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bobo1on1
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Ok first, play that video, pause it, press 'o' and see what the fps is, from what I can tell adjust refreshrate isn't working properly.
Second, try playing a file on a local disk, those powerline network things aren't know for their excellent reliability.
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I'm just curious here, is there a message that lets the user know that there is something similar to a buffer under run? So the user might know that this is occurring when there is a problem getting the file?
Maybe it's in a debug log?
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sp10
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Thanks bobo1on1, I have paused the film and the FPS when paused goes up to 50, its 24 whilst playing. Does that seem right? The screen resolution was supposed to be 1920x1080 @ 24Hz so shouldn't the FPS remain 24? Additional from the Video Information screen "Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 default:1920x1080 @ 24.00Hz 50.00Hz"??
I have also downloaded a BRRip version of this film and played it from the same location and plays absolutely fine. I am currently ftp'ing the 1080p version over to the hard drive of the Asrock to play it locally, so will report back on that in a couple of hours! Also when this is done I will switch off the adjust framerate and see if that makes any difference too.
@ Maxim whilst the film is playing it will pause itself and a dialog will pop up telling you that it is buffering with %age done until it is good to go again, if that is what you meant?
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sp10
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Right have tried playing the film back from the local hard drive and it plays absolutely perfectly.
I have also tried switching off "adjust frame rate" and replayed the film over the network and it still isn't happy.
So whilst I agree that the frame rate issue may be contributing I think it is a network issue. Equally as I mentioned previously the "scaled down" BRRip version plays perfectly across the network.
What bandwidth does a 1080p film require then? I have played back the film and monitored the homeplugs with devolo informer and they sit at a constant 74Mbps.
Is it still possible to increase the network buffer now that those option have gone from settings?
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the movie that you are trying to play requires atleast 15mbit throughput. and at peaks even higher.
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Good odds the connection is dirty like wifi. You may get some great speed, but that doesn't mean all of those packets are good. Many probably get resent.
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those Ethernet over power adapters suck, throw them away and run that Ethernet cord. I have a bunch of the EoP adapters and they suck.
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If it takes several hours to copy across the file to the local drive then I have to say that you are clearly running up against bandwidth limits. If it takes 2 hours to copy a film that is less than 2 hours then it clearly isnt going to stream over your network.
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sp10
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The film is a 1080p blu-ray rip, the file size is 10.92Gb. The file transfer rate was around 1.7-1.8MB/s. That didn't seem too bad to me?
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when transferring all my 1080p movies to my nas(dns323).. it transfers at 10mb/s is that fast enough to stream? im having the same problem as OP. it buffers every 5 seconds, thinking of getting a gigabit switch, will this fix my problem? currently the nas is connected to my wl520gu asus router, as well as my asrock ion 330.
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motd2k
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If they play fine locally, but buffer when playing over the network then it's safe to assume its the network.
A gigabit switch certainly isn't going to hurt you, and it'd give you benefits in other uses, especially since you're using NAS. I'd say go for it...