2014-10-04, 11:57
Hello, I'd really appreciate any advice you can give me on this subject, here's the basic data for my home network first:
1s (remote) PC: Win 8.1 with an external hard-drive via USB 2.0 port, connected to the router on the 2.4Ghz band (old acer 5736z laptop, doesn't have 5Ghz band feature).
2nd PC: Win 8.1 with Gotham 13.2, connected to the router on the 5Ghz band, sits just near the router (doesn't have ethernet port).
Network: QoS turned off, both PCs have static IPs and in Win's Control panel" -> "Windows Credentials" -> both PCs have each other's login information. This kind of network settings really stabilized Full HD + 5.1 surround streaming. Network has a very good signal rating.
Problem (only in full HD+surround playback):
Although setting up the network as shown above really stopped most of the pauses while watching HD movies, it randomly still happens.
I also tried the following settings in advancedsettings.xml (I have 2GB RAM, so nothing crashes):
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>209715200</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>
</network>
</advancedsettings>
No joy - I can see when playing a movie and pressing the 'o' button in the keyboard, that Gotham's buffering as expected - but this whole buffer thingy doesn't help. Just for testing I turned-off wi-fi for a few seconds (to a minute) in the remote PC where the hard-drive is, Gotham:
1. Paused the playback of the movie.
2. Continued to play the movie from the buffer until it ended.
Without testing, I get random pauses here and there, though thanks to the network settings - almost none at all.
So my question is - is there a way to stop the pausing? The information is still there, all is needed is that Gotham will continue to play from the buffer smoothly until (in actual network disturbances) the network stabilizes.
Thanks for any input you may give on this.
1s (remote) PC: Win 8.1 with an external hard-drive via USB 2.0 port, connected to the router on the 2.4Ghz band (old acer 5736z laptop, doesn't have 5Ghz band feature).
2nd PC: Win 8.1 with Gotham 13.2, connected to the router on the 5Ghz band, sits just near the router (doesn't have ethernet port).
Network: QoS turned off, both PCs have static IPs and in Win's Control panel" -> "Windows Credentials" -> both PCs have each other's login information. This kind of network settings really stabilized Full HD + 5.1 surround streaming. Network has a very good signal rating.
Problem (only in full HD+surround playback):
Although setting up the network as shown above really stopped most of the pauses while watching HD movies, it randomly still happens.
I also tried the following settings in advancedsettings.xml (I have 2GB RAM, so nothing crashes):
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>209715200</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>
</network>
</advancedsettings>
No joy - I can see when playing a movie and pressing the 'o' button in the keyboard, that Gotham's buffering as expected - but this whole buffer thingy doesn't help. Just for testing I turned-off wi-fi for a few seconds (to a minute) in the remote PC where the hard-drive is, Gotham:
1. Paused the playback of the movie.
2. Continued to play the movie from the buffer until it ended.
Without testing, I get random pauses here and there, though thanks to the network settings - almost none at all.
So my question is - is there a way to stop the pausing? The information is still there, all is needed is that Gotham will continue to play from the buffer smoothly until (in actual network disturbances) the network stabilizes.
Thanks for any input you may give on this.