I’m also having problems with poor wireless network performance.
I have two OSMC installations, one on a Pi B+ and one on the Vero.
I normally watch 480p videos, so network throughput is not much of an issue. But, today I was watching a 720p video (Media Info at the end of this post) and buffering on the Vero happened every few minutes. I watched the same video on the Pi with no buffering at all.
On the Vero I’m using the built-in WiFi adapter. The Vero is almost line-of-sight with my router.
The Pi is wired to an old Airport Express. There are two concrete walls between the Airport Express and the router.
Can anything be done to enable me to watch buffer-free 720p videos on my Vero?
Media Info:
General
Unique ID : 207860921814076730527614919210402789077 (0x9C608EAF13C4FB8283F63F53B4BB36D5)
Complete name : /Volumes/Media/TV/Manhattan/Manhattan.S01E01.Manhattan.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BS.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 1.74 GiB
Duration : 56mn 50s
Overall bit rate : 4 374 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-07-28 16:48:56
Writing application : mkvmerge v7.1.0 ('Good Love') 64bit built on Jul 27 2014 13:06:55
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
DURATION : 00:56:50.464000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES : 106577
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 163702272
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP : mkvmerge v7.1.0 ('Good Love') 64bit built on Jul 27 2014 13:06:55
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC : 2014-07-28 16:48:56
_STATISTICS_TAGS : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 56mn 50s
Bit rate : 3 903 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 718 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.177
Stream size : 1.55 GiB (89%)
Language : English
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 56mn 50s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 156 MiB (9%)
Language : English
Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : CC
Language : English