Im trying to play an Mp4 with raspbmc, but the video keeps freezing. The funny thing is that it always freezes at the same points of the file. When it freezes, the audio is still played, and i can skip forward then back, and it will regain the image and be fine. It happens fairly often though. Is this a known issue, and can it be fixed?
Update: here is the mediainfo text layout:
General
Complete name : F:\tv_show.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 391 MiB
Duration : 53mn 55s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 015 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-09-08 11:43:25
Tagged date : UTC 2011-09-08 11:43:25
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 53mn 55s
Bit rate : 877 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 402 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.126
Stream size : 338 MiB (86%)
Writing library : x264 core 128 r2216 198a7ea
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=19.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2011-09-08 11:43:25
Tagged date : UTC 2011-09-08 11:43:25
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 53mn 55s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 132 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 229 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 83ms
Stream size : 50.8 MiB (13%)
Encoded date : UTC 2011-09-08 11:43:25
Tagged date : UTC 2011-09-08 11:43:25
mediainfo
and runningmediainfo your_file_name.mp4
?mediainfo
text output.o
during the video playback, you have some details about the CPU load. What is it before and during the freeze?