[tecc]

I'm using Kodi with CoreELEC on 2 standalones with an S905x chip and everything so far is working just fine doing playing back files from local USB media. There's currently two "NAS" in my network:

a) Fritzbox with a 1 TB 2.5" HDD attached via USB3
b) WD MyNetN900C (internal 1 TB HDD)

to each of which Kodi connects via SMB1. I can connect to both NAS from my Win 10 PC (SMB1 installed) and read files from them with ~13 MB/s. However, when I play back any kind of file (mp3, mkv) from the Fritzbox after powering on the standalone, it takes ~2 minutes till I hear/see anything. Once this file hast started playing back, I can seek inside without any issues. All other files played back after that (and even that very first file), start instanteneously as happens when playing back files from b).

I can reproduce this with a simple reboot. When Kodi's up and running again, the first file played from the Fritzbox NAS takes 2 minutes again to start. WTF?

[Klojum]

WTF?

Sure, that always helps.

Are you using hostnames or IP addresses when pointing to your file locations?
How about a debug log (wiki) for the initial trouble shooting?

Any chance that you already asked this on the CoreELEC forum..? Which would make sense.

[tecc]

I've tried both IPs and host names but it made no difference. I've also tried this on LibreELEC and CoreELEC so I assume this forum is better suited. I've posted the log here but of course the 3 times I tried this in a row (with rebooting) today, the behaviour is somewhat different. Instead of playing back the first file after 2 minutes, the rotating cirlce stops after 2 minutes and I still see the filelist without anything else happening. Now when I press OK on the very same file again, it plays back immediately.