Buffer problem: hangs when too much lag

[cellocgw]

I saw the note over in the OSX forum about increasing the buffer size under the prefs accessmodules/file . So far, it isn't working for me.
I've assigned as much as 20 seconds to the buffer, but here's what happens:
The source file is on one machine which is hardwired to my router (an iMacG4 if that matters). I'm receiving the stream on a WiFi Dell laptop. The movie will play OK for a while, but whenever the buffer runs low, or at least I think that's what happens, the movie freezes and never recovers.
The log file says something like "frames late for more than 5 seconds."

Anyway, is there some way to get VLC to continue playing once the buffer catches up? For that matter, do I need to adjust some setting so that VLC knows to keep acquiring data from the remote machine? I can't tell whether VLC just drops the connection once the buffer empties (or whatever causes that error message).

Thanks for all help.
Carl

[zorglub]

Hello,

Basically, this is probably the single most critical problem in VLC these days: it can't "stop" to "wait the buffer". Changing this will definitely be done, but it is quite complex...