The underlying file system is irrelevant as long as the storage is network shared. The inability to natively write to NTFS volumes of macOS would only affect direct attached storage.
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1) Is the 2012 model year a typo? Otherwise that might be a good reason for VLC playback stuttering: your CPU being too old for modern high(er) quality video formats.
2) If the 2012 model year was a typo: Does this also happen if the iMac is connected via a network cable? Try that to rule out network transfer speeds between the router and the iMac as a reason for the stuttering.
Why would it be a typo man? It cost 3k! Why wouldn't it be able to play a 250mb video over the network without stutter? No, I have no ethernet drop in my house and no cord long enough to get to the router. It is also 3.4ghz. I do not believe CPU is the issue, it is the fact that it is a mac it always is. And I have a 10 year old laptop that doesnt do this when doing the same thing. Thanks
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Which model WD NAS?
They usually come formatted as NTFS which your iMac can not natively write to so do you simply live without ever writing to the drive, did you reformat it to a file system compatible with both Mac and Windows, or did you install a 3rd-party driver to allow write access from the Mac?
If you went with a driver, especially a free or old version, I think that could be slowing down your read speeds.
It is just WD Mybooklive and by the way, it doe not do this on 10 year old pc laptops over the NAS, so I do not buy that my 3,000$ imac isn't "good enough" to play videos over the network, I see no way to reformat my NAS to a file system compatible with both..what do I need to do to accomplish this or what driver would I use? I cannot stand that I have to do 400 things and download external software/drivers just to get a computer to something to basic. So how to I go about formatting so it works? And which driver are you talking about? I have not installed anything extra such as drivers. Do I need to? Which one? Thanks
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I do not have the technical particulars, but the IT folks at work discovered that the Unix under the hood of MacOS (El Capitan? or just Sierra?) uses a new version of SMB Signing. Older versions performed a secure handshake to start the connection, but then packets were exchanged without signatures. This new version signs each packet cryptographically. The IT folks found that turning off SMB Signing doubled network speeds. So, especially in your case (it sounds like a small network), you don't need such strong crypto and can turn it off. I don't know that this is the cause of your issues, but it is worth investigating.
more info:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...s-of-smb-signing-covering-both-smb1-and-smb2/
While you're using a Mac, your NAS detects that your Mac has SMB Signing turned on, and so it automatically encrypts packets. If you're not concerned with man-in-the-middle attacks on your network, you can turn off SMB Signing on your Mac, and the server should gracefully degrade to unsigned packets.
how do I turn that off? when I go to sharing/file sharing and uncheck SMB it turns off file sharing. Is that the same as trning off SMB signing? If not, where do I do that? I really need the file sharing
[doublepost=1502678895][/doublepost]It says this, too, when looking at mybooklive
The Western Digital units mentioned below use a proprietary file system and
cannot be reformatted as FAT32, NTFS, or a Mac File System.
The file system on the My Cloud and other WD NAS devices support access from Windows, Mac and most Linux based computer systems through a SAMBA network sharing connection.
so, isn't it saying it SHOULD be compatible, already, with mac?
[doublepost=1502680339][/doublepost]It also takes forever to even open the NAS folder. On EVERYTHING other device when you click it, you are in, the mac....nope, takes 30 seconds to open the main folder, then 30 seconds or more for any other folder, then another minute to load the content of the NAS. I really thought with the BS the Mac associate fed me about how this was the "top of the line" that I wouldn't have such basic issues. I am SO mad at this purchase, warranty is expired and apples makes yu pay just to get basic questions answer, which never fix the issue. I will probably punch a hle through this POS before it is all said and done. if it isn't one thing, it is another. I mean, basic stuff..like the fact that in order to open a pic in FULL screen, and hit the next arrow to get to the next photo...I have to import 1000000000 pictures to iphoto...which takes FOREVER. Haha it is nuts. I love windows. Things just work, almost every time. Pics? Sure open in full screeen and hit next and guss what????? it goes to the next pic without having to wait all day to transfer a million pics to another application. Wow, just wow. I jus want to be able to do BASIC stuff...like watch a video without having to copying it locally every time I want to do so. Am I the only one with this issue? I cannot be. Sorry fr the rant but christ! Macs are a friggin nightmare! You get it and are all excited, then end up filled with hate!
