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Thanks for the update DJ I will try it out and see if it impoves any bit. Do you have any suggestions for other media players that would be able to provide real-time streaming? I have tried MPlayer; however it seems a bit unstable and doesn't have any activeX controls. I've been reading that the HTT...

Hello All, I am trying to open an HTTP video stream on my client computer using VLC. When I connect to my stream video playback is delayed by 7 seconds. I know that the delay is due to VLC buffering video before displaying it. I used Mplayer with the "nocache" option to open the http strea...

So I found that the memory usage seems to plateau at a certain value over time. When the stream first starts to play (on the client) it quickly consumes memory for a couple of minutes but then steadies off. When I have a single stream playing on the client, total client memory usage plateaus at ~40 ...

Hello All, Currently on my VLC setup it is possible to enter fullscreen mode by double clicking on the video window. Is there a preference that will allow me to disable this? I am using the ActiveX control for my software dev and want the video to be windowed inside my application. I do not want to ...

Was this problem resolved? If so what was the solution? I am having the same issues!

Thanks

Hey guys, My VLC Server is streaming a video at ~800kbps. I am playing it back on my client and notice that the memory usage of the client PC increases at about the same rate as the bitrate of the video. It seems as though its streaming the video to the system memory of the client pc and keeping it ...

Thanks for the tips DJ. I tried opening a different video file and doing the same procedure. Everything works great--switches are instantaneous! Looks like the file I was using to do my testing was causing all the problems.

Thanks for all of your help

Rahim

Is there any way, then, to increase the amount of windows cache memory available to VLC? The files are the exact same format/resolution.

Thanks,

Rahim

So I just found out something interesting that may help you help me :P I have 3 instances of VLC streaming a file via UDP multicast on my server. I opened up VLC player on my client and added the 3 UDP addresses to my playlist. I let one stream load and then selected another stream from the playlist...

I will begin with a bit of background on my project. I have a server which has 16 instances of VLC open. Each instance is streaming a UDP multicast video. I have multiple clients which open the UDP streams. I am having some difficulty switching between streams on my client. I have a VLC ActiveX cont...