Timeline for Video stutters on Linux and Android when watching movies from a Windows share
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| Jun 16 at 20:58 | comment | added | lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov | Note that the issue does not happen on VLC on Windows. This means that it's an issue of SMB implementation/configuration? | |
| Jun 14 at 19:56 | comment | added | lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov | I'm not saying its media player fault. I'm saying media players could make effort to address ithe SMB fault, given that SMB is a very common case for them. | |
| Jun 13 at 16:20 | comment | added | music2myear | I don't think it's necessarily a video player issue per se. SMB just has a lot of overhead and is intended as a general purpose file sharing/transfer protocol. Media is special and works better with systems optimized for its needs. | |
| Jun 13 at 15:59 | comment | added | lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov | Also, it messes with me a lot that initiating a simple file copy and watching a pending file does not have the issue. I do understand that it's an infinite cache. But why can't a video player cache in much larger chunks? I mean, I have plenty of RAM and I wouldn't mind a disk cache either... Why is it not solvable on the video player side? | |
| Jun 13 at 15:56 | comment | added | lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov | Thanks! I was hoping there's an easier fix like opting into SMB v3, but I guess you're right. | |
| Jun 13 at 14:45 | history | answered | music2myear | CC BY-SA 4.0 |