Occasional pause over wifi, anyway of buffering/streaming?

[simonwilliams]

Wonder if this is possible, I sometimes want to watch a video thats on my main PC in the loft on my media PC which is down in the lounge. The two share a network (XP+SP2) & I just browse the folders on my main machine, choose the file & click. However because of the wifi distance there is the occasional pause/glitch every 10 - 60 seconds depending on what type of file I'm playing.

Is there a way to get video lan to buffer some of the video or to steam the video to prevent these brief glitches or any other work around?
Thanks for any advise.

[DJ]

This has been brought up before when using a wireless interface. Try increasing the cache size (in MS) when setting up the stream. Once you find a value that works for you, it can be set in Preferences.

[simonwilliams]

Try increasing the cache size (in MS) when setting up the stream

Sorry, can you expand upon that, where is the cache file settings?

[Guest]

Under Open network stream, Advanced, caching <value>

or as a commannd line function:

--rtsp-caching <integer> Caching value (ms)
--file-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--ftp-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--http-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--mms-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--sout-udp-caching <integer> Caching value (ms)
--realrtsp-caching <integer> Caching value (ms)
--smb-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--tcp-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--udp-caching <integer> Caching value in ms