[LINUX/MAC/WINDOWS] Ability to set much larger video file-system caching buffer

i would like the option to increase the buffer size considerably for streaming higher bitrate videos(MKV) over the network.

Me too, which is why I submitted a feature request for it yesterday, see http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4640

Post a comment there (more comments in trac shows developers that it is wanted)

Will probably not be implemented until Atlantis 'Gold' have been released though.

Sweet man iam glad someone high up sees eye and eye with something.

Hi,

I've recently switched from a MythTV setup to XBMC and so far, everything is working really well.

I have one question though. The machine I'm using has 2GB of RAM. In the past, I setup MythTV so that mPlayer would take 1GB of whatever file it was playing in its cache (most often, the whole thing). The reason I did this is because the files being accessed sit on another machine and are made available through NFS.

Is there a way to increase the cache XBMC takes to those same levels? I've maxed out the settings in the interface (Settings/System/Cache) to as high as they will go (4MB for local and 16MB for network) but the video gets lost when going above 4x-8x fast forward. I figure having more cached upfront would probably cure this. Also, NFS might be seen by the system as being local and having even less cache taken.

Since this isn't a bug, I don't know that you need all the data for my machine but here it is just in case:
Ubuntu 8.04 i686 up-to-date as of August 26th running XBMC from PPA (SVN:15111) as for the hardware, AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+ w/ 2GB of RAM and a GeForce 6600.
Debug Log: http://pastebin.com/m7f2b6486

I'd be grateful for any help.

Thanks.

Enhancement request is already on trac:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4640

Wow, that was fast. Thanks for the heads-up.

Would it really be that time consuming to add this feature? Low caching buffer is a really turn off for us that rely on a wireless network to watch video files, in fact i just paused a small mediacenter project i was planning using and old pc because watching a video files becomes a nightmare sometimes

zeroneo Wrote:Would it really be that time consuming to add this feature?

I do not know if it would be hard and/or time consuming to implement but I do know that it will not be implemented in XBMC until after we have released 'Atlantis' gold release http://trac.xbmc.org/milestone/8.10

Note that if you really want this feature then you should also be +1'ing the trac ticket http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4640

Gamester17 Wrote:Note that if you really want this feature then you should also be +1'ing the trac ticket http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4640

I was looking for that option on the tracker and forgot to ask, I can't see it, do I have to register also there to vote it?

Login with the same username and password that you have here in the forums, then just post/add a comment in the existing ticket.