Can anybody recommend a decent gigabit usb adaptor?

I have a few large files (eg. 50gb h265 encodes) that are struggling to play and wondered if anyone had any positive experiences adding a gigabit lan adaptor?

You shouldnā€™t need a gigabit Ethernet adapter.

Most will work; but Iā€™d be more interested in resolving the issue you are experiencing and saving you a need for an additional peripheral.

It sounds like your struggling issues might actually occur from protocol overhead or mounting your shares in Kodi which isnā€™t ideal for higher bitrate content.

  • How are you mounting your shares?
  • Can you post MediaInfo output for an afflicted file?

Sam

Ok, Iā€™ll give the shares mounting thing a go. The file is fine as far as Iā€™m concerned because it plays ok on my shield tv. I added my share as follows:

Settings> media > library > videos > add videos > browse > add network location > protocol smb >

I then manually put in my details

Is there a better way of mounting?

After Iā€™ve done this, I can select the share from the ā€˜browse for new shareā€™ menu. It shows up as smb://wdmycloudex4100

Ugh. Iā€™ll give it a go although I genuinely think it is the network choking. How do I then add movies to my library? Do I browse from the library menu.

Well therefore Sam was asking for the Mediainfo of the file. Any file with <94 Mbit would play via Fast Ethernet.

Add Files -> Root Filesystem -> /mnt/Your Share

How do I get the media info?

Please see the mediainfo section in How to submit a useful support request - General - OSMC

Hmmm
Unique ID : 174236576983109455882923634184912736264 (0x8314BE7D76CF3E0FADE1BE3F90099008)
Complete name : /Volumes/Public/4K videos/La la land.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 54.5 GiB
Duration : 2h 7mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 61.0 Mbps
Movie name : La.La.Land.2016.2160p.BluRay.x265.10bit.HDR.DTS-HD.MA.TrueHD.7.1.Atmos-SWTYBLZ
Encoded date : UTC 2017-06-19 18:26:14
Writing application : mkvmerge v12.0.0 (ā€˜Trust / Lustā€™) 64bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.4 + libmatroska v1.4.5
Cover : Yes
Attachments : cover.jpg
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
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Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 2h 7mn
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Height : 1 504 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.553
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 (Type 2)
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.381
Stream size : 47.1 GiB (86%)
Title : La.La.Land.2016.2160p.BluRay.x265.10bit.HDR.DTS-HD.MA.TrueHD.7.1.Atmos-SWTYBLZ
Writing library : x265 2.3+2-0dbee7ac1e59:[Windows][GCC 4.9.3][64 bit] 10bit
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Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.2020
Transfer characteristics : PQ
Matrix coefficients : BT.2020 non-constant
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Maximum Content Light Level : 1000 cd/m2
Maximum Frame-Average Light Level : 640 cd/m2
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Well Fast Ethernet should be fine to play that. Either try the fstab based mounting or alternative copy the file to emmc to check if it plays fine

Annoyingly I canā€™t SSH into my device. I managed it yesterday and changed the password. And logged in several times using that password. Now when I try to connect i get a permission denied error at the password prompt.

My OSMC has a different IP address from yesterday. Can that impact on access?

No, as long as you use the current/right IP

Got it. I was using capitals for OSMC in the SSH prompt. Thanks for your patience!

Ok. That actually seems to have helped! Thanks :slight_smile:

What has helped? The fstab based mounting?

Yes. Seems to have. :slight_smile: Thanks for the help. Iā€™m still having difficulty playing back one file but iā€™ve checked that and itā€™s VC1. The bitrate is pretty low for that but itā€™s in constant slow motion, unless it plays in the background behind the menu. Then itā€™s absolutely fine

Hey sorry to bother you again, I donā€™t suppose it would be possible to create a script that would change the refresh rate to 60Hz whenever it encounters a VC1 file? They basically seem to play in slow motion if played back at 24Hz

To what value have you set ā€œadjust refresh rateā€ ?
And if it is only on VC-1 maybe continue in this thread

Yeah its definitely that issue. Only VC1ā€™s and the problem goes away if I donā€™t adjust refresh rate and leave it at 60Hz. Iā€™ll keep an eye on the other thread.

Sorryā€¦tried watching this file again and whilst thereā€™s been a definite improvement by switching the way my share is mounted, it started stuttering again. About an hour into the movie this time, but I got the buffering sign, audio dropouts etc. Any other suggestions?