Movies Stuttering

[daniel.bmyer 11]

I finally got the Server and ET installed and all setup with my libraries.  I'm watching movies on my HTPC with is wired to my router as it my server. So there shouldn't be any transcoding.

 

I tried playing some movies. Initially they played fine.  Watched a movie, then shutdown.  Today I tried the same movie and it's stuttering.  I haven't made any changes. I never had this time of problem with JRiver with Red October High Quality. Same for Kodi.  

 

As well, I ran into another problem.  If I watch a trailer, which seems to be on youtube, when I try to watch a movie afterwards, all within ET, the screen remains black but sound plays.

 

All movies are full blu ray remuxes with HD audio mkv files.  

 

 

My system is as follows

Intel Core i5- 25000K CPU 3.3 GHZ

8GB RAM

Windows 10 64bit

HD 3000

 

 

Are there any guides on how to set up ET or is there some logs I can provide?

Are there any guides on how to set up ET.  My system is

Edited October 5, 2017 by daniel.bmyer

[daniel.bmyer 11]

I tried watching a download of Bing Bang Theory and it was stuttering.  Switched to playing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and the screen remained black but sound played....

 

Very frustrating!

[Guest asrequested]

Can you post a screenshot of your settings in Theater?

[daniel.bmyer 11]

How do I do that?  Do you just mean a screenshot of the Video section?

[Luke 42078]

I would suggest turning audio passthrough back on since your audio equipment supports it.

[daniel.bmyer 11]

Here you go....if this is what you meant

[daniel.bmyer 11]

I tried both with Audio passthrough and without.  Didn't make any difference.

 

Oh and I have the MadVR Option checked. Although I tried unchecking it and it didn't do anything

Edited October 6, 2017 by daniel.bmyer

[Luke 42078]

I would keep madvr unchecked. Sorry but we're talking about two completely different video players here when you enable or disable madvr. If you are seeing stuttering with both then there is almost certainly some kind of environmental problem occurring on your system.

[Guest asrequested]

Let's be methodical. I agree with Luke, don't use MadVR, enable all audio passthrough. Test! Look at stats for nerds, is it direct playing? Report results

[daniel.bmyer 11]

Ok, so I unchecked madvr, then rebooted and tried again.  This time my movies played back smoothly.  Seems odd though that Kodi and JRiver play back fine with Madvr.

 

So does the Video settings I select work even if I do not have Madvr checked?  I'm a little confused on that.  So in Video if I have Lanzos for scaling, it will still apply even if Madvr is unchecked?

[daniel.bmyer 11]

So far two movies seem to be playing without stuttering...I've enabled passthrough and yes it's direct play

[Luke 42078]

Yes using a different video player. The default which is mpv. If I had to guess I think you've probably over customized a little bit.

[Guest asrequested]

So does the Video settings I select work even if I do not have Madvr checked?  I'm a little confused on that.  So in Video if I have Lanzos for scaling, it will still apply even if Madvr is unchecked?

 

The settings in the UI are only for mpv. They have nothing to do with MadVR. That is configured in the MadVR UI. 

[daniel.bmyer 11]

Where's the madvr ui?  How do I access that?

[Guest asrequested]

Where's the madvr ui?  How do I access that?

 

The easiest way is to enable MadVR, play something and then use the MadVR icon in the system tray

Edited October 6, 2017 by Doofus

[stettler 30]

Ok, so I unchecked madvr, then rebooted and tried again.  This time my movies played back smoothly.  Seems odd though that Kodi and JRiver play back fine with Madvr.

 

So does the Video settings I select work even if I do not have Madvr checked?  I'm a little confused on that.  So in Video if I have Lanzos for scaling, it will still apply even if Madvr is unchecked?

 

 

If you use MadVR, it all depends of the setting you use. Lanzos is too much for HD 3000 GPU.

Imho, that's about the best MadVR settings you can get with this GPU:

 

In MadVR GUI:

Devices -> display mode -> switch to match display : disable

Devices -> display mode -> list all display modes : (empty)

Scaling algorithms -> chroma upscaling -> bicubic

Scaling algorithms -> image upscaling -> processing done by gpu : bilinear

                                        

Rendering -> General Setting -> Enable automatic fullscreen exclusive mode : disable

                                Enable windowed overlay : enable

Edited October 6, 2017 by stettler