The default cache of 300ms isn’t enough, because any stutters of longer than 0.3 seconds will be very evident. So when there’s a “stutter” while VLC copies in the background, you’ll never see it because you’ve cached enough that VLC recovered and grabbed the new data before the video even got to your screen. What you’re basically doing with the above cache setting is caching this data well ahead of time. The boring stuff you didn’t want to know:įrom what I read/gathered, the cause seems to have something to do with the Mac OS having high latency when accessing Samba-shares (shares from Windows), and the Mac OS doing particularly poorly when it does many small reads from these shares. You should be good to go! If you still get periodic spikes, you can go into the preferences and increase the cache a bit more. Easiest way is to Right-Click the icon on the dock and choose “Quit”, then start it again.
If your lag spikes are longer, you can try going even higher. I had lag spikes of up to 4 seconds at a time on the Macbook here, so I set it to 5000ms (5 seconds). This determines how many seconds of video VLC will cache. Now change this value from the default of 300.Go to Input Codecs, Access Modules, File.The screen will then change to look like it does in the picture above.
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