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pbrentyoung
Reel Rookie
15 years ago

Roku 2 vs Roku 1 Streaming

We have a private channel with mp4 files. Everything plays beautifully with the Roku 1 but on the Roku 2 the higher bit rate files play out of sync and studder. Can someone give me some direction as t...
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stratcat96
Visitor
15 years ago
"RokuJon" wrote:
CBR 1Mps


You should switch to VBR which will work much better on our platform. CBR often results in padded frames that can cause a lot of problems.

Stratcat - nothing jumps out at me in your encoding details as particularly problematic. I'll have our internal QA team create some similar encodings and take a look.

Thanks!



Thanks Jon! As a test I re-encoded one of those higher bitrate vids using Freemake to the "Apple" preset and it just brought the bitrate down (and obviously the filesize) and it then played without a hiccup on the R2.