![]() ![]() Occasionally I have problems in VLC with files on smb shares but that only happens with files that have accents, umlauts, or such in the filenames and which macOS itself is unable to display or access because its implementation of Unicode support for smb is buggy. macOS has serious issues with non-ASCII characters that can be represented using combining characters in Unicode and is unable to display or load the files correctly from smb shares. characters can either be represented by one Unicode character or by a regular ASCII character plus a Unicode combining character for the accent, umlaut, or whatever. characters due to an issue of how accented/umlauted/etc. In Windows, network drives show up within seconds rather than taking minutes like on macOS, and also Windows correctly handles non-ASCII characters in filenames on smb shares while macOS has problems if the filenames contain any accented/umlauted/etc. The only real difficulty is that macOS does not have a very good smb implementation and it takes several minutes for network drives to show up after the computer restarts or is turned on, but that is a macOS issue, not a VLC issue. No problems at all for me streaming those over the LAN in VLC. My Mac supports 802.11n but not 802.11ac and it works fine over the WiFi, and as for the Windows PC hosting the video files on smb, it is connected to the router via a 100 Mbps Ethernet cord. And yeah I do this over WiFi on an 802.11g/n/ac network (802.11ac for devices that support it, 802.11n for devices that are not ac-compatible, and 802.11g for devices that are not even n-compatible). The biggest issue I had with VLC was subtitle display but that has been fixed now that version 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 are out, I use version 2.2.8 now. I regularly play lots of videos all the time over smb shares on macOS and VLC is the player that has the least issues for me. Honestly for me playback of files over smb shares from Windows machines on macOS is much smoother with fewer problems in VLC Media Player than in other players like QuickTime (which is generally awful) or even mpv (which other than this problem and difficulties with certain malformed video files that only VLC can handle correctly is generally quite good). ![]()
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