[Buffer issue] Playback a movie and fast forward?

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Hello,

I’m streaming my movies though SSH using filezilla.
I have to say that I know this issue with AVI files and it’s basically normal with AVI or MP4.
Here it’s a MKV file and as I said I can seek into the movie, but it takes upto 5-10 minutes to reach the 50th minute of the movie.
It’s definitely not a problem of file since I can seek and read my MKV from my laptop directly using kodi. The problem occurs only when I’m using OSMC with a raspberry pi, that’s why I suspect a buffer issue/bad configuration.

I can read the movie from the beginning when it is downloading.
But I can’t fast forward in the part of the film which is downloaded…
Actually I notice that I can forward sometime, but some other time I can’t.

I think that I have a buffer issue when I try to buffer data currently coming from the web.
Precisely I copy the file from a NAS server (located at my
parent’s house though SSH) to a computer which broadcast a SMB server to OSMC.

I already try to directly connect a NFS sharing directly from my parent’s house, but it’s worst than the current solution.

I mean there is no trouble about my configuration with 3 different
laptops when I download the movie and I play it back directly. I can
seek without trouble. Only with OSMC and the raspberry pi it’s seem to
have this playback issue when I seek into my file. Maybe there is
something to do with the advancedsetting.xml file ?

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Do you get the same behavior with any other Kodi distro for raspberry pi?

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Hello ActionA,

What do you mean by other kodi distro, like OpenElec ?
I will try tomorrow with that distro. And tell you the result :slight_smile:

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Hello ActionA,

I just tried 5 minutes ago. Same problem with differents MKV movies with OpenElec.
What does it mean ? I guess it’s not related to OSMC, but directly the Kodi software ?

Cheers,

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Btw, I tried with 2 same files:

  • One downloaded.
  • One during the download.
    The problem is really related to the fact that I try to seek a file which is downloading.
    (Seeking in the range of time, which is downloaded of course)
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As pointed out in the github issue you posted what you are trying to do will not work reliably so you are wasting your time trying to “solve” this. I suggest that you find an alternative method of streaming your media, such as using sshfs to connect to the original source directly instead of using your PC as an intermediate.