June update now 'buffering'

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

I’m not aware of any changes in june update that would have caused this behaviour and nothing in the logs is giving an indicator. But you would benefit by adding some video cache though:

https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache

These used to work quite well on my pi3:

<advancedsettings>
  <cache>
    <buffermode>1</buffermode>
    <memorysize>52428800</memorysize>
  </cache>
</advancedsettings>

Also I would suggest looking at kernel mounts aswell, autofs being the easiest to setup:

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.