Posts by coreire

Quote from steve_192

mmpp

It has the ASIX AX88179 chipset as recommended by Pelican on page 2 of this thread.

cabbresson

I didn't do anything. It worked upon boot.

[Edit: Got iperf working]

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[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec  37.8 MBytes   317 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  38.2 MBytes   320 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  38.4 MBytes   322 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  10.00-11.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  11.00-12.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  12.00-13.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   320 Mbits/sec
[  4]  13.00-14.00  sec  37.1 MBytes   312 Mbits/sec
[  4]  14.00-15.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  15.00-16.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  16.00-17.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  17.00-18.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  18.00-19.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  19.00-20.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   322 Mbits/sec
[  4]  20.00-21.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   322 Mbits/sec
[  4]  21.00-22.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  22.00-23.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   322 Mbits/sec
[  4]  23.00-24.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  24.00-25.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   320 Mbits/sec
[  4]  25.00-26.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   322 Mbits/sec
[  4]  26.00-27.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  27.00-28.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  28.00-29.00  sec  38.2 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
[  4]  29.00-30.00  sec  38.4 MBytes   321 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-30.00  sec  1.12 GBytes   321 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-30.00  sec  1.12 GBytes   321 Mbits/sec                  receiver

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Edit 2: The above is with my Nexbox as the server (i.e. the Nexbox is receiving) The other way round the trasnfer is circa 186 Mbits/sec.

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Can you tell me how you installed iperf on libreelec? I'm finding very little info on how to add packages.

Have one on the way too. Should have it next week hopefully.
35MB/s is great, should be more than enough for any 4k content.

Quote from Pelican

Of course, I've connected it to an USB 2.0 port (there is no USB 3.0 on these boxes).

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ethtool usbnet0
Settings for usbnet0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                             1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 3
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: pg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                               drv probe link
        Link detected: yes

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Why don't you buy a well known MINI MX or similar box which performs very well on the gigabit port.

Thanks for the ethtool output. That's great news, I'll try and pick up one of those.

Quote from Pelican

Look for ASIX AX88179 chip in the details when you buy USB 3.0Gigabit LAN adapter.
It works fine with the boxes because the Linux kernel supports it.
Mine looks like this:

Thanks, do you have it plugged into a USB 2.0 port? And does it actually connect in gigabit mode?

Quote from steve_192

Are any of the 4K files you are having problems with in the public domain and freely downloadable so I can test?

Thanks, I tried a few demo clips just now to find ones that would cause the problem.

The first one buffered twice for me during playback. First at around 15-20 seconds and then again around 70-75 seconds.
You can find it here. It's listed as 75.8Mb/s.

The second one buffers for me every 25-30 seconds.
You can find it here. It's listed as 85Mb/s.

The testing was done with Libreelec's standard buffer settings. No advancedsettings.xml was used.

Quote from dazed

Will a USB 802.11ac wifi adapter be better than this, because it's awful right now

5Ghz AC wifi

2Ghz

And the 10/100 wired

Finaly same 5Ghz as above this time i used my phone

No wonder i couldn't even manage to watch a channel being sent from mediaportal

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Wow, that's pretty terrible for 5GHz AC. How far is the box from the router?
Are you using a Virgin Media Hub 3? If you are you can check the link speed of individual devices if you log into the web interface on the router. I'm curious to see what it's connected at.

Quote from 7elec

Hi Coreire... I have a Mini M8S S905 2GB / 8GB running the 7.0.2.009 build from internal NAND looking at a Windows Server 2012R2 NFS share via a gigabit switch (obviously the Mini M8S only has a 100Mbit link but just saying in case this has to do with backplane capacity?) ... I can playback 70GB 4K H265 files no problem on this as well as my AFTV2 which also only has 10/100 Ethernet (with Android Kodi v17 RC2)... how higher bitrate are you talking?

Interestingly my Samsung UHD TV, for whatever reason, can't play these files back smoothly via its internal player over the network... if I copy the same file to a usb stick the TV can playback no problem (The TV does HDR - really impressed with HDR BTW - and I have to use usb when I want to watch content with HDR). Weird I know - bottom line, perhaps the port bandwidth isn't your issue here?

Ok, so reading that yours is playing back files of that size ok made me check a little further. One file in particular that buffered a lot that I expected to play ok is a 21gb file that is 53 minutes in total. The average bitrate there is well within what it should be capable of, not sure of the peak bitrate.
I did a quick check to get an idea of the actual connection speed using speedtest.net and I seem to be getting 80-90Mbit (My internet connection is 240Mbit so it should be a pretty good indication). I'll investigate further tomorrow.

steve_192: Thanks, I played around with the buffer settings a lot already and I tried pretty aggressive settings in the end but all it does is increase the time before the problems occur.

Quote from Jaaxx

Wondering the same. I have tried a couple of Belkin Gigabit adapters and they do work, but can't get them to connect at 1000M to save my life. Long cables, short cables, expensive, cheap I've tried every trick in the book.

What kind of throughput are you getting on the Belkin adapters? Are they locking to 100mbit mode or are you getting closer to USB 2.0 speeds?

I'm using a Mini M8S(S905) to access files on my home server. I've recently started using 4k content and the 100Mbit ethernet port on the M8S doesn't seem to have enough bandwidth for some of the higher bitrate files, resulting in buffering every 10-15 seconds or stuttering.

The same files play back fine if put on a USB 2.0 hard drive so the best solution I've though of is a USB Gigabit ethernet adapter. I won't get the full gigabit but hopefully I can use the bandwidth available at the USB port.
Does Libreelec have support for any USB Gigabit ethernet adapters or 802.11ac wifi adapters?

Any recommendations on an adapter would be appreciated.
Thanks.