2015-04-27, 00:55
Hello,
I've read a few posts about the best (advanced) settings for Kodi (Helix) on Raspberry Pi. However, no matter what I try I can't get them to work. When I add the advancedsettings.xml file to "/storage/.kodi/userdata" Kodi will not play a single file, no matter the quality (480p, 720p, 1080p). I get the spinning wheel of death ("Working") and then it times out saying there was an error and to check the log file. When I delete the .xml file, everything will play, albeit with stops and stutters which is why I went down this road in the first place. Here's my setup:
Raspberry Pi 2 with 1GB RAM
128GB Premium SD card.
-connecting via WIFI to Western Digital NAS (Samba) where my library is located.
The files range from 250MB to 4GB with a bitrate from 200k to 4 Mbps.
Here are the advanced settings:
buffermode = 1 (if I need to set this to zero, the rest is pointless b/c it won't utilize the cache for local content, right?)
cachemembuffersize = 40 (ideally I'd like to use "0" since I have a huge SD card but I thought this might be the issue so I changed it to mem, and a lower value)
readbufferfactor = 2
When the issue occurs, for whatever reason I need to refresh the wifi connection for ANYTHING to stream (even Youtube) and Kodi can no longer find the Samba source. Once I refresh the wifi connection I can stream Youtube but no content will stream over my LAN.
Link to Advanced Settings XML: advancedsettings.xml
Link to Log File: Log File
My apologies if this is covered elsewhere...I looked but I couldn't find a problem with the same parameters.
Any help that could be provided is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
I've read a few posts about the best (advanced) settings for Kodi (Helix) on Raspberry Pi. However, no matter what I try I can't get them to work. When I add the advancedsettings.xml file to "/storage/.kodi/userdata" Kodi will not play a single file, no matter the quality (480p, 720p, 1080p). I get the spinning wheel of death ("Working") and then it times out saying there was an error and to check the log file. When I delete the .xml file, everything will play, albeit with stops and stutters which is why I went down this road in the first place. Here's my setup:
Raspberry Pi 2 with 1GB RAM
128GB Premium SD card.
-connecting via WIFI to Western Digital NAS (Samba) where my library is located.
The files range from 250MB to 4GB with a bitrate from 200k to 4 Mbps.
Here are the advanced settings:
buffermode = 1 (if I need to set this to zero, the rest is pointless b/c it won't utilize the cache for local content, right?)
cachemembuffersize = 40 (ideally I'd like to use "0" since I have a huge SD card but I thought this might be the issue so I changed it to mem, and a lower value)
readbufferfactor = 2
When the issue occurs, for whatever reason I need to refresh the wifi connection for ANYTHING to stream (even Youtube) and Kodi can no longer find the Samba source. Once I refresh the wifi connection I can stream Youtube but no content will stream over my LAN.
Link to Advanced Settings XML: advancedsettings.xml
Link to Log File: Log File
My apologies if this is covered elsewhere...I looked but I couldn't find a problem with the same parameters.
Any help that could be provided is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt