Xbox One X - How to Jump in Streaming Videos?

[Bleser]

Hello!

First of all, thank you so much for developing this app. I am new to Xbox (just retired my PS3) and have loved all of it until I tried to stream videos with the Microsoft Media Player - it crashed every few minutes. I tried this VLC app and it plays the videos PERFECTLY. Thank you!

I would say right now the biggest thing I can't figure out (or may not exist) is the ability to jump/seek videos that I am streaming. I use Universal Media Server (UMS) and VLC finds and plays my library just fine, but during playback I can't seem to skip forward in videos; it jumps about 5 seconds and then buffers when pressing right, and holding down on right gets laggy and cumbersome.

Is there a way to simply have it load the full title length so I can seek to a certain point and then press 'A'? The length of the video seems to 'grow' as I'm watching it which is weird; almost like it doesn't know how long the video is?

I hope this makes sense. Thanks again for the great work.

[mfkl]

Hello Bleser,

I installed Universal Media Server and had a look.

Is there a way to simply have it load the full title length so I can seek to a certain point and then press 'A'?

I'm afraid not.

Some videos seem to seek fine but indeed some videos have timestamp seeking issues. Looking at UMS logs, I can see error messages related to timestamps.
I'd advise you to try a different media server software and see if that fixes your issues.

[Bleser]

Thanks for the feedback!

Is there one that you would recommend over UMS? I've been using it for years (also back when it was 'PS3' media server) and it has been very reliable.

[mfkl]

We use Samba.

[Bleser]

Ah, OK, so Linux and not a Windows-based solution it sounds like. I might install the Plex Server tonight and try that with DLNA.

UMS works great minus the basic inability to jump forward quickly, which worked on my PS3, but oh well.