I have had this issue with a few other applications that use transcoding but I thought I might ask the question here. All of the displaying of pictures and music from the WHS2011 platform to my Sony TV work fine. The actual playing of transcoded bluray material like the M2TS files does struggle a bit with very stuttering playback. Connection is by direct Ethernet and 1GBit connection. I have tried 100MBit and its slightly better. I am also using the correct profile Sony Bravia KDL W.

Also I notice that if I stop the playback the ffmpeg process still carries on and consumes a fair amount of CPU. Is there a way to verify that it shuts down properly after sending the "Stop" signal to the TV?

I have upgraded the server (HP EX490) with an Intel Xeon quad core L5420 (Modded LGA-771 socket) and so CPU power isn't really an issue but as I said playback is not that smooth. So the question is why the ffmpeg process doesn't stop and why does it stutter? Any help appreciated.

Example movie

ffmpeg version N-66094-gbb8b752 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on Sep 4 2014 16:23:51 with gcc 4.8.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86_64 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl64 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc32/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc64/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads --enable-libvpx --enable-libvorbis
libavutil 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100
libavcodec 56. 1.100 / 56. 1.100
libavformat 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100
libavdevice 56. 0.100 / 56. 0.100
libavfilter 5. 0.103 / 5. 0.103
libswscale 3. 0.100 / 3. 0.100
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
[mpegts @ 00000000002debe0] Failed to open codec in av_find_stream_info
Input #0, mpegts, from 'F:\ServerFolders\Movies2011\9\9.bluray.M2TS':
Duration: 01:19:24.26, start: 4200.000000, bitrate: 35412 kb/s
Program 1
Stream #0:0[0x1011]: Video: vc1 (Advanced) (VC-1 / 0x312D4356), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x1100](eng): Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA) ([134][0][0][0] / 0x0086), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 1536 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

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


---> DB Level Info: 3, 3
---> Frame rate: 23.98
---> Aspect ratio: 16:9 PAR=1:1
---> Duration: 01:19:24


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