Hello everyone, I am trying to stream video through a samba share with openvpn. A straight file copy yields sustained 20mbit transfer rate. However, if i try to play back that same file (file bitrate is far below 20mbit) with mplayer using -bandwidth (cant seem to find an exact description of what this does so i set it very high 1000000000) -cache and -cache-min. Mplayer will fill the min cache, quickly blow through the buffer and begin to lag. I see mplayer is only pulling down the file at about 300-600kB/s and wont fill the cache any faster. Is there anything i might be doing wrong, im not really understanding why mplayer appears to be limiting bandwidth. Thanks!
