I have the Vero 4k since last Thursday and have seen some movies for test the quality and handling for me. Using a HiMedia Q10 Pro with Android 7 and i´m tired to watch all stuff over the wrapper and many unfixed bugs and new bugs in every new firmware. With the Vero 4K i noticed no microstutters, 23,97Hz frameswitching works perfect and the the Vero playing HD Audio like DolbyAtmos very well.
But one problem occurs in some movies (I have no reencode, only untouched mkv made with makemkv)… after so 80-100 minutes i can see some frame skipping or frame jumping for some minutes, this also occurs when i stop and play the movie again - it disappears after a while and the movie plays normal without any problems to the end… on one movie (30 Days of Night) i noticed at minute 43 that the picture feeze for a second… the same movies runs on the HiMedia Q10 Pro without problems and i haven´t these problems on any other movie with the Q10 and the rest of my equipment…
Sorry for my poor english, i´m from Germany and hope someone can help me…
My Setup:
Mediaplayer: HimMedia Q10-Pro with FW 2.0.3 / Vero 4K
A/V-Receiver: Marantz NR1607 7.2
TV: Samsung Smart TV UE55D6500 (all picture enhancer like motion plus are disabled)
NAS: Synology DS916+
Kodi: Krypton 17.2 with Titan / Aeon Nox5:SILVO / Metropolis / Horizon V
Sound: Klipsch Dolby Atmos 5.1.2 Configuration
I’m using these on my vero4k, I’m using powerline adaptors; so these settings helped buffering issues I was seeing:
<cache>
<memorysize>62914560</memorysize> <!-- number of bytes used for buffering streams in memory
When set to 0 the cache will be written to disk instead of RAM -->
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<readfactor>6.0</readfactor>
</cache>
The easiest way would probably be via the command-line.
Issue this command (nano is a text editor)
nano ~/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<memorysize>62914560</memorysize> <!-- number of bytes used for buffering streams in memory
When set to 0 the cache will be written to disk instead of RAM -->
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<readfactor>6.0</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>
@Tom_Doyle…found it and create the file with your entries, thanks a lot!
@sam_nazarko… Streaming from Wired and pausing don´t resolve the issue. Will enable the log bevore i start the next movie. This problem will not occurs on every movie so the log will be bigger.
Have enabled the kodi debuglog - any way to disable the log splascreen while playing a movie? otherwhise i have to view one or more complete movies with logscreen and wait for the issuse…
I have exactly the same problems… Many of my 1080p h264 files show frame skipping not from the start on, but after some play time. At the end I’ve attached a debug log from one one-hour mkv video file I played that had shown 96 frames skipped until the end. Especially when the camera is panning the skipping occurs… The file information is attached, too.
This behaviour doesn’t occur on all files, but with many. First I suspected it only occuring with 23.976fps material, but that isn’t the case. It always occurs with some files, but not in the same way every time (sometimes more, sometimes less skipping and not at the same points while watching). Also, pausing and playing again doesn’t help.
I stream from my NAS system over wired gigabit LAN network. These issues seem to have started with the April update and I didn’t have any problems with this before (same setup before the Vero 4k, just with a RPi3). There’s also no difference between high usage of the NAS while watching (copying files to it e.g.) and the NAS just streaming the file to the Vero 4k (skipping doesn’t occur especially when using the NAS, doesn’t inscrease while doing so).
This time, played from a USB 3.0 drive the same file only showed 9 skips which occured right at the beginning of the playback (framerate adjustment phase) and one drop. Unfortunately just a coincidence as you can see in post #52!
Strange thing still though, that I didn’t change anything about my whole setup (network cables, switches, TV, AVR, NAS, etc.) and the issue was never present before. Only after the April update the issue started to occur and it looks like the Vero 4k has problems playing streamed files from SMB shares…
Will try setting the buffer in advancedsettings now and test, if that brings any solution to the SMB streamed playback.
I added it as a source via Kodi interface… As I always did. Just wondering why the performance decreased so much without the whole setup having changed.
How does /etc/fstab mounting work? Sry, I’m quite a Linux noob, so not familiar with that stuff… But I’d try that, too.
Is there any disadvantage coming with the buffering suggestion by @Tom_Doyle?
This time from normally added SMB share from my NAS, same test file. This time even worse than the first time: 141 skips, 1 drop. The caching setting doesn’t seem to help…
Last possibility would be fstab, if I knew how to do that. But still I’m wondering how it could be achieved to get back to the old, fully working state before April update that seems to be the point for me where all this started.
Without testing (i´m at work) i think that my problem has the same reason and the buffering settings doesn´t work here too… my smb connections are also mounted by kodi (with the Emby for Kodi Plugin)…
@sam_nazarko… can you give us a hint please for smb mounting via fstab? I will test it then when i´m at home!
@sam_nazarko No. It seems to me that it started with installing the April update. With the May update I hoped it to change, but the problem is now still the same as last month…
But I don’t have an exact timeline of when it started occuring. I only noticed slowly and wasn’t sure what to check or what to do to reproduce it at first.
@ActionA ok… I’ll have a look, test and give feedback when I’ve checked out fstab mounting.