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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?


Kind regards
Michael

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 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.


This thread can be closed.

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?