[elmuziko]

Hi  all.

I have quite a few 4K movies but many of them buffer.

Kodi Box 1
17.6, i7, 16GB RAM, 100GB SSD, motherboard graphics, Win 10 device with Hyper V. 

Kodi Box 2:
17.6, Sony A1 Android TV device. 1.5GB RAM, 3.2GB available space.

NAS:
Synology running within the Hyper V of Kodi Box 1.

Originally they were both running the same advancedsetting.xml 

Buffermode = 1
cachemembuffersize = 157286400
readbufferfactor = 10

I took the advancedsettings off the Win10 device but still the same issue. Could this be related to having a bog standard GPU? 4k content does work, but only about 25% of it.

I can't seem to figure out what the best settings would be for the Sony TV. Any ideas?

I have checked the content of a movie that buffers, putting it on a USB device and running it directly from the USB3 port on the back of the TV plays perfectly. On a USB2 port it buffers, though not nearly as much as through Kodi.

I'll take any advice anyone has. In a perfect world I'll get Kodi working through the Sony TV as it makes life easier, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Klojum]

Any local gigabit network should not need extra caching settings IMO. Perhaps you Sony has a pretty slow storage system?
Get us at least a full debug log (wiki) so we can see some internals.

[elmuziko]

Maybe, I hope not, but maybe!

Here's my log shared on my OneDrive. Thank you so much for taking the time out to look at it for me.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqwAeij0XWPNiJ56m9kidBI-LBcOAA

[Klojum]

That is not really a log file, is it? We prefer an actual text file, not a piece of art as part of a log file.
Just upload it to https://pastebin.com, so we can have a normal view of the log file.

[elmuziko]

Odd, the OneDrive link works perfectly fine for me signed in and out of Microsoft. It did however load as an art file for all of 1 second before finishing as a log...?

Anywhoo..

https://pastebin.com/rvjR5ASb

Thanks again, appreciate the help

[elmuziko]

Sorry to bump. but is there anything obvious in the log?

On my Win10 machine I've set the advancedsettings to :

xml:
    <cache>

        <buffermode>1</buffermode>

        <memorysize>1048576000</memorysize>

        <readfactor>30</readfactor>

    </cache>

and it seems to work. I initiall set the memorysize to 0 and within 5 minutes of a movie starting there was a 40gb file in the cache; that to me suggests the network is more than capable of throwing a large file around.

On my Sony TV I've set the advancedsettings to:

xml:
    <cache>

    <memorysize>44857600</memorysize>

    </cache>

it plays better, a little stuttered but when it gets busy it loses the audio. 

I've slapped a USB device into the back of the TV and set it up as Android storage but I don't believe I'm able to move Kodi to SD card so I'm a little restricted with my options.

I'll take any suggestions anyone has. 

Thanks