2013-08-09, 03:47
I have a really weird problem, it affects movies *only*, TV episodes play just fine.
So, I have my media collection on a linux server in my closet. I have a raid array with one directory for movies and another for tv shows. After scanning the collection into my library, playing a movie from the server causes a delay that can take upwards of 90 (!) seconds before the file starts playing. Once it's playing it works perfectly, I can fast forward and skip around in the file with no delay.
The computer playing the files has a gigabit connection to the server, and I as I said there is no delay when playing TV shows. This includes HD episodes that are larger file sizes than some SD movies I have. In fact, the filesize of the movie seems to have no impact on the delay. If I quit XBMC, browse to the samba share on the server and play the files using VLC there is virtually no delay.
I thought it might have been a problem with the database on the playing computer. However, today I finally found the time/motivation to use the mysql server on the linux machine doing the file serving. However, when I finished scanning everything, the exact same delay was back in. Just to double check, I installed XBMC on my laptop (which runs Linux Mint) and used the mysql server as the database, and it has the same delay.
I have no idea what to do next. Any help is appreciated.
So, I have my media collection on a linux server in my closet. I have a raid array with one directory for movies and another for tv shows. After scanning the collection into my library, playing a movie from the server causes a delay that can take upwards of 90 (!) seconds before the file starts playing. Once it's playing it works perfectly, I can fast forward and skip around in the file with no delay.
The computer playing the files has a gigabit connection to the server, and I as I said there is no delay when playing TV shows. This includes HD episodes that are larger file sizes than some SD movies I have. In fact, the filesize of the movie seems to have no impact on the delay. If I quit XBMC, browse to the samba share on the server and play the files using VLC there is virtually no delay.
I thought it might have been a problem with the database on the playing computer. However, today I finally found the time/motivation to use the mysql server on the linux machine doing the file serving. However, when I finished scanning everything, the exact same delay was back in. Just to double check, I installed XBMC on my laptop (which runs Linux Mint) and used the mysql server as the database, and it has the same delay.
I have no idea what to do next. Any help is appreciated.