Update kills performance of video playback

[aggiematt1]

Not sure what changed, but what used to play smoothly, now chokes during any video playback.  My system is still at 19%CPU usage during the playback, and the videos play smoothly outside of MBClassic,

 

Recently installed the update

Edited March 19, 2015 by aggiematt1

[ebr]

Not sure.  Would need to see more information but sounds like maybe an access issue causing them to stream instead of direct play.

 

How to Report a Problem

[aggiematt1]

MPCLogs.zip

[ebr]

I got an invalid file trying to open that.

[bigjohn]

I got an invalid file trying to open that.

 

Try again, I was able to open it with no problem using 7zip.

[ebr]

I don't have any external zip programs.  Just using Windows.  Jon can you please re-attach in normal zip or just attach the relevant file without zip?  Thx.

[MrWebsmith]

here ya go.. i extracted and re-zipped

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3frvvj7rnycfpu/MPCLogs-repack.zip?dl=0

[ebr]

I just see normal playback occurring (although I see it using a mapped drive instead of UNC).  Can you please further describe "chokes"?

[aggiematt1]

Typically after 30s to 2 mins the playback will all of a sudden freeze, 1 seconds passes, plays 1 second of frames, then another second or 2 of frozen video, then playback, on and off.  The Cpu does not spike and stays in the ~20s%.  If I were playing the video outside of Media Center It would play smoothly.  This just started this week.  never had an issue before.  

[ebr]

Try turning off the Custom Player Interface and see if that makes a difference.

[aggiematt1]

No luck, still choppy

[ebr]

Okay, then that really points to a codec issue of some sort.

[aggiematt1]

Nothing changed since last week except the update.  I will look into updating the codecs, but again it play great outside of MBC.  

[aggiematt1]

I installed the latest versions of K-Lite and it seems to have fixed the issue.  I guess it was just a coincident with mediabrowser.  Thank you for your help 

[ebr]

Excellent.  Thanks for updating us.