Portions of audio drop out when I'm playing my Shotcut video on my TV

[Laura_Hollonds]

Hi all!
I’d love some help!
I have used Shotcut to stitch together different clips.
At certain parts of the stitched together video, the audio will drop out (when I play it on my TV).
When I play the video on my laptop, everything works fine.
This is driving me nuts. Any suggestions?

[Elusien]

Probable cause:

@shotcut

The TV cannot handle the variable bitrate for the video encoding. You can try Export > Advanced > Codec > Rate control = Average Bitrate and the default Bitrate of “12M” ought to work.

See this post:

MP4 Audio stops off and on

My video plays fine from the app, fine when connected to the TV by HDMI but when I plug my thumb drive into the TV the sound starts then after 9 seconds it stops playing intermittently, most of the time but the video is fine. I’ve recreated the video a couple times with different audio tracks and the same thing happens. Thinking it must be the TV but why?

[Laura_Hollonds]

Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately it didn’t work. Is there anything else that I should tweak or try?

[Elusien]

Sorry Laura, audio isn’t my speciality, I just saw the other post that looked very similar to yours and pointed you towards it.

If you are using Hardware Encoding then I’d suggest re-exporting with this unselected and try again with the TV.

Other than that I hope someone with a bit more knowledge of audio can answer your query.

[PoisonedSlice]

So you are just copying to USB and then playing, and not using media sharing to play it across the network?

Another thing to try is change the audio preset option:
Under the export → advanced → audio tab select either ac3 or libmp3lame (assuming the default is aac) and then export. I don’t see that making a difference but it’s worth a try.

Also, if your TV is android based, have you considered using something like Kodi for media management and playing?