Damn i hate this.

All was running fine with unraid and xbmc eden. But recently i changed 2 things, which i shouldnt have done cause now im experiencing buffering and stuttering problems

I installed mysql on unraid for xbmc database

My unraid machine is 2x2gb ram, asus m4a78lt-m and athlon x2 240e

Xbmc was running everything in 1080p will full hd audio without any hickup

But i changed that to xbmc frodo rc1 ..

And now having with almost every movie buffering issues

I know frodo is beta, or rc.. And itt contains still bugs but still , it should be already pretty stable

 

What i was wondering about is that could it be, that all my problems are cause of the mysql server running on unraid?

Cause i read in. Some thread here i should use swap file? Could this mysql cause all things?

Imalso. Running squeezebox server, airvideo, sabnzb, sickbeard, simple features and dropbox

 

Thanks!

Any thoughts?

I know this is an old ish thread but interested if you got to the bottom of this? I just had a similar experience today with my setup but I can't confirm if the problem was there before Frodo install.

 

Basic rundown, movie was Cars2 Bluray rip by DVDFab, OpenElec Frodo Beta6 and new MySQL install. When watching this film back it paused every 5 mins or so for 10 secs approx then carried on. Became rather annoying. This is the only film so far that I've experienced this buffering with but I failed to test it on previous setup so can't confirm if it was jaut network maxing out or Frodo or MySQL?

Got exact the same problem with cars 2 and some other movies..

Ive been testing things 3 weeks from now and i have come to the conclusion:

It has nothing to do with unraid or mysql setup..

The problem is with frodo

Try playing cars 2 with eden +hd audio patch and it plays fine without pause or hickups

The same for tmt5, powerdvd, mpc-hc, it all plays fine..

As soon as you use xbmc frodo (even with latest rc3 version) player it starts buffering

Its definately cause of the ffmpeg version frodo uses.. (Been updated since eden)

Only option is to wait for xbmc 13 with latest ffmpeg version, or use external player or dsplayer or go back to eden with hdaudio

Good to know that it's nothing to do with my particular setup, network or MySQL install. Shame it's Frodo itself as there's nothing we can do about this and as you say, we'll have to wait to ver 13 Fortunately I only have a couple of films like this so will just have to avoid them for now.

For the record, I haven't had any buffering issues at all with Frodo RC2 and mySQL.... What other movies (other than cars2) have showed this problem? Also, does it always happen in the same scene?

 

Also, more importantly, it seems to have fixed my problem where if I scrolled around too much in the GUI and then hit play, the file would start to load and hang, requiring a stop/start to get XBMC running again...

For the record, I haven't had any buffering issues at all with Frodo RC2 and mySQL.... What other movies (other than cars2) have showed this problem? Also, does it always happen in the same scene?

 

Also, more importantly, it seems to have fixed my problem where if I scrolled around too much in the GUI and then hit play, the file would start to load and hang, requiring a stop/start to get XBMC running again...

 

Well i have some files which stutter, buffer or just doesnt play fluently in any frodo release, all those do play well in tmt 5, powerdvd, mpc-hc or dsplayer and even with eden +hd audio patch..

So something is changed (9/10 its the ffmpeg version being used)

 

Some dvds give trouble too.. Or bluray from cars 2, wall-e, toy story 2 iso, bluray adele royal albert hall and many more

Good to know that it's nothing to do with my particular setup, network or MySQL install. Shame it's Frodo itself as there's nothing we can do about this and as you say, we'll have to wait to ver 13 Fortunately I only have a couple of films like this so will just have to avoid them for now.

 

Well you shouldnt shouldnt just avoid them... You will start to get annoyed by it sooner or later

It just should work.. No matterr what you throw at

Xbmc is very good, lots of possibiliets and very nice gui... But if it doesnt play all you throw at it..(like a hdi dune product) then fun is over very soon

Happily you can use external player or dsplayer

I'll try and check out some other movies this weekend and see if I have any buffering issue...

 

Thinking about it, I have seen buffering once or twice, but it was during a parity check on my unraid, so I assumed it was from that (Because on Eden and Camelot the same thing would happen). Also, it would only last for a second or two...

So far Cars2 is the only film I've found that buffers like this. I thought it could be a file size issue as it's 26Gb but I'm currently watching iRobot and that's a 35Gb rip and it works without fault. The only thing that was different about the Cars2 rip is it was a 3D movie that DVDFab converted to 2D, I wonder if this has anything to do with the buffering?

So now that Frodo is official, what steps did you all follow to upgrade from eden?  Did you all follow the steps in the wiki?

