Just want to get some input on what settings, etc that you have set for the best possible experience with kodi on the nexus player. For me it was running flawless until got the message cache full or something like that, so I started digging and found this http://androidpcreview.com/fix-kodi-buffering-problems-heres-how-to-modify-the-kodi-cache/2611/
And had the message go away but starting having shutter problems, so I enabled expert mode on kodi and set video to match monitor refresh rate and so far so good. Too early to tell. Also I disabled logging. Any other input would be greatly appreciated!
Run zero cache tweak and run the beast. It's the best kodi setup
http://youtu.be/Ah6QR2lyQhk
https://www.reddit.com/r/nexusplayer/comments/34ngg8/kodi_cache_buffer_settings_from_kodi_website/
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Run zero cache tweak and run the beast. It's the best kodi setup
http://youtu.be/Ah6QR2lyQhk
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I've read that the zero cache tweak will wear out your flash memory, which will render your device useless. Due to that I've never tried it. I only get buffering issues on 1080p content though.
lost2030 said:
I've read that the zero cache tweak will wear out your flash memory, which will render your device useless. Due to that I've never tried it. I only get buffering issues on 1080p content though.
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I've been using zero cache for a while and my nexus is running like a champ.
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I've been using zero cache for a while and my nexus is running like a champ.
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Any buffering issues with 1080p content?? My ISP is Comcast and I get 75 Mbps down. Haven't tested the speed on the NP cause I don't know how, but I would think that is a fast enough connection to not get buffering like I do. I also have it on a 5Ghz connection.
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Any buffering issues with 1080p content?? My ISP is Comcast and I get 75 Mbps down. Haven't tested the speed on the NP cause I don't know how, but I would think that is a fast enough connection to not get buffering like I do. I also have it on a 5Ghz connection.
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A lot of it depends on the source. If you get a good 1080p stream it will run fine.
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Noticed on there it says read buffer factor 20, think it would totally freeze the nexus player, though from reading lil more might bump mine from 1.5 to 2. Some streams run well, while some I have had shuttering video, def keeping my eyes on which sources have been good, I've had 1080p run like a champ with some and 720 run choppy
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Run zero cache tweak and run the beast. It's the best kodi setup
http://youtu.be/Ah6QR2lyQhk
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I too had read zero cache has caused problems, but if you have been running it for while, what the hell lol. Drive fails I'll figure out how to replace with another ssd
Right! I'm not trying to pass this nexus off to my children lol. By the time I end up having problems I'll be onto the nexus 2 or nexus 3.
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I've been using zero cache for a while and my nexus is running like a champ.
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It's not recommended to use zero cache for small box devices as they are very limited on storage. I've experience 100% storage used when using it on Amazon Fire Tv box, reset setup again and worked a week or two then bam 100% storage used again. whats worse in aftv if this happens only way to recover is to reset. after doing this the second time and setting things up i DID NOT use the script running perfect no issues!!
also have the NP i have read around other places that zero cache is not to be used on these devices!! for the same results 100% storage usage.
zero cache is to download whatever file is streamed so if the file is 3 GB your more then likely screwed. regular settings download much much less at a time thus not surpassing storage space
also zero cache works more for pausing a stream as it will continue to download x file with no limits these little boxes need limits vs setting limits when paused for extended times the stream will break due to cache filling up, this is the only reason to use zero cache settings to pause for extended periods of time. this is why for most people you can only pause for very short periods without the stream breaking
a side note this is also the reason when watching something and it just stops, its because you got a fast link and cache fills up thus breaking the link.
if your experiencing buffering then likely its a very slow link, and sometimes your ISP however more than likely the link. nothing is wrong with original settings in kodi
if your streaming your media within your network and are having buffering issues you have network issues within your own equipment/network.
good luck
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It's not recommended to use zero cache for small box devices as they are very limited on storage. I've experience 100% storage used when using it on Amazon Fire Tv box, reset setup again and worked a week or two then bam 100% storage used again. whats worse in aftv if this happens only way to recover is to reset. after doing this the second time and setting things up i DID NOT use the script running perfect no issues!!
