[mythtv-users] mplayer stutters when playing files over the network

[David Snider]

Peter Verhoye wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've almost finished installing my mythtv-pc but I have some problems 
> with network performance. I use mplayer (default) to play video files 
> in mythvideo. My .avi files are stored on a NAS server to which the 
> mythtv-pc connects over a DEVOLO highspeed netwerk (using the 
> electricity network; my wifi-g network does not offer enough stability 
> that why I use this homeadapter plugs). Anyway, my question is how can 
> I set mplayer to buffer files a bit more since the way it behaves now, 
> my .avi files are not really viewable (too much stutter in both audio 
> and video).
>
>
try adding "cache=32768" to your ~/.mplayer/config file
or mplayer -cache 32768 <file>