I’ve been doing some digging around online, but haven’t been able to find any proper solution, if one exists, only others with the same issue.
I use VLC as my default media player, and sometimes I need to play back .mp4 files on SMB shares, this works 100% fine locally, but at as soon as I am accessing those same videos over SMB remotely via a VPN, they buffer like crazy, play for a few seconds, then stop and buffer again.
Now before someone jumps in and says this is because SMB is bad over high latency connections, you are right, and I am aware of this. However, Windows Photos and Windows Medial Player playback the files just fine, and this VPN I have setup can handle speeds in excess of 100Mb/s no problem over SMB when transferring files (and playing back the same files over Windows Photos doesn’t stutter and sits around 80Mb/s usage). So the connection is perfectly capable of this and VLC is clearly the culprit, I’m wondering if I can tune anything to improve this though, as I hate most other media players, VLC is easy and “just works” for 99% of my needs.
Happy to fiddle with and tweak things to try and get to the bottom of this, if possible.
Greatly appreciate any input!
Statistics: Posted by planedrop — 26 Jun 2024 19:39