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Recordings buffering outside of LAN

Added by KJB KJB over 7 years ago

Hi,

I'm having issues with recordings buffering on connections outside of my local network and struggling to figure out why.

I'm using a RPI3 with an external HDD. Normal connections of "live content" play flawlessly and I have an upstream of 30Mbit/s. It is only recorded content that is suffering.

The HDD is formatted to ext4.

Here are the test results on the drive which leads me to believe performance isn't a problem either.

Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in  3.04 seconds =  32.89 MB/sec
Timing cached reads: 1246 MB in 2.00 seconds = 623.24 MB/sec
And write speed.
419921920 bytes (420 MB) copied, 33.072 s, 22.7 MB/s

I am connecting directly to the server through an open port, no VPN. (Bad practice, I know).

Any ideas on what exactly could be causing this? There are no firewalls or filters on my router.

Cheers


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RE: Recordings buffering outside of LAN - Added by Lao Why almost 7 years ago

I have the same problem, live TV is working great outside of the LAN, upload bandwidth is no problem, I have at least 10 times the required bandwidth.

I can connect to a VPN inside my LAN and I still have the issue, I've also tried using a low bandwidth transcoding stream profile with the same issue.

For my application it's not a great problem, but I'm curious at to the differences in networking between streaming live TV and recordings.

RE: Recordings buffering outside of LAN - Added by Lao Why almost 7 years ago

I've just seen this discussion which gets into details about using PVR on WAN rather than LAN

https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts/issues/286

This answers my questions, it may not work because the API was never intended to work over WAN.

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