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    Question N7700 networked folder and video playback problems

    I have set up some network drives from folders on the NAS.
    The box is configured with 7 WD10EADS in one big Raid6 with Ext3 file system.

    When I try to play videos directly there seem to be serious trouble with loss of frames.
    At the same time as the freeze or drop of frames during playback I can hear the disks work for a second. The files are using Matroska which is quite common for a lot of high quality streams, but these videos are not. Playback of any video directly from a networked folder with VLC seem to have issues. Basically VLC reports around 5% loss of buffers and frames.
    Tried using WMP with ffmpeg for some xvid and that seem to work ok.

    There is nothing wrong with my network as I can play back the same files from a networked disk on another pc without any issues.

    Anyone know whats going on? This can't be normal

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    Re: N7700 networked folder and video playback problems

    Dear Sir,

    If possiblw would you please provide some sample file for us to duplicate this issue?

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    Re: N7700 networked folder and video playback problems

    Hi Yvon,

    Unfortunately I don't think giving you a file would be legal

    Further testing showed that increasing buffer for file playback in VLC from 500ms to 1500ms helped.
    Why this is needed for the N7700 I don't know, but that's what I'll have to do if I actually keep this thing.
    So far there are a few things I don't like...noise levels and absence of flac support on media server to name a couple.

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