How to increase VLC RAM buffer for offline files?

Solution 1:

Go to the dropdown Tools -> Preferences, then on the preferences menu make sure you have All selected on the bottom left corner of the screen.

From there select Input / Codecs from the left hand side and scroll all the way down