Both Video and Live TV Buffering/Freezing Video Problems Solved

#23
Okay, youre the man. So glad you surfaced and the ship is fine captain. Actually, as I mentioned earlier, did some reading on the wiki and came up with just these settings:

<advancedsettings>

<network>

<buffermode>0</buffermode>

<cachemembuffersize>419430400</cachemembuffersize>

<readbufferfactor>60</readbufferfactor>

</network>

</advancedsettings>
What do you think? I notice that sometimes I get kicked off a movie when it is about to buffer, so I think I will add back the "curllow" line to see if that helps.
 
#24
Yeah those settings will work if you have the resources Chippa. I have mine set a little higher but as I mentioned earlier my system is pretty high end.
Also, as well as the curllow don't forget the pvr setting for live tv.
 
#25
Shipwreck said:
Yeah those settings will work if you have the resources Chippa. I have mine set a little higher but as I mentioned earlier my system is pretty high end.
Also, as well as the curllow don't forget the pvr setting for live tv.
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Yes, however I think I found the optimum settings for my system:
<advancedsettings>
<pvr>
<minvideocachelevel>25</minvideocachelevel>
<minaudiocachelevel>40</minaudiocachelevel>
</pvr>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>262144000</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>2</readbufferfactor>
<curllowspeedtime>300</curllowspeedtime>
</network>
</advancedsettings>

I tested it on a movie using a readbufferfactor of 2, and 150meg cache and everything was running like silk. Brought up the codecinfo screen by pressing O and the cache was filling faster than the stream (Ideal), with the stream staying firmly on 100%. The 150meg cache was filled when the movie was halfway, so I went back and increased the cache to 250megs and buffer rate to 4. The movie got sluggish, so I kept the cache at 250 megs and returned the buffer rate to 2 and bam silk again. Of course, all of this can be affected by the stream from the source etc. I was getting about 7Mbps and I have a 8 Mbps service.

Not certain about the curllowflow setting though, will do more research and play around with it some more later on.
 
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#26
That's how I found my optimum settings too Chippa, watching the codec info and playing with the different settings. The curllow you wouldn't want to set much higher as that would cause a lag in exiting from a badly disrupted stream and leave you sitting there watching that whirly 'working' thing for a while.
 
#27
Shipwreck said:
That's how I found my optimum settings too Chippa, watching the codec info and playing with the different settings. The curllow you wouldn't want to set much higher as that would cause a lag in exiting from a badly disrupted stream and leave you sitting there watching that whirly 'working' thing for a while.
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Hi Shipwreck, so it seems like you've discovered an ultimate cure for the guys on windows. Kudos!
Any solution for people running Kodi on Android boxes like Minix x8-h?
 
#31
I guys I am not real good at this sort of thing . I have been using 0 cache for movies and it works good for that but not so good for live TV . My question is if I use one of shipwrecks files for live TV can I choose to go back to the 0 cache for movies then back to shipwrecks file for live TV ? I ask this because when I pick 0 cache a box comes up telling me if I choose 0 cache I cant go back . Is their a way ?
 
#38
if you found the folder with favourites.xml then your in the user_data
in windows "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata" its in that section your gonna find your xml files now remember its within the system folders so files in windows by default are hidden.
 
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