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Pixelization on 1080p MKV's #31

Closed tomiy1 closed 11 years ago

tomiy1 commented 11 years ago

Is there a way to watch high resolution MKV video files straight from a networked PC, rather than trans-coding/down-converting it. I have a 106" projector screen and when I play 1080p MKV files straight form my WDTV Live Media Player it looks flawless on there, but when using Plexconnect with my AppleTV3 I can see tons of pixelization (especially darker scenes) That would make this software complete if you ask me :) thanks!

elan commented 11 years ago

Turn quality up until you get a remux.

tomiy1 commented 11 years ago

I have it at the max (1080p@20mb)...not sure what else to do = /

elan commented 11 years ago

You haven't given me any media information or logs, so it's hard to tell. You could try using the plexinc branch which goes up to 40Mbps ~ https://github.com/plexinc/plexconnect/tree/new-movie-sections

tomiy1 commented 11 years ago

I would be more than happy to give you that info....how/where can I get the logs? Here is the media information I see from VLC for the The Dark Knight 1080p file that is playing with a degraded video quality (pixelization). Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks again

Video Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) Resolution: 1920x1080 Frame rate: 23.976215 Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV

Audio Codec: DTS Audio (dts) Channels: 3F2R/LFE Sample Rate: 48000 Hz Bitrate: 1536 kb/s

tomiy1 commented 11 years ago

I just tried using that other branch of files and no luck... not only did i not get transcoding resolution options on the "settings" tab, but I also lost my search tab.

finkdiff commented 11 years ago

What firmware are you running?

tomiy1 commented 11 years ago

im using the latest (5.2.1) on my appletv3

finkdiff commented 11 years ago

I am going to close this because i want to keep this kind of chat to the forums but try the latest code, as it has had a number of improvements related to playback and may resolve your issue. NB be aware that you should start from scratch and not use your old settings.py file, this has been replaced with settings.cfg, which is generated on first run. If you continue to have problems:

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/forum/136-appletv-plexconnect/ https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/wiki/How-to-report-an-issue

We now only want issues to be opened on Github if someone is prepared to contribute code.