Raspberry Pi 2 freezing

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)
 
Well, 4MB/sec vs 10MB/sec is quite a difference. It's the write speeds. If the Pi needs to page to its disk then the class 4 will be uber slow.
 
Playing the videos is GPU handled, opening the file to begin with is done by the CPU and limited by SD card speeds.

Stop the existing file before starting the next. It'll behave better.

Pc's have always done this, it's just your Desktop is tons quicker and better at handling requests like this. Get this SD card..

8GB Sandisk Ultra Class 10 Micro SD

Make sure it's not an ebay fake or 3rd party reseller fake.
 
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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.
 
You could try one of the other media player options such as OSMC or it's predecessor RaspBMC and see how they behave.

I use Openelec on mine but stream over my network like Bledd with no issues.
 
As above I'd try a different media centre, I use OSMC and again stream over network like the other guys and no problems whatsoever, not even Gigabit ethernet
 
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