Poor video playback performance

[8bitsdeep]

I've been away for a while and was wondering if there were any new developments/tips in this area.

All my video snaps are low quality MP4s of varying origin. (EmuMovies, YouTube, etc)  Some always play just fine in AM, others always stutter or freeze horribly. Is there a know reason for this?

It used to be you couldn't select anything except "software" for Video Decoder in Windows 10.  Now dxva2 seems to be an option but the performance seems to be the same. Is this not working? Am I missing something?

Any general tips at all to get consistent performance in all videos would be greatly appreciated. The more I try other frontends, even the almighty Launchbox/BigBox, the more I feel like AM is the best. But the inconsistent video performance is really a buzz killer.

[iOtero]

All my videos are converted to 24fps and an pixel format YUV 4.2.0 8-bit planar.

And all works perfectly in all my environments: windows 10, linux Lubunto, macOS Mojave and Raspbian in a raspberry pi 3.

[8bitsdeep]

What did you use to convert them?

[iOtero]

What did you use to convert them?

ffmpeg:

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ffmpeg -i myvideo_in.mp4 -r 24 -vf "scale=2*trunc(iw/2):-2,setsar=1" -profile:v main -pix_fmt yuv420p -y myvideo_out.mp4

Convert at the same time, at 24 fps and 8bits planar.

[Brikinhos]

I had the same problem. I fixed it using Handbrake reconverting to .mp4 with the same fps of each video. But yes, this problem is so anoying...

[rand0m]

There are problems with few sets in emu-movies (they are an excellent source none the less). I also used handbrake for re-encoding the videos. Ideally videos @ 30 fps should run without problems.

[8bitsdeep]

Thanks everyone! I ran everything through handbrake (default settings, .mp4) and that seems to have done the job.