How To Fix Kodi 17.6 Krypton Buffering Issue The Easy Way

[Ryu]

c/p
Here’s how to fix or reduce 2018 Kodi 17 or 17.6 Krypton buffering issue that you might be facing on a device on which you have latest Kodi installed.

Step 1: Fire up Kodi, open File Manager and add the
http://repo.hackmykodi.com source.

Step 2: Select Add-ons followed by the package icon towards the top-left of the screen and then hit Install from zip file and select the source you just installed.

Step 3: Select program-add-ons followed by system-settings and finally, the .zip file that has “advanced settings” .

Step 4: Return to the Add-ons screen and launch the Easy Advanced Settings add-on.

Step 5: Select Edit Settings, followed by Network settings and then Network.

Step 6: Select cacheMemBufferSize from the menu that follows. Delete the “DISABLED” text and enter “419430300” (without quotes).

Step 7: Now, select bufferMode and select 1.

Step 8: Lastly, select readbufferfactor. Delete “DISABLED” and enter “4”.

Step 9: Select the double periods at the top of the list three times before selecting Write XML File.

That’s all you need to do!

[andkaal]

c/p
Here’s how to fix or reduce 2018 Kodi 17 or 17.6 Krypton buffering issue that you might be facing on a device on which you have latest Kodi installed.

Step 1: Fire up Kodi, open File Manager and add the
http://repo.hackmykodi.com source.

Step 2: Select Add-ons followed by the package icon towards the top-left of the screen and then hit Install from zip file and select the source you just installed.

Step 3: Select program-add-ons followed by system-settings and finally, the .zip file that has “advanced settings” .

Step 4: Return to the Add-ons screen and launch the Easy Advanced Settings add-on.

Step 5: Select Edit Settings, followed by Network settings and then Network.

Step 6: Select cacheMemBufferSize from the menu that follows. Delete the “DISABLED” text and enter “419430300” (without quotes).

Step 7: Now, select bufferMode and select 1.

Step 8: Lastly, select readbufferfactor. Delete “DISABLED” and enter “4”.

Step 9: Select the double periods at the top of the list three times before selecting Write XML File.

That’s all you need to do!

BIG thanks kof. Is that 4 just a 4 and not a 4.0 in readbufferfactor ? Just checking.. andkaal:confused:

[Ryu]

just for 4 and no worries bro.:cool:

[1sikguy]

kingoffighter... A new addon called TT Kodi Buffer fix calculates the memorysize differently.
They say take the free memory size of your box (in my case =6870 MB minus 500MB to reserve for the system, leaving about 6400 MB).
Then the formula they use is 6400 divided by 3 and multiplied by 1024x1024 (twice).
I have a box using 100MBPS ISP speed, and a 4 GB Ram.

What do YOU think??

[expatter]

c/p
Here’s how to fix or reduce 2018 Kodi 17 or 17.6 Krypton buffering issue that you might be facing on a device on which you have latest Kodi installed.

Step 1: Fire up Kodi, open File Manager and add the
http://repo.hackmykodi.com source.

Step 2: Select Add-ons followed by the package icon towards the top-left of the screen and then hit Install from zip file and select the source you just installed.

Step 3: Select program-add-ons followed by system-settings and finally, the .zip file that has “advanced settings” .

Step 4: Return to the Add-ons screen and launch the Easy Advanced Settings add-on.

Step 5: Select Edit Settings, followed by Network settings and then Network.

Step 6: Select cacheMemBufferSize from the menu that follows. Delete the “DISABLED” text and enter “419430300” (without quotes).

Step 7: Now, select bufferMode and select 1.

Step 8: Lastly, select readbufferfactor. Delete “DISABLED” and enter “4”.

Step 9: Select the double periods at the top of the list three times before selecting Write XML File.

That’s all you need to do!


Step 6 is wrong. It's for earlier versions of Kodi. <CacheMemBufferSize> has been changed to <memorysize>

Step 8 is wrong. It's for earlier versions of Kodi. <readbufferfactor> has been changed to <readfactor>

From the Wiki:

Kodi v17 changes

In Kodi v17, the cache-related tags were removed from <network> and placed under a new <cache> tag. In addition, the following tags were renamed:

<cachemembuffersize> was renamed to <memorysize>
<readbufferfactor> is renamed to <readfactor>

4 Examples

NOTICE:
These are just examples to explain how the feature works. Most users will just want to use example 4.


4.1 Example 1

All three options enabled, using local hard drive for cache.
Stop hand.png Do not use this for flash-based memory devices.

advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>0</memorysize>
<readfactor>30</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>
4.2 Example 2

Only cache size changed, using 100MB of RAM for cache (which requires 300MB of free RAM).

advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<memorysize>104857600</memorysize>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>
4.3 Example 3

Two options enabled, using 50MB of RAM for cache (which requires 150MB of free RAM), and cache both internet, LAN, and local content.

advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>52428800</memorysize>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>
4.4 Example 4

A safe setting for most devices with 1GB of RAM that should help most users "on the edge". All protocols get cached, cache rate fills up pretty much as fast as possible, and cache size is about 133MB, using about 400MB of ram total.

advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>139460608</memorysize>
<readfactor>20</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Thanks Guys

[Kimbo]

Good info!!!