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Ticket to Paradise hesitation

MrLatte

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During the opening "Universal" logo I got a "difficulty reading movie" message after the movie hesitated then continued playing. The move played fine until about 9:45 minutes in and it did the same thing - with the same message. I tried deleting the movie and downloading the non-HDR version but it acted the same way. I haven't seen this issue with any other movies although I haven't watched that many movies all the through yet. Any ideas?

I did restart the server and the player with no change. I currently don't have the server and player in the same room so they're not on the same Ethernet switch - could that be an issue? Seems unlikely since it happens in only one movie at the same places.
 
Make sure that you have a gigabit connection between those two components. What you're describing sounds exactly like the symptom you would see if you had a 100-megabit connection on a movie that has some high-bitrate scenes.

Possible culprits include a 100Mbit switch somewhere, an Ethernet cable that's not fully seated in the connector, or an Ethernet cable with a broken internal wire. Gigabit Ethernet uses all four pairs in the cable. If there's a bad connection or a broken wire, depending on which pair it's in, it can cause the cable to fail down to 100. Don't ask me how I know.

In my own home, I had a little switch that I had forgotten about in the path to one of my players, and it was 100 megabit. Worked fine for a number of movies and then I ran into one that didn't.
 
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