[Richie]

I updated to LibreElec 9 today and now getting buffering issues on certain larger files which worked perfectly fine previously. RPi3 is hard wired, I've also checked network speed with iperf and get ~97mbps.

I'm running PlexKodiConnect, but also tried directly through SMB and the files still buffer (as Kodi says, 'caching').

Seems not related to the codec, as it happens with other files I've tried that are H264 and VC-1 (I have the VC-1 key installed).

Log is here: http://paste.kodi.tv/ubizajucog.kodi

Log is right upto the start of the movie and couple of minutes in, where it buffers twice. I've also reset the system video and player settings but no joy.

Can someone please help?

[smp1]

Try this build. I increased smb chunk size to 256K. This fixed buffering issues with some of my .ts files.

[Richie]

Try this build. I increased smb chunk size to 256K. This fixed buffering issues with some of my .ts files.

 Tried that build, no success, probably a bit worse. Also tried #0214, 14-Feb-2019 Milhouse build and still the same buffering.

[rascas]

Try this one:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2821216

[Richie]

Try this one:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2821216

Just tried this with the same movies, still have buffering issues.

[Richie]

I also tried switching over to NFS in case it was the SMB issue, exact same buffering issues.

Could this be a hardware issue?

[Richie]

So I tried adding some buffering settings today, used:

<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>139460608</memorysize>
<readfactor>20</readfactor>
</cache>

And now media is playing perfectly fine.

[Klojum]

Thread marked solved.