HiI have a Western Digital USB2.0 1TB hard drive (spinning disk) connected to my OpenWrt Chaos Chalmer router (HG556a). On the HD I have family photos and videos, as time goes on I also intend to upload photos and videos from our smart phones to the HD. I have a 1st gen Fire TV box running Kodi connected to the TV. As it is now, I can stream mp4 videos from the HD/Router to Kodi, although there is some buffering (once every 15 secs) and the jpeg photos take a little too long to load (4-5 seconds). I want to eliminate the buffering and have the photos load up quickly i.e basically speed up the network. The budget is $0.Currently the HD has NTFS filesystem and the router is an HG556a running Samba. I set this up over the weekend, but then realised I don't have any Windows devices nor PCs at home, everything is linux, e.g. 2 Android smartphones, 1 Android tablet, chromecast, and a fire tv. Which I believe, means Samba isn't needed and I can use NFS, which means I can use my faster WR1043ND v1.8 router which is also flashed with Chaos Chalmer. I'm not using this at the moment because its 32MB RAM is insufficient to run Samba smoothly.The things I intend to do to speed up the image loading and video streaming are:1. convert all jpegs to 1920x1080 resolution (a reduction in resolution but the max the TV can handle)2. convert all videos to 720p mp4s. (the raw files of our home vids won't have any higher resolution than this, and I find 720p good enough anyway)3. use NFS instead of Samba, and therefore the replace the HG556a with the WR1043ND.4. convert HD filesystem to ext41 & 2 should see the biggest improvement and are pretty straightforward to do, although a little time consuming. 3. NFS is new to me, (so was Samba until last weekend). However can the FireTV use NFS? I see Kodi does support NFS. But because my FireTV isn't rooted (and cannot be) I don't know if the NFS functionality of the FireTV's OS is accessible. Also is NFS faster than Samba?4. Would changing from NTFS to ext4 make a speed improvement?Are there any other things I could do to speed up the network? (I also have Ethernet over powerline box, but took it out to reduce the clutter from the powerpoint to the TV area). And it's also one less thing for the 2 year old to touch/break.What are your opinions on 1, 2,3 & 4?
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