2020-01-09, 09:02
Brief update in case anyone now/in the future is curious where I ended up with this issue. I attempted several additional "fixes" recently:
Alternatively, I may be sort of at the end of the road with this issue and will have to live with one of two options:
- Setup a custom advancedsettings.xml with the settings listed in the last post on this thread: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=250743
- Result: Playback still halted
- Tested forcing my QNAP to SMBv1 and mounted the SMB shares on the Shield itself to see if the new cache settings eliminated the buffering with this configuration. The results seemed WORSE than before with even more buffering issues on playback
- Result: Playback still halted
- Setup NFS on a QNAP share and tested playback (I had to use NFS v2/v3, v4 did NOT work when attempting to connect from Kodi)
- Result: Playback still halted randomly just like with SMB: 2020-01-05 23:16:38.649 T:29650 ERROR: Read - Error( -5, nfs_service failed )
- Result: Playback still halted randomly just like with SMB: 2020-01-05 23:16:38.649 T:29650 ERROR: Read - Error( -5, nfs_service failed )
- Tested with several new nightly masters in my original configuration with SMB shares setup in Kodi
- Result: Continued playback issues
- Result: Continued playback issues
- SMBv1 w/ legacy security forced in Kodi
- Result: Still quits playback randomly
- Result: Still quits playback randomly
- Tested playback after disabling developer options on the ShieldTV
- Result: Still quits playback randomly
- Result: Still quits playback randomly
Alternatively, I may be sort of at the end of the road with this issue and will have to live with one of two options:
- Live with playback randomly exiting until either Nvidia somehow patches the issue and fixes it or the Kodi devs do.
- Possible that Nvidia or Kodi devs may fix it incidentally while working on some other feature. I am currently on the Alpha Kodi branch and the beta/hotfix Nvidia Shield TV branch.
- Maybe the Kodi devs will at some point offer the library that mrmc uses for smb access (libsmb/libsmbclient is what mrmc uses I think) as an optional feature in the settings UI. That would solve the problem for me as that seems to work in mrmc with files on my Qnap.
- Possible that Nvidia or Kodi devs may fix it incidentally while working on some other feature. I am currently on the Alpha Kodi branch and the beta/hotfix Nvidia Shield TV branch.
- Migrate over to mrmc. I don't like that it's a more limited version of Kodi that feels less configurable so that it can be in the Android/iOS stores but it looks like a very solid application that would meet my pretty simple requirements (TV Shows, Movies and Music playback basically).
- It feels like a "defeat" to do this but it might be my best option if the random playback exits are driving me crazy
- It feels like a "defeat" to do this but it might be my best option if the random playback exits are driving me crazy