Force Media Player to Stream from Network Drive?

Bobby_M · Apr 10, 2008

I have all my videos on a network shared drive and I'm trying to play then on my Wifi connected laptop. Of course, Windows Media player thinks it's a local drive and doesn't cache/buffer the file like it would on an online file. Does anyone know how I can force it to get rid of the stutter?

EdWort · Apr 10, 2008

Are your video files encoded for streaming?

z987k · Apr 10, 2008

use vlc media player.

if it doesn't stream like you're wanting to, I know you can set up the host computer to "broadcast" and tell the computer you're viewing on to look for the stream.

Bobby_M · Apr 10, 2008

EdWort said:
Are your video files encoded for streaming?

No, they're just various DV encoded AVI or MPG files but if I put them on my web server, media player somehow knows to buffer first.

Blender · Apr 10, 2008

On my HTPC I use UNC naming paths but I don't know if that will work in your instance. Video is also better if the drive is set to 64K blocks.

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