2012-12-24, 21:55
Thought I'd share this in case anyone else is having a similar issue.
I was experiencing audio dropouts when playing high bitrate audio files (96/24 multichannel flac files) from XBMC Frodo (Beta2) which were located on my NAS. I've got my media center PC connected to my NAS via Powerline ethernet, in which I'm getting roughly 50mbps throughput, which I thought would be plenty fast enough.
At first I thought it might be an issue with XBMC, but decided to verify that it wasn't a network issue by playing the same music files that were copied to the media center's local SSD storage drive. No audio dropouts! So clearly, this suggested it was a networking issue.
When I looked at the network settings of my NAS device (a Patriot Systems Javelin S2 device running a RAID 5 array), I noticed that the maximum transfer unit (MTU) setting for the ethernet packets being sent by the NAS was set at 1500 bytes. By increasing the MTU size to something larger (under the "jumbo frames" setting of the NAS admin panel), this solved my audio dropout issue.
I was experiencing audio dropouts when playing high bitrate audio files (96/24 multichannel flac files) from XBMC Frodo (Beta2) which were located on my NAS. I've got my media center PC connected to my NAS via Powerline ethernet, in which I'm getting roughly 50mbps throughput, which I thought would be plenty fast enough.
At first I thought it might be an issue with XBMC, but decided to verify that it wasn't a network issue by playing the same music files that were copied to the media center's local SSD storage drive. No audio dropouts! So clearly, this suggested it was a networking issue.
When I looked at the network settings of my NAS device (a Patriot Systems Javelin S2 device running a RAID 5 array), I noticed that the maximum transfer unit (MTU) setting for the ethernet packets being sent by the NAS was set at 1500 bytes. By increasing the MTU size to something larger (under the "jumbo frames" setting of the NAS admin panel), this solved my audio dropout issue.
