2020-12-02, 14:21
Hello, I am new to this forum. I have tried searching but found nothing, so here is a new thread.
My setup:
- two Amazon Fire TV Sticks connected to the home WiFi, channel is free and radio signal is strong at both places;
- Serviio DLNA server on a Windows machine, connected via Ethernet cable to the same network as the WiFi;
- a largish collection of video files, most .mkv and .avi
The problem:
After having used the above setup for almost a year, last week suddenly video playback started freezing on both TV sets. After a while I get a "wheel", that counts up, sometimes going all the way up to 100; then a message at the top right of the screen, saying that the speed is too slow for normal playback.
I tried watching exactly the same video files on VLC on an iPad, connected to the same WiFi, and they play smoothly with no interruption.
I tried checking for any possible speed issue anywhere around the network, but found nothing.
But most important: everything worked correctly until roughly a month ago. Since then, I changed nothing, I tweaked nothing etc. (I am an IT specialist with experience dating back to 1973, so I know what I'm saying).
Does anyone have a clue to where the problem could lie?
Oh, and BTW, I have another question, which might be related. When I start Kodi, and point it to my DLNA server, it takes all of two minutes until it finds it and shows the list of directories; before, I get an error message saying that the server could not be reached. This happens nowhere else, i.e. if I try accessing the DLNA server on an iPad or iPhone, I almost immediately get the list of directories on the server. Not on Kodi - and this has always been an issue, since I first installed it.
Thanks in advance!
My setup:
- two Amazon Fire TV Sticks connected to the home WiFi, channel is free and radio signal is strong at both places;
- Serviio DLNA server on a Windows machine, connected via Ethernet cable to the same network as the WiFi;
- a largish collection of video files, most .mkv and .avi
The problem:
After having used the above setup for almost a year, last week suddenly video playback started freezing on both TV sets. After a while I get a "wheel", that counts up, sometimes going all the way up to 100; then a message at the top right of the screen, saying that the speed is too slow for normal playback.
I tried watching exactly the same video files on VLC on an iPad, connected to the same WiFi, and they play smoothly with no interruption.
I tried checking for any possible speed issue anywhere around the network, but found nothing.
But most important: everything worked correctly until roughly a month ago. Since then, I changed nothing, I tweaked nothing etc. (I am an IT specialist with experience dating back to 1973, so I know what I'm saying).
Does anyone have a clue to where the problem could lie?
Oh, and BTW, I have another question, which might be related. When I start Kodi, and point it to my DLNA server, it takes all of two minutes until it finds it and shows the list of directories; before, I get an error message saying that the server could not be reached. This happens nowhere else, i.e. if I try accessing the DLNA server on an iPad or iPhone, I almost immediately get the list of directories on the server. Not on Kodi - and this has always been an issue, since I first installed it.
Thanks in advance!