Good Evening All!
I hope someone can help me or find a solution to the problem im facing which is quite frustrating.
I believe i have a Trator version of DSM not too sure though, but since i have updated to 4493 i have slowly had problems with playing videos from DS Video or Video Station, I have an environment where i have a Samsung Smart TV and a Google Chorme Cast, HTTP DDNS hostname for my NAS and can access is wherever i may be.
Issue begins with Video Station, when i log into the NAS i pick a movie to watch either Google Chrome or Internet Explorer and the page will load with the play bar, but just keeps loading and nothing more. Videos i play are various 2 formats only either MKV or MP4, few are AVI but i have never had issues with them in the past. I have checked the audio codec when playing on Samsung or Google Chrome Cast or even an Apple Device. Always the Samsung will play these no problem, now that Samsung have the DS Video App in the store its even better but before i could select it from my list of devices and stream no problem.
My aim is to stream movies or videos to either my iPhone, Samsung Smart TV, Computer, Chrome Cast successfully. These movies are 1080P and i have checked the CPU and barley goes over 50%.
Things i have tried:
Remove DS Video and Media Server
Re install and keep default settings - Note after this everything worked okay for a while and then back to sluggish performance
Test HDD where the movies are found, no issues.
Mount the Video folder to Windows 7 64bit, play the video via Windows Media Player no issues what so ever.
Re install the DS Video App on iPhone
Overall the performance of the NAS has become a little unresponsive so there's me thinking its the USB stick holding the OS, I have checked what formats Google Chrome Cast can play, I have checked my Wireless network for interference or bottlenecks as such but no avail.
If anyone has any advice going forward i could try, it would mean a lot.
Thank you guys!