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Video Playback Puzzle

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5881:
Both good guesses, however, there is no antivirus on the server and the movies still get just as blocky when running them from a USB3.1 drive

I wonder if it could possibly be the graphics hardware? The server wasn't built for video, so the graphics run off the mainboard. A Z97 Gigabit board using Intel HD4600. Seems like it should be enough to run simple standard res movies doesn't it? Then again, it plays just fine with the movies being cast from the laptop. But in that case the movie may already have been being converted before being beamed.

JimH:
In MC's video settings, try toggling hardware acceleration.

mwillems:

--- Quote from: JimH on October 23, 2016, 06:54:57 am ---In MC's video settings, try toggling hardware acceleration.

--- End quote ---

I'd bet that's the issue.  An older integrated graphics card won't have the same hardware acceleration support that a newer integrated graphics card might have.  If the laptop is transcoding it to a format the older device has hardware acceleration support for, then that would explain why remote playback works better than local playback.

If my hypothesis is correct, toggling hardware acceleration should produce no change (as my theory of the issue is that the server system lacks hardware acceleration for the video format being decoded).

If toggling hardware acceleration makes no difference, can you analyze the files and provide some info about the encoding?

Manfred:
It could be the the graphics card driver on the HP laptop compared to your server video drivers. With Intel video driver I had the same effect on my Haswell based HTPC, DVD material was  stuttering, cubed picture, with NVIDIA no problems , but I invested in solving the issue with i7-4770t and HD4600.

5881:
After some more research this doesn't appear to have anything to do with the video card.

If I play the same movies on the Win 10 laptop using jriver it has the same problem as my server, but if I opt to use Cyberlink Power Player, then they play perfectly. So that would indicate an issue with jriver, I have tried the few obvious settings changes in video, with no improvement. Can someone make a specific suggestion regarding what to change and where?

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