horozon box lose connection streaming over 1gb

Curry Addict

When streaming movies on my horizon box from my PC over lan connection. after 10 mins or so it loses connection with the PC. It seems like a buffering issue for files over 1gb. Is this a common problem? is there a fix?

Wabbit Ears

I regularly stream +1 gig movies from my Laptop to the horizon box without any issues, What format is the Movie and audio and, IF a MKV what format of movie and audio is in that container?

VLC should be able to give that info.

example, playing a mkv and in vlc tools>codec infomation tells me this mkv is

Type: Video
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Language: English
Resolution: 1280x720
Frame rate: 25
Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV

Type: Audio
Codec: A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52 )
Channels: Stereo
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Bitrate: 384 kb/s

Curry Addict

I always use .avi or xvid formats as these tend to work well on all devices.
It did work and i never had issues up until about 6 weeks ago.
any video file under 1Gb plays fine. Any video file over 1GB will give this lost connection with device error approx 20mins into playing.
My instinct tells me its a buffering issue.

Wabbit Ears

Practically every movie I stream is over a gig so I doubt its filesize and AVi/xvid aren't usually used for larger sizes of movies in any torrent Ive used in years. Are you compressing them yourself using these codecs or whats the story?

Curry Addict

the only differentiator seems to be file size, as it never happens a file under 1GB. file sizes vary from 700mb - 1.6GB and always avi or xvid.
I don't use any compression or mess with any settings.