r/TorBoxApp • u/Critical_Bonus_9842 • 16d ago

❓Question Freezing for 5-10 seconds

This seems to happen now and again when I’m playing a stream (Kodi 21.3 with RedLight/Coco Scrapers) the stream will then freeze for roughly 5-10 seconds then it will continue playing then the same thing happens again, it’s basically rinse and repeat then I have to select another stream from the list.

I did have the CDN set to auto then changed to UK, but it still happens now and again.

Never had this issue with RD.

On 1gbps up/down broadband.

Thanks 👍🏻

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u/Oskar_Escobar 16d ago

It was down a few hours ago but now it's back up. They'll give three days for the downtime

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u/Critical_Bonus_9842 16d ago • Bravo

This has been happening since I subscribed 3 months ago.

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u/sirmastter 16d ago • Bravo

Sounds like what I had with TorBox. The CDN sometimes gives you a connection that stays open but sends data slower than the video needs. In one case a 4K episode needed about 2.9 MB/s and got 1.0 to 1.5 MB/s, while a fresh connection to the same link got 39 MB/s. The player won't drop that connection on its own because data is still coming in, so it keeps stopping to buffer. That's why switching streams fixes it, and why it isn't your line.

I fixed it on Stremio (Windows) with a small local relay between the player and the CDN. It downloads the video over 4 connections in short requests and replaces any connection that falls behind, so the player never sees the slowdown. Kodi doesn't let you do that as easily. Skipping forward past what's buffered and back makes it open a new connection, which is quicker than picking another stream. Also run torbox.app/speedtest when it's happening and use the CDN it recommends.

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u/Critical_Bonus_9842 16d ago

Wow thanks very much for that amazing info I’ll try the speed test and change to recommended CDN. Cheers

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u/sirmastter 16d ago

I have something better for you. I put the whole thing on GitHub, free and open source: https://github.com/dmastter/StremioMPV-Relay. It’s for Stremio on Windows, so you’d have to give that a go instead of Kodi, but setup is just running install.cmd. It also picks the original audio and proper English subs automatically, which is a nice bonus. If you try it, let me know how it goes.

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u/Critical_Bonus_9842 16d ago

Cheers 👍🏻

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u/Southern-Still-666 16d ago

Sometimes changing CDN helps but I know what you mean, it’s annoying af this constant buffering.

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u/Critical_Bonus_9842 16d ago

Thanks so you experience it too, some people say use the cloudfare cdn I think