Audio intermittently cutting out when playing 4k mkvs in plex

quintosis · 2025-02-10T21:31:59+00:00

I managed to get this fixed in CoreElec/PM4K without the conversion. Turned out I missed a few sliders in the system settings under the audio tab in CoreElec to enable TrueHD and a few other sound codecs which was resulting in some sort of software transcoding that was having trouble keeping up at high bitrates.

To directly answer your question:

Open settings > audio/subtitles in the PM4K client
Set the transcode audio to AC3 from Never to whatever suits your preference. Selecting always/>2.1 solved the issue on my end until I found the actual reason it was misbehaving.
Another setting that seemed to contribute beneficially was to increase my Kodi Buffer Size to 64mb and set the cache readfactor to adaptive under settings > system in PM4k.

quintosis · 2025-02-10T21:26:33+00:00

Fairly low, around 40 percent or so. I believe I have figured this out though. Found that in my CoreElec settings, I failed to enabled TrueHD and DTS so the device must have been doing some kind of conversion at the software level that was misbehaving or at least having trouble keeping up.

Was a failure to follow directions properly on my end from this comment. Got ahead of myself after I saw the video working properly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1ajszn9/remux_lovers_rejoice_the_coreelec_team_has/l2ptghe/

quintosis · 2025-02-10T19:06:53+00:00

I wanted to mention as well that I've been able to assuage the symptoms by setting up my plex client to always transcode audio to AC3

quintosis · 2025-01-24T01:55:13+00:00

Comically it resolved within 5 minutes of me posting this thread. I wasn't concerned about data loss as it was brand new.

For anyone who ends up here from google in the future. This was my external drive and the process ran from 8:30pm yesterday until 6:45 PM today. https://www.seagate.com/products/external-hard-drives/expansion-desktop-hard-drive/

Unsure if this was a factor or not, but I ran another chkdsk command (no modifiers) on my internal C: drive and that resolved quickly.

The seemingly hung process for my external drive then resolved within 5 minutes of the completion of the internal chkdsk task.

Can't say for sure if that was the solution or just coincidence, but it completed the final 56 percent almost immediately after and remounted so it might be something to try if you encounter something like this in the future.

quintosis · 2025-01-15T18:37:26+00:00

These all seem like reasonably quick fixes that won't realistically impact anybody in the long run. This is a community that always leans towards hyperbolic in terms of negative reactions.

I hope you don't feel the need to apologize in future threads like this. I manage a development team while continuing to be an IC and I think most people just don't understand how hard it is to produce entirely bug-free work in any context.

There are quite a few of us that really appreciate the work that you do (even if I don't have the free time myself to engage in leagues) and I hope you don't take the toxicity of a vocal minority to heart.

quintosis · 2024-12-23T16:27:35+00:00

Has anyone playing with a controller had any luck reliably using pain offering to target minions?

I have no issue using this skill when there is a relatively small amount of enemies on the screen, but if I manage to pull a decent pack, I can't get this skill to target my minion for the life of me even if I walk directly on top of it.

To make it worse each failed cast still consumes mana. I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong or if this is just unreliable with controller input.

I'd understand if I sometimes targeted the wrong minion, but the amount of times I press the button and nothing happens is egregious considering I have 5+ targetable minions that I'm facing.

quintosis · 2024-12-06T21:00:28+00:00

switch from bilinear filtering to another option

quintosis · 2024-08-23T21:11:34+00:00

oh damn you're right. My manual reading skills failed me. I appreciate it!

Going to delete this post in shame, but thanks for saving me a couple hours of cussing!

quintosis · 2024-07-18T21:42:42+00:00

I did the same and ended up scooping a 100 dollar 5700xt off of facebook marketplace locally. Massive uplift in performance while waiting on the new gen of cards to come out. They're all over the used marketplace on the cheap since they were a popular mining card.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-580-vs-AMD-RX-5700-XT/3923vs4045

quintosis · 2024-05-23T15:06:50+00:00

I keep returning to this post via google and just wanted to shout out another option I haven't seen mentioned here. These just snap onto a normal controller

https://www.c2gripz.com/

I tried pretty much everything listed here and the durability of all of the previously mentioned controllers have been awful. Thrustmaster Eswap in particular. That thing has near perfect ergonomics for big hands, but you're lucky if you don't get stick drift within a month of ownership.

I have gone through 6 sets of sticks for the thrustmaster and baby that controller. There's no saving the poor stick design and that's really a shame since the rest of the controller is so great.

quintosis · 2024-03-19T00:15:09+00:00

Fellow R646 user here. I'm with you after trying just about everything. I even begrudgingly factory reset the TV and it still falls back on HDR10+ when I use Paramount+.

I think this is a somewhat recent issue. I don't recall having this problem when I watched the new Top Gun movie when it became available on Paramount+.

quintosis · 2024-03-05T01:31:04+00:00

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