[mythtv-users] Choppy playback over CIFS
Guillaume Lebigot
axel at mahoro-net.org
Sun Jun 24 09:02:29 UTC 2007
not James Knox a écrit :
> The videos I play are on a Windows box across a wireless LAN. I mount the
> Windows share as CIFS. Sometimes the playback is just a little bit choppy.
> How might I correct this? Is it possible to increase the size of the
> readahead cache?
>
If you use mplayer to read your videos instead of the internal player,
there is a command-line option to increase buffering:
-cache 2000 will cache about 2000Kb of your file before starting it. I
had the same kind of problem with Samba shares and this solved my issues.
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