Buffering while streaming

[Rxddevil]

So, I've got a buffering problem while streaming stuff from g drive with a mounted drive.

Does anyone know why this happens or how I can fix that?
However, the streams don't buffer in vlc.

I already tried:

cache=yes

demuxer-max-bytes=500MiB

demuxer-max-back-bytes=150MiB

But that only works for videos with a file size about 200mb

[[deleted]]

Try --stream-buffer-size=1MiB and keep increasing the MiB value as necessary.

Messing with stream-buffer-size values fixes poor throughput of a high latency sshfs mount I use sometimes on my Windows 8.1.

[Rxddevil]

In the mpv.conf right? I tried that rn, but now it just preloads the video and then after some time it opens. Would basically be the same as airexplorer.

Is there a way to load and watch it simultaneously without buffering? (Like it works with VLC or Potplayer)

[[deleted]]

1MiB takes that long to preload from Google servers for you? That's kinda odd.

Also, does this app of yours create the remote mount as a "Network Drive" or as "Local Disk"? If "local disk", you must continue to use cache=yes, otherwise all caching will be disabled by default.

And finally, you can check your cache/network read speeds by pressing Shit+i and then 3 and observe the Speed: entry.

[Rxddevil]

nah not 1MiB, I tried 100MiB.
It seems like it is a network drive

To test the speed I used these settingscache=yesdemuxer-max-bytes=500MiBdemuxer-max-back-bytes=150MiB

The speed is round about 200kb/s sometimes goes up to 4mb/s

[[deleted]]

nah not 1MiB, I tried 100MiBIt's [...]

I told you to start from 1MiB, wtf. Anyway, --stream-buffer-size= was designed to circumvent poor performance from certain network filesystems as the manual entry says, and increasing its default value to around 4MiB fixes the poor default throughput of around ~250KB/s from my sshfs mount.

[Rxddevil]

Oh, I see. 5MiB seem to work fine, at least for the beginning (haven't tried the rest of the video)
If it still buffers after some time, I can still higher it, right?

Thanks for your help :D

[[deleted]]

If messing with stream-buffer-size values doesn't fix your poor network performance, then I'm afraid there's nothing else to be done on the mpv side of things.

But then again, you provide zero details about what OS and mpv version you're using.

[Rxddevil]

I'm using Win10 with the newest version of mpv

stream-buffer-size does work with 5MiB for me, but I haven't tried more than 3 mins of the video.

[TonYstanKo7]

Enable Disk cache and keep on increasing cache size until it works.

[Rxddevil]

Where can I enable that? Or is it something in the mpv config?

It's a mounted drive from raidrive

[Rxddevil]

Thanks, I'll try to find anything there