[gateway69]

Over the last few days I have been collecting some mkv files and storing them on my raid server, which is connected to my network 100mbit... I have never had issues streaming video or audio files to my xbox , how ever im starting to notice now that trying to stream a mkv file on linux xbmc doesnt work for me, it sort of sits for a few seconds then i think gives up, (ie prob cant get enough data)? copying the file over and playing it went perfectly.

IM pretty sure my network is pretty fast I never have issues playing 360 games online, streaming video to my old xbox..

my setup, and this will change is

raid server is vista (ick) , prob change to some nix flavor over the holidays if i can find the right 3ware driver.

anyhow, is their a way to increase the cache a bit higher or have mkv files get more data before starting to stream?

btw im using ubuntu samba to connect to my vista box, I could try nfs or some other clients, recommendations?

[jmarshall]

Check that it's not simply a permissions issue.

[gateway69]

yea. i guess I should of mentioned other files on my mount , xvid, divx etc all play..

[jmarshall]

That doesn't make any difference - particularly if it's a windows box.

Permissions are per file, and windows in particular doesn't always respect the "inherit permissions from the folder" principle.

[Jezz_X]

I play 720p and 1080p h264 mkv files over the network no problem at all I have them stored on my windows box and stream then to my linux xbmc over samba.

[gateway69]

well thanks guys, im gonna put the raid server on unix, and do a mount, not sure why its so slow anyhow.. just was curious.

[jmarshall]

Do a debug log. You'll most likely find it's a permissions issue as we've already said. Nothing to do with the speed of your network.