[PROBLEM] How to prevent XBMC from buffering ?

[f1vefour]

To me the largest factor is:

Code:

<readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>

My understanding is this setting allows a stream to download at 4x the bitrate of the video, XBMC tries to download the stream in real-time by default which causes issues on an unstable internet connection. Increasing the readbufferfactor allows the buffer to fill at a faster rate therefore decreasing buffering in many circumstances.