video buffering alot during stream 720p Video - SMB

I too, am having problems with streaming to my ipad2. Drives me crazy.

The really strange thing tho, is that it works flawless when streaming from my Windows 7 machine.

But when i stream from my FREENAS box, i get alot of:
"asked for new data packet, with nothing available"

For some reason, XBMC and/or FREENAS delivers/asks for data slower than windows 7.

Windows7: (smb)


FREENAS: (cifs/nfs same for both)


Both machines are quad-core, both on the same network.
Transferspeeds <-> the machines are around 75-80 megs/sec.
Bandwidth test to/from ipad 2 over wlan is around 15 Mbit, which should be (and actually is) sufficient enough for the around 1000KB/sec that I get to/from the windows 7 machine / what the 720p clip i watch requires.


Obviously something is #"¤"#¤ with my freenas box (fresh 8.0.3 install), any ideas?

Hello,

i did some testing as well
I am running xbmc on my raspberry pi with xbian - and had the problem that some videos which were recieved from my windows home server via smb stopped and buffered a lot. so i were not able to watch the movie quite good - especially i got this problem on big movies > 8GB or 1080p etc.

As i read, xmbc has its own smb client and some users reported errors.

So what helped me:
I do not use xmbc to connect to my smb shares. I mounted them manually on OS Level.

get the cifs-utils:
apt-get install cifs-utils

created a folder
mkdir /mnt/movies

added the following line to my fstab:
vi /etc/fstab
or with the jed editor (apt-get install jed)
jed /etc/fstab

//SERVER_IP/SHARE /mnt/movies cifs username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD 0 0

reboot the device
reboot

then i added the movies in xmbc as root folders

now the videos are played without stops or buffers.

(2012-02-20 19:53)Johan84 Wrote:  I too, am having problems with streaming to my ipad2. Drives me crazy.

The really strange thing tho, is that it works flawless when streaming from my Windows 7 machine.

But when i stream from my FREENAS box, i get alot of:
"asked for new data packet, with nothing available"

FREENAS is kinda hard to please when it comes to the network adapter. Are you using intel or realtek? I had big problems with realtek hardware, but when i added a intel the speed went up