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Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble playing about 60% of my mkv files. steaming to the web interface on my pc is perfect but playing to my ps3 results with a corrupt picture for about 1 second, good picture for 1 second and so on until the video ends. Sound stutters and video appears to run slow.

I have attached images and logs, would appreciate any guidance. The file I'm trying to play in the log is "ams.mkv".

Thanks in advance.

its probably a high video bitrate or profile. COuld you provide MediaInfo tools result ?

in my haste to try and figure this out I deleted the original ams.mkv file the above post refers to. but have included mediainfo for another mkv file that gives identical results on my ps3 (I have also included mediainfo results for a mkv that plays perfectly).

I'm using makemkv to create my files from my original blu-ray's.

These video are remuxed by serviio/ffmpeg into mpegts with video stream copied and audio transcoded to ac3.
Problem come probably from the video stream h264/avc encoding settings of the source file.

You can create a custom PS3 profile that you'll select on serviio console to play this particular file (get back after viewing):
Add these lines on ./serviio/config/profiles.xml file just before the last </Profiles> element, restart serviio service (not server) or reboot PC to reload profiles.

it looks like serviio is now rendering all mkv files. i really would like to avoid this. when the original profile is used all mkvs stream straight to the ps3 without render. Plus with this particular mkv I am also experiencing a drop in audio and video at around 3mins, then at about 10mins the video started playing in fast forward (looks like double speed). audio just sounded like static. this problem occurs at different intervals with other mkvs.

For audio you can try to change aBitrate="320".
Sorry I have no more ideas...change your source file.