I want Help Setting Up a Smooth Streaming Experience on CoreELEC

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Hey everyone,

I have started using CoreELEC & so far I am really impressed with how it is running on my device. I am having some trouble with getting a smooth and consistent streaming experience. I use it for streaming movies and TV shows but I keep running into buffering or stuttering issues when I try to stream in higher resolutions like 4K.

Also i have tried adjusting the network settings and also messed around with a few of the video output setting but nothing seems to fix it. I am wondering if there is a specific setting I might have missed or maybe a tweak that is known to help with stream stability.

As well, I found these resources when doing research on this;
https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/is-there-any-way-i-could-get-moonlight-game-streaming-running-on-coreelecsfmc-devel Has anyone else had similar issues? Any tips or advice on how to improve the streaming quality on CoreELEC would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you……. :slight_smile:

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@mirellehgf You can try below settings to see if this will improve the streaming experience:

in Settings->Services->SMB client

  • SMB Chunk Size - Increase to 1MB

Settings->Services->NFS client

  • NFS Chunk Size - Increase to 1MB

Settings->Services->Caching

  • Buffer mode - cache settings to all methods: smb, local, remote, etc (default ignores local playback)
  • Read factor - Set 'Adaptive’ readfactor (default is 4x). This is a multiplier for the bandwidth allocation based on video bitrate. Eg if video bitrate is 50Mbps and multiplier is set to 4x, then Kodi allocates 200Mbps of bandwidth to fill the cache faster. Adaptive is recommended
  • Memory size - Set 64mb cache size (default is only 20mb). If unchanged from 20Mb, I found it gives the ‘low-speed connection’ warning when playing high-bitrate 4K. Set a bit higher to prevent warning. Potentially this could be as high as 25% of RAM, but generally doesn’t need to even on high-bitrate 4K
  • Chunk size - 1MB

Recommended by OP: limitz
Hope this helps.

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Turn cache off & smb/nfs chunk size 1mb.