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With regards to the buffering, i can confirm that using an Ethernet cable will stop this. I have had the Apple Tv three days and have received no buffering using the latest nightly. The only problem i have now is stuttering video. I think were just going to have to hang on a while XBMC on the Apple TV is new and will need time to develop. Currently i am only able to watch small MKV's anything larger (1080p) the stuttering makes it unwatchable. I do wonder some time though whether all of our problem would have gone away if the Apple Tv came with a gig nic!
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What about posting mediainfo for the files. All the issues I have encountered with H264 and buffering issues has always been that the person encoding the files has done something stupid like setting the number of ref-frames to 16 or something like that (read: non-standard encoding).
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that's not the fact. i have the same hardware. isn't it possible to build a firmware, which can play most of codes from a smb-device without stuttering or buffering?
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Fire69, I was having lots of problems with SMB sharing over wired ethernet. Tried lots of differents setups like yourself. I then setup an FTP server and now all my MKV's stream beautifully (even 1080p).
Like you, I prefer the simplicity of SMB (I also run a dedicated XBMC Live HTPC that has zero issues with SMB) but for the sake of my kids getting upset every time they see "Buffering...), I'm happy I switched to FTP!
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2011-06-13, 16:35
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-13, 16:43 by Most Wanted.)
I won't try an ftp server but i have no plan how i can make an ftp server?
Can anybody help me?
?Try a symbolic link - ie. the external media folder as a link in your home folder?
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From the tests i made, the CIFS/SMB server used by Airport Extreme/TimeCapsules aren't recommended to our setup, ATV2 accessing it directly via SMB.
Maybe when we see AFP support via XBMC it could work OK, but i had nothing but trouble using it.
Also, i had setup my Macbook to share a SMB folder, while using the Airport Extreme shared via AFP, and it worked OK, no buffering. But here, see the difference: Mac OS X uses Samba as CIFS/SMB server (Airport/TimeCapsules don't -- IIRC they use NetBSD plus an Apple daemon for CIFS/SMB), and the Macbook uses AFP instead of SMB. So, Samba makes the difference here.
Since i changed my NAS to a LaCie one, its Linux based and uses Samba as CIFS/SMB server, i got everything working smoothly with XBMC. I can even stream 1080p movies when needed.