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I was so excited to get this going, a $100 xbmc box would have been perfect. I just learned how to ssh into the atv2 using Putty, which was much easier than cygwin. I installed the latest build 02/14/2011 and every movie I have stutters. All of my files are between 2-4 GB. I only have H.264 encoded video with AAC 5.1 sound residing on my NAS; I just can't go back to SD on a 100" screen.
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I edited my post for clarification.
I use a widely available 8+ GB 720p DTS rip of Dark Knight as a reference file for XMBC. It makes it to about 2:30 before buffering. After about 4 minutes, XBMC crashes back to the Apple TV menu.
A 1080p 8+ GB NON-DTS rip of Ponyo will buffer every 30 seconds.
This is on a wired gigabit connection and both files are h.264.
Sorry, guys, I'm sure it will get there at some point. But right now it's just not viable for high-bitrate (8+ GB) movie files, which a lot of people have and which work fine with programs like PS3 Media Server, even over wireless G.
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2011-02-16, 09:19
(This post was last modified: 2011-02-16, 09:36 by elcaballo.)
Get Him to the Greek 720p h.264 unzipped ~6.5 GB: buffers every 45 seconds.
I've been going through all of my videos and it seems like the cutoff size is about 6 GB, although I have had a couple random buffers with ~4 GB files. These are all 720p h.264 files that play perfectly in PS3 Media Server.
This is with a gigabit hub, cat6 cables, 2 ghz single core/ 2 GB RAM fileserver with about 5% CPU utilization running Windows 7 Professional 64. The sources are SMB.
EDIT: PS3 Media Server seems to be feeding The Dark Knight to ATV2/XBMC at lossless quality just fine. XBMC just can't do it on its own.
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I've been able to play 4GB 720p h.264 files through SMB over a wired connection just fine. And I am using the latest official build.
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The buffering is driving me insane. Some movies buffer some don't. This is over wired. Anything thats not sent tot he hardware decoder simply buffers like mental.
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Same here i can't watch any HD trailer for any movie, they buffer, only SD trailers work fine, if using Yahoo or HD-trailers.net...
Regards,
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I'm even streaming 1080p x264 contents via WiFi (n-draft) into my sleeping room without any problems. Server is a underpowered Synology DS209j (SMB Share). I just receive buffering issues when the Syno is doing something else (like FTP copy or other heavy-cpu stuff), it only has a 266mhz ppc cpu w 64mb of ram. But if the Syno only is serving the stream, everything is wonderful.