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XBMC can't pull the data quickly enough.
Are you using wireless? If so the signal might be getting interference or is weak where the ATV is.
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The problem is. ATV2 is not able to hardware decode xvide mpeg4 (only h.264 is hardware decoded). Your file is something like 720p (with cut off black bars). The ATV2 CPU has not enough power for decoding this in software.
Xvid works on SD resolutions. Thats your problem. Use H.264 encoded videos if they are bigger then SD...
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Like many others, I'm having difficulty and am wondering if there's some solution I haven't tried. Most seem to be focused on the Windows 7 aspect of it, but I can stream without difficulty to my macbook pro, just not the ATV2.
The files are H.264 and I'm connected with gigabit ethernet, yet on the apple TV my videos are buffering every 10-15 seconds. I've also tried editing the registry in windows to no success to optimize settings for file sharing. Running out of ideas here and was hoping someone could steer me towards a working solution.
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I have weird experience last month so i'm going to share it with you may be it helps some one !
my setup is atv2 xbmc HDMI > Pioneer LX83 HDMI > speaker + screen
so in my xbmc audio settings
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver : yes
DTS Capable Receiver : yes
last month my AV Receiver had a problem so i sent it for repair and i changed my setup to :
atv2 xbmc HDMI > Samsung lcd HDMI
and as my samsung did not support dts i changed my audio settings to :
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver : no
DTS Capable Receiver : no
for 2 weeks i did not watch any mkv 720p movies so i had no problem !
when i get my AV Receiver back I connected it as it was before then the mkv 720p files start to buffer !
i checked every thing and could not find the problem !then suddenly when i was going through all the settings in xbmc i saw the audio and i return them to my default config
and voila every thing goes smooth again with no buffer problem !!!!
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and a mediainfo dump of the used movie ...
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)
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Hi,
I hadn't used my atv2 for a while as I got a new TV recently which can play 1080p/DTS MKV from USB, however I decided to see how xbmc was getting on.
I was previously using I think (June) stable release and had for me this version worked really well, all very smooth no problems.
I updated to the current stable build and have had nothing but buffering problems and a large percentage of my movies no longer play at all.
Ideally I would like to revert to a historical stable build just to see however I could not find it so installed a nightly build (15 Oct 2011). It is slightly better however not watchable.
All movies are streamed from my QNAP using smb on a 100Mb wired LAN.
Could be a issue with connection although other devices on network have no issues however firmware of QNAP has been updated since xbmc last used so is a possibility, would like to rule it out regardless.
I have noticed in the xbmc.log quite a few 'unix' errors relating to permissions denied while the movies plugin is running however other devices can access fine while using a guest account. I have disabled this plugin to cut out log noise for now.