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Video playback via DLNA stops and starts
JimH:
Is it similar to this problem?
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Ekpen:
--- Quote from: JimH on December 15, 2020, 06:59:14 am ---Is it similar to this problem?
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,127858.0.html
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Hello Sir:
Mine is a bit similar.
I have my dolby vision mkvs in 3 separate drives, external, stored in drive bays with USB 3.0 or 3.1,
The Hardware Raid 4 , external , 2 with USB 3.0, and 2 Esata.
With Udisk, if any drive is faulty, it will complain, and mounting will be erratic, delaying the boot up process.
I have in the past experienced this behavior.
As far as I know, off recent, I have no issues with drives.
Also, reading your link, I have the server powered to a separate A/C wall outlet.
Moreover this server has a Corsair ax-1200i Power supply. There seem to be enough power on the server.
The reason for this long winded write up is for me to trace when this issue started and how.
I know, around July 2010, wife traveled to Tennesse for the holiday. She came back very happy. While visiting her sister, She logged in to the server with MO4media, Vlc as external player, with of course cast. She was able to watch uhd movies with no issues. She talked about her experience all weeks.
(It looks like this problem started 3 or 4 versions ago.)
Then around August, makemkv made it possible for us to rip dolby vision. I have to re-rip more than 160 titles. So with Dolby vision possible, and Nvidia shield pro in the house, and Bravia 2019 uhd tvs available, we were in Dolby vision heaven. We watched all the Transformer mkvs in Dolby vision via dlna with no buffering and freezing. Wife even complained about the brightness of these movies. This was in September thru October. We also watched other uhd titles.
(I must mention that this server has a Wifi 6.. RAX 200 Netgear router connected to it. Its signal strength is 1300 mbps, plus the wired connection from Spectrum ISP.).
Nvidia shield Pro and the non Pro reports "signal " excellent most of the time,and a few time
with, "Good", signal strength.
A few days ago, I decided to install Kodi. With Kodi, used as an external playback engine via Moamedia, the error message "Slow source" keeps coming up. There were a few more info besides this: My CPU on this server is Intel 6950X quad core.Kodi reports on the screen:
cpu #0 ... 0.0%, cpu #1 ... 0.0%, cpu #2 .. 0.0%, and the last cpu reads .. cpu #3..(KODI CPU ) reads 20, 30, 40, 50...xx% utilization.
It looks like only the 4th core of the cpu is in use.
MC installed on SSD Samsung Evo Pro, with this memory 128 gig, Nvidia RTX 2080 -tI in Nvlink mode, Corsair 1200 watts power suply, coupled with Wifi 6. and giga ethernet, nothing should hold down this server.
(This is one of two servers that I built with "ANGER" to showcase JRiver MC., and JRiver for Android . The second server is a desktop,.. Origen S21T touch screen with 12 inch video screen, RTX 2080 super, 24 gig of memory).
Coming back to the Goliathlinux server, with this configuration , There is no reason whatsoever for a dvd mkv movie not to play smoothly. I also loaded or tried playing via MO4media thru Kodi, with same result " Slow Source".
With his observation, I do not think the problem is network related.
What I see on the screen is just a pause from 30 seconds to about 3 or 4 minutes in some cases. When playing any of this title, the screen refreshes so fast, then after a while is a "no go"
With this server equipped with plenty of memory, and graphic power.. nothing should slow it down
MC engine should be able to "ROAM" about in that vast pool of memory without any constraint.
You also suggested that I try another server.
I could, but my Asus AIO Windows server also running MC is not available. Windows 10 update, several months ago screwed up the server. I began experiencing "Network Socket" problems. Attempts to rectify via the BIOS has failed so far.
I have log txt I do not know if it helps . I will send the log to Bob.
Thanks.
George Omoregie.
Ekpen:
Hello:
Moderator, please move to old thread if need be.
Nativity story 1080P:
Kodi still reported "Source Read " too slow.
I remember every holiday, wife will watch this video and a few religion related types with no issues.
Now nothing plays smoothly.
The first 9 minutes 10 seconds of playback, the movie stopped 5 times.
Twice, the stops lasted 3+ minutes.
Please let me know if a fix is applied in future updates.
Another concerns, though unrelated:
Any multi user login capability?
I think the Windows version does have this feature.
Thanks.
George Omoregie.
JimH:
Please re-read the suggestions above. I don't think there is currently a JRiver problem that would explain this.
Ekpen:
--- Quote from: JimH on December 19, 2020, 07:33:51 am ---Please re-read the suggestions above. I don't think there is currently a JRiver problem that would explain this.
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Hello:
I think there is a problem.
The problem was fixed about 48 hiurs ago.
Here is how I got it fixed.
I remembered my wife and I had one or two marathon occasions, just dedicated to watching movies,with no hiccup,then I tried to pinpoint the date.
It was around October, so this enabled me to fetch media center that was released around that time.
I installed MC 27.0.20.
On my Bravia 930D,with Nvidia Shield non pro, I was able to watch:
Nativity story.. Kodi still throws error.. Source Read is too slow.
Also I noticed MEM ..display was twice as fast when compared to when I ran MC on 27.0.39 or newer.
The good news is that playback continued for about 39 minutes with one 5 second "stop"
I then continued to play Yanni live 1080p concerts very smoothly.
I also used vlc to watch 3:10 to Yuma,uhd and standard bluray with no issue.
I then tested playback on Bravia 2019 that can handle Dolby vision,using Nvidia shield pro.
Every dolby vision I tested played flawlessly at least for 30 minutes with no "stop and g".
I wrote to ask if multi session feature is currently possible,but got no answer. please advice if it will be feasible in the future.
lt looks like MC 27.0.39, and MC 27.0.45 do contain bug that is causing video and audio to stop and go, but MC 27.0.20 does not have this problem.
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