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Unclethommy
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 Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: Video player that buffers? [solved] |
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Hi there, I have a very simple question.
I normally use VLC to play videos which I store on a network mounted folder. Sometimes, when the network is busy, the video stutters and breaks. It got me thinking whether there is a program anyone uses that can actually buffer a large amount of the video that you watch, so that it doesn't have any skips even if the network connection drops to a slow speed during some points?
Would anyone have any suggestions? It would also help if the program has a windows counter part so I can stay consistent , like VLC at the moment.
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Gusar
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | mplayer -cache 16384 |
This example will buffer 16MB of video, choose any number that gives you satisfactory results. Once you have it, make it permanent by putting it into ~/.mplayer/config
MPlayer builds for Windows exist too. |
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DtZ
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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| SMPlayer. It's a nice mplayer frontend that works on both linux and windows. You can set how much data you want to cache in Preferences->Performance->Cache for ... |
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Unclethommy
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you both for your help. Smplayer works sgreat and so far hasn't stuttered. Using it on windows at the moment but I am sure it works well in linux too.
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