Immediate Pause/Play

[SOR]

Is it possible to Pause/Play immediately, without few second lag

[SOR]

ahem...?

[Reven]

I can press play/pause and not have any noticable lag. You might be running into the time it takes for a CD or DVD drive to spin up.

[brian]

Actually it's to do with caching...

Try changing the file caching option to 5000 milliseconds
and see what happens when you press pause then...

[SOR]

Did you mean: 'Settings>Preferences>Stream output>Access output>UDP>Caching value (ms)' ?? That didn't help much. Actually some files pause/resume pretty fast but others like wmv takes about 2 sec. to pause/resume. Other players do that immediately.
BTW I have Duron 850, 256MB ram, GF2 mx400 32MB, WinXP SP1a

[Guest]

You changed the caching value for UDP streams. You are not viewing UDP streams, so you did not change anything relevant to your setup.

[Guest]

So how to change that file caching option ??

[brian]

Open VLC.
Setings->Prefences.

Click Advanced Options.

Input / Codecs->Access modules->File

Caching value in ms: 300

Lower it to 50 and see if that helps.

You can also use the --file-caching option, e.g.
vlc --file-caching=50 file.mp3