Playback from NAS stuttering

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Playback from NAS stuttering

Postby chaos2oo2 » 01 Jan 2015 22:36

Hi,

I just got a Macbook Air and now I am having trouble playing video files from my Synology NAS (using VLC 2.1.5). I connected the share via smb. For e.g. I have a 1080p file with a total size of 14 GB, lasting a total of 110 minutes of playtime. Copying this thing to my mac takes about 35 minutes. Nevertheless it is not possible to play this mkv with VLC. The video stops with a grey screen and I am getting skipped frames at the statistic. When I have a look at the download speed of my NAS I can see that the possible bandwidth is not used. I tried changing the network cache to 60000 ms and everything works, but this can not be the solution. I am getting a constant 12 Mb/s from my Wifi connection when I copy the file, but VLC is not able to display the video. What is wrong here?


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Re: Playback from NAS stuttering

Postby fkuehne » 02 Jan 2015 14:04

Well, as already said in the other thread you responded to, please get VLC 2.2 RC2 to workaround: http://download.videolan.org/testing/vl ... .0-rc2.dmg
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Re: Playback from NAS stuttering

Postby chaos2oo2 » 10 Jan 2015 01:17

I checked RC2 and it still does not work. Please have a look at the other thread at https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=115152.


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Re: Playback from NAS stuttering

Postby iHateMacs » 12 Aug 2017 04:30

Well, as already said in the other thread you responded to, please get VLC 2.2 RC2 to workaround: http://download.videolan.org/testing/vl ... .0-rc2.dmg
I love when people post the "I told you so" posts and then it turns out your solution didnt work.then you never respnd again. Nice. So what is the fix, or is watching VLC videos over a NAS on a MAC just never going to work without stuttering?


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