My first instance of stuttering with Infuse, this video file plays without pauses or visual errors on my LG C2 (latest firmware) and in MPV on Windows10. This video has graphical errors playing in VLC (latest windows release) and Infuse Pro 7.6.1 (4559) on my ATV4K (A2737 [64GB] / tvOS 17.0 [21J354]) on the same TV.
ATV Settings:
Format: 4K Dolby Vision
Match Content: Range & Frame Rate
Infuse Settings:
Streaming Cache: Auto
Extended Dolby Vision: Auto
Playing content from an SMB share, unlikely this makes a difference as I allowed time to buffer (to be safe) and the issue occurs at specific timestamps.
I only watched 18 minutes into the file before changing to my TVs media player, I have clipped the first instance of the file where Infuse displays a still image (VLC has artifacting). Trimmed sample using MKVToolNix GUI V72.0.0 64-bit. File uploaded to upload.firecore.com and named 45308NuttyNEET.mkv
In the clip (@ 40-45 seconds), the video pauses when the man with the dog crosses in front of Brody. Screenshot of frame below.
VLC screenshot below to show how it too fails to play the video.
Trimmed down MediaInfo from original file:
General
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 41.6 GiB
Duration : 2 h 3 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 48.0 Mb/s
Writing application : mkvmerge v46.0.0 ('No Deeper Escape') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5@Main
HDR format : SMPTE ST 2086, HDR10 compatible
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 2 h 3 min
Bit rate : 43.8 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 1 632 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 (Type 2)
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.291
Stream size : 37.9 GiB (91%)
Writing library : x265 3.3+33-04275ae58030:[Windows][GCC 10.1.0][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=4 / numa-pools=24 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=3840x1632 / interlace=0 / total-frames=178294 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=4 / no-allow-non-conformance / repeat-headers / annexb / aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=250 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=4 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=40 / lookahead-slices=4 / scenecut=40 / hist-scenecut=0 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / no-rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=4 / tu-intra-depth=4 / limit-tu=4 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=4 / limit-refs=1 / limit-modes / me=3 / subme=5 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-frame-dup / no-hme / weightp / no-weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / no-sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=4 / selective-sao=0 / no-early-skip / rskip / rskip-edge-threshold=0.050000 / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / no-b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=2.50 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=-2 / crqpoffs=-2 / rc=crf / crf=18.6 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=4 / aq-strength=0.40 / no-cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=0 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=9 / transfer=16 / colormatrix=9 / chromaloc=1 / chromaloc-top=2 / chromaloc-bottom=2 / display-window=0 / master-display=G(13250,34500)B(7500,3000)R(34000,16000)WP(15635,16450)L(40000000,50) / cll=1000,259 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / hist-threshold=0.01 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / hdr10 / hdr10-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=0 / analysis-save-reuse-level=0 / analysis-load-reuse-level=0 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.00 / no-scenecut-aware-qpconformance-window-offsets / right=0 / bottom=0 / decoder-max-rate=0
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.2020
Transfer characteristics : PQ
Matrix coefficients : BT.2020 non-constant
Mastering display color pri : Display P3
Mastering display luminance : min: 0.0050 cd/m2, max: 4000 cd/m2
Maximum Content Light Level : 1000 cd/m2
Maximum Frame-Average Light : 259 cd/m2
TLDR; Likely the encode isn’t the best, but since MPV (and my TV) can play the file without issue, I wanted to submit this, especially since the latest updates fixed other playback issues others had.