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[grey]

I was just updating my music database, not rescanning, and decided to watch a movie. Movie is on attached external USB drive and standard definition. It started ok but eventually video started stuttering and eventually froze. It went to main menu but navigation is waaay too slow. Is it too much for A300 to handle? Apparently.

[chris57]

You dont tell us anything about the file?
You dont tell us much about the USB HDD?
You dont tell us anything on your setup and how you are connected etc.

[grey]

(08-07-2012 06:51 PM)chris57 Wrote:  You dont tell us anything about the file?

PHP Code:

Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 1.49 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 46mn
Overall bit rate                         : 1 997 Kbps
Writing application                      : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library                          : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP                    : 1
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 1h 46mn
Bit rate                                 : 1 796 Kbps
Width                                    : 704 pixels
Height                                   : 400 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 24.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.266
Stream size                              : 1.34 GiB (90%)
Writing library                          : XviD 63

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : 2000
Duration                                 : 1h 46mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 146 MiB (10%)
Alignment                                : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 500 ms 


You dont tell us much about the USB HDD?
Drive: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3EG HD203WI 2TB in USB 2.0 external enclosure connected to rear USB port. Drive is EXT3 formatted.
You dont tell us anything on your setup and how you are connected etc.
A300 connected to a receiver via component and optical as well as to a router via network cable.

if that makes much difference.

[chris57]

Are you asking if the display type, file type, or type of USB HDD can affect playback, then HELL YES!

I would remux the AVI first, then rencode if that made no difference. It cold be as simple as a corrupted index:-
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=32656

If you are just blinkered and closed to discussion then we'll just not bother commenting.

[grey]

This file or ANY OTHER video file (standard definition or HD) works perfectly fine if played alone from under file browser or YAMJ. The problem arises if I am updating NMJ in the background. In this instance A300 is slowing to a crawl. All I am wondering if running two tasks like that is too much for Popcorn. Yes, I know, I can run one thing at a time, but that is not my point.

[accident]

Other's have posted in the past that is seems to take excessive resources to scan. From your thread I'm wondering if there's some bug in the music scanner side of it. Most use it for just video

[grey]

Yes, I think this is an issue from NMJ side.

[accident]

There are tools to edit the database, you may not know they can also replace the scanner and quickly import your media via a more powerful machine. Not sure if they cover music but they seem popular.