Hi there.

(Just out of curiosity, what BD player do you have? I have a Sony and it is total shoite at streaming movies over the network. In fact it will not stream .mkv's at all)

I have had this with high bitrate movies over my wired gigabit network. I have checked the mediainfo stuff and cannot see any real difference between movies that stop\pause and then resume\stutter badly and movies that play fine. Maybe it's the encoding of the movie file - different versions of mkvmerge - mine are all .mkv's.

I am using PlayOn!X 4824 firmware and the networking is a bit smoother. Although I cannot think why as, I assume, the networking side of things is controlled by Realtek. However, I don't know if this version will help with wireless. Might be worth a try.

All files I have on the internal hard disk play fine. But then, they are older so most likely older versions of mkvmerge have been used on them.

Just some of my thoughts.

I haven't hit the whiskey yet... But I'm about to

Cheers.

A.V.

For clarity's sake I created a new topic.

Codecs may have different tolerances for faults, that is why your BD player shows no errors and the Playon does.

I will await your trial with a USB device.

Hi Evert,

I mounted a "new" internal HDD into the POHD.
Took me 1 night of copying files (38GB).
This mornig I browsed to the file that I gave problems in the first few seconds.
From HDD it's okay.

So allthough my network is fast enough (1Gb/s wired), the POHD network connection(s) aren't.
The Wifi is understandable, but the wired LAN(100Mb/s).
While copying files I noticed it was slow, but that didn't bother me that much.
(Not just thae copying from last night.)
I read some topics in the forum, but I didnt think it was that bad.
Till now, and even more after I removed the HDD from the POHD, I allways watched via UPNP/DLNA without problems.

Will watch some more files from HDD.
If I encounter these hickups again I'll let you know.
To be honest that would be a much bigger disappointment.

Thanks!

A 100 Mbit/sec wired network is fast enough to stream full HD without stuttering.
Copying files over the network is slow, because the Playon's CPU was designed for media playing and has insufficient resources for file handing.
With the SDK 3 firmware (4824 and 3582) I could copy with 4 to 4.5 MB/sec (=32 to 35 Mb/sec). With the GUI 2 firmware the copying speed decreased significantly, because the GUI 2 firmware demands more from the CPU.Using FTP for file copying is better than SMB (Samba).