Sd hd uhd 720 1080?

Has anyone got a rough idea of the amount of bandwidth these formats use?

What i mean is, take an old school DVD for example, how many Kb's would that be and how does it increase with respect to, HD720, 1080 and 4k?

AS my broadband is on the lowest speed (Virgin) and my M8 Android box isn't state of the art, i'm trying to gauge the best formats to choose to watch to get a reasonable picture quality without buffering.


Cheers,

Dar

Thought 50mb was VM lowest speed.

manic01 said:

Thought 50mb was VM lowest speed.

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Yes, i think it is, but i still find it hard to watch any HD without buffercity.

Must be the M8, or over crouded servers?

Never had any buffers using VM 50mb service on kodi watching movies.

Even on the 1080 HD?

What hardware is your Kodi on?

I'm on 15.0 was on 14.2 helix.
Never had an issue but I'm using fire stick.

Can't be hardware issue as the M8 has better specs than Firestick.

I'm still using XBMC Gotham but i wouln't have thought a jump to Kodi would make that much difference? I'm sure i've tried it in the past with same issues.

Hmmm?

If you have same issues on other builds then it's hardware.

To be honest Manic, the movies aren't too bad, just occasional buffering. It's the live sports, but that could be down to overcrowded servers and that it's coming from USA via VPN.
At 1400kbpsSD it's not so bad, bit any higher(HD) and it's terrible?

Either that or the box is fcuked lol

nbc sn astro sport 1080 never a judder free on kodi.
I have never had issues using fire stick.

I've had plenty of bother watching sport, I find it a bit hit and miss and I'm using kodi 14.2, virgin 50 meg so You are not on Your own @dar1437. I just tend to keep looking untill I find a half decent stream. You could try watching THIS, I keep meaning to just haven't got around to it.

Having the buffer memory cache set to zero can cause buffering issues when your device has a small hard drive. You can use adb fire to set your kodi cache setting.
My are mode 1, size 314572800 read factor 10. The size is worked out on how much free memory you have. Free memory divided by 3 then times it by 1048576. I also use raw maintenance to clean kodi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHDlXYV9EG4.

Below was taken from kodi wiki
Increasing the cache
Here we can do two things:
Value: 20971520 (or any value, in bytes) - keep the cache in RAM, but increase how much RAM is used. The number is the buffer size in bytes (20971520 is the default, which is 20MB, which requires 60MB of free RAM). Kodi will not buffer ahead more than this.
Note: For the memory size set here, Kodi will require 3x the amount of RAM to be free. Setting this too high might cause Kodi to crash if it can't get enough RAM.
or
Value: 0 - we can use the local disk memory (typically your hard drive), which will not put any limit on the size (outside of the size of your drive). This also allows devices with low RAM, such as the Raspberry Pi, to cache more than they normally would due to the small amount of RAM they have. The cache is deleted from the local disk whenever playback is stopped.
Note: This will likely cause increased wear-and-tear on your drive.

Note: Do not use the 0 (zero) setting if you have a device with a low amount of local storage, such as 8GB on a Fire TV. As a general rule of thumb, only use this setting if you have at least 16 GB of local drive space that is currently free on the device. Otherwise, Kodi will stall and stop playing the video, or might even crash.

I ahve left my setting as they were originally on firestick.
I use raw maintenance and another maintenance tool as well.

Much better with the zero cache. 2200kbps HD with no buffering.


Cheers lads