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2013-12-12, 05:50
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-12, 06:00 by VonMagnum.)
I'm starting to get the odd "stutter" lately in XBMC Eden running on 1st Gen ATVs with NFS. It might happen once a tv show episode or so. It just constant stutters until I hit the pause button at which point is continues like normal. It's only started doing this in the past week or so and thus I don't know why it's started doing it. Switching from 5GHz to 2.5GHz wireless made no difference. Restarting XBMC made no difference either. I could try rebooting the ATV from scratch, I suppose, but I would imagine it would just come back sooner or later if that did help.
I just tried mounting the drives on the server as ASYNC after reading a lot of Linux hangups and slowdowns were caused by the (now apparently default) SYNC option. I'll have to wait and see if it makes any difference. Here I thought my networking issues were over after going from SMBUp to NFS. SMBUp would often time-out before my media drive could wake up and 10.9 would sometimes re-assert SMB2 on reboots requiring restarting SMBUp's Samba3, but I don't think it ever had a bizarre acting stutter like this that won't resolve until the pause/play button is pressed.
Come to think of it, I did recently put video sync to "video (resample audio)" and so I wonder if that might have affected it as well. I'll try turning that off or to a different setting if the NFS Async setting makes no difference.
THEATER: 11.1.10 Atmos, Epson 3100 3D Projector, DaLite 92" screen, Mixed Dialog Lift - PSB Speakers; Sources: PS4, LG UP875 UHD, Nvidia Shield (KODI), ATV4K, Zidoo X9S (ZDMC), LD, GameCube
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2013-12-12, 06:09
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-12, 06:11 by nmirza.)
if it just started, and wasnt there before, and you havent changed or updated anything, then its probably not the same issue i've explained in this thread, which is a client-side issue. and if you're using xbmcup/nfs, then i'm assuming the problem you have has more to do with the one under discussion in the other thread relating to SERVERS. from what i recall the solution was xbmcup or nfs. if you're still having issues, then its somethign else entirely. maybe something a restart away.
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Network sources are not buffered by default. My advancedsettings proposal should change this. (normally that kind of buffering you mean is only used on internet sources like http). At least its worth a try ...
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2013-12-13, 08:27
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-13, 08:28 by Ned Scott.)
Did you try <buffermode>1</buffermode> and <readbufferfactor>4</readbufferfactor> at the same time?
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I still can't figure out what is causing my stuttering issues with Eden on an AppleTV Gen 1 machine with a Mavericks server using NFS. The video settings don't matter. The weird thing is that when it starts stuttering (like Max Headroom kind of constant stuttering that goes on for 5-10 seconds or sometimes longer) if I click on Finder in OSX on the server machine, it IMMEDIATELY stops stuttering in the other room. Likewise, just touching the play/pause key on the remote while it's stuttering instantly fixes it (and no it doesn't pause). I don't recall seeing this problem when I first switched over to NFS (which was on Mavericks, not Mountain Lion) so I'm at a loss what is causing it. Rebooting the AppleTV didn't help. I'm in the process of removing software I've added since then (XtraFinder's update that got it working again in Mavericks after major issues comes to mind next) and seeing if it helps on the server side, but since it's intermittant and I want to know the exact cause, I have to make one change at a time and wait and see if it does it again.
I surely hope that NFS is NOT the problem since I was happy to be rid of SmbUP finally (which times out every time it wakes my external media drive and reports the episode as "missing" in XBMC and would I like to remove it from the library (clicking on it again, of course, starts it since then the drive is up). NFS doesn't do that, but something is causing this new stutter issue.
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you could try to disable appnap on the mavericks nfs server...
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Tthe process for the nfs server should be called "nfsd" if this helps.
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)