Drobo FS + Mede8er + Marantz SR7005=AAAAAARRRGRGRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

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Kuberlarrie

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I've been using the following setup to stream movies from my Drobo FS to my home theatre: Drobo FS, Gigabit Switch, Cat 5e cable, Mede8er NX500 media player, Marantz SR7005 receiver. Everything is fine and dandy until I want to play a high resolution .mkv video file of greater than approx 13-14GB. Sometimes the movie will lag from the opening credits, sometimes it will start lagging after an hour. Sometimes it lags a bit and then recovers for a while and sometimes it just bombs out of the movie back to the mede8er menu.

I have tried the following to rule out all the possible problems:
1.    Connected mede8er via HDMI directly to my TV thus bypassing the Marantz (no difference).
2.    Copied the movie file to external USB hard drive, connected this directly to the Mede8er (no difference).
3.    Copied the movie file to the internal Hard drive of the Mede8er (no difference).
4.    Tried different media player - Western Digital live. It also lags with the same file.
5.    Connected my laptop to network cable at home theatre and played file over network via laptop via HDMI cable from laptop to AV receiver - no lag.
6.    Copied the movie file to an external 2TB seagate drive connected to my PC which is on the network. Then played the file via the network with the Western Digital Player - no lag. Tried the same setup with the Mede8er - same lag as before.

I am desperate!!! I've had someone redo all my network cabling in the house with Cat 5e cable. The switches and routers are all Gigabit ethernet capable  even though both media players are 10/100Mbit only.

So from all this long rambling it seems there are two problems: It seem obvious that the Mede8er does not have the processing ability to decode really large .mkv files (15GB and upwards). And it seems as if the Drobo FS may have a problem streaming the files fast enough over the network (which I find strange considering that I get copy speeds of around 30Megabytes/sec between my PC and the Drobo - it should be more than enough for high res movie files).

So what now????

A new media player?

A new Network attached storage solution or alternately using an external USB hard drive as NAS?

??? ??? ??? ???
 
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