MKV stuttering

[Shandyman]

I'm using the latest VLC, on pretty much every MKV I watch, there's always a random freeze, sometimes only a couple in 40 minutes, sometimes more. I've tried changing the threads in the demuxers menu, i've tried changing the skip the loop filter, tried changing the hardware decoding from default to video decode acceleration framework. It's driving me potty!! I'm getting close to giving up on VLC and looking for an alternative bit of software.

[dfuhrmann]

A VLC log would be helpful, at the time your video freezes.

[Shandyman]

well it happened twice just 17 seconds in. Log as below.

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reference at 976401642 mkv debug: | | + Seek mkv warning: MKV/Ebml Parser: m_el[mi_level] == NULL mkv warning: MKV/Ebml Parser: Up cannot escape itself mkv debug: | - unknown seekhead reference at 977413387 mkv debug: | | + Seek mkv debug: | | + Unknown (N7libebml8EbmlVoidE) mkv debug: | - cues at 978046238 mkv debug: | + Cues mkv debug: | - loading cues done. mkv debug: | + Void mkv debug: | + Information mkv debug: | + Tracks mkv debug: | + Void mkv debug: | + Cluster mkv debug: found 2 es main debug: selecting program id=0 main debug: Buffering -2147483648% mkv debug: Starting the UI Hook main debug: using demux module "mkv" main debug: looking for a subtitle file in /Volumes/Kelex/ main debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 38 candidates avcodec debug: trying to use direct rendering avcodec debug: allowing 4 thread(s) for decoding avcodec debug: avcodec codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) started avcodec debug: using frame thread mode with 4 threads main debug: using decoder module "avcodec" main debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 38 candidates main debug: using decoder module "a52" main debug: looking for meta reader module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/meta/reader lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/meta/reader lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/meta/reader/filename.luac lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/share/lua/meta/reader main debug: no meta reader modules matched main debug: `file:///Volumes/Kelex/Believe%201x03.mkv' successfully opened a52 debug: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000 main debug: reusing audio output main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: VLC is looking for: 'a52 ' 48000 Hz 3F2R/LFE frame=1536 samples/1536 bytes auhal debug: attempting to use device 0 main debug: Buffering 33% main debug: Buffering 66% main debug: Stream buffering done (1001 ms in 90 ms) auhal debug: using default audio device 68 auhal debug: found 9 stream formats for stream id 69 auhal debug: Audio device supports PCM mode only auhal debug: current format is: [48000.000000][mcpl][9][8][1][8][2][32] main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 3 candidates auhal debug: layout of AUHAL has 2 channels auhal debug: selected 2 physical channels for device output auhal debug: VLC will output: Stereo auhal debug: we set the AU format: [48000.000000][mcpl][9][8][1][8][2][32] freetype debug: looking for Arial Unicode MS auhal debug: the actual set AU format is [48000.000000][mcpl][9][8][1][8][2][32] auhal debug: analog output successfully opened main debug: output 'f32l' 48000 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes main debug: looking for audio volume module matching "any": 2 candidates main debug: using audio volume module "float_mixer" main debug: input 'a52 ' 48000 Hz 3F2R/LFE frame=1536 samples/1536 bytes main debug: looking for audio filter module matching "scaletempo": 14 candidates scaletempo debug: format: 48000 rate, 6 nch, 4 bps, fl32 scaletempo debug: params: 30 stride, 0.200 overlap, 14 search scaletempo debug: 1.000 scale, 1440.000 stride_in, 1440 stride_out, 1152 standing, 288 overlap, 672 search, 2400 queue, fl32 mode main debug: using audio filter module "scaletempo" main debug: conversion: 'a52 '->'f32l' 48000 Hz->48000 Hz 3F2R/LFE->3F2R/LFE main debug: looking for audio converter module matching "any": 11 candidates freetype debug: found /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf freetype debug: Using Arial Unicode MS as font from file /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf main debug: no audio converter modules matched main debug: looking for audio converter module matching "any": 11 candidates main debug: using audio converter module "a52tofloat32" main debug: conversion pipeline complete main debug: conversion: 'f32l'->'f32l' 48000 Hz->48000 Hz 3F2R/LFE->Stereo main debug: looking for audio converter module matching "any": 11 candidates main debug: using audio