:41:29

Writing application : no_variable_data

Writing library : no_variable_data

Debug:

21:32:27.196 T:4101152768 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: smb://192.168.1.50/Public/Downloads/100GOPRO/GX020003.MP4

21:32:27.196 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Creating InputStream

21:32:27.290 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer

21:32:27.700 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256

21:32:27.700 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 174

21:32:27.700 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Creating video thread

21:32:27.701 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256

21:32:27.701 T:3095380832 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread

21:32:27.701 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018

21:32:27.703 T:3330892640 NOTICE: Creating audio thread

21:32:27.704 T:3103769440 NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()

21:32:27.714 T:3103769440 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)

21:32:27.794 T:3095380832 NOTICE: CAMLCodec::OpenDecoder - using V4L2 pts format: 64Bit

21:32:31.311 T:3103769440 NOTICE: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process - stream stalled

I'm running this version - LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.4-Subtitles-ff / Minix FW8 - same issue