also have the NP i have read around other places that zero cache is not to be used on these devices!! for the same results 100% storage usage.
zero cache is to download whatever file is streamed so if the file is 3 GB your more then likely screwed. regular settings download much much less at a time thus not surpassing storage space
also zero cache works more for pausing a stream as it will continue to download x file with no limits these little boxes need limits vs setting limits when paused for extended times the stream will break due to cache filling up, this is the only reason to use zero cache settings to pause for extended periods of time. this is why for most people you can only pause for very short periods without the stream breaking
a side note this is also the reason when watching something and it just stops, its because you got a fast link and cache fills up thus breaking the link.
if your experiencing buffering then likely its a very slow link, and sometimes your ISP however more than likely the link. nothing is wrong with original settings in kodi
if your streaming your media within your network and are having buffering issues you have network issues within your own equipment/network.
good luck
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Thanks for the info, ya havnt paused for long periods with zero cache enabled, with the standard setting in kodi I was getting cache full error messages after the first few days of use, it was working perfect up until that point..... Maybe with standard setting, every few days enter maintenance menu add-on and manually clear cache, think I might try that. If that works, than I'll just make a tasker profile that launches kodi and enters the menu and clears the cache, every morning g at lime 4am lol
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Thanks for the info, ya havnt paused for long periods with zero cache enabled, with the standard setting in kodi I was getting cache full error messages after the first few days of use, it was working perfect up until that point..... Maybe with standard setting, every few days enter maintenance menu add-on and manually clear cache, think I might try that. If that works, than I'll just make a tasker profile that launches kodi and enters the menu and clears the cache, every morning g at lime 4am lol
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the cache full should not be an error msg, its letting you know the set cache limit has been reached,
meaning usually if paused or buffering etc.
i experience this with more sd links starting out slow, it buffers, get cache full message video resumes, sometimes it will repeat, sometimes the video just stops, again if the link is going alot faster than you are streaming the cache fills thus breaking the link in turn video just stops. this would be another reason to use zero cache settings, however if you do not have storage expanded on the device its not a good idea to use zero settings. much less if you are streaming HD content links
i have noticed that some files streamed stay hung in the cache, from my understanding the cache of the file should auto dump, in cases in zero cache settings this does not happen, the reason the file's link for whatever reason broke thus not completing, so it stays in storage and not dumping.. this was the case with my aftv and the outcome of 100% storage used, also clearing/using the supposed cache script after these events did not work, so i do not know where the file/files where being stored and aftv does not like 100% storage used period. Can not say how the NP reacts to 100% storage used as i do not use the zero cache settings on this device
to many people are confused what zero cache settings does and what its for
also in zero cache you will never get cache full message as there is no limit.
Exactly. Using the clear cache tools inside of kodi doesn't work for me either. Every week or so, I'll go into nexus settings/apps/kodi/force stop and clear cache. Never had a problem.
Its strange sometimes the player is good sometimes it has troubles buffering, I've also used kodi on my computer that is in the same room. Also on WiFi and picked the exact same link and source and it was buffering like a damn champ..... I find rebooting the nexus player seems to clear things up, I'm suspecting that since we don't really have a recent apps screen that when my kids go play games etc on the nexus player, its being stored in the background eating up the precious ram space thus creating very little room for buffer when not using zero cache. Might try taking off zero cache and create a tasker profile that will kill certain apps (all the games, YouTube etc.) Upon launch on kodi...... I'll report back how it goes
fwiw kodi 16 jarvis is finalized and the GNP running android 6.0.1 can still benefit from loading this xml file.
I put it on my google drive, then copied it over to local storage on the player using es file explorer.
I stream local 1080p content over a 5ghz N connection and the router is in the same room as the player.
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I get a slight pause, 3-7 seconds, when playing a game? like backgammon, hearts or bridge, the game play will pause, nothing happens, no response on from screen tabs or menu, then all of the sudden it comes back? any ideas? anyone having the same issue?
thank you for your reply.