converter module "simple_channel_mixer" main debug: conversion pipeline complete main debug: looking for audio resampler module matching "any": 2 candidates main debug: using audio resampler module "ugly_resampler" main debug: End of audio preroll freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 54 candidates swscale debug: 32x32 chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 chroma: RGBA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality) main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 54 candidates macosx debug: releasing old sleep blocker (9114) yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter main debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp" macosx debug: prevented sleep through IOKit (10359) main debug: Deinterlacing available main debug: deinterlace 0, mode blend, is_needed 0 main debug: Opening vout display wrapper main debug: looking for vout display module matching "any": 5 candidates main debug: looking for vout window nsobject module matching "any": 1 candidates macosx debug: returning videoview with proposed position x=0, y=0, width=1280, height=720 main debug: using vout window nsobject module "macosx" macosx debug: toggle playlist from state: removed splitview 0, minimized view 0. Sender is 0x0, unhide video view 0 macosx debug: toggle playlist to state: removed splitview 0, minimized view 0 macosx debug: releasing old sleep blocker (10359) macosx debug: prevented sleep through IOKit (10361) main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1280x720 window main debug: using vout display module "vout_macosx" main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1280x720 window main debug: original format sz 1280x720, of (0,0), vsz 1280x720, 4cc I420, sar 1:1, msk r0x0 g0x0 b0x0 main debug: removing module "freetype" main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 3 candidates freetype debug: looking for Arial Unicode MS freetype debug: found /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf freetype debug: Using Arial Unicode MS as font from file /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" avcodec debug: using direct rendering main debug: End of video preroll main debug: Received first picture freetype debug: looking for Arial Unicode MS freetype debug: found /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf main debug: Decoder buffering done in 179 ms main warning: playback too early (-47904): down-sampling main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 1000 ms) main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called main warning: early picture skipped main debug: End of audio preroll main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: Buffering 37% main debug: Buffering 70% main debug: Stream buffering done (1168 ms in 1 ms) main debug: End of video preroll main debug: Received first picture main debug: Decoder buffering done in 29 ms main warning: playback way too early (-282827): playing silence main debug: inserting 13575 zeroes main warning: buffer too late (-253749 us): dropped main warning: buffer too late (-221884 us): dropped main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 1600 ms) main warning: buffer too late (-189937 us): dropped main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called main warning: buffer too late (-158018 us): dropped main warning: buffer too late (-126139 us): dropped main warning: buffer too late (-94184 us): dropped main warning: buffer too late (-62227 us): dropped main warning: early picture skipped main debug: playback too late (30550): flushing buffers main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 569 ms) main debug: End of audio preroll main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: Buffering 20% main debug: Buffering 41% main debug: Buffering 62% main debug: Buffering 85% main debug: Stream buffering done (1793 ms in 11 ms) main debug: End of video preroll main debug: Received first picture main debug: Decoder buffering done in 22 ms main warning: playback way too early (-310261): playing silence main debug: inserting 14892 zeroes macosx debug: releasing sleep blocker (10361)

[Shandyman]

anyone?

[plasmacutter]

There is a possibility you're ending up with I/O bottlenecking on the disk.

Thoughts on potential config options to smooth this:

Open preferences, click "show all", click on "input/codecs", scroll down until you reach a set of sliders reading "file caching" "live capture caching" "disk caching", etc.

Slide all of those all the way to the right, save, then re-load whatever file was causing this.

The application of this increase to caching has provided smooth playback from a NAS device I use over wireless. There's a good chance it will help.