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1. #Kodi cache settings window how to
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3. #Kodi cache settings window mp4
4. #Kodi cache settings window drivers

Make sure you put your server hostname and share name in place of “server” and “share”, and you need to find and enter the IP address of your server in place of “server-ip”. It’s ugly that you have to put the password right in there, but LibreElec 8.2.5 doesn’t seem to support the credentials option of mount.cifs and in any case mounts.cifs doesn’t support encrypted credentials. Options=username=myusername,password=mypassword Create a file called storage-server-share.mount (“server” = hostname of your CIFS server, “share” = share name for your videos, and use this exact format of filename or it won’t work) under /storage/.config/system.d and put the following content in it:

#Kodi cache settings window how to

I’ll explain how to set this up in LibreElec, but it’s reproducible in other OSs.įirst off, using the Kodi settings interface, enable SSH and login. You’re doing the same thing, but a different way, and in this case it appears to avoid a glitch that causes Kodi to get a split-brain. Rather than adding smb:/// locations into the media sources in Kodi, this mounts the CIFS content directly into the filesystem and you then add a local path into the media source. The Fix / Solutionĭuring my online searches for help I had come across an article talking about setting up CIFS/SMB connections in OpenElec (a close relative of LibreElec). That suggested that it wasn’t a network speed issue, but that something had got “gummed up” (technical term) between the process reading data from the CIFS connection to the NAS box and the buffer that Kodi was playing back from. I ran a network throughput monitor on the NAS box whilst watching a film that eventually locked up – weirdly the throughput remained consistent before, during, and after the buffering.

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It worked perfectly – so the baseline system performance and drivers were not the issue (you might have guessed this from the fact that you could get 10+ minutes of good playback before the buffering started). Of the many tests that I used to isolate the issue, a really helpful one was to copy a video file to a USB key, add this as a source in Kodi, and play the media directly.

Turns out that none of these people had dealt with the issue I was having.

#Kodi cache settings window 1080p

I even found an article telling me definitively that my Netbox HD was not powerful enough to play 1080p media.

#Kodi cache settings window mp4

Someone spotted an issue with MKVs that was solved by remuxing into an MP4 – no help for me though. A few people had hit video or audio driver issues – and I tried turning off various accelerations and useful settings to no avail. Online forums tell you that this is a well known issue and you need to adjust your cache settings, ideally by downloading someone’s favourite add-on. This happened a bit when my media centre ran Kodi on Windows 7 64-bit, but has been decidedly worse since I moved to LibreElec. Sometimes it just got more frequent and slower to recover. Sometimes the buffer would suddenly fill and all worked smoothly again for a short while. You could get anything from a few minutes to half-an-hour of perfect playback before this happened. You’d be watching a film and suddenly it would freeze, replaced shortly by the ring-of-infernal-buffering. It worked perfectly for DVD rips, but major buffering issues came into play for HD content. In Kodi I configured media sources with smb://server/share locations to make the videos available for scraping into the library and viewing. My videos are ripped using MakeMKV, encoded using Handbrake (x264 MKV with standard options – see my post on High Def Settings for Handbrake) and stored on a NAS box ( XigmaNAS), hooked up over a network that can happily chug 50+Mbps end-to-end under “real life” tasks such as copying files. My setup uses a Novatech Netbox HD (Intel Atom 1.6GHZ, 4GB DDR2, 100Mbps Ethernet, 16GB SSD, HDMI) running LibreElec 8.2.5 which is a tightly tuned Kodi-on-a-stick OS. But now I have a fix – smooth playback, no buffer / stutter / pausing, exactly how I need it. I’ve been using Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) as my media centre package for years, and it’s great! Unfortunately though I’ve been getting major buffering issues playing my newer 1080p DTS (4GB+) films, and none of the online solutions worked for me.