Macbook air stutters during streaming video

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I am streaming video from an ASUS router to a macbook air (2013) and having horrible stuttering problems. No big deal, you may say – I just don't have the bandwidth for it. The only thing is, if I copy the video over the network to my laptop, it only takes 10 minutes for a 90 minute movie, telling me that I have 9X the bandwidth required for streaming. This suggests that buffering may be the problem, but I've used both Movist and VLC and get the same problems.

Has anyone experienced something similar – where more than enough bandwidth is available, but video streaming still stutters horribly? And more importantly, did you find a solution?

Best Answer

According to a post on VLC's own forum, there is a "known issue" with streaming directly from a NAS.

Here's what they have to say on the streaming from NAS issue.

"Known issue, but I agree it's really annoying.
I also met the lagging issue when playing directly from NAS, but through UPnP, playback is really smooth.

If your NAS has UPnP server, consider using it."

So, the user "nkoriyama" suggests enabling uPnP as the solution, if it's available as an option for you.

Note: This answer is taken from the comment stream under the op's question

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