Win Xbmc 13 stuttering video
#1
Using the new buffer feature that is introduced in v13 using giving me problems.

I currently am traveling and want to watch some local content which is on my NAS at home. I connect using an VPN connection on a 7mb/s connection (down). My home network has a 700 kb/s upload speed (yea it's slow I know). So I use XBMC to preload the movie/episode so I can watch it after a few minutes. But it can't play like it should. It freezes all the time. If I wait untill the full episode or movie is loaded (bufferd/downloaded) then it will play normal. But this is not what streaming is. Otherwise I could just copy and past it onto my own PC.
So not sure what is causing this. Did a full reinstall and just add the advancedconfig.xml file (as a change) and still the problem persisted. How can I help to debug this?
Now I see no spikes in my CPU usages or my GPU usages. What I do notice is that when this happens the stream/download stops and continues with a spike afterwards (as can be seen in the task manager in windows 8).

I hope I described it clearly if not I might be able to make a video of it. So not sure what I can do, that's why I posted this in the support topic. Should I make a bug tracker for this issue? Or does anyone know how to solf this ?

Specs:
Windows 8(.1 since a few days, but happend on 8 too)
AMD HD Radeon 6790
Intel CPU Q4 2.3 GHZ (Q6600)
6GB DDR2. (when a episode is fully loaded and I have all kinds of stuff open XBMC only uses 168 MB.)
My advanced file:
Code:
<advancedsettings>
    <videodatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>192.168.1.95</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>
    </videodatabase>

    <musicdatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>192.168.1.95</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>
    </musicdatabase>


<pathsubstitution>    

  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/sources.xml</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\sources.xml</to>
  </substitute>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/mediasources.xml</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\mediasources.xml</to>
  </substitute>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/favourites.xml</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\favourites.xml</to>
  </substitute>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/playlists/</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\playlists\</to>
  </substitute>


</pathsubstitution>

  <network>
    <alwaysforcebuffer>1</alwaysforcebuffer>
    <cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
    <readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>
  </network>
</advancedsettings>
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#2
already on the next page. Does anyone knows the answer ?
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#3
and daily bump... no one with the same problem ?
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#4
Using the new buffer feature that is introduced in v13 using giving me problems.

I currently am traveling and want to watch some local content which is on my NAS at home. I connect using an VPN connection on a 7mb/s connection (down). My home network has a 700 kb/s upload speed (yea it's slow I know). So I use XBMC to preload the movie/episode so I can watch it after a few minutes. But it can't play like it should. It freezes all the time. If I wait untill the full episode or movie is loaded (bufferd/downloaded) then it will play normal. But this is not what streaming is. Otherwise I could just copy and past it onto my own PC.
So not sure what is causing this. Did a full reinstall and just add the advancedconfig.xml file (as a change) and still the problem persisted. How can I help to debug this?
Now I see no spikes in my CPU usages or my GPU usages. What I do notice is that when this happens the stream/download stops and continues with a spike afterwards (as can be seen in the task manager in windows 8).

I hope I described it clearly if not I might be able to make a video of it. So not sure what I can do, that's why I posted this in the support topic. Should I make a bug tracker for this issue? Or does anyone know how to solf this ?

Specs:
Windows 8(.1 since a few days, but happend on 8 too)
AMD HD Radeon 6790
Intel CPU Q4 2.3 GHZ (Q6600)
6GB DDR2. (when a episode is fully loaded and I have all kinds of stuff open XBMC only uses 168 MB.)
My advanced file:
Code:
<advancedsettings>
    <videodatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>192.168.1.95</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>
    </videodatabase>

    <musicdatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>192.168.1.95</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>
    </musicdatabase>


<pathsubstitution>    

  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/sources.xml</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\sources.xml</to>
  </substitute>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/mediasources.xml</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\mediasources.xml</to>
  </substitute>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/favourites.xml</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\favourites.xml</to>
  </substitute>
  <substitute>
    <from>special://profile/playlists/</from>
    <to>\\NAS\nas\vanalles\XBMC\userdata\playlists\</to>
  </substitute>


</pathsubstitution>

  <network>
    <alwaysforcebuffer>1</alwaysforcebuffer>
    <cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
    <readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>
  </network>
</advancedsettings>
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#5
Please don't cross-post. Threads merged.
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#6
thanks its a bi unclear to me where I should post it. (no need really to merged it though)
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