Problems with movie playback [Solved]

[django013]

Hi,

I chose my media center to have enough performance to play all kinds of media.
Recently, I have been experiencing more and more often that after an update movie playback runs with sound dropouts and frozen images.

QSI of my mediacenter:

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System:
  Host: mediaCenter Kernel: 6.11.3-1-liquorix-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.11.3-1-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=003acac1-d084-4483-ac36-6b4058472ade ro quiet splash
  Console: pty pts/5 DM: SDDM Distro: MX-23.4_KDE_x64 Libretto October 15  2023 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME A320M-K v: Rev X.0x serial: 230418731606960
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 6062 date: 02/24/2023
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.53 GiB used: 1.25 GiB (8.0%)
  Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB note: check slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 64 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) size: 8 GiB
    speed: 2133 MT/s volts: curr: 1.2 min: 1.2 max: 1.2 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
    manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 serial: N/A
  Device-2: DIMM_B1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) size: 8 GiB
    speed: 2133 MT/s volts: curr: 1.2 min: 1.2 max: 1.2 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
    manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 serial: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 socket: AM4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 3 level: v3
    note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113)
    stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701030
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB
    desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB desc: 2x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1059 high: 3621 min/max: 550/4208 boost: enabled base/boost: 3600/4200
    scaling: driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: performance volts: 1.1 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores:
    1: 550 2: 550 3: 550 4: 3621 5: 550 6: 3593 7: 550 8: 550 9: 550 10: 550 11: 550 12: 550
    bogomips: 86233
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bpext cat_l3
    cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc
    cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic
    extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf
    lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
    nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core
    perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed
    rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2
    sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl
    v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
    xsaveerptr xsaveopt xtopology
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: always-on; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL [Quadro P400] driver: nvidia v: 535.183.06 non-free: 530.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-21 pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 08:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1cb3 class-ID: 0300
  Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia tty: 118x29
  API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console for root.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.3-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: n/a (root, process) with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 08:bf:b8:6e:18:db
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 959.47 GiB used: 11.24 GiB (1.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P3SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: 2318E6D0A44E rev: P9CR30A temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 66d 23h cycles: 540 read-units: 1,577,787 [807 GB]
    written-units: 2,901,217 [1.48 TB]
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SS200S330G size: 27.96 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.0 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: 50026B723504C6F5
    rev: 05.1 temp: 25 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 108d 8h cycles: 609 read: 5 GiB written: 51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 186.26 GiB size: 186.26 GiB (100.00%) used: 11.23 GiB (6.0%) fs: btrfs
    block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 95 MiB size: 93.5 MiB (98.44%) used: 12 MiB (12.9%) fs: vfat
    block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 9 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-3:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-3.2:3 info: Holtek type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04d9:a088 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 3 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 32.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2675 libs: 1451 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala pm: rpm pkgs: 0
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
Info:
  Processes: 320 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 1 Init: SysVinit v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.13p3 default: Bash
  v: 5.2.15 running-in: pty pts/5 (SSH) inxi: 3.3.26

Where is my error in thinking?

Has the software become so slow that my hardware is no longer sufficient, or do I have other problems?
With the playback problems, it is completely irrelevant whether the videos are delivered from my NAS, youtube or a streaming service.
It also doesn't matter which software I use to play the movies (vlc or kodi).
In the meantime, it runs without any problems until the problems return with a new update.
Yesterday I was able to play all kinds of movies without any problems and today the problems are back after the update. I didn't see any package during the update that was relevant for media playback.

If I play the same movie on my desktop computer, it runs without a problem. Always!

I don't understand it!

[Stevo]

If you tell vlc or kodi to play the video from the command line, can you see any differences between when it's working fine versus when it has hiccups?

[django013]

Hi Stevo,

thank you very much for your attention.
vlc does not grumble when hiccuping, but using ffplay shows some differences.
output of ffplay looks like:

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      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v74.0.0 ('You Oughta Know') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
 116.00 A-V: -0.028 fd=  51 aq= 3567KB vq=11800KB sq=    0B f=0/0  

on hiccuping numbers after "A-V" changes quickly but don't change at all at normal playback

[timkb4cq]

Just spitballing here, but have you tried a different compositor? Wayland still has issues iin bookworm.

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Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia tty: 118x29

[django013]

I changed it but issues stil the same

[Stevo]

Do you get the same hiccups right after a reboot, or with various other available players, such as mpv, smplayer, or dragonplayer. Testing with a Debian style kernel could also be relevant. And is it with every type of video file? ( I recommend mediainfo to get quick reports of the video encoding of the file)

Your hardware should be fast enough for years to come, no problems there.

[django013]

Your hardware should be fast enough for years to come ...

Thank you, I had assumed the same.

But I've been having problems with video playback for about one year now.
Once it helped to use a different kernel, but then the multimedia libraries were updated and since then a kernel change has not helped anymore.
I remember when I was playing with ffplay that ffplay would throw away images if the sound couldn't be converted in time.
But the cost of sound-conversion is ridiculous for the movies I watch.
I also have passthrough audio enabled on Kodi and still get dropouts.

Do you get the same hiccups right after a reboot, or with various other available players, such as mpv, smplayer, or dragonplayer.

Yes, the hiccups start right after turning system on and happens with various players.
I tested kodi and vlc for local movies and firefox and brave-browser for streaming platforms.

And is it with every type of video file? ( I recommend mediainfo to get quick reports of the video encoding of the file)

OK, I'll look into this further

Perhaps my particular hardware-setup has something to do with the problem.
I use two different ports on the graphics card:

• the beamer is connected to one
• the AV amplifier to another.

In KDE, I have configured the screen of the amplifier as a copy of the screen of the projector.

[timkb4cq]

I wonder if it has to do with the nvidia driver.

Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia tty: 118x29
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console for root.

I've never seen an API line in QSI quite like that. It usually goes on to list the renderer and whether or not direct-rendering works, e.g.

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 3.49
6.1.0-28-amd64) direct-render: Yes

A lack of direct rendering would certainly cause hiccups,
Given the current issues we have been seeing with nvidia drivers & 6.11+ liquorix kernels, I would suggest trying a 6.9 or earlier kernel. Newer isn't always better.

[django013]

Hi,

... have you tried a different compositor? Wayland still has issues iin bookworm.

while searching for the qsi problem i discovered that no matter which compositor i choose the qsi report always says xwayland.

I changed compositor at KDE settings at workspace -> startoptions -> autostart - session
I can choose between X11 and Wayland, but changing the value does not change qsi-compositor output.

So where else could I change active compositor?

Testing with a Debian style kernel could also be relevant.
And is it with every type of video file?

Changing kernel makes no difference and I tried all kind of movie i have - there's no difference between audio- or video-formats

[davidy]

Whenever I have vlc playback issues mpv works fine. But that's when vlc won't play it at all.