2012-08-10, 10:13
(2012-08-10, 01:14).:B:. Wrote: If you are saying 'remote' and 'internet connection', do you mean your share is really somewhere online, not on your LAN? You need quite a bit of bandwidth to stream stuff... Especially if the video has not been optimised for streaming.
Yes, my share is "over-the-internet", as I have much more (10x) disk space on my server than I have at home... and my internet connection is quite shitty (4Mbps down) but it's usually enough to downlaoad a small-sized (DVDRIP and well-compressed 720p) movie/episode within the duration time of the said movie/episode.
But it's blocking when watching not-so-compressed 720p or even 1080p videos (or when the video has high-bitrate scenes).
So I'd love a buffer to download (= read through SSH) maybe 5 minutes of video prior to reading it, even if I must wait 5 minutes at the beginning of the video for the buffer to fill up.
(2012-08-10, 09:02)wsnipex Wrote: the buffer will only be used, if xbmc regards your source as "remote", which is not the case with a FS mounted in the OS.
afaik it only works with stream URLs. There is a PR that enables buffering also for local mounts, but its not in mainline yet and definately not in Eden.
see here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/831
Thanks for answering my question (about whether the buffer is used with SSHFS mount or not) and for pointing me to this PR, it seems interesting !
So if buffer is use only with stream URL, does that mean you can't read a whole directory tree, but only one file at a time ?
Or is the buffer used when declaring a SMB or NFS source from within XMBC (not mounting it using /etc/fstab or regular `mount` command)
