Hi all
I have set-up a VM on a server in lets say location A, location A has decent internet bandwidth (65mb down / 17.5mb up) unlimited
I am currently situated in location B, which has a not so great internet connection, although some streaming services such as youtube, netflix, some how manage to cope (after a bit of buffering)
The server in location A has a VPN server set-up (at the moment over PPTP microsoft) I will soon be switching this to a more secure method, and using OpenVPN.
My issue at the moment is when I connect to the VPN from location B to server in A, and open a file from fileshare in to VLC, it is playable, but I get quite a bit of freezing and sometimes pixelation during the playback, it is almost as if it is not buffering the content, but playing it live, IE you cant leave it for a bit and let the buffer increase.
I am not sure if this is lack of feature in VLC, or if there is anyway in VLC to lower the quality slightly to allow for playback, I dont quite understand how it works with Netflix with decent quality.
If I can't find a solution, is there any other software that is decent for streaming content? and allows you to build up a buffer?
Bonus points if anyone has a solution where I can stream directly from my server in Location A, over the internet to a Raspberri Pi running OpenElec
I have set-up a VM on a server in lets say location A, location A has decent internet bandwidth (65mb down / 17.5mb up) unlimited
I am currently situated in location B, which has a not so great internet connection, although some streaming services such as youtube, netflix, some how manage to cope (after a bit of buffering)
The server in location A has a VPN server set-up (at the moment over PPTP microsoft) I will soon be switching this to a more secure method, and using OpenVPN.
My issue at the moment is when I connect to the VPN from location B to server in A, and open a file from fileshare in to VLC, it is playable, but I get quite a bit of freezing and sometimes pixelation during the playback, it is almost as if it is not buffering the content, but playing it live, IE you cant leave it for a bit and let the buffer increase.
I am not sure if this is lack of feature in VLC, or if there is anyway in VLC to lower the quality slightly to allow for playback, I dont quite understand how it works with Netflix with decent quality.
If I can't find a solution, is there any other software that is decent for streaming content? and allows you to build up a buffer?
Bonus points if anyone has a solution where I can stream directly from my server in Location A, over the internet to a Raspberri Pi running OpenElec
