I'm guessing both iTunes movies and movies from Vudu app are sent at 24fps? I see this even on SDR content, both with the movie fullscreen and normal aspect ratio.
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iPhone XS Max Choppy video playback on iPhone XS and XS Max.
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Not sure if you are asking me? I have seen the issue with iTunes and Vudu content, all streaming only over Wifi. Both movies that are HDR and older that are SDR.
No sorry, question was for Ritte
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Ok, but was it a HDR or Dolby vision content?
And was it original 1080p content or downscaled 4k to 1125p(xs) or 1242p(xs max).
Here’s my list:
- Dolby vision 4K 30fps - no stutter (HW-decoder).
- Hidden figures 1080p 24fps - stutter (SW-decoder).
- Hidden figures 1080p 24fps - no stutter (HW-decoder).
- YouTube HDR 1080p 60fps - no stutter.
- Coco 1080p 24fps - no stutter (SW-decoder).
- Reverent 1080p 24fps - no stutter (SW-decoder)
People including me have has stutter with regular SDR 1080p content, as I said. We don’t have any common denominator yet.
And here’s another non-HDR problem:
[doublepost=1538077123][/doublepost]Does this work for people? 4K 24fps Dolby vision.
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BwxFVkl63-lEc3k0aldZaGtaVm8&export=download
[doublepost=1538077783][/doublepost]Just played the 4K 24fps Dolby Vision file.
With HW-decoding, no stutter. SW caused a stutter.
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I now also have stutter on YouTube videos , just the ones that shows as 1080p, not 1080p60 . I guess these are 1080p24 videos.
We can almost guess that most problems arise with 24p content.
What I really can’ t stand, that no reviewers or news sites have noticed this and reported on it, what really makes me wonder if I have one with a hw defect.
Can you link the youtube-movie you had problem with? I think standard youtube is 30fps. 60fps are marked as 60fps.
One of the many examples:
Watch in the YouTube player, seems to be less stutters in default iPhone videoplayer.
It did not sutter on my Max. But to be honest, that video did not feel smooth even if played on a computer. Probably bad recording.
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Can you point out in what timeframe you get the stutter?
I couldn't find any stutter on mine. Does anyone of you have plex? I could invite you to my server and you can test a SDR 1080p movie that stutter for me.
A colleague played Ozark without stutter, he has a Max. I'll let him try Hidden Figures (SDR 1080p 24fps) that always stutter when I play it with my Max.
[doublepost=1538135330][/doublepost]The colleague that could play Ozark without stutter could not play Hidden Figures (SDR 1080p 24fps) from my Plex Server. It stuttered.
[doublepost=1538135330][/doublepost]The colleague that could play Ozark without stutter could not play Hidden Figures (SDR 1080p 24fps) from my Plex Server. It stuttered.
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I’ve just tried the lost in space ep1 scene when he’s in the woods, but this time I hard reset my phone. Played back miles better with hardly any stutter. Then I went into app switcher and quit all apps. Then it was even better
I’m now wondering if it’s some sort of memory management issue
Can people try restart and/or quitting all apps
I’m now wondering if it’s some sort of memory management issue
Can people try restart and/or quitting all apps
No, not if it is a thermal or power management issue.
But I think we can rule out that it is a network/bandwidth issue with streaming, because people have seen the same problems with downloaded content from iTunes or Netflix.
True, but wouldn’t that indicate a software issue that is causing the thermal management issue??