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mattkhan:
Unless you use the option I mentioned, it doesn't (as far as I recall anyway)

Without seeing your settings, it's impossible to know if there is any conversion going on

You need to be certain otherwise impossible to know what the bottleneck is

clarus7:
Please clarify which option you are referring to. I don't think I understand. I don't see such a setting in MC.
I am only playing back hi-res audio files, not video.

mwillems:
I think part of what is confusing things is you're using the word server in an ambiguous way, so it is unclear if your server is also running a JRiver instance to which the client computer's JRiver instance is a client.  Most folks here use JRiver's media network options to create a jriver server/client setup, so mattkhan is talking about media network settings that can improve the performance of that kind of setup.  But maybe you're just talking about accessing remote files without a second instance of JRiver?

Could you clarify whether you are running one instance of JRiver that is accessing files directly from a NAS/remote file server, or whether you are running two instances of JRiver, one on the server and one on the client computer? 

mattkhan:
good point, I was assuming it was referring to an MC server, sorry for the confusion

actually the point of that was just establishing whether MC is serving over the network or the OS is, if there is only 1 MC instance involved then it's a bit hard to see how MC is at fault as it will just be reading that from the filesystem

not easy to independently test this tbf, would need something like a vpn in another continent and then tunnel back to my own server after pinging it off that vpn

clarus7:
Sorry if I didn't make that clear. I am only running only one instance of MC on Win11.  The NAS file server is only acting as a remote file storage. I thought that was implied when I said the server has been mapped as a network drive on Windows.

So all MC is doing is reading the data from the file server, not another instance of MC.

As I have explained earlier, bandwidth (>100Mbps) and latency (~70ms ping) of the VPN should not be an issue here.  Also foobar2K has no problem reading the same data from the same mapped network drive.  And I can copy files using the same path at ~100Mbps.

The expected behavior is the MC should read data into the buffer as quickly as possible when initial playback start, but it is not doing that.  It is currently reading at or below the media rate.

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