[SOLVED] Strange Video Playback Problem

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(20th Apr, 2018 03:45 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  I meant copy file from server 1 to Kodi client

Ah, OK, but I suspect it would play just fine. This is a really puzzling issue.

(20th Apr, 2018 03:45 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Same file? Same mount parameters?

Yes and Yes.

(20th Apr, 2018 03:45 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  What's the difference between server 1 and server 2?

one is 2 bay Zyxel NSA325, the other is 4 bay Zyxel NAS540. Both work fine with laptop and both worked fine with the pi on the old image.

(20th Apr, 2018 03:45 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Good question, my experience is if OMX and MMAL is checked, Kodi prefers OMX

Have you already played with kodi's video caching?

Yes, This afternoon, whilst sweating away in a heatwave (+29C in UK ) but no difference at all.
I'll try the 'old' image with the broken database and see if that still works. Then on to try another sd card and do it all over again

I just wish I could understand what is happening here. It has to be something to do with the way the pi connects to the server to stream the file and then when the laptop connects it changes something. I just don't know enough about how it all works to even get close.

IF it were a hardware failure then it would not behave like this. It is so repeatable, that's the annoying thing, and I can watch a movie, so long as I start it on the laptop first and then start it with xbian and I can turn off the laptop and it still plays fine. Arrgghhh!

I just noticed something........ This pi appears in windows network in file explorer. None of the other do/did. Maybe a clue here.....Can you think of anything?