[SOLVED] remotely stream 1080p HD movie from Qnap 210

[mastersite]

I'am trying to setup so I can remotely stream a 1080p through a secure webdav connection via VLC from my NAS.

I have a NAS Qnap 210 which stays in my apartment room, it's connected to the internet (40mbit/40mbit) which should be fast enough to stream 1080p hd films.

at the remote location, windows 7 has a connection to the nas media folder through netdrive which mounts the webdav connection as secondary hard drive. The connection here is 30mbit down, 3mbit up via ethernet.

I've tried using a variety of media players (mplayer, classic player, VLC) to play the videos from the mounted webdav drive, but they can only play for a couple of seconds before having to buffer. I don't think it is a connection issue, as the speed should be fast enough.

These are a few things which i'm guessing it could be:

1) the media players are not buffering the video continously to allow smooth playback (I've noticed classic player does it small chunks). Maybe I have to open these videos as a network stream, so these players know they should continously buffering?

2) WebDav with SSL is too taxing on the NAS and is what causing the hiccups

3) WebDAV and netdrive is an extra overhead causing this slowdown

Any ideas?

[schumaku]

Strongly doubt a 5 MB/s (40 mbit/s) uplink or a 3.75 MB/s (30 mbit/s) downlink- considering a common Internet connection is not exclusively used, there is more or less latency, ... Certainly, SSL will create an additional ovehead when it comes to the processing on both ends, the 800 MHz low-power processor on the TS-210 certainly more than a typical desktop, regardless of NetDrive or other another WebDAV client.

Most players are simply not made to play HD media remote over lower bandwidth, higher latency, ..., too.

Should be easy to check if the issue is realted to the https (ssl) processing, agree?

[mastersite]

Got it fixed! Used XMBC's built in support for WebDAV and it played all 1080p movies flawlessly. Highly recommend people who are trying to remotely stream media from their qnap nas to check out XMBC.

[darkmentor]

Could you possibly specify a little more how you got it working ?

[Freeman111]

Yeah plz elaborate that would be nice...

Have you tried to stream HD video with a non secure connection to see if that works with VLC?

[mastersite]

Sure, i did nothing else other than following xmbc wiki on how to add a webdav source. Unforunately at the moment there is a bug in xmbc that doesn't allow the scapper to recognise contents in a webdav, so you can only play and browse raw files.