OK, so on some of my last few TV-on-DVD rips (.mpg), I've been having playback trouble. I initially blamed it on my crappy PopBox (bedroom location), because...well, it does suck, lol. But in this case, it's not the culprit...because I'm having the same trouble with my Dune D1 (which plays everything).

 

Here's the issue(s): on some episode rips, the player locks-up...and usually (whether it's coincidence or not), right as the episode is passing from what would be one commercial break back to the episode. Also...lately, I'm having real trouble scanning.

 

I know .mpg isn't the worlds most sophisticated container, lol; but I never had this trouble before...or with other rips. It's almost as if the file is getting separated among drives, and can't find its way from one segment to the next.

 

So I started thinking splits...and my TV share is set at 3, whereas all my other shares are set at 2. My file directory is...share is TV, then Series Name, then Season, then episode file. So...at 3, I should be OK, right; files shouldn't be stored across multiple drives?

 

Now, the only other thing I can think of...is my array is getting close to being out of space; 5.7 of my 6.5T. Is that the issue; my split is fine (never had trouble before), but now that I'm running out of space...it's gotta split wherever it's got available space? Any help would be appreciated.

 

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Individual files are never split. Split level has precedence over allocation method.

Your system isn't full enough for it to be an issue..atleast not causing anything like you described.

 

And as was said, files will not be split and your split level will take precedence, so if your using "High-water" and have split level 3, each season will stay on the same disk. So if Disk 1 has "season 1" of a show, and its full, you'll get errors with adding new episodes because unraid will not move that episode to a new disk.

 

If I were you I'd check this: Are the episodes that its locking up on all on one disk? Or do they span across multiple disks? If its only one disk, I'd run a smart test and make sure the HDD isn't having an issue.

 

If the files span multiple disks, I'd run some tests on the network. You may have a bad connection along the line, bad NIC, cable, bridge/router... that is causing issues with your playback.

So I started thinking splits...and my TV share is set at 3, whereas all my other shares are set at 2. My file directory is...share is TV, then Series Name, then Season, then episode file. So...at 3, I should be OK, right; files shouldn't be stored across multiple drives?

 

If you'r asking if this allows individual episodes from either a series or season to be stored on multiple drives then the answer is yes to both.