Windows 10 playing videos from network drive?

Cyber-Mav · 3 Dec 2022 at 17:02

got an issue that developed today. my server has network drives shared and the win10 pc i use can access the folder and see files and copy them over to local drive straight away, however if i want to play a video file mediaplayer classic-be hangs for 30-40 seconds before actual playback begins. once playing i can seek in the video instantly. playing a different video results in same delay.
now if the video file is not in the root of the shared drive but in a sub folder then playback is instant with no start up delay. whats going on?

Deleted member 77746 · 4 Dec 2022 at 15:53

Are you accessing via IP address \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\share or network share name i.e \\pc\share or \\pc.local.domain\share

Cyber-Mav · 9 Dec 2022 at 10:48

GaryTheSnail said:
Are you accessing via IP address \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\share or network share name i.e \\pc\share or \\pc.local.domain\share

tried both same issue

Django x2 · 9 Dec 2022 at 11:43

Yeah, there wouldn't be any difference, other than the client not working out the NETBIOS name, but then it would either fail instantly, or take less than 40 seconds to work.

Could be a permissions thing. If the subfolder has less ACLs to calculate than the root of the SharedFolder, but that's a stretch I'm afraid.

Cyber-Mav · 15 Dec 2022 at 14:32

dang, big issue for me. windows 10 is just a pain.

Murphy · 15 Dec 2022 at 16:40

Have you tested if you get the same thing with another media player to rule out if it's MPC-BE or Windows.