Stremio
Increase buffer in memory
I'm running a raid array with hdds with eco modes to save power, sometimes stremio just gets the running wrong and stutters.
This may not be the cause but the effect the same.
Are you using the "No Caching" setting? This is the only way that it won't buffer to disk, otherwise all other caching settings will buffer to disk.
Or are you talking about the video player's own caching? That should not cause issues, MPV does not have a buffer limit at all by default afaik.
No No, I am suggesting you keep an in-memory buffer/cache ONTOP of the disk cache.
To ensure that slow disks don't cause stutters.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 21:47, Alexandru Branza [email protected] wrote:
Are you using the "No Caching" setting? This is the only way that it won't buffer to disk, otherwise all other caching settings will buffer to disk.
Or are you talking about the video player's own caching? That should not cause issues, MPV does not have a buffer limit at all by default afaik.
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MPV (the built-in video player) keeps it's buffer on top of the disk cache that Stremio uses if u have the cache setting set to anything else except "No Cache". This is the way I understand it at least. The question here is if MPV caches in-memory or not, my theory is that it also caches on disk. (as it pre-buffers the entire video by default)
If you can find the required MPV args to accomplish what u wish to do, then it may be possible in a future release as we are planning to expose an MPV config file to users.
hehe, I think I asked for the MPV config settings on Twitter.
So MPV does do in-memory buffering, but it has a very low default setting, I run raw MPV for local videos (stremio is not great at local video discovery) and I DID have to tweak the settings in MPV in order to get smooth playback.
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MPV (the built-in video player) keeps it's buffer on top of the disk cache that Stremio uses if u have the cache setting set to anything else except "No Cache". This is the way I understand it at least. The question here is if MPV caches in-memory or not, my theory is that it also caches on disk. (as it pre-buffers the entire video by default)
If you can find the required MPV args to accomplish what u wish to do, then it may be possible in a future release as we are planning to expose an MPV config file to users.
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If u have MPV or VLC installed, then u can also right click the video player in Stremio and select the appropriate option that will launch the video in an external player.
Stremio 4.4.144 flatpak does not seem to allow me to play with external players, and it did work with .70