I've got a problem which I'm sure can be addressed with the great features of VLC. I'm just not good enough to find how to do it by myself
My videos (mostly divx, 350 MB) are stored on a home NAS. This network storage is very slow: it takes around 7 minutes to copy a 350 MB divx from it on my PC. My problem is that rather than downloading the file on my PC before playing it with VLC (and wait 7 minutes !), I'd like to read it directly from the NAS. But if I open the video in VLC using a local mapped drive to the NAS, the video is dead slow, freezes, etc... So opening the video directly in real-time doesn't seem a good option.
The video takes 7 min to download and is about 40 minutes. This means it downloads much faster than it is played. Therefore, I don't really understand why accessing it directly causes problems. I would think that a small cache of a few MB could be created during the first few seconds, and then it should be enough to start reading the video fluidly until the end. That's where my knowledge ends... Is there a feature in VLC that would allow this ? Maybe using streaming ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated !
