Any VLC Player experts?

[ssmith general]

I get some jumpiness.  I know there are settings to help it.  As you would expect the jumpiness is more the larger the movie file.  720P and up movies I cant watch from my external drive due to the jumpiness.  So I suspect it's a cache issue.  I pushed the cashe up in several of the options and It might have worked better.

Discuss.

BTW.  I have over 400 movies and documentaries.

[deahl001]

Is the external drive USB or e-SATA?

[ssmith general]

Is the external drive USB or e-SATA?

USB and runs through a router and is shared by all the computers in the house.  I know I am pushing it to play movies from it.  It works really well for regular DVD's (~700MB each), and then gets worse as the quality goes up.  With 1080P (~4.5G each) not working very well at all.  So then I copy them over to the HD if they wont play well, that works for the 720P (~2.2G each) but still have occasional issues with the full 1080P blue ray.  I have not tried to burn them to a disc and play them yet.

[deahl001]

Before I make any suggestions, I don't want to offend you by making suggestions that are below your level of understanding of computers. So how competent would you consider yourself when it comes to hardware, networking, etc?

[ssmith general]

Before I make any suggestions, I don't want to offend you by making suggestions that are below your level of understanding of computers. So how competent would you consider yourself when it comes to hardware, networking, etc?

Medium...  I grew up on computers, but they have passed me by in the last 10 years or so.  Back in the good old days I was a master at writing config.sys and autoexec.bat's for people so they could play certain games.  LOL.

Dont worry about offending me, but also you dont have to waste any time providing any background or simple stuff, etc...

Does that make sense?

[deahl001]

Couple questions:

1. 100 base or gigabit network?

2. Video card model?

3. Processor?

4. Memory (specifically amount and front side bus)?

5. Hard drive speed and cache?

[ssmith general]

Couple questions:

1. 100 base or gigabit network? Not sure what this means, but the computer is brand new and runs windows 7 if that helps

2. Video card model? ATI Radeon 4500 (I think) It has 512k dedicated video memory

3. Processor? AMD Pheonix

4. Memory (specifically amount and front side bus)? 6 gig, not sure about the front side bus part

5. Hard drive speed and cache? Not sure

I'm not on that computer right now, but I will get it out right now.

[ssmith general]

Ok, I am on the computer now, stand by for better answers.

[ssmith general]

Couple questions:

1. 100 base or gigabit network?

2. Video card model?

3. Processor?

4. Memory (specifically amount and front side bus)?

5. Hard drive speed and cache?

1   I dont know where to find this...
2   ATI Mobility Radeon 4250
3   AMD Phenom II N870 Triple Core 2.3 Mhz
4   Installed Physical Memory (RAM)   6.00 GB
     Total Physical Memory   5.75 GB
     Available Physical Memory   4.55 GB
     Total Virtual Memory   11.5 GB
     Available Virtual Memory   10.0 GB
     Page File Space   5.75 GB

5   For the computer or the external?  I dont know how to find either.

[deahl001]

Is this a laptop?

[ssmith general]

Is this a laptop?

correct

[deahl001]

What is the external drive plugged in to?

[ssmith general]

What is the external drive plugged in to?

A belkin N+ router

[deahl001]

Are you streaming over wireless or wired?

[ssmith general]

Are you streaming over wireless or wired?

wireless

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