Raspberry Pi 2 freezing

MatsyLR

MatsyLR

MatsyLR

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Anyone have a Raspberry Pi they are using as a media center?

Got a Pi yesterday (from OCUK), loaded noobs onto my SD card installed OpenElec, worked fine.
Plugged in my hard drive and good to go.
However, when I press a movie to play it loads pretty much instantly (from hard drive), but when I try to switch to a different movie (on the same HD) while the other is still playing, it freezes for 10-15 seconds (remote becomes unresponsible, but previous movie still plays in background) and then it catches up and plays the new movie and everything is fine again.
Disabled all the stuff that may be using CPU power, I cant even see If the CPU is the problem and the debugging tool at the top freezes as-well.
Tested my hard drive on my other media center, it doesnt do this, so it isnt my hard drive.
I cant even instal any other OS onto the Pi, tried Rasxmbc, it doesnt even load only OpenElec will boot.

Any suggestions?
Surely the Pi is powerful enough to be able to switch been videos on a hard drive seamlessly....
Its going to have to be returned if this cant be sorted, people on other forums and even youtube don't seem to have this problem....
 
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BuToNz said:
What SDCard is it? Class 10 is a must really.
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Why is Class 10 a must?
Online it says Class 4 and Class 10 are pretty much exactly the same with the Pi with very slight improvements with 10 but not enough to make a fuss about.
I doubt its my SD card (i have a kingston class 4)
 
Actually when I stop the video, and then play another, it still freezes unless I leave it alone for like 20 seconds, then play another.
 
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