April 3, 201115 yr Hi, Been using raid for about 7 months now and on version 4.5.6. Current configuration is 4 drives and 1 parity and having consistent problem with streaming video to my XBMC media server. Getting patchy video quality for any video files on unraid. Its like blotches of pixels and skipping video when playing. Sometimes rebooting the server fixes the problem briefly and its appears again. Does anyone else have a similar problem and any idea's on how to fix it?
April 3, 201115 yr I had no issues when using any verison of unRAID to serve files to my XBMC clients.
April 3, 201115 yr Sounds like a networking issue. Make sure your unRaid and other systems all attached to the network at max speed, 100 or GB, and with Full duplex. Are you trying to stream over wireless? Try different cable and/or nic port on the switch/router. Running "ethtool eth0" on unRaid should give you an output similar to: root@Tower:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full As you can see, mine is connected at GB, full duplex. Cheers, Shawn
April 16, 201115 yr Author hi Shawn, I am streaming over wireless N network but the problem seems to stop and start randomly. I stream files off my PC is work perfectly. Only video files off my unraid have this problem.
April 16, 201115 yr what kind of videos are you streaming ? streaming videos off wireless is hit and miss... really depends on how strong your wireless signal is. What is your client ? A PC ? Try copying the video file first off the unRaid server and post how fast it goes
April 16, 201115 yr I have wireless streaming setup to a PC here. On wireless N at 2.4Ghz it can barely do a 720p video... DVD quality are about the most I can do consistently. But, I have dual band, so at the 5Ghz channel I can stream HD "ok". Like twg said, streaming, especially HD content, over wirless can be pretty doggy unless you have a very strong 5Ghz signal... I have been thinking of making the plung into Powerline gear, Netgear has some new ones that are supposed to be pretty good, these ones. But the 5Ghz has been holding steady so have not yet... Now, as to why they stream ok off the PC and not the unRaid is a weird one. Both systems hooked into the same switch, running at the same speeds? If your unRaid is running at GB then maybe try and isolate if it seems to affect a particular drive on the unRaid and run a SMART report on it. Shawn
April 16, 201115 yr I've never been able to stream 1080 content reliably. It was a pain but I ended up hardwiring everything and the performance has been rock solid.
April 17, 201115 yr Wireless performance will vary. It depends on electrical appliances and other RF sources effecting your environment. Interference can come from over 30m away. Your performance depends on the activity of your neighbors.
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