Note I wasn't sure if this should go in the tech support forum or here, but I figure it's more to do with playback...
So currently I own 2 computers, a laptop and a desktop, of these the desktop has the vast majority of my storage, and consequently my anime. So I've been trying to set up a system whereby I can play anime stored on my desktop, on my laptop. My network connection is good enough to stream high definition videos off youtube, and both my computers have the horsepower to play pretty much anything, so I would think this is all technically in the realms of possibility. However at the moment all I've gotten isn't quite doing as well as I feel it could.
What I've tried thus far is to simply set up a windows file-sharing network, which has worked fairly well thus far. I'm currently getting speeds of about 200 kb a second by simple copying(which could be probably be increased further by restraining bittorrent traffic and whatnot), though my wireless network is restrained by the fact that I need to use a repeater(annoyingly long house, what can I say), but as mentioned before I can often stream 720p video from youtube with little trouble. I've found CCCP+media player classic (fairly recent versions of both) do quite well, after about 20 seconds of loading which I can live with, while VLC pretty much melts down.
However even with my current CCCP setup I still get bits of lag every so often, so I was wondering if there's a more effective setup for this sort of thing, or technical means to speed my filesharing up. I'm fairly tech-savvy, but I'm fairly unfamiliar with this sort of thing. Have any of you ever done something similiar? What's the best way to play video from a remote computer on a local network?
So currently I own 2 computers, a laptop and a desktop, of these the desktop has the vast majority of my storage, and consequently my anime. So I've been trying to set up a system whereby I can play anime stored on my desktop, on my laptop. My network connection is good enough to stream high definition videos off youtube, and both my computers have the horsepower to play pretty much anything, so I would think this is all technically in the realms of possibility. However at the moment all I've gotten isn't quite doing as well as I feel it could.
What I've tried thus far is to simply set up a windows file-sharing network, which has worked fairly well thus far. I'm currently getting speeds of about 200 kb a second by simple copying(which could be probably be increased further by restraining bittorrent traffic and whatnot), though my wireless network is restrained by the fact that I need to use a repeater(annoyingly long house, what can I say), but as mentioned before I can often stream 720p video from youtube with little trouble. I've found CCCP+media player classic (fairly recent versions of both) do quite well, after about 20 seconds of loading which I can live with, while VLC pretty much melts down.
However even with my current CCCP setup I still get bits of lag every so often, so I was wondering if there's a more effective setup for this sort of thing, or technical means to speed my filesharing up. I'm fairly tech-savvy, but I'm fairly unfamiliar with this sort of thing. Have any of you ever done something similiar? What's the best way to play video from a remote computer on a local network?