Audio dropouts, no SMBv1 access on Oppo after Stretch update

Help and Support Raspberry Pi
25

This is nearly identical to my experience on a 1st-gen rPi. After the March 2018 upgrade, SMB became unstable (would sometimes hang) so I switched to NFS and things were fine.
Then, a week or so later, playing video also started to hang the player. Loading the file I was streaming over NFS onto a USB stick, plugging that into the rPi, and playing that way also started to freeze/hang (eliminating the network, NFS vs. SMB, the fileserver, etc).

At that point I realized that the PSU (tiny wall wart) that Iā€™ve been using for a few years for it had likely aged out, or the power requirements for the system post-upgrade were slightly higher. Swapped in a new PSU with better specs and everything is fine again ā€“ the same videos that would hang even playing locally were now flawlessly streamed over NFS. I havenā€™t tried going back to SMB yet.

ā€¦Steve

1 Like
26

In many ways, I prefer NFS for this specific task, so it was probably a fortunate event overall. The power supply issue is common, but mine checks out fine, which is why I didnā€™t want to continue down that path. But, itā€™s true that all sorts of things can go (terribly) wrong with a weak / unstable PS and an external drive.

27

NFS is definitely a better option