Playback keeps stopping and returning to menu or jumping ahead

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#1

Hi All,

I’ve been having this issue for a while and getting no further to solving it, hoping you guys can assist :slight_smile:

I have a Raspberry PI connected through a set of powerline adapters and a netgear router to a Lubuntu machine which stores my TV shows.

I have reset my routers, rebuilt the Lubuntu machine and the raspberry PI to ensure all equipment is using default settings, but still no joy.

The issue is that when watching a TV show, playback will either jump ahead a few seconds and continue as normal and/or playback will stop and return me to my list of TV shows.

I’m unable to try a wired connection to rule out wireless and have also tried editing the advancedsettings.xml file to try various things.

#2

Try playback from a local storage first?

Sam

#3

Thanks Sam,

I will copy the last TV show that kept playing up and play it from a USB stick connected to the pi.

#4

Update: I have successfully watched two TV shows via a memory stick connected to the pi.

Guess this will relate to a source computer/powerline network issue.

Are there any logs I can look at when it next freezes?

#5

Hi,

Logs are located /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log.

I’m accessing my shares via powerline, with no issues. What are the shares samba of nfs?

What changes did you make to advancesettings.xml?

Thanks Tom.

#6

Hi Tom,

I believe it’s samba as its connects via smb using a username and password.

I tried numerous changes to the advancedsettings.xml over the last couple of weeks but have since reverted back to default.

#7

Hi,

Being as your using Lubuntu, you should consider using nfs; I’ve found it has better throughput than samba and you may find it more stable than your current setup. Details can be found here:

Thanks Tom.

#8

Thanks Tom, will take a look at that article. Will i need to complete all 9 steps on my Lubuntu system?

#9

Steps 1 to 4, for lubuntu. Remaing steps to be carried out on the pi.

#10

Thanks Tom,

Sorry for all the questions, but after the Lbunutu part is complete, can’t you just browse to the nfs share using file manager on the PI?

#11

Hi,

Yes.

Thanks Tom.

#12

Thanks,

Have just switched to nfs, will see how the next few days go when watching tv shows. Hopefully this long outstanding issue will now be solved.

#13

I hope so

#14

Unfortunately it froze again twice during a 40 minute TV show? :frowning:

#15

Hi,

how did you mount the nfs shares in the end? If you went via browsing nfs via kodi, you could try kernel mounted (fstab)

But before you try that I would recommend adding a video caching to advancedsettings.xml.

Which pi are you using, if its a a pi3 I recommend these:

<advancedsettings>
	<cache>
		<memorysize>157286400</memorysize>
		<buffermode>1</buffermode>
		<readfactor>4.0</readfactor>
	</cache>
</advancedsettings>

Thanks Tom.

Best cache settings for rpi3 running on USB HDD?
#16

Hi Tom,

I believe i have the Model B 512MB Raspberry Pi

#17

Hi,

You could try:

<advancedsettings>
  <cache>
    <buffermode>1</buffermode>
    <memorysize>52428800</memorysize>
    <readfactor>4.0</readfactor>
  </cache>
</advancedsettings>

This will use 50 mb of ram for the buffer. You can play with memorysize, but I wouldn’t go any higher than 75 MB.

This site: http://unitconverter.io/megabytes/bytes/75 has a good megabytes to bytes converter.

Thanks Tom.

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#18

Thanks Tom,

I have just applied the settings now and will report back. :slight_smile:

#19

Thanks