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psychog0
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Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by psychog0 »

Hi,

I have just bought a new Panasonic TX-50CX802b and i am having serious streaming issues to it especially when streaming 1080p films to it.

I have a wired 100mb network from my server to the TV and the server spec is as follows: -

150gb SSD
4GB ram
Intel Q6600 quad core @ 2.40GHz
Win 7 (32 bit)

I am getting lost of stuttering during high action scenes and I am noticing this event in the logs: -

TRACE 2015-12-07 10:08:45.266 [Request Handler] Resume Read: readCount=9502720 / writeCount=11000000

TRACE 2015-12-07 10:08:45.266 [Request Handler] Suspend Read: readCount=10027008 / writeCount=11000000

DEBUG 2015-12-07 10:08:45.702 [ffmpeg.exe-19-2] frame= 350 fps= 33 q=22.0 size= 11325kB time=00:00:14.93 bitrate=6210.4kbits/s

TRACE 2015-12-07 10:08:45.780 [Request Handler] Resume Read: readCount=10027008 / writeCount=11500000

TRACE 2015-12-07 10:08:45.780 [Request Handler] Suspend Read: readCount=10518528 / writeCount=11500000

DEBUG 2015-12-07 10:08:46.233 [ffmpeg.exe-19-2] frame= 368 fps= 34 q=22.0 size= 11811kB time=00:00:15.70 bitrate=6160.3kbits/s

Can anyone assist me ????
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Nadahar
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Re: Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by Nadahar »

It could be due to limited network speed or CPU processing power. While the Q6600 was considered a "bad boy" back in the day, it's not very fast compared to modern CPU's. It is after all 9 years in a months time (I still have one in use in one of my computers, but it's clocked to 3 GHz which helps some).

It could also be due to the 100 Mbps network. "Wired" is generally assumed to be 1 Gbps today, 100 Mbps is actually closer to 801.11n (54 Mbit Wifi) than it is to 1 Gbps, and you have configured transcoding to use "wired" speed (meaning 1 Gbps). Try setting both

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Transcoding quality (MPEG-2)
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Transcoding quality (H.264)
to "Wireless" and see if that helps. If not, I'm afraid your CPU is not up to the task.
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valib
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Re: Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by valib »

The problem is that the video is not streamed but transcoded. You have to try different Panasonic.conf than the general one Panasonic-Viera.conf which doesn't support MKV. You can simply choose renderer at the General configuration tab by the Select renderers button.

EDIT:your TV supports more formats

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video: AVCHD 3D/Progressive, SD-VIDEO/AVI/HEVC/MKV/WMV/MP4/M4v/FLV/3GPP/VRO/VOB/TS/PS
audio: MP3/AAC/WMA Pro/FLAC/Apple Lossless/WAV
pictures: JPEG/MPO
so it could be better to make your own .conf
reeven
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Re: Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by reeven »

all q6600 work at stock voltage at 3ghz. Raise for FSB in bios at 333mhz( stock is at 266).
My old Qx6850 -3ghz stock( 266x11)work ok with Pana plasma on mother home and UMS.
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Re: Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by Nadahar »

reeven wrote:all q6600 work at stock voltage at 3ghz. Raise for FSB in bios at 333mhz( stock is at 266).
My old Qx6850 -3ghz stock( 266x11)work ok with Pana plasma on mother home and UMS.
Mine needed a better cooler. Imo core temp's shouldn exceed 70 C under heavy load, and to achieve that I had to put one of those "cheap" watercooling kits on it.
psychog0
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Re: Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by psychog0 »

Hey Guys, first of all thanks for your feedback, I have tried other Panasonic configs but having the problem on all of them. I think it could be related to the CPU not being powerful enough and may have to upgrade (and yes it was a badboy CPU in the past lol) I am torn as to whether the CPU is the problem or the network. If i lower the quality to :-keyint=5:vqscale=2:vqmin=3 /* Good quality */ it does seem to work better. However i don't have this issue on my PS3 or 4 its just on this TV. I would like to modify the .conf but i am a bit of a noob and don't really know much about scripting.

Do any of you know how to make the buffer bigger so i could possibly have a larger buffer on my PC before it sends it to my TV?

As i said the problem doesn't occur until high actions scenes are playing and that could be sometimes 15 mins into the film or 30 all depending....
psychog0
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Re: Panasonic TX-50CX802b Help

Post by psychog0 »

Also not note TV only supports a 100mb wired connection:-

From the TV manual :-

ETHERNET
RJ45, IEEE802.3 10BASE-T / 100BASE-TX

Built-in wireless LAN
Standard compliance and Frequency range
IEEE802.11a/n
5.180 GHz - 5.320 GHz, 5.500 GHz - 5.580 GHz,
5.660 GHz - 5.700 GHz
IEEE802.11b/g/n
2.412 GHz - 2.472 GHz
Security
WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES)
WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES)
WEP (64 bit/128 bit
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