New BW-16D1HT UHD Oddness
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:07 pm
Bought a new Asus BW-16D1HT.
Flashed it using the mk-firmware-pack-20191206, using the ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10-WM01601-211901041014 firmware.
MakeMKV shows LibreDrive functionality, etc. is enabled as expected.
Blu-Ray's convert fine and process at nearly 6X speed.
I've tried multiple UHD's and most of the time they start at 2X speed and gradually became slower and slower until they are dropping as low as 0.1X speed. This speed would fluctuate somehow, but essentially decrease over an hour to a crawl. It would start saying it would need 1:24 minutes to process. After 20 minutes there would be 2:30 remaining. By 35 minutes there would be 3:25 remaining. By 40 minutes there would be 5:10 remaining. And so on. I've stopped each encode without waiting for it to finish as I assume this is abnormal behavior?
Yet so far I tried John Wick, Blade Runner - The Final Cut, and Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse and all showed the above behavior. I tried cleaning the discs, but that didn't help.
One UHD disk did work and was done in under an hour: Blade Runner 2049
I tried using three different machines, twice in a Vantec NST-536S2-BK enclosure on two different machines, and once directly in a third desktop machine, so I think I've ruled out cables, enclosure, and computer.
Any knowledgeable thoughts or suggestions?
Flashed it using the mk-firmware-pack-20191206, using the ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10-WM01601-211901041014 firmware.
MakeMKV shows LibreDrive functionality, etc. is enabled as expected.
Blu-Ray's convert fine and process at nearly 6X speed.
I've tried multiple UHD's and most of the time they start at 2X speed and gradually became slower and slower until they are dropping as low as 0.1X speed. This speed would fluctuate somehow, but essentially decrease over an hour to a crawl. It would start saying it would need 1:24 minutes to process. After 20 minutes there would be 2:30 remaining. By 35 minutes there would be 3:25 remaining. By 40 minutes there would be 5:10 remaining. And so on. I've stopped each encode without waiting for it to finish as I assume this is abnormal behavior?
Yet so far I tried John Wick, Blade Runner - The Final Cut, and Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse and all showed the above behavior. I tried cleaning the discs, but that didn't help.
One UHD disk did work and was done in under an hour: Blade Runner 2049
I tried using three different machines, twice in a Vantec NST-536S2-BK enclosure on two different machines, and once directly in a third desktop machine, so I think I've ruled out cables, enclosure, and computer.
Any knowledgeable thoughts or suggestions?