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Freeze on streaming - bata - 2025-07-06
Hello all!
I am starting this thread as a last resort before losing all my mind and money refreshing every part of my setup to solve this issue.
The issue i experience on my stream is a freeze of 2-3 seconds, sometimes even 10s, that might happen every 30 seconds. That issue will appear for 10 minutes, then i might watch half an hour without an issue and again it will most likely appear again.
My setup is the following:
Jellyfin server (10.10.7) installed with docker on a NAS (Synology DS418play) with 4 RED WD disks (wd20efrx-68euzn0)
TV Sony Bravia XR-75X90K connected through HDMI eARC to a SAMSUNG HW-Q990C soundbar
NVidia Shield PRO connected to the soundbar through HDMI
On NVIDIA i have KODI version 21.2 with jellyfin for kodi addon version 1.0.7
Some settings that i have on KODI is to have audio passthrough ON, transcoding OFF
I tried to enable buffering through the following xml:
<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<!-- Buffer mode 1: Cache all filesystems (local and internet) -->
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<!-- 400 MB memory buffer -->
<memorysize>419430400</memorysize>
<!-- Aggressive buffer fill -->
<readbufferfactor>5.0</readbufferfactor>
</cache>
<audio>
<!-- Optional: Additional audio buffer -->
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
</audio>
<file>
<!-- Optional: More threads for faster file handling -->
<multiplexingthreads>4</multiplexingthreads>
</file>
</advancedsettings>
Last attempt was with a 65 GB RIP with video 4K HEVC HDR and audio DD 5.1 AC3.
I was planning to buy new HDMI cables as a next step, but as i am not an expert on this i'd like some help in case i am missing something obvious.
You can download logs here (had some trouble to attach them to the post, so i uploaded them through dropbox), issue appeared around 16.40-16.42 and then on 17.09. Today i tried a reinstall of my jellyfin for kodi add on.
Thanks