I've recently been trying out data streaming on my Gemini, and an odd factor has emerged. As background, the data is being sourced from a Drobo5 NAS unit, through ethernet cable to a Netgear router, and from thence, via wifi to the Gemini. I also have a Nokia 8 mobile phone doing the same thing, in the same way. Both the Gemini and the Nokia 8 have the same range of software doing the streaming and display. Both using the 5g for wifi In fact, the only difference between the two is that the Nokia is on version 9 Android, whilst the Gemini is still on version 7.1.1.
Accessing the same .mkv file on both, using ES File Explore Pro feeding into BSPlayer, on the Nokia 8, playback is perfect, without a hitch. On the Gemini, however, playback is continually broken up with seldom more than a few seconds of continuous streaming, both in sound and vision, and is totally unwatchable.
Does anyone have a comment, and hopefully a reason and a solution to this problem?
I realise that I could simply copy, or FTP the file to the device, but streaming is so much better, and faster, and does not eat up storage space. Even in this there is a problem. Most video files are large, and in FTP transfer, the time taken is commensurately long. many times the machine will go to sleep during transfer, and the transfer stops. Any measures to interrupt the sleep mode serve only to abort the transfer. I have, recently, bought a Bluetooth mouse, which might introduce a sleep cancelling input without aborting the transfer, which I have yet to use for that purpose.
