Kit list:
Fire TV running 17.1 (Kodi & Amazon both running latest versions)
iMac with external USB hard drive is my media server running snow leopard & shared using SMB
Draytek 2830n router connected to TP Link 1200 home plug
iMac connected to TP Link 1200 home plug
Fire TV connected on WiFi
Problem:
Almost every video I watch from my hard drive buffers, hangs, crashes at some point randomly. I do not stream any media from the internet, all media is stored locally.
Things tried so far:
Connecting everything wired over homeplugs – as soon as I do that Fire TV cannot see my SMB files (unplug the Ethernet & bingo all SMB files are there again) I’ve posted in other threads about this & tried everything recommended to enable my Kodi to see the content over a wired connection but no joy… so I need to sort this buffering over WiFi or else 7 years of Kodi use & personal library builds will have to be ditched for an alternative.
I have reduced “Enable HQ Scalers for scaling above” to 0%
I have turned off “Allow hardware acceleration – MediaCodec (surface)”
I have given my Mac a static IP
I have power cycled everything (hundreds of times)
None of these has even created a glimmer of improvement or hope
Log File:
HTTPS://paste.ubuntu.com/24491297/
Any help appreciated, before Kodi is ditched or my relationship!!! 🙂
Cheers