Bandwidth is really poor using wifi

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

Are all the movies you’ve tested animie? If so there are some strange encodes with some of. Please could you provide mediainfo for one of them:

https://videosam.pl/

1. login via SSH, user `osmc`, password `osmc` 2. if not already installed: `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mediainfo` 3. `cd`to the directory containing the video/audio material in question 4. since `mediainfo`only needs to read the header information of the file data, copy the first 4 Mbytes of the media file to a new file: `dd if="" of=purgeme.bin bs=1024 count=4096` 5. upload the decoded media information using `mediainfo purgeme.bin|paste-log` 6. publish the returned URL here in this topic 7. remove the created media file snippet `rm purgeme.bin`

I would also check the network performance between osmc & the server storing the video files:

[How To] Check Network Performance with iperf3

Sometimes it is important to check the network performance between your OSMC Device and the device providing your media (NAS, Server, PC). Especially when you are connected via wireless the throughput variations can harm you viewing experience. This short How To should give you the required information how to install iperf3 and how to run the respective tests. When doing these tests it is suggested to have a simple setup (single switch between Sender and Receiver and avoid other traffic on the …

Also I would consider using kernel based mounts over the kodi software based ones, as they provide better through put:

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

Thanks Tom.