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    Default Preparing to play on Samsung C Series

    I've searched and search and cannot find a solid answer or fix. I can stream all types of HD movies with no problems whatsoever.... However I have an HD Sony video camera and I cannot stream my home videos to the TV with getting the "preparing to play" every 2-4 seconds.... Very annoying! I can convert video down and no problems but I'd be nice to watch my home videos in HD. I have tried multiply media servers, multiply profiles, TV firmware is updated, tried different hard drives to store the file...nothing... My network is wired... Please help.

    Thanks!

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    TV model is LN46C750

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    I guess that Mezzmo is streaming the video directly to your TV and the reason is probably due to your home video taken with your your Sony video camera probably having a very high bitrate and your Samsung TV's firmware struggles to decode and play it in realtime. Please post the FFmpeg information on the home video and that will confirm our thoughts. To do this, right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'. Also, go to the Media Devices dialog in Mezzmo and tell us what device profile is assigned to your TV. It should be 'Samsung C'.

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    Dear team, I have the same issue on my Samsung C series LED TV - UE46C6900
    Not on all files, but usually on large MKVs (8-12GB) I got "Preparing to play" quite often. I am really keen on the highest picture quality so do not want to transform all my 1080p mkv files to a lower resolution. Is there anything you can help with to improve?
    My TV is connected via etherner cable to the internet via Netgear WNDR4000 router. I am using Avast antivirus, but tried to disable it already...tried on Windows XP, 7 and Windows 8 as well...its always the same....the strange thing is that it does not do the "preparing to play" issue at the same chapters, but seems like randomly?
    Thank you for your help

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    Please post the FFmpeg information on one of the MKV videos that displays "Preparing to play". To do this, right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'.

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    yes sure...here we go

    immediatelly when I start to play the movie, after 8-10 seconds, it shows me the first "preparing to play"message...than when it resumes, it does the same after 15-20 seconds again :-(

    ffmpeg version N-50460-g393dcbf Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
    built on Mar 4 2013 17:38:17 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. 17.103 / 52. 17.103
    libavcodec 54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
    libavformat 54. 63.102 / 54. 63.102
    libavdevice 54. 3.103 / 54. 3.103
    libavfilter 3. 41.100 / 3. 41.100
    libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
    libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
    Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'F:\Filmek\Full HD\Jack.Reacher.2012.1080p.BluRay.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1.HuN-MWT\mwt-jack.reacher.remux.mkv':
    Metadata:
    creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:02
    Duration: 02:10:24.42, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 32135 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
    title : x264 @ 29.6 Mbps
    Stream #0:1(hun): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 640 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
    title : Magyar AC3 5.1 @ 640 kbps
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 1536 kb/s
    Metadata:
    title : Angol DTS HD MA 7.1 @ 1597 kbps
    Stream #0:3(hun): Subtitle: subrip (default) (forced)
    Metadata:
    title : Magyar forced
    Stream #0:4(hun): Subtitle: subrip
    Metadata:
    title : Magyar
    Stream #0:5(eng): Subtitle: subrip
    Metadata:
    title : Angol
    At least one output file must be specified

    <MEZZMO>: Child process ended with code: 109, ExitCode=1


    ---> DB Level Info: 41, 100
    ---> Frame rate: 23,98
    ---> Aspect ratio: 16:9

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