2016-02-17, 18:59
I have Kodi installed on an Nvidia Shield TV, which is connected to the network via wifi. My router is a Linksys WRT1900AC, which has gigabit wifi over 5ghz ac. I keep my media on a USB 3.0 Seagate GoFlex that is hanging off the USB 3.0 port on the router. The Shield TV has full signal and the channel I'm on shows up as max quality with wifi analyzer apps on my phone. I use SMB to access the hard drive. I downloaded Kodi from Google Play. I'm pretty sure I'm on 15.2 and it updates by itself.
The issue is that Kodi regularly freezes when watching movies or TV shows that are stored on the hard drive. There is no issue when streaming content through an addon (nor other non-kodi apps like netflix). I didn't have any issues for months. Then recently it started with a 10GB movie file. I thought that maybe it had something to do with the large file but now it happens on various files, even on a single tv show episode (350MB).
By "Freezes" I mean Kodi just stops playing (no buffer bar shows) and the menus / remote buttons are all unresponsive. Then after a minute or more Kodi will just jump back to the homescreen or it will register all button clicks pressed while it was hung up. Often I hit Stop then go back to the menu and Resume the movie/show from where I was.. but it will happen again and again.
I uninstalled Kodi and reinstalled (again from the Play store). I know someone is going to say, use a Cat5 cable but that's not my preferred setup because the router and all are upstairs and this is in the living room. The Shield TV is about 20' from the router (router is on the floor above and 15' horizontally). It seems like wifi shouldn't be the problem because I should only need about 5 mbps for a video and it should handle 1000 mbps over AC wifi. I've also tried 2.4ghz but it happens on that specrum also.
Anyone have any ideas for me on how to fix this? Maybe it's a bandwidth issue or maybe the drive / router combo drops intermittently or something? Would a log help? I'm not sure if it would show anything since this isn't a crash. Thanks in advance!
The issue is that Kodi regularly freezes when watching movies or TV shows that are stored on the hard drive. There is no issue when streaming content through an addon (nor other non-kodi apps like netflix). I didn't have any issues for months. Then recently it started with a 10GB movie file. I thought that maybe it had something to do with the large file but now it happens on various files, even on a single tv show episode (350MB).
By "Freezes" I mean Kodi just stops playing (no buffer bar shows) and the menus / remote buttons are all unresponsive. Then after a minute or more Kodi will just jump back to the homescreen or it will register all button clicks pressed while it was hung up. Often I hit Stop then go back to the menu and Resume the movie/show from where I was.. but it will happen again and again.
I uninstalled Kodi and reinstalled (again from the Play store). I know someone is going to say, use a Cat5 cable but that's not my preferred setup because the router and all are upstairs and this is in the living room. The Shield TV is about 20' from the router (router is on the floor above and 15' horizontally). It seems like wifi shouldn't be the problem because I should only need about 5 mbps for a video and it should handle 1000 mbps over AC wifi. I've also tried 2.4ghz but it happens on that specrum also.
Anyone have any ideas for me on how to fix this? Maybe it's a bandwidth issue or maybe the drive / router combo drops intermittently or something? Would a log help? I'm not sure if it would show anything since this isn't a crash. Thanks in advance!
