EmbyCon: 4K content is buffering every minute

[bowe 1]

So I got some 4k content playing through EmbyCon and every other minute it giving me the spinning wheel followed by: "source to slow read rate too low for continuous playback". Not sure what the bottleneck is here.. I've played 4k content before without any issues.

 

OS: Coreelec 9.0.3
Kodi Version: 18.3

Hardware: Amlogic S905X

Internet speed: Download: 317.76 Mbit/s & Upload: 171.34 Mbit/s through usb 3.0 gigabit adapter.

 

Kodi.log: http://ix.io/1Phx

dmesg.log: http://ix.io/1Phy

 

 

Thanks in advance,

B

[bowe 1]

Strange, how could it be a network issue when its 317 mbps in download speed  

I've played 4k content before with this setup. 

 

I don't have access to the server itself, so might not be able to setup shared network folder.. 

[sualfred 677]

If you don't have access to the server and it's a remote connection it's possible that the bottleneck is at the end of the other side: The upstream of the server.

[bowe 1]

If you don't have access to the server and it's a remote connection it's possible that the bottleneck is at the end of the other side: The upstream of the server.

 

 

Contact the server admin/owner they might know what is going on.

 

I did and he didnt find any issues with either network or hardware during the time I was playing content.. Not sure where to look to get this fixed  

[sualfred 677]

You could ask the owner to setup a iperf test scenario. With iperf3 you are able to test erver with a single threaded connection to see what speed is coming to you.

 

https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php

 

A linux example call from the bash:

iperf3 -c speedtest.wtnet.de -p 5202 -P 1 -4 -R

It returns something like this:

root@serverfred:~# iperf3 -c speedtest.wtnet.de -p 5202 -P 1 -4 -R
Connecting to host speedtest.wtnet.de, port 5202
Reverse mode, remote host speedtest.wtnet.de is sending
[  4] local 192.168.2.250 port 51076 connected to 213.209.106.95 port 5202
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec  51.0 MBytes   428 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec  60.2 MBytes   505 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  60.2 MBytes   505 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec  60.3 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec                  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   596 MBytes   500 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   596 MBytes   500 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Iperf is good to see if the connection is stable or the downstream is stable.

 

Faster but without detailed results:

Download a movie from the server via the browser. This is using a single threaded connection too and take a look at the download speed if it's dropping sometimes.

Edited July 25, 2019 by sualfred

[bowe 1]

Thanks guys, 

But tweaking advancedsettings seems to fix the issue. 

I´ve a amlogic 2GB box and this is my settings: 

<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>324880000</memorysize>
<readfactor>30</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>