(2014-10-29, 10:07)Evoron Wrote: Hi i have just updated to kodi and installed this impressive add on it loads up acestream and sopcast fine but the video keeps stuttering every 2 seconds or so. Its on an m3 jynxbox android ive tried using enable zero cache and the internal to external app to save cache to the 4gb sd card i have mounted been on hours with it now i have tried installing the acestream engine and changing all the settings to the recommened ones still no joy sopcast does the same would love to get this running have changed my fibre optic to sky from talk talk as i was told this may be the problem as talk talk throttles you but its still the same can anyone help me please ?
Thanks
Is the box wired and all the required ports forwarded on your router? If the ports are forwarded have you checked if the ip address of the box is static or keeps changing? Forward a port to a device that constantly changes its network ip address doesn't improve anything since the port will always be reported as closed after a reboot.
Have you tried the same aces/sops in your pc? Do they behave the exact same way there? If so the problem is either on the stream or your network. If not, as android is a bit resource consuming the box might not have the required horsepower to handle everything. Check the memory consumption of the box during playback.
Traffic shapping is also something that depends on your location and on the % of broadband usage on a certain location. For instance in the capital I suffer from severe traffic shapping but on a less "crowdy" (not sure if this word exists) area it behaves pretty well (despite being the exact same isp).
Also, please make sure you're using the latest version of the acestream engine. They've done really a good job on the 3.0.2 upgrade, the behaviour is much better than before.
It is however strange that you get the same problems with sopcast. Are you sure the problems you mention are related to low download/upload speeds and not to the lack of hardware acceleration on the video playback itself?
Sorry for my rusty english.