2014-09-23, 01:06
Hello,
First of all: thank you very much for the XBMC Team. Great work!
My question: is there a way to play subsequent video files 'seamlessly', i.e. without the short gap between them?
I am using XBMC13 / OpenElec 4.0.7 on my Raspberry Pi overclocked to Turbo mode. My video files are organised in folders on an NFS share on my NAS (QNAP TS119).
I have lots of home video files of the kids. A typical video file is around 5 to 10s long. When I play files in a folder (in file mode) with the XBMC "Play the next video automatically" box ticked, there is a short gap (1-2seconds) between the end of one file and the start of the playback of the next file.
I find the gap is minimised when buffering is disabled in 'advancedsettings.xml' for local network files (buffermode 0). But it is still there (around 1-2s). When the buffermode is set to 1, it seems that XBMC only starts to fill the buffer of the next file after the first file has stopped playing which increases the delay which makes the gap longer.
Is there a setting which tells XBMC not to leave a gap before playing back the next file? Or to start buffering the next file before the current file has finished playing?
Many thanks in advance,
Thomas
P.S. Here is my advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>0</buffermode> <!-- Default is 0 -->
<cachemembuffersize>20971520</cachemembuffersize> <!-- Default is 20971520 bytes or 20 MB -->
<readbufferfactor>5.0</readbufferfactor> <!-- Default is 1.0 -->
</network>
</advancedsettings>
First of all: thank you very much for the XBMC Team. Great work!
My question: is there a way to play subsequent video files 'seamlessly', i.e. without the short gap between them?
I am using XBMC13 / OpenElec 4.0.7 on my Raspberry Pi overclocked to Turbo mode. My video files are organised in folders on an NFS share on my NAS (QNAP TS119).
I have lots of home video files of the kids. A typical video file is around 5 to 10s long. When I play files in a folder (in file mode) with the XBMC "Play the next video automatically" box ticked, there is a short gap (1-2seconds) between the end of one file and the start of the playback of the next file.
I find the gap is minimised when buffering is disabled in 'advancedsettings.xml' for local network files (buffermode 0). But it is still there (around 1-2s). When the buffermode is set to 1, it seems that XBMC only starts to fill the buffer of the next file after the first file has stopped playing which increases the delay which makes the gap longer.
Is there a setting which tells XBMC not to leave a gap before playing back the next file? Or to start buffering the next file before the current file has finished playing?
Many thanks in advance,
Thomas
P.S. Here is my advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>0</buffermode> <!-- Default is 0 -->
<cachemembuffersize>20971520</cachemembuffersize> <!-- Default is 20971520 bytes or 20 MB -->
<readbufferfactor>5.0</readbufferfactor> <!-- Default is 1.0 -->
</network>
</advancedsettings>