RPI 4 B 8 GIG Randomly starts buffering

Uber · February 14, 2021 at 6:25 PM

Helle there,

Im very new to all this so bare with me

I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B / 8GB

and installed LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.6.img.gz on it.

Every now and then a movie located on my nas will stop playing, then i get the loading circle and it continues.

Wireless or wired is same result.

Streaming the same files on a wireless tablet works without any problem

It happens on a 40gig file and it happens on a 175 mb file

Last time i was playing a small file and the cpu usage was like 38%

What log file do i need to upload and even more where do i upload it too, as it aint small

**Da Flex** · February 14, 2021 at 7:36 PM Official Post

Create this /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml:

Code

<advancedsettings version="1.0">
    <cache>
        <buffermode>3</buffermode>
    </cache>
</advancedsettings>

Uber · February 15, 2021 at 10:15 AM

Ill try that tonight, ty very much for your fast reply

Uber · February 15, 2021 at 7:04 PM

well i used ssh and made the xml file with vi.

rebooted watched a movie and after like 1 hour into the movie i got another buffer ring again.

**Da Flex** · February 15, 2021 at 8:08 PM Official Post

Buffer mode 3 was no buffering. Next we should try to increase buffer size and read factor (details here: advancedsettings.xml ) :

Code

<advancedsettings version="1.0">
    <cache>
        <memorysize>2000000000</memorysize> <!-- 2GB buffer size -->
        <buffermode>4</buffermode> <!-- buffer all network filesystems -->
        <readfactor>8.0</readfactor> <!-- doubles the default readfactor -->
    </cache>
</advancedsettings>

Uber · February 20, 2021 at 12:34 PM

It did the trick !

Ty very much, you are my hero