Constant 10+ seconds pauses, how to troubleshoot?

[fraggelnostalgi 0]

I get 10+ second pauses every 5-10 seconds playing 1080p video using a Beebox i5-7200U with 16gb of ram to a LG 65 C7.

• The video is 7.5Mbps according to the LG Emby app stats
• Orbi mesh network reports about 500+ Mbps on both the Beebox and LG
• Everything has line of sight
• Beebox is reporting 3% CPU usage, 37% free memory
• Beebox sends 2Mbps over the network for a few seconds, then stops for 10-20 seconds
• Web based network bandwidth testing comes in at 120Mbps both ways
• I disabled subtitles (made no difference)
• I disabled hardware acceleration (made no difference)
• I limited the threads to 2 (made no difference)
• I changed the encoding preset to veryfast and increased the CRF to 26 (made no difference)

What else can I try?

 

[fraggelnostalgi 0]

Damnit, I just noticed that the TV has a browser and web based bandwidth testing on it reports 1.5Mbps... weirdly, Netflix works with no issue and so does YouTube 4K videos (and mesh network monitor still reports 500+ on the TV wireless).

Is LG throttling select apps?

 

EDIT: Found a page saying that LG TVs from 2017 don’t like 5ghz channels above 50 (DFS?) but mine was set to 36, so still open for suggestions.

SOLUTION: Pulling the power on the TV and restarting it fixed it... for now.

Edited February 7, 2021 by fraggelnostalgi

[Luke 42080]

Hi, glad to hear you've resolved it. Thanks for following up.