ryancharles
Occasional Visitor
This is my current situation:
I am running Merlin's 3.0.0.4.374.38_2 on the ASUS AC66u
My goal is to be able to stream blue-ray ripped MKV files to my TV. It seems simple, but I am getting juddering/buffering every now and then when I am using my WD TV Live, which I just purchased.
I have a qnap-TS212P which is connected to the AC66u router via gig Ethernet. All my movies are stored on the NAS. My WD TV live is also connected to my router via fast Ethernet. It’s connecting at 100mbps full duplex. My WD TV live is connected to my Samsung TV via HDMI.
When I play high bitrate movies, such as Avatar I get buffering (loading icon) every now and then.
DVDs play without any issues.
I am able to stream movies to anywhere in my house with VLC and I configured it to buffer for 10sec. Everything plays smoothly over wireless.
I posted to the AVS forum and I received the following two recommendations
1) There's been a number of people in this thread that have discovered that their network switches aren't up to the task of handling Gigabit-Sources to FastE Destinations -- they drop the packets when their buffers get full.
You can test this theory by setting your NAS (and your switch) to 100-Meg / Full Duplex, or by temporarily swapping your Gig-switch for a FastE Switch.
2) Aside from the hardware experiments suggested, you could try a software experiment. Download a copy of TSMuxer from Videohelp.com and convert the MKV to .m2ts. BluRay native .m2ts files play perfectly on the Live-SMP whereas some MKV can have problems. If you still see stuttering with .m2ts then I would be looking for a network problem.
I just couldn’t believe it was the router, so I tried #2 and it helped, but then vlc chocked on the m2ts files. I finally tried #1. I forced my NAS to 100mbps and played the MKV file and boom, problem solved.
Merlin…how can this be? I figured you or someone on the forum is streaming and could weigh in.
I am running Merlin's 3.0.0.4.374.38_2 on the ASUS AC66u
My goal is to be able to stream blue-ray ripped MKV files to my TV. It seems simple, but I am getting juddering/buffering every now and then when I am using my WD TV Live, which I just purchased.
I have a qnap-TS212P which is connected to the AC66u router via gig Ethernet. All my movies are stored on the NAS. My WD TV live is also connected to my router via fast Ethernet. It’s connecting at 100mbps full duplex. My WD TV live is connected to my Samsung TV via HDMI.
When I play high bitrate movies, such as Avatar I get buffering (loading icon) every now and then.
DVDs play without any issues.
I am able to stream movies to anywhere in my house with VLC and I configured it to buffer for 10sec. Everything plays smoothly over wireless.
I posted to the AVS forum and I received the following two recommendations
1) There's been a number of people in this thread that have discovered that their network switches aren't up to the task of handling Gigabit-Sources to FastE Destinations -- they drop the packets when their buffers get full.
You can test this theory by setting your NAS (and your switch) to 100-Meg / Full Duplex, or by temporarily swapping your Gig-switch for a FastE Switch.
2) Aside from the hardware experiments suggested, you could try a software experiment. Download a copy of TSMuxer from Videohelp.com and convert the MKV to .m2ts. BluRay native .m2ts files play perfectly on the Live-SMP whereas some MKV can have problems. If you still see stuttering with .m2ts then I would be looking for a network problem.
I just couldn’t believe it was the router, so I tried #2 and it helped, but then vlc chocked on the m2ts files. I finally tried #1. I forced my NAS to 100mbps and played the MKV file and boom, problem solved.
Merlin…how can this be? I figured you or someone on the forum is streaming and could weigh in.
