Stuttering, shaky playback issue in browsers fixed

[burnchar 3]

Playback of videos in Chrome and Edge have long had a problem where the playback is unviewable: Stuttering, playing several frames and then playing a frame that was already played several frames ago.

This happens under the following conditions, to the best of my knowledge:

1. Video is encoded in HEVC / h.265
2. Video encoding uses b-frames for better quality at a given bit rate
3. Video is played in Windows on Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (Firefox has its own, separate issues)

I posted a sample video in the thread below; one where Luke was amazingly patient and tactful with me:

It looks like Microsoft has been hard at work on the problem and has a potential fix. See the relevant Microsoft forum post here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/hevc-video-decoding-broken-with-b-frames/m-p/3176711/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufEtaUUhYV1QwUE5TTEJSfDMxNzY3MTF8U1VCU0NSSVBUSU9OU3xoSw#M52158

I haven't had the opportunity to try this yet, so please report any issues in that thread.

[Luke 42083]

That's great news. Thanks for sharing.

[rbjtech 5284]

Ah this is interesting - I have to keep reinstalling the version below to fix the issue as Windows keeps 'helpfully' updating it for me.

Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension_1.0.31823.0_x64.Appx

The above version works perfectly fine - so why they needed to mess with it I have no idea ...