I've been doing some upgrades on my network. I've been using Western Digital's MyBookLive as my servers of choice. I started out with just one and eventually got to two 3TB units. My network runs through a DLink DGL-4500 router. I use Dune's HD Smart D1 as my media player.
So I just added one of Western Digitals MyCloud which is their newest version of the MyBookLive. It's much faster so I was expecting an improvement in response times. Instead, what I got, is video jitters, stuttering, or whatever you want to call it.
At first I thought maybe I had a corrupted unit. It passes the self test but perhaps a sector went bad or something. But I got a new one and it stutters during the movie too. I've been using The Avengers (2012) as my test movie and it is stored as a BD ISO. I copied the movie over to my older MyBookLive and the movie plays fine on the Dune player from that location. The movie also plays fine on my PC from both the new MyCloud and the older MyBookLive.
I enabled "Fast SMB access" and it seemed to reduce the jittering but not completely. So there is something going on between the new MyCloud and the Dune. I'm running the latest beta firmware on the Dune (and going back to a non-beta doesn't seem to affect the problem).
I can really only point to two possible problems. Incompatibility between the MyCloud and the Dune for whatever reason or the router. The latter seems hard to believe considering the movie streams fine to the PC and the older MyBookLive seems to stream it fine as well.
Any ideas?
So I just added one of Western Digitals MyCloud which is their newest version of the MyBookLive. It's much faster so I was expecting an improvement in response times. Instead, what I got, is video jitters, stuttering, or whatever you want to call it.
At first I thought maybe I had a corrupted unit. It passes the self test but perhaps a sector went bad or something. But I got a new one and it stutters during the movie too. I've been using The Avengers (2012) as my test movie and it is stored as a BD ISO. I copied the movie over to my older MyBookLive and the movie plays fine on the Dune player from that location. The movie also plays fine on my PC from both the new MyCloud and the older MyBookLive.
I enabled "Fast SMB access" and it seemed to reduce the jittering but not completely. So there is something going on between the new MyCloud and the Dune. I'm running the latest beta firmware on the Dune (and going back to a non-beta doesn't seem to affect the problem).
I can really only point to two possible problems. Incompatibility between the MyCloud and the Dune for whatever reason or the router. The latter seems hard to believe considering the movie streams fine to the PC and the older MyBookLive seems to stream it fine as well.
Any ideas?