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<blockquote data-quote="csapollo" data-source="post: 557620" data-attributes="member: 51018">Is there anything I can do to help narrow this issue down? It must be very difficult to troubleshoot because my personal experience finds that it's completely sporadic and there's absolutely no consistency with it!I never get this issue on live TV (50hz PAL), but it almost always occurs with 24hz material. I have to stop/start the file several times before it plays correctly. Sometimes it might be twice, sometimes it might be 4 times, sometimes it might be 5 times, sometimes it works first time! Like I said, no consistency. Sometimes, it's playing fine, and I skip to a point in the movie, and it's stuttering again, so I skip back 15 seconds, and it's playing fine again.The only way I can avoid this issue, is by changing my refresh rate via my ATI profile (or manually, doesn't matter as long as you change it to 24hz), then open MediaPortal, and play a file. No worries! Is it possible to build a play file delay into MediaPortal if the refresh rate is being changed? ie, allow 3 seconds or so for the refresh rate to change before it starts to play? I would be interested to see if that makes a difference since, as I said, if the refresh rate is already at the target rate when the file is played, I do not get the issue.I also just upgraded from my integrated HD3200 to a HD5750 and I still get the issue (HDMI to TV). I have seen people reporting this issue with nVidia cards but I will try this on my client PC and see if I have the issue (don't normally watch movies on it which is why I haven't tested it there yet), it uses a 8800GTX with DVI to my monitor (1080p, supports 24hz).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="csapollo, post: 557620, member: 51018"] Is there anything I can do to help narrow this issue down? It must be very difficult to troubleshoot because my personal experience finds that it's completely sporadic and there's absolutely no consistency with it! I never get this issue on live TV (50hz PAL), but it almost always occurs with 24hz material. I have to stop/start the file several times before it plays correctly. Sometimes it might be twice, sometimes it might be 4 times, sometimes it might be 5 times, sometimes it works first time! Like I said, no consistency. Sometimes, it's playing fine, and I skip to a point in the movie, and it's stuttering again, so I skip back 15 seconds, and it's playing fine again. The only way I can avoid this issue, is by changing my refresh rate via my ATI profile (or manually, doesn't matter as long as you change it to 24hz), then open MediaPortal, and play a file. No worries! Is it possible to build a play file delay into MediaPortal if the refresh rate is being changed? ie, allow 3 seconds or so for the refresh rate to change before it starts to play? I would be interested to see if that makes a difference since, as I said, if the refresh rate is already at the target rate when the file is played, I do not get the issue. I also just upgraded from my integrated HD3200 to a HD5750 and I still get the issue (HDMI to TV). I have seen people reporting this issue with nVidia cards but I will try this on my client PC and see if I have the issue (don't normally watch movies on it which is why I haven't tested it there yet), it uses a 8800GTX with DVI to my monitor (1080p, supports 24hz). [/QUOTE]

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