RESOLVED - Media Unwatchable After 6.10 Upgrade (Samba Issue)

[hernandito]

Hi guys,

 

So I upgraded to 6.10, did the new password, installed My Servers, backed up flash drive. Then  I proceeded to have a nice Saturday with family.

 

That night, I wanted to watch a movie. unRAID stores all my media, which I consume in Kodi on an Intel NUC running Libreelec. All Ethernet cable connected. I put on the movie and immediately Kodi starts caching and buffering. Kodi shows me an error message about not having the reading speed…. Oh oh… maybe it’s the one movie, so I tried a second movie that I have watched before to test…. Same problem!! Rebooted both the Nuc and unRAID…. Same!!

 

So I ran to my PC and I downgrade to 6.9.x. Tested with the same two movies…. Flawless playback…. Phew….

 

What did I do wrong? Is there a new setting or step i missed? This cannot be….!

 

I have a dual CPU Xeon E5-2670, 64GB RAM. I checked if anyone was streaming from Plex… no streams. No VMs, no downloads… I have been using this server for ages

 

Please, any advice??

 

Thank you.

H.

Edited August 3, 2022 by hernandito

[Squid]

Try the upgrade to 6.11

[hernandito]

Thank you Squid. Is this a known issue that 6.11 resolved…? I don’t want to jump to 6.11 and not be able to get back to 6.9.x. I could backup the flash… but scary.

[Squid]

I recall some people had issues with samba on 6.10

[hernandito]

Thanks again Squid. Did the 6.11rc update and much better. Rain into one brief buffering part, but ver randowm

 

thanks again.

 

H.

[hernandito]

Well, I spoke too soon.  I got the same problems with 6.11 RC. Constant stopping/caching from my local network.

 

i went back to 6.9.x and is normal.

 

‘’I would love to resolve this if someone has an idea.

 

thanks.

[hernandito]

I think I have finally resolved this. I went back to 6.10.3.

 

In my Samba settings, I enabled SMB Multi Channel; and I disabled Enhance macOS Interoperability. We do not use Macs.

 

I tested with a 4K movie and it played fine for the first 5 minutes... I didnt have the time to watch the whole thing.

 

 

I hope this helps someone.

 

Thanks to @Squid for pointing me in the right direction.