Streaming video files across LAN

[uglyned]

Hoping someone will be able to help with choppy video playback over LAN.

 

I have a NAS drive on my network which holds a lot of video files - mainly XviD AVI files.

 

I play these in DVBViewer but recently since installing Windows 7 playing them back has become choppy. Every now and again the video will stop, like it's waiting for the network.

 

It's not a network speed issue - I could copy an entire file across the network in seconds.

 

Playing files across the network in Windows media player is fine and not choppy at all, but then playing them in DVBViewer before I installed Windows 7 was OK too.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing this? Does DVBViewer have any caching on network file playing I could try?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Derrick]

Wenn network speed kein problem ist, wird es doch eher am directx liegen. Was macht der DVBViewer denn, wenn du so eine datei lokal abspielst? Mehr fragen sehe ich z.z. nicht in meiner kristallkugel

 

/wrong language

 

..if network speed is not the problem, the culprit will be most likely directx. What happens if you play a such a file locally? (can't see any further questions in my cristal ball )

Edited October 22, 2009 by Derrick

[uglyned]

Thanks Derrick - but it works fine played locally, no dropouts at all.

 

I just can't see why it would be a network problem - it's a Gigabit link that copies terabytes in a matter of minutes.

 

All I want to play is minimal sized AVI files - about 210mb for every half hour of video.

 

It always used to work OK before Windows 7. I've disabled everything I don't need in Windows 7 like the indexing service and it's a fast PC with lots of memory.