Nope, I moved my library to a MySQL and then installed from scratch. Nice and clean that way.

Well, now that it is stable im waiting for 5.0 final of unraid too, before installing latest mysql. Then i will install latest frodo .. and build it up from 0 to all stable version..

Which version is latest now for mysql?

 

Andyjayh, are you still experiencing buffering issues?

Re: the buffering issues - try increasing the RAM buffer size, it worked for me.  In advancedsettings.xml, add the following:  (I use a 50mb buffer)

 

<network>
     <cachemembuffersize>52428800</cachemembuffersize>
</network>

 

Obviously ensure it's between the existing advancedsettings xml tags

 

Admittedly, I never had the problems with Eden either, although back then I was running 5.0rc3 of unRAID.  Not sure on the exact cause, but as this seems to fix it, I don't really care! lol

 

 

Re: the buffering issues - try increasing the RAM buffer size, it worked for me.  In advancedsettings.xml, add the following:  (I use a 50mb buffer)

 

<network>
     <cachemembuffersize>52428800</cachemembuffersize>
</network>

 

Obviously ensure it's between the existing advancedsettings xml tags

 

Admittedly, I never had the problems with Eden either, although back then I was running 5.0rc3 of unRAID.  Not sure on the exact cause, but as this seems to fix it, I don't really care! lol

 

mm... i'm not having the issue with eden though... strange why it happens with frodo, but ill try this tip though thx

Yeah I was agreeing with ya, I never had the issue with Eden either   Like I said though, this fixed it for me, so I don't care haha

Andyjayh, are you still experiencing buffering issues?

 

I assume so as I haven't changed anything recently. However I can't check as just moved house and all media gear is still in a box, somewhere… once I get back and connected I'll try the buffer change.

 

 

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Whats latest mysql now?

Whats latest mysql now?

 

The plugin uses 5.5.28 but the latest is 5.5.29.

Re: the buffering issues - try increasing the RAM buffer size, it worked for me.  In advancedsettings.xml, add the following:  (I use a 50mb buffer)

 

<network>
     <cachemembuffersize>52428800</cachemembuffersize>
</network>

 

Obviously ensure it's between the existing advancedsettings xml tags

 

Admittedly, I never had the problems with Eden either, although back then I was running 5.0rc3 of unRAID.  Not sure on the exact cause, but as this seems to fix it, I don't really care! lol

 

i tried

 

<advancedsettings>

<network>

    <cachemembuffersize>52428800</cachemembuffersize>

</network>

</advancedsettings>

 

but still

With cars 2 i have buffering issues

 

no issues with eden

I've been getting buffering issues with all HD content in Eden, Frodo, VLC.

 

Turns out all my network settings in Windows were screwed. Went here and downloaded this app to straighten things out..

 

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

 

Download TCPOptimzer.exe

 

Run it as Admin and select the Optimal radio button, click apply. Reboot machine.

 

Now everything works full bore. It's improved my overall unRaid transfer speeds as well. The transfer "peaks and valleys" are gone, where it used to pause frequently for a few seconds during transfers.

I was having issues with mysql and xbmc.  Xbmc was able to create the databases but it seems it wouldn't write to it.  And each time I would try to telnet into mysql it seems like xbmc would not have the proper permissions.  I tried using the new permissions in the unraid gui and I don't think it corrected the issue.  I also tried to drop the database and the user 'xbmc' and then try it again with

CREATE USER 'xbmc' IDENTIFIED BY 'xbmc';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'xbmc';

and then let xbmc try to create the database. but it still seems like it cannot write to it after it creates it.

 

I guess my question is did you guys create a "xbmc' user in unraid as well?

I did not create a xbmc user for unRaid. I set mine up a while back and just followed the guides. I hit one snag if I recall properly, which was giving the xbmc user proper permissions within MySQL.

 

It looks like you did that step though.

 

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I did not create a xbmc user for unRaid. I set mine up a while back and just followed the guides. I hit one snag if I recall properly, which was giving the xbmc user proper permissions within MySQL.

 

It looks like you did that step though.

 

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Arghhh!  nothing seems to work or I don't know what I'm doing....

 

I tried installing the unmenu package but that is also giving me the same errors.  What version of mysql plugin are you using?

deleted everything to do with mysql, rebooted the server and tried to reinstall again.  I downloaded the latest plugin but manually edited the plugin to change the download locations from http to ftp. Saved it and installed it.  This time it worked. XBMC created the databases and the 3 pc's that run XBMC all show the same thing now.  However, everytime I look at the database  created in the mysql folder in my array, the filesize shows as 0kb.  Not sure if that is normal.