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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
So you aren't attempting to stream video to a playback device?
If you just want to get the file from one machine to another, I'd thing about sneakernet. Copy the files to a USB thumbdrive, then plug the drive into the target and copy them to the desired destination. You avoid the router being the the speed bump in the road.
(I don't do a lot with video, and haven't experienced the problem. I have some video on the desktop, but if I need to get it to a laptop or tablet a direct cable connection or a thumbdrive does it without Wifi in the loop.)
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Dennis
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The problem with that is that the router IS the destination. Even if I plugged a flash drive into its USB2 port, the files would have to go to a PC then back to the USB3 drive, i.e. twice the bottleneck of PC-to-router. Anyway, a flash drive would be more of a hassle than just collecting into one temp folder and transferring over the network.
I play video stored on the router USB drive (native playback of MKV & MP4 files, not a streaming service like DLNA or Plex). The file transfers are to get the video files from a PC to that drive. The choppiness I mentioned isn't streaming to the player, it's inbound streaming to the recording software on the PC.