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Other media players are able to play files without issue.

Playing it via a network stream using a smb:// handler will allow it to play without issue. It's when I open it via Windows FPS and right-click to "Play with VLC Media Player" that things get wonky.

Network latency is about 30 ms with no packet loss.

Files play fine over an http stream as opposed to Samba/Windows file and print sharing.

This appears to only happen with MP3. Flac play without issue.

Seeing something similar. Tons of buffering with the below messages. Each message creates a delay error. main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 1012 ms) main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called mpgatofixed32 error: libmad error: bad main_data_begin pointer main erro...

I was wrong. It DOES top out at 1.2 MB/sec. The 100 kb/sec crap is because I was copying 6,000 files each of about 4kb in size. Yeah, too much overhead. Copying MP3s still go at 1.2 MB/sec.

I went to copy another set of files and it does not top out at 1.2 MB/sec any longer. It tops out at 100 KB/sec max. If I use FTP over the same openVPN connection, I get 1.2 MB out of it. Windows file and print sharing appears to be the culprit, somehow.

VLC 2.1.5 on Windows 7. I'm accessing the network via OpenVPN and then using Windows File and Print sharing to access MP3s over a Samba share from Linux. Despite the good connection (1Gb connection to the internet at work), I get loads of buffering. Copying the same set of files to the local PC over...