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Hey all...

I am running VLC on both a Linux and Windows Laptop; I mount a Windows share, and run VLC and point it at a ripped DVD on the Windows share (both a .ISO, and an expanded folder).

In all cases, the movie starts, but after a few seconds of running, starts to stop, go, stop, go, sometimes the sound breaks up and is jittery.

Does anybody know how to get around this?

I tried setting some cacheing values in VLC, and when I then again try to play a movie, it just hangs and doesn't play at all.

Is there any definite way to fix this?

I can guarantee 900mb to 1.2gb per sec download speeds on my network.

- Tim

Increase caching to 1000

Which cacheing value are you referring to? There are a bunch (I am using detailed settings).
Perhaps you can give me a path in the settings tree to go to? Incidentally, if I set ALL of the cache values
in Input/Codecs->Access Modules to 1000ms, and then try to play a ripped DVD over the network, VLC just hangs and does nothing, and eventually I have to kill it by hand.

This doesn't seem like the right behavior; I'm using 0.94 (which is the only one officially available for Ubuntu via the nomal channels right now). Perhaps this is a problem fixed in 0.96?

- Tim

Hello all...

I'm still having this problem. Running VLC 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.04, trying to play a ripped DVD on a Windows share, over WiFi. It still hangs after several seconds of play. I've upped a few of the cacheing values to no avail.

Has anybody successfully been able to play ripped DVDs, exported on a Windows Share, on a Linux box running VLC? I've never gotten it to work for more than a few seconds. Searching here doesn't get much help, either.

This *did* work when playing the ripped DVD on the mounted share, when VLC is running on a Windows machine. But with VLC on Linux playing the WIndows exported share, it stops eventually and won't continue playing.

- Tim

Increase caching 10times

Increase caching 10times

I shall ask again - WHICH cacheing values? There are probably 30 or 40 "cacheing" values distributed through the settings.

- Tim

The one you are using to access your dvd. If it is DVD dumps, probably dvd-caching.

Thanks for the suggestion - well, I upped all cacheing values that seemed at all related by x10 (eg. from 3000ms to 30000ms).

So what happens? After 2x the buffer time (1 minute = (2 x 30000ms)), playback stops completely again.

What do you suppose might be happening? No matter the buffer size, when I read 2x the buffer size, playback stops. Well, not exactly - the playback counter in the lower right of the screen keeps on ticking by, but playback itself stops.

- Tim