OMV to Kodi Streaming Issues

[Luke]

[edit2] So now I spent the better part of my free time today looking into this. I have come up completely empty handed, but what what I can say with certainty is that KODI on Android TV works much more reliably than when streaming to LibreELEC. That said, its spotty. Sometimes it works well and sometimes it doesn't.

KODI on a high-end PC, on two different SBCs (one Rock64 and a RPI3) as well as Android TV for Rock64 exhibit the same issue when streaming from RockPro64 OMV.

I think this makes me feel better. The whole thing is inconsistent to me. It doesn't stop at the same place on each file. Restarting OMV seems to help increase the amount of time for the freeze, SMB seems to work better then NFS. I have made it through a 30 minute TV episode after a reboot that froze in the first 10 minutes just prior. Even weirder is that WMP hasn't given me a problem once. I messed with advanced setting for caching in Kodi on my computer that seemed to help but the problem still occurred. Like I said I cant confirm it actually did anything as it is not consistent. It almost seems obvious that it is Kodi, but it happening on VLC throws a monkey wrench and still doesn't make sense. I am stuck at where to go next.

The issue is strange indeed. I have managed to watch a complete 45min episode of a show with wife today without any issues. I also noticed that KODI was buffering (the white line on the progress-bar) nicely today, in contrast to other days when there is literally close-to-no buffer line. Next up, I'll be logging the server (RPro64) network now - particularly packages sent/received. Could you do that too please (especially since I don't know I'll have to watch a movie/show tomorrow)?

When you get ready to watch a movie/TV show SSH into RPro64 and as root run (don't close the SSH connection). Then watch the movie:

Code:

/usr/local/sbin/rock64_diagnostics.sh -n > netdiag.txt

This will log whats happening on the server to the .txt file. Once you experience a freeze you can stop the log. After that upload it here or provide a pastebin link and lets see if it sheds any light on what is happening.