Are there any manual settings I might need to make inside of Ubuntu or inside of a config of Linux XBMC to make streaming work better?
I have the Apple trailers plugin working finally, but streaming seems to stall out in around 2 seconds of video, pause for a minute, play another couple seconds, stall again, etc. It's indicative of a really low/non-existent buffer or something, but I am hard wired and have no other network traffic running so these really should stream better. I tried even at the standard (non-HD) setting for trailers, same result.
Anyone have any suggestions on streaming and buffering with XBMC Linux plugins?
I would like to know how to increase the cache of apple movie trailers light also. I am fine if I leave it on 480p but if I try to stream 720p it plays for about 2 seconds then pauses and buffers then plays a few seconds then buffers. Is there any way to just delay the start and buffer up a good chunk and then play it all at once?
I'm also interested on this issue, i'm having annoying pauses when streaming videos from Internet and i've not this problem when playing same videos from the same websites...
regards,
ping
no any tips - how does it possible to change the buffer/cache size for Internet Radio/TV streaming ?
Under linux this whole streaming caching issue leads to another problem trying to stream mms.
I am solving the mms problem here
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/7423 but now i got it fixed and working i run into the problem that xbmc seems to download the whole video before streaming it, which in fact is no streaming at all. I demonstrate it with two log ecerpts;
1.)
21:03:37 T:2883582864 M:1960022016 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogProgress.xml) ------
21:03:37 T:2883582864 M:1960022016 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 2.13ms (0.00 ms skin load)
21:06:44 T:2947787664 M:1960214528 INFO:CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
2.)
21:16:41 T:3002071952 M:1944555520 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 1
21:16:41 T:2947787664 M:1944555520 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0 21:16:41 T:2947787664 M:1944555520 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:19:55 T:2947787664 M:1944956928 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
21:19:55 T:2947787664 M:1944956928 DEBUG: CacheSubtitles: START
21:19:55 T:2947787664 M:1944956928 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles done
21:19:55 T:2947787664 M:1944956928 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
==========================
We se it takes bot times each 3 minutes before it starts playback, this is caused most likely by first downloading the whole shebang before playing it...
Hmm very interesting, this cannot be a coincedence we both suffer from 3 minutes hangs (little over 3 min)
I first had to get rid of general libmms bugs which is discussed in :
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/7423
But this seems to be the last hurdle !
I also know its an issue with the player that xbmc linux uses, using mplayer does indeed solve the problem!
Lets keep our fingers crossed that developers finally tackle this issue its been there way toooooooo long.
Lets keep the right threads rolling and try to alert the right people!