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Poor streaming connection/speed
ReadyNAS NV+ v2 WNDR4500 2 x Powerline AV500 Tvix N1 Network Player Hello. My first post at the ReadyNAS forum (previous Stora owner!). I hope someone can help me; I'm getting really frustra...
Thanks for sharing the mediainfo. It looks like it should play on a bluray capable player.
I agree you have more than one issue, but I wouldn't frame them quite that way.
(a) The powerline performance you are getting is inadequate for Bluray. You are thinking that doubling the NAS speed might also double the powerline throughput. I'd be extremely surprised if that happens. Your powerline throughput will almost certainly remain the same.
(b) The NAS read speed on a gigabit connection is low. Note the review here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... l=&start=4 Smallnetbuilder measured ~85 MB/s read speed. So you should be seeing a speed that is at least in the 70s. 25 MB/s is fast enough for BluRay, but something isn't right. How full is the NAS? Have you looked at the NAS SMART stats?
(c) On the player's network playback - it is quite possible that the player can't quite keep up with this particular file. One thing you could try is to set up a network share on your laptop, and co-locate it with the player (using ethernet, not wifi or powerline). Then try to play the file on the twix, using the laptop as the source. If that fails, then you have ruled out the NAS as the cause.
Another thing you could try is to convert the MKV to an M2TS, and see if the twix can play that. It likely has full mpeg hardware acceleration (which includes m2ts demux), but it has to demux an MKV in software. TsMuxer is a good (and free) tool that can to this conversion. Note that conversion would preserve the existing media streams - no transcoding would be needed. So there is no quality loss. If the M2TS plays, but the MKV does not, then that also rules out the NAS.
I agree you have more than one issue, but I wouldn't frame them quite that way.
(a) The powerline performance you are getting is inadequate for Bluray. You are thinking that doubling the NAS speed might also double the powerline throughput. I'd be extremely surprised if that happens. Your powerline throughput will almost certainly remain the same.
(b) The NAS read speed on a gigabit connection is low. Note the review here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... l=&start=4 Smallnetbuilder measured ~85 MB/s read speed. So you should be seeing a speed that is at least in the 70s. 25 MB/s is fast enough for BluRay, but something isn't right. How full is the NAS? Have you looked at the NAS SMART stats?
(c) On the player's network playback - it is quite possible that the player can't quite keep up with this particular file. One thing you could try is to set up a network share on your laptop, and co-locate it with the player (using ethernet, not wifi or powerline). Then try to play the file on the twix, using the laptop as the source. If that fails, then you have ruled out the NAS as the cause.
Another thing you could try is to convert the MKV to an M2TS, and see if the twix can play that. It likely has full mpeg hardware acceleration (which includes m2ts demux), but it has to demux an MKV in software. TsMuxer is a good (and free) tool that can to this conversion. Note that conversion would preserve the existing media streams - no transcoding would be needed. So there is no quality loss. If the M2TS plays, but the MKV does not, then that also rules out the NAS.
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