H96 MAX X4 SoC S905X4@2G/16/1GbE/Wifi[2/4GHz]/BT

[noggin]

You will need to check peak bitrates, not average, as it’s the peak bitrates that shoot up and bottle-neck 100Mbs Ethernet links. Average bitrates (and file sizes divided by durations) don’t tell the whole story of a video file in bitrate terms.
This is a graph of Blade Runner 2049 - peaking at >120Mbs with quite a few >100Mbs

And here’s Thor Ragnarok peaking at >160Mbs, with a number of >100Mbs.

100Mbs Ethernet connections will deliver a bit over 90Mbs in real world situations, though if you use SMB/CIFS this will reduce this further.

[AdamNiescierowicz]

@noggin

One thing worth pointing out - if the UHD BD rip contains all the audio streams - then when you play this back via NFS or SMB the transport stream or MKV containing them will be sent over the network with all the streams in it. Only if you use something server-side that splits the streams out of the file will you only be streaming the audio you are listening to.

You are right, that’s why I write stream

@AdamNiescierowicz

BD disc contain several audio stream that use bitrate and we watch stream using only one of them so maximal bitrate is lowe

@noggin

100Mbs Ethernet connections will deliver a bit over 90Mbs

Using scp on S905x2 (not direct dump of network stats) i have stable 89,6Mibps, nothing more.

Worth mentioning is MTU, we stream big files so we have almost all the time packet size like 1500, so the transfer should be stable.

@noggin

And here’s Thor Ragnarok peaking at >160Mbs, with a number of >100Mbs.

I streamed 4K version of this from BD and didn’t have any problems, possible explanation is that kodi use 20MB cache so I’m safe for 2 second burst(80Mibps traffic + 10MB from cache per second).

@CE Team, do you change default kodi cache values for CE installation?

[noggin]

@AdamNiescierowicz

You are right, that’s why I write stream

Yes - a lot of people use ‘stream’ to mean ‘play over the network’ - not to differentiate between a server-side streaming application instead of using a regular file server. A lot of people will use NFS or SMB/CIFS servers and so won’t be streaming.

[AdamNiescierowicz]

@noggin

And here’s Thor Ragnarok peaking at >160Mbs, with a number of >100Mbs.

Regarding your graphs, did you make them yourself?
or
Is there somewhere nice public database with that kind information?

[noggin]

Quick google - there is a bit of software that does it I think. There may also be a database. I think some BD reviews sites post them.