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Hi,
I have an Appletv2 that when I select a movie for playing from the movies section (cover art ) it takes like 3 minutes to start playing. This does not happen with my Apple TV 1st gen nor when I select the movie navigating from the files section. After it starts playing, if I go back and then select it, it would start right away however if I select a different movie, then I would have to wait the 3 minutes again. I have over 150 movies in a external drive attach to my mac mini, both (mac mini and Apple TV) are with wired ethernet. Would appreciate very much your help.
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Can you get a debug log (see
iOS XBMC.log (wiki)) of when you try to play a movie and it takes this long? That will give us some hints on what is going on, because that is certainly abnormal.
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Thank you Ned, where do I find this log? I can browse my ATV through appletalk and ssh, where is this log located?
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Thank you. I understand that there is an issue with afp trying to connect. However in my atv1 I don't have that issue, both atv shares were added by zeroconfing feature, is there a bug with zeroconfig and afp?. Once it connects with that particular movie, the issue does not happen again until a restart is produce. Do you think the I need to re-add the shares? SMB?.
Thanks for your recommendation,
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Avoid afp if you can as stated in our wiki.
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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The strange thing is that this only happens when I select in the movies folder (the one with the tumbril art), it does not happens when I select the movie in files and then navigate the folders.
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The AFP library that we use has a bunch of bugs in it, but the author of the library is no longer working on it, so we don't have a source for updates (and it would be saner to replace the entire library with a new AFP lib than to try to fix the existing one). It has a lot of these weird "sometimes works, sometimes doesn't" situations.