Posts by nhenry1541

Quote from Iridium

Have a look at this thread thread-4829.html

I've done a lot of research on this on the RPi3 - It may help you solve the issue.

Okay ive read through that post and i believe i have what i need to do with the advancedsettings.xml. For my Pi 2 would mine look like this:

<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>20971520</cachemembuffersize>
</network>
</advancedsettings>

And would that be in this location: /storage/.kodi/userdata/ using cat advancedsettings.xml then !w ?

Quote from jmooremcc

The solution to the stuttering problem is to buffer the input stream. You do this by establishing an advancedsettings.xml file with the appropriate tags. Use the following link for more info: advancedsettings.xml - Official Kodi Wiki
Please note that some tag names related to buffering have changed in Kodi Krypton.

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Do you have an example of the value to use? Ive tried this before but after a reboot it corrupted the pi 2 install and made me reinstall. I believe what i tried was similar to this:
<advancedsettings>
<setting>20971520</setting>
</advancedsettings>

Cant remember the exact value that i used but i have turned on debugging on my kodi pi 2 and its using 288820/382320 even while stuttering. <<Again value isnt exact but very similar to what it actually was.

Just curious if anyone is having the same problem I am. Basically I can play some movies on my rpi2 and some I can't. One the movies I can't play it just sits there with the spinning "Jarvis" emblem then either goes back to the screen where I selected the movie, or it states that it couldn't play the movie and check the log file. When I go to Settings to look at the logging page its blank.

Neither in which helps me to determine why the movie can't play. It just has recently happened over the last two updates. going to version 7.95.1, .2 and 7.90.010.

I haven't run into this issue before upgrading to Libreelec. Everything played within expectations on Openelec. Not opening the openelec thing up for discussion, just merely pointing out the fact this problem occurred after coming to Libreelec. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Quote from tuxen

it should be able to decode dts just fine, my rpi1 can do 1080p dts with overclock though, so the rpi2 should do it with ease.
try set the switch port to 100Mbit instead of gb if you can, or try another one. or cable etc. or post a sample as suggested.
what happened to openelec or the whole thing is sad yes, but there is nothing sad about moving on to libreelec.

Okay so an update. (I know its been awhile just haven't had the energy haha) I have put a test movie on a usb flash drive and the movie plays flawlessly. I have the raspberry pi 2 connected to an HP 1800-8g (1000/100/10mb) switch. So I can manage the switch if needed. But I can downgrade the port to 100mb if needed, but can also turn on jumbo frames if needed as well. I have turned the port for my pi to 100fdx (full duplex) and will test (as I'm typing this.) And will post back in a few.
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Okay changing the network speed on the local switch (100mb full duplex) that is connected to the raspberry pi 2 DID NOT fix the stuttering issue. I have a movie file MKV with the following info from VLC on pc.

The movie stutters instantly when playing from my NAS, but is perfectly fine on USB flash drive. Now I have a Samsung 2.0 channel sound bar and subwoofer (this movie particularly seems to be in 5.1 Dolby. Im just trying to give as much info as possible since I'm only really running into problems that I haven't before.

Quote from chewitt

Manual update to the current v7.90.007 alpha (as nothing will be fixed in Jarvis now) retest. If the problem remains share the URL for a debug log + mediainfo for a file that doesn't work. If possible upload a 30-60 second except of the file that demonstrates the problem somewhere so we can download and test the file.

I am just now running Jarvis. So when I go to check for updates that are set to manual, I never get anything. So updating to an Alpha build might not make sense (unless the next codename is alpha lol).

I think the problem that I'm having is the DTS audio versus the AC3 audio. Im reading online that the raspberry pi 2 (or all of them probably) doesn't have the horsepower to decode that DTS audio. So try enable DTS passthrough.

Maybe I'm wrong, but anything is worth a shot. I love the Raspberry pi and don't want to build a full forced pc to run these movies simply because I don't want to have to turn on a pc every time I want to watch a movie. Seems wasteful on power. I believe I do HAVE a DTS sounder so passthrough might work. I just don't have a lot of experience in the codec part...Sadly just found out a couple weeks ago that openelec had died and moved to Libreelec

Quote from greenbag

IvThe only time I had stuttering that wasn't buffer related, was when I forgot to add my MPEG codec licenses in my config.txt.

Ive never had any problems playing these until i started getting higher and higher quality movies. Choosing a 1080p version thats around 3 gigs. Whereas before i would just pick the 800mb option mp4 or avi. And i have never purchased an MPEG codec license for my PI. Im new to the whole codec stuff, but its happened to be alot lately to where i havent even watched any movies because of this.
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Quote from chewitt

Change cables/ports. Turn everything off and on again. There's no issue in the build (else we'd know.. too many thousands of users are running it) so it's something to do with network environment or hardware.

Yes, turning off and on again, making sure all the connections are good. Ill take a wild guess and say im certain its not the network, or my NAS. But rather something in the pi that isnt configured correctly or not at all. Since each movie codecs are different its hard to track down why its stuttering not buffering. But ive watched the CPU usage on the pi while the stuttering is happening because its only in playback not in the system UI the cpu usage is low such as 30-50 % total. But all advise is welcome!

I first want to state that the I have a raspberry pi 2. Running NOOBS LibreElec newest version (checking for updates none coming back). The raspberry pi 2 (will be called my box in this post.)

My box is connected to a gig switch with cat 6a cable ,when playing 1920x1080p High definition movies from a Western Digital 4TB NAS My Cloud located on the same gig switch movies for the most part are being ripped with x264 mkv file types DTS audio MPEG-4.

I have the default settings running on the box, but have tried turning off the TOP hardware acceleration but that made it worse because the movie was starting to actually buffer when I turn this back on the buffering goes away, but then the stuttering starts again. When I say stutter, the video and audio will freeze for a few seconds maybe even 1 minute then play another 3-4 minutes then stutter again. Sometimes it just happens back to back.

Ex. Last night My wife and I were watching Alice through the looking glass and it played 1.5 hours of video before it started stuttering. Then stuttering every minute or so we just stopped watching.

Quote from Klojum

Just a thought: If LibreELEC is the only thing you boot via NOOBS, you might as well get rid of NOOBS and install LibreELEC directly.

Also, exporting a video library will only export data/info of the videos, it will not copy video files to another location as a backup.

File corruption is not uncommon with (micro) SD cards and USB sticks. The wear and tear on those devices is bigger because of the lack of TRIM functionality that SSDs do have. So sooner or later they will 'crack'.

And has it fixed the problem?

Yes, i saw exporting is like backing up the videos because some of the artwork/thumbnails Ive had to edit them myself so when i export it wont grab other thumbnails from imbd/movie database. My movies are backed up on another NAS. And weirdly YES changing SD cards seemed to fix the file corruption.

I have a raspberry pi 2 so i wasn't sure which thread to place it under. I am using Noobs 1.9.2 to install Libreelec.

I previously had openELEC running and before i started noticing it chug along to eventually i was going to reinstall openelec to freshen everything up..I made a backup off all my movies separate files through openelec's backup in the system/video/export library.

LibreELEC Install runs fine. Update add-ons runs fine. I do nothing but change my time in the United states/Chicago area. No overclocking done.

I can add my NFS (4tb Western Digital My Cloud NAS) selecting local movie information only since i backed everything under the openelec. BUT it will search for movies pulling in all over 1100 movies....until i reboot. So far every time i reboot it says system file corruption. I have switched SD cards to see if this will fix the problem. But i wanted to type this before i forgot stuff...