[MPlayer-users] fastest way to play video over network?

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Brian Hall,

on Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:41:28 -0700 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Is there a faster way to play video with mplayer over a network than 
> using NFSv3 on Linux? I have an old VIA board (Tyan S1598C2) that locks 
> up if enable any kind of HDD DMA, so I'm looking to speed up playing 
> divx, etc from a remote source. Currently I'm just playing the file the 
> same as I would a local one, only the file is accessed via NFS.
Buy a faster network card :)
Have tried to use the cache ? Using -cache 5000 or something like that should
help. It even help from hd, because mplayer never have to wait (even a very little
time) to have the data.
	Albeu