Posts by npolite

Quote from chewitt

If the media is 1080p it's unlikely to be an HDMI bandwidth issue unless you're using a particularly rubbish cable. However, 1080p content is normally 8-bit not 10-bit which suggests media has been intentionally encoded that way, which opens the door to people using exotic encoding configs, e.g. in the past the Animé scene used 10-bit H264 which often caused issues. So plan B might be to rerip the media using Handbrake default HEVC settings.

You may still be correct about the cable being the issue. I have not seen this issue when the bitrate is around 1500, but anything in the 3000 for 265 10-bit seems to have the issue. I may get a mini-HDMI cable to HDMI and see if that works better.

Quote from chewitt

Are you using 4K "certified" cables? .. 4K 10-bit media (and often HD audio) combined will be pushing higher data rates on the HDMI cable and dropouts are a textbook symptom of a cable that can't sustain the required data rate.

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure but only using 1080p for this. I'll try another cable. Thanks!

Hi All,

I have been having this issue with the Raspberry Pi 4 and Libreelec 12.01. When I play x265 10-bit videos in the initial 10 minutes I get random video/audio drops to a blank screen for several seconds. If I go back and replay where it cuts off it will do it again but in different time of the video. After it gets going it stops but it could come back randomly as well. I am not sure what is causing this. If I take the HDD over to my computer it plays fine. Has anyone seen this issue before?

Thanks

Quote from noggin

This sounds like a power supply issue. In my experience you get ticking from 2.5" external drives when the power supply isn't quite up to it. I always had to use a powered USB hub to feed 4TB drives from my Pi 4B (I now used a Celeron box with my 4TB drive), as the stock Pi supply wasn't quite able to provide enough power.

I was able to find my Chromebook charger which is 1.4A and that seems to work. I will get a higher rated power brick.

Thanks for your help.

Quote from Klojum

The WD Elements 4TB external drive will have its own power adapter, simply use it.

Lots of (RPi) power adapters are simply not capable of their advertised potential.

Sorry I should have stated this a portable. If it was a 3.5" I don't think it could even spin the drive up off of USB power.

Hi All,

At first I thought I had a failing external drive as it starting clicking and being all around sluggish in 9.2.8 on my Raspberry Pi 4. I took the drive and put it in my PC, using HDD Sentinel the drive is 100% with no reallocated sectors. I took the drive and fired up my old 3b and no issues. The only difference is the power brick and cable. I'm waiting on a microUSB to USB C converter but for now I have an Anker USB type C cable going into a iPad wall charger. So it appears that it's something with the 4 build or hardware related.. I also tried both USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and getting the same issue. Has anyone seen this issue?

Thanks