Stutter on Xbox and PS3

[thegame3202]

Hello,

I'm having an issue with movies that I have pre-transcoded and they still are stuttering. No transcoding is happening, and both my PC and xbox are hardwired on gigabit ports on my router (yes my computer has a gigabit network card also). I have lowered the quality 2 notches and set the max resolution to 1280x720. Any other ideas to try? Thank you!

[Paul]

My guess is that the bitrate of the transcoded video may be too high for your devices to decode & play smoothly (every device has limits as to what they can decode and play smoothly). Right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmeg Information'. Post that information here. Next, right-click on the video and click 'Properties'. On the Properties dialog, go to the Transcoding tab and select the transcoded file(s). Click 'Get FFmpeg Information' button and post that here.

In the meantime, as a test, try lowering the Video bitrate slider to half way (or even more) and see if that plays better.

[thegame3202]

Thank you for the quick reply!

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ffmpeg version N-46003-gfa48da1 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 25 2012 12:37:27 with gcc 4.6.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads --enable-zlib
libavutil 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
libavcodec 54. 69.100 / 54. 69.100
libavformat 54. 34.100 / 54. 34.100
libavdevice 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100
libavfilter 3. 20.105 / 3. 20.105
libswscale 2. 1.101 / 2. 1.101
libswresample 0. 16.100 / 0. 16.100
[mpegts @ 0161b460] max_analyze_duration 60000000 reached at 60000000
Input #0, mpegts, from 'F:\Transcoded Movies\73DBA4DC-58B6-4754-857D-D35FA5E058D4\Video\4616-mpegts-mpeg2video-ac3-sn.mzt':
Duration: 02:44:32.79, start: 1.394667, bitrate: 7122 kb/s
Program 1
Metadata:
service_name : Service01
service_provider: FFmpeg
Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 10000 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x101]: Audio: ac3 ([129][0][0][0] / 0x0081), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 448 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

<MEZZMO>: Child process ended with code: 109, ExitCode=1
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There is the MPEG info. I will try the bitrate slider next here and see if that helps. Thank you!!

[Paul]

The transcoded video does have a 10Mb bitrate, which is quite high, and that will be the reason for the stuttering. I think lowering the Video bitrate slider in the Device Setting dialog (Performance tab) should do the trick.