My games are stored on the SD card, it is 16 GB sandisk almost 10 GB free, I have also increased the file cache size to 4 MB and file system filter to 8192 sectors.
Yeh
It's been mentioned before, and I have been able to reproduce it every time. I can't remember if it was on this forum or another but if you tap the screen too fast it stops the game responding. Mine are installed internally to the device so i don't think it's a storage problem.
It seems to be reproducable with 100% success rate.... and as one forumer said "it works well, shame it's a bug"
thank you for your reply. I just tested it with SkyForce Reloaded, no taping on the screen just move your plane around and, as you said, same delay. Actually I plaid around more with the settings and after increasing the cache size and the system filter cache to the next level (8MB & 13684) respectively the pausing is a bit less around 1-3 seconds not bad, I will try and increase those cache sizes but I do not know what are the ramifications on the phone itself ? I hope none
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thank you for your reply. I just tested it with SkyForce Reloaded, no taping on the screen just move your plane around and, as you said, same delay. Actually I plaid around more with the settings and after increasing the cache size and the system filter cache to the next level (8MB & 13684) respectively the pausing is a bit less around 1-3 seconds not bad, I will try and increase those cache sizes but I do not know what are the ramifications on the phone itself ? I hope none
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I have no idea because I have never tried playing with the cache sizes. One posible improvement would be to move your games to the internal storage. I try to keep all apps installed there and only media on the memory card. (Or apps t hat don't get installed and just run "portable" with non "performance related" functions.
thanks again, I will try that when I am home. Still at work
I moved the games from the SD card to the main memory, a much better improvement, there is still a very slight pause less than a second, I am happy with that much better than before
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I moved the games from the SD card to the main memory, a much better improvement, there is still a very slight pause less than a second, I am happy with that much better than before
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Glad to hear it helepd somewhat.
Other than that I can't see any other solution. Although I said the bug is reproducable it never occurs to me when playing normally, it takes rapid screen presses much faster than any game I have would require.
That being said, I have only played the games for a total of about 10 minutes. So I don' know if you're getting unusually poor behaviour or if it's standard.
After giving up on finding a fix for my sluggish YouTube appon my xoom. I started having problems with a sluggish android market app and downloaded app cache cleaner from the android market and ran it......it cleared an amazing 200mb of cache and the market now works fast again.....but the great part is that my YouTube app now works fast....no more waiting through endless buffering. I had tried clearing the YouTube cache in the past but it did nothing but since the cache cleaner wipes ALL cache it cleared up a huge amount that was probably clogging up the YouTube app. So far videos that were buffering non stop are now,after the full cache cleaning, loading fast as my PC browser.
Buffer problem is back....even with cache cleaner,oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for a YouTube update.
Why not just clear cache in app instead. And youtube buffer is a router issue. Get a n router and see how fast it goes then. I had to get an expensive one that could handle more than normal. Otherwise it's a crap shoot. If it's a high quality hd video it will buffer on the sub $100 , routers.
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I tried clearing the youtube app cache alone and it didn't help.....then I cleared everything using the cache cleaner and it worked like a charm but now it's buffering again. Must have been a coincidence. The router can handle YouTube streaming on the Xoom browser and I can watch Netflix without a problem.
YouTube app calls for way less data to be loaded at start, so it falls behind.
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You tube and browsing speeds -FIX (for me anyway)
Ok so since I got my XOOM a couple of weeks ago I was thinking there was a general problem with the wifi speeds. I had problems with the youtube app in particular. It would buffer for ages and then sometimes not even show the vid. I also saw problems with other streaming data such as game downloads and in general the wifi speed was really dissapointing. I searched all over the place for a fix and found a few things to try like clear the cache from the you tube app as well as upgrading to 3.1 but nothing seemed to work until today
I downloaded wifi analyzed from the market which is a free apo that does exactly what it says on the tin, after a quick scan of my access point it advised me to change my channel to 6 from 10 after doing that my XOOM now flies and I mean flies - everything fro. General browsing to the annoying buffer times on the you tube app are now gone!!!!!
I am not saying change your channel to 6 - this was just the best channel for me so grab yourself a wifi analyzer app and give it a go - I hope it helps someone out there because this has resolved the last of my problems I had with my lovely XOOM
This is a re post from another forum, all credit goes to kill3rvill3
The only thing that's made my YouTube app work great again is to disable the HD before I start watching a video.
Most videos are still at a good , so they all look very good regardless of the HD being off.
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Hi guys. I got myself a 32gb, wifi only version of N7. Upgraded it instantly to 4.2.2 . Nothing to complain about in the first 2 days.
After that, I noticed that, when I play music (stream through upnp on local network or play mp3 / flac files on local storage - tested several players, bsplayer, google player, poweramp...), and do some other stuff on the tablet at the same time - surf, or just 'click around', or swipe through my documents - occassionally I experience short sound dropouts, like the I/O-load would be too high or something. Please note this isn't bluetooth thing some people experienced, I use regular phones. It happens sometimes when I do some trivial stuff...noticed it all over the place, while starting an app, surfing, writing something in the Google search window, searching people on FB, opening a browser (empty) tab, even clicking on application button to see the list. It can be really anything, it doesn't happen a lot but it's there.
I googled the problem but couldn't find anyone with similar issues. Read on the other hand a lot about general performance issues of the Nexus 7 after 4.2.2 upgrade, about (visual) lag, so I figured, even though my eye didn't catch that on my device (this is my first experience with 4.x.x so it looked fast and smooth enough to me), I decided to revert to 4.1.2 and see whether there would be any difference. I can't say I could see/hear improvement, maybe a slight one, but I still get to experience occassional chops in my music, which is very annoying, this should be ridiculously easy for a 4-core processor to accomplish. It's unacceptable. I even checked that CPU wasnt overloaded when these chops occured (in fact, it was only around 25%-30% when the chops occured, perhaps the peaks were too short for program to register them - I dunno)...
I also tried everything people suggested here regarding general performance issues, disabling this and that, Currents, factory resets, cleaning cache partition...you name it. Nada.
Anybody experienced similar thing? Don't know if I have faulty unit or if this is bug in software (Samsung Galaxy S3 had a similar thing when it got out, even though the sound pops were of different nature and occured under different circumstances - took several software upgrades until it got fixed)...I'm thinking of returning it and go for iPad mini or something.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
The results of this have varied but there are some who attest that this works.
Have you disabled auto-sync in Google Currents (Blue Circle Icon)?
If not, try that; this has worked for me.
Open up "Google Currents" Hit the 3 dots on the top right -> Settings -> Scroll down and UNCHECK "Enable background sync"
Remember these results have varied, but it fixed the issue with my tablet. Also I heard there were some issues (although if someone can confirm them further for us--that'd be appreciated!) with the RAM in many Nexus 7s so stressing out the ram and filling up your SDcard to the max will cause it to have stutter issues too.
Hi and thanks for the suggestion,
Disabling the background sync in Google Currents was actually the first thing I did. I believe I tried out everything that was suggested so far on the net regarding the general performance issues. I used Forever Gone app to fill up all space and then delete it, I wiped the cache partition in bootloader mode, I even did a factory reset, and eventually I re-flashed it back to 4.1.2 (it did improve then but the music lag / pops were still not entirely gone). SD-card space-thing cannot be the issue either as I have like 23gigs free.
Now I even noticed that video playback is effected by occasional sound pops. When I play video in full screen, not doing anything else, it still happens. Rarely but it does happen.
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The results of this have varied but there are some who attest that this works.
Have you disabled auto-sync in Google Currents (Blue Circle Icon)?
If not, try that; this has worked for me.
Open up "Google Currents" Hit the 3 dots on the top right -> Settings -> Scroll down and UNCHECK "Enable background sync"
Remember these results have varied, but it fixed the issue with my tablet. Also I heard there were some issues (although if someone can confirm them further for us--that'd be appreciated!) with the RAM in many Nexus 7s so stressing out the ram and filling up your SDcard to the max will cause it to have stutter issues too.
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Returned it and took money back. Will look for other options soon. This thing was too 'beta' for me.
Not posted in a while as I've been largely enjoying the Mojo trouble free. However yesterday I was watching one of my video files using SPMC and it just stopped, sending me back to the video selection screen in SPMC. I'm using a 2Tb WD USB hard drive, on my Mojo is CM 12.1, and SPMC is my usual choice to play files back.
This was an MP4, 1080p at 2.7Gb, and this was a 3 hour movie, which ceased playback at the 2 hour 15 minute mark. I attempted to resume to playback, but it seemed to try and then immediately dumped me back again.
My first thought was it must be a corrupt file, so I tried it on my PC but there were no issues. I go back to the Mojo to try restarting the film from the beginning again, skipping ahead to the troublesome part, but it stopped again at exactly the same moment.
I then tried VLC, and to my surprise I found this was exactly the same. Playback ceased at the same point exactly.
So now I'm worried it's the drive, so I decide to plug it into my Raspberry Pi which is running the latest OSMC, and to my surprise it's fine. Playback is trouble free. Plugging the drive into my PC to play the file reveals it plays fine. It has to be the Mojo, but it must be a global setting or something. I've tried clearing the app cache, but it's made no difference. To be honest I don't really know where to look next. Can anyone help? Thanks all.
tl;dr: File plays fine on PC and Raspberry Pi, stops abruptly on Mojo using SPMC or VLC. Must be a setting somewhere to fix. Help!
Well now here's an interesting discovery to make after several months of ownership! I always was slow on the uptake...
It seems on further inspection that the Mojo/CM 12.1 doesn't like any of my "large" files above 2.5Gb. I have tried some others around that size and larger, and they are all the same. The are slow to use (skipping forward etc.), and then just give up so far into playback. My drive is formatted NTFS, so I don't think that's the issue.
I'm really hoping there's something I can do to fix this.
Aaaand on even further inspection, file size has nothing to do with it. There's a number of files that just won't play very nicely, big or small. They lag when skipping through, and then cease so far into playback.
I'd read that Android wasn't so great with video codecs generally, and this must be what they mean. Can't believe I didn't notice it before.
I had the same issue with videos over 2GB. It is an issue with NTFS. The same files played fine on a FAT32 drive. I have since gone to using a NTFS NAS instead. Works flawlessly with Kodi.
Thanks for replying. I've ended up simply remuxing and replacing those problematic files, which seems to have resolved the issue. It's a pity, but I am finding the Mojo a very fussy and particular system indeed. What a shame, as it is so capable at hardware level.
Tried playing the file with Kodi?
That's usually my fix to those type of situations.
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Tried playing the file with Kodi?
That's usually my fix to those type of situations.
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Sorry for late reply. Yes all the video apps show the same result, which means it must be the system. I've read up a little on this and have discovered other folks with similar issues when using Android for video playback. I'm fine now anyway - like I say, I remuxed these troublesome files and made them smaller but no less qualitative. Some of them were quite big for DVD rips (around 3-4Gb) and did not need to be so. Thank god for Handbrake! It worked out well in the end as my drive was beginning to be pressed for space with so many of these, and I've managed to free up 70Gb just by being a little bit more conservative.
I am on a standard unmodified shield 500GB. Its actually a replacement from Nvidia as my old one kept locking up and crashing. I have noticed since getting this one yesterday that youtube keeps freezing at the beginning of videos and force closes more often than works. Is anyone else having this problem?
How much space do you have remaining on your device ? I've had similiar issues with many apps when running low on storage space.
Freeing up space solved my issues.
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How much space do you have remaining on your device ? I've had similiar issues with many apps when running low on storage space.
Freeing up space solved my issues.
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i don't have many apps taking up space. Kodi is installed etc but its the 500gb version so plenty left.
Did you try a factory reset ?
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i don't have many apps taking up space. Kodi is installed etc but its the 500gb version so plenty left.
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I got it sorted out. Spoke to tech support and they turned out to be very helpful. Cleared the YouTube cache and data from settings and restarted and the app seems to now be working without issue. I'd already done this myself but I didn't restart the device after clearing data and cache. All working fast again now.