ATV2 and XBMC bufferring

I'm not sure exactly what it means when XBMC stops to buffer.

- Is the network not feeding video to it fast enough?
- Is the bitrate too high for the XBMC decoder to keep up with?
- Both?

Masterbrew Wrote:I'm not sure exactly what it means when XBMC stops to buffer.

- Is the network not feeding video to it fast enough?
- Is the bitrate too high for the XBMC decoder to keep up with?
- Both?

some of us think it is something else. Buffering on a standard def xvid, with a ~2mbps bitrate shouldn't be happening because of either of the above, yet they are happening on some files for me. Wireless N isn't perfect, but it's more than enough bandwidth to stream standard definition. Frontrow streams much higher bitrates with no issue.

chad473 Wrote:some of us think it is something else. Buffering on a standard def xvid, with a ~2mbps bitrate shouldn't be happening because of either of the above, yet they are happening on some files for me. Wireless N isn't perfect, but it's more than enough bandwidth to stream standard definition. Frontrow streams much higher bitrates with no issue.

If it's RAR'ed, try unpacking It did the trick for me..

Not a rar file

I stream 720P home videos that pause/buffer on SMB that play without interruption on UPnP.

I installed UPnP server software per below link, which is part of an overall list of UPnP downloadable server links from the XBMC Wiki (see bottom-most link for Wiki page).

Anyone with a similar experience? ES

http://www.majesticdotapp.com/

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=UPnP_Sharing

Yeah, 720P streams constantly buffer using SMB for me. If I use PS3 Media Server on my PC (it uses UPnP) everything streams perfect, even 11-12 gig 1080 streams.

So would it be ok to assume if I install PS3 media server on ubuntu 10.04 and add the sources under UPnP that I would not have stuttering issues on the atv2? at least less than using SMB shares. How hard is it to install the PS3 media server? what benefits does it have?

I would give it a shot. It's not too difficult. I've run it on Ubuntu before, if I remember right I just decompressed it to a folder and executed the PS.sh from the command line. Make sure Java is installed on your system, as PS3 Media Server requires it. I think you may also need to install mplayer. All these can be installed using apt-get.

The only benefit I can see right now is the lack of buffering compared to SMB. Other then that the cons that i've found are:

1. Library mode doesn't seem to work.

2. If you add a new file to your media directory you have to restart PS3 Media Server for the file to be visible in XBMC.

I am going to experiment with other UPnP servers to see if either of these issues are alleviated, that is if SMB doesn't start working for me in another build. I would much rather be using SMB for the sake of convenience.

I just testet this and still got buffering under UPnP. The same as with SMB.

anyone else tried?