VLC player, file cache settings

If you, like me - use VLC mediaplayer to view all your media, you may have run into the same problem as I. That is, when we watch multiple movies on different computers, sometime the media will lag/fall behind. This is especially true, if the computer is connected via WiFi instead of LAN.

However, there is an easy fix! Start VLC player and go to tools -> preferences. Select "view all" instead of simple mode.

Then go to Input/Codecs -> Access Modules -> Files

I changed the default caching value(ms) from 300 to 3000 and Extra networking caching from 900 to 9000.

Now, all VLC players will read a larger portion of the media file and cache it locally, thus being more robust for network problems!

Happy viewing!

// Lazze