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RickW

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#165665 16-Feb-2015 19:15
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Hey guys,

We have a headless pc in the spare room running mediaportal tvserver, plex and acting as a file server. the house has been wired using cat6a network cable so all pc's including the new PI are using gige networking. about 3 months ago on the i5 htpc in the lounge we ditched media portal and are now using openelec, which has been great.

Today i went out and got one of the new V2 RPI’s for our bedroom. I upgraded the firmware and installed openelec. When i try to play live tv it plays for maybe 8 seconds and pauses for 15-20 rinse and repeat.

I have been through the settings and set everything up correctly as far as i can tell. I tried disabling deinterlacing thinking it was a processing issue, Overclocking the RPI, and then i read online that maybe the theme i was using was too resource intensive for the PI so i did a hard reset of the PI and tried again without luck. Messing around it is worse with higher bitrate content.

Can anyone please help?

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RickW

298 posts

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  #1244271 22-Feb-2015 17:24
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Finaly got it sorted.

After buying a new powersupply, new patch cable, new usb cable and a new sd card. It still wasn't working. After hours of googling I found a post saying to plug a dumb network switch into the first Ethernet port on the fritzbox and connect the pi and server through the switch. SUCCESS it's now running perfectly.

I hope this post can save someone a whole bucnch of time and troubble.

Rick

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