Wifi / Cache issues

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Hi Everyone,

i stumbled upon Plex this week and gave it a try. At first I was running 0.3.1 and it finally seemed to run very well but all of a sudden WIFI stopped to work as the Pi didn't want to connect to my WIFI network anymore and showed ""failure" on the connection dialog. As long as it had worked properly (3 days or so), playback was good as expected.

 

So i tried with 0.9.9.18. Setting up the WIFI wasn't a problem. As i started playing back an average quality mkv file (2 hrs = about 6 gig) i only got very choppy playback as a result. playback stopped for a second or so every now and then. i tried to increase the cache values but this didn't seem to take any effect. i am running a xbmc installation on another sd card and this also plays back the file without any issues. so i assume it might be caused either by poor wifi support or buffering / caching the data.

 

what can i try to track this it down?

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Force transcoding to 10Mbps

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i will try this as a work-around, but there must be a reason why the same file is treated differently on the various platforms. also, limiting the bandwidth will result in lower quality.

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I think rasplex stopped default overclocking in the 0.9 versions, so the client only runs at 700 Mhz.

You should check the clock speed.

You can check the cache and CPU load by pressing "i" while watching a video.