Test 1: NFS
Default settings (restored advancedsettings.xml), playing from NFS share (mounted via fstab) instead of SMB.
Plays perfectly. Starts quick.
Video buffer staying consistently high, vq mostly over 80%, never see it drop below 50%.
Tried with NFS mount settings used by DBMandrake noatime,noauto,x-systemd.automount,async,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,nolock,nofail,local_lock=all,soft,retrans=2,tcp grabbed from this thread:
Burst buffering during start:
Time ARM Core H264 Core Temp (Max) IRQ/s RX B/s TX B/s
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18:17:10 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.15C) 11,429 11,132,203 566,759
18:17:12 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.69C (60.69C) 9,405 8,994,566 458,580
18:17:15 1199Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 4,666 4,193,502 218,826
18:17:17 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.69C (60.69C) 3,479 3,310,421 170,895
18:17:19 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 3,547 3,238,123 165,136
18:17:21 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 1,405 1,081,141 59,262
Network transfer speeds are generally higher, mostly 2.5-4 MB/s with brief spikes going higher, and now keeps up with the high bit rate video.
Time ARM Core H264 Core Temp (Max) IRQ/s RX B/s TX B/s
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18:23:18 1199Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 3,667 3,367,887 173,031
18:23:20 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 59.61C (60.69C) 3,388 3,055,703 160,232
18:23:22 1199Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 4,065 3,930,100 199,125
18:23:24 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 4,634 4,382,782 225,104
18:23:26 1200Mhz 399Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 5,228 4,914,440 250,440
18:23:28 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.15C (60.69C) 3,646 3,309,712 169,875
18:23:30 1200Mhz 399Mhz 300Mhz 60.69C (60.69C) 5,184 4,891,087 254,166
18:23:32 1200Mhz 400Mhz 299Mhz 60.69C (60.69C) 2,465 2,154,692 112,107
Seeking is much quicker also, does not freeze for several seconds as before, and results in bursts of data over the network.
Time ARM Core H264 Core Temp (Max) IRQ/s RX B/s TX B/s
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18:26:52 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 60.69C (61.22C) 2,863 2,490,168 132,120
18:26:54 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 61.22C (61.22C) 6,429 6,467,222 322,788
18:26:56 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 61.76C (61.76C) 11,642 11,766,781 592,580
18:26:58 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 62.30C (62.30C) 8,974 8,682,299 445,486
18:27:00 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 62.30C (62.30C) 2,882 2,549,225 134,262
18:27:02 600Mhz 250Mhz 250Mhz 60.69C (62.30C) 2,657 2,587,990 131,635
18:27:04 1200Mhz 400Mhz 300Mhz 61.22C (62.30C) 3,226 3,119,204 157,819