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Streaming Issues to WDTV Live - [SOLVED]
Hello All,
I'm hoping someone can help me find out the solution to the following problem. I have a WDTV Live (Gen. 2) connected to my TV which I previously used to watch up to 1080p content on which was served up via CIFS from Ubuntu 11.xx (Ext4 formatted disks). This worked fine and had no issues with frame dropping.
Last week I decided to build a dedicated NAS and opted for FreeNAS 8.0.3 and purchased the following components:
Mother Board: GA-H61M-D2-B3 (Rev. 1.0) (Firmware = F8) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3773#ov
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K (3,33GHz)
RAM: Kingston DDR3 (2 x 4GB modules)
My router is a Cisco E4200, and the FreeNAS is connected by CAT6 cable to the router.
So, I started out by adding 2 x 2TB HD's WD20EARX-00PASB0 ... these are AF (4096 byte sector) drives, mirrored to give me 1 x 2TB volume.
When I created the volume which I call RAID, I ticked the 4096 sector size, and did not really think anything more about it... and continued to setup my ZFS Datasets.
I then FTP'd my data up to the NAS. I then added to the RAID volume another pair of drives... 2 x ST32000542AS once again which have AF support, and which I ticked as being 4096 sector size and put them in mirror mode.
I setup some CIFS shares, one of which is called "HD" and played a movie on the WDTV Live... it started dropping frames, freezing, starting (but in like a fast forward style, whizzing through, broken audio)... basically totally unwatchable.
So I then tested playing the same movie with VLC on my MacBook Air, over CIFS.... worked fine, no issues (And this was over Wireless N)
The I tried VLC on my Lenovo laptop, running Ubuntu 11.10 and connected via Gigabit to the E4200.... no issues....
I've copied the movie over CIFS to both the Mac and the Lenovo too, copies fast.
I've tested the drives R/W performance directly on the FreeNAS using dd ... no problems.
The only thing I have noticed is that dmesg reports all the drives as having 512 byte sector sizes, and from what I can see they not aligned.
I'm totally lost as to why this is happening, so much so I took a Popcorn Hour A210 connected to the router, and it does exactly the same when playing any 1080p movie... but even worse than the WDTV...
Does anyone have any ideas please? I have tried jumbo frames, no change, tweaked CIFS, no change.... really gutted actually because we are so dependent on the WDTV :-(
Note: I also tried NFS share, and the Popcorn Hour A210 also failed to play properly.
All the best
British
Hello All,
I'm hoping someone can help me find out the solution to the following problem. I have a WDTV Live (Gen. 2) connected to my TV which I previously used to watch up to 1080p content on which was served up via CIFS from Ubuntu 11.xx (Ext4 formatted disks). This worked fine and had no issues with frame dropping.
Last week I decided to build a dedicated NAS and opted for FreeNAS 8.0.3 and purchased the following components:
Mother Board: GA-H61M-D2-B3 (Rev. 1.0) (Firmware = F8) http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3773#ov
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K (3,33GHz)
RAM: Kingston DDR3 (2 x 4GB modules)
My router is a Cisco E4200, and the FreeNAS is connected by CAT6 cable to the router.
So, I started out by adding 2 x 2TB HD's WD20EARX-00PASB0 ... these are AF (4096 byte sector) drives, mirrored to give me 1 x 2TB volume.
When I created the volume which I call RAID, I ticked the 4096 sector size, and did not really think anything more about it... and continued to setup my ZFS Datasets.
I then FTP'd my data up to the NAS. I then added to the RAID volume another pair of drives... 2 x ST32000542AS once again which have AF support, and which I ticked as being 4096 sector size and put them in mirror mode.
I setup some CIFS shares, one of which is called "HD" and played a movie on the WDTV Live... it started dropping frames, freezing, starting (but in like a fast forward style, whizzing through, broken audio)... basically totally unwatchable.
So I then tested playing the same movie with VLC on my MacBook Air, over CIFS.... worked fine, no issues (And this was over Wireless N)
The I tried VLC on my Lenovo laptop, running Ubuntu 11.10 and connected via Gigabit to the E4200.... no issues....
I've copied the movie over CIFS to both the Mac and the Lenovo too, copies fast.
I've tested the drives R/W performance directly on the FreeNAS using dd ... no problems.
The only thing I have noticed is that dmesg reports all the drives as having 512 byte sector sizes, and from what I can see they not aligned.
I'm totally lost as to why this is happening, so much so I took a Popcorn Hour A210 connected to the router, and it does exactly the same when playing any 1080p movie... but even worse than the WDTV...
Does anyone have any ideas please? I have tried jumbo frames, no change, tweaked CIFS, no change.... really gutted actually because we are so dependent on the WDTV :-(
Note: I also tried NFS share, and the Popcorn Hour A210 also failed to play properly.
All the best
British