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Copying files to Samba share causes video to lag

Details

  • Severity:
    Major
  • Version:
    1.0.1.16319
  • Operating System:
    Boxee Box
  • Number of attachments:
    0

Description

I have two USB hard drives connected to the Boxee Box which are shared over the network.

I find that if I copy files to the drives from a Windows 7 PC while playing video it will cause the video stream to noticeably lag from time to time. The video file continues to play and both audio and video eventually syncs back up.

workaround: copy files to/from the USB drives to/from network drive, only when nothing is playing.

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Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. BOXEE-8631 Online TV shows lose audio when copying a large file over the network

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relates

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. BOXEE-7633 UI slows and window elements won't display after screensaver path changed and it is invalid

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Ami Ben-David [Boxee] added a comment -
Tom,
Can you please provide more details on your connection setup?
which files are you copying and which files are you playing?
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Ami Ben-David [Boxee] added a comment - Tom, Can you please provide more details on your connection setup? which files are you copying and which files are you playing?
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Tom O added a comment -
Ami,
This occurs while viewing video files with XviD video steam and MP3 audio. Video bitrate is about 1000Kbps for these files.

The files that I am copying are similar bitrate AVI files.

Video files on the Boxee Box are playing from a Western Digital Elements 2TB USB drive. I have had this drive connected in the past to a WDTV Live and never had any issues.
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Tom O added a comment - Ami, This occurs while viewing video files with XviD video steam and MP3 audio. Video bitrate is about 1000Kbps for these files. The files that I am copying are similar bitrate AVI files. Video files on the Boxee Box are playing from a Western Digital Elements 2TB USB drive. I have had this drive connected in the past to a WDTV Live and never had any issues.
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Pieter-Jan Kuyten added a comment -
I've seen this effect as well. It seems like there is no good buffering strategy in place to mitigate the effects of concurrent read and writes on a attached storage device. This then leads to this sort of stuttering playback while the files are being copied to the storage device.

My current strategy is to copy files to the storage device only when I'm not actively watching content stored on the same device.
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Pieter-Jan Kuyten added a comment - I've seen this effect as well. It seems like there is no good buffering strategy in place to mitigate the effects of concurrent read and writes on a attached storage device. This then leads to this sort of stuttering playback while the files are being copied to the storage device. My current strategy is to copy files to the storage device only when I'm not actively watching content stored on the same device.
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Andrew Hunt added a comment -
I'm experiencing this exact issue as well when transferring to my external Seagate Barracuda over a gigabit network.
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Andrew Hunt added a comment - I'm experiencing this exact issue as well when transferring to my external Seagate Barracuda over a gigabit network.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee] added a comment -
closed as limitation.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee] added a comment - closed as limitation.

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    Reporter:
    Tom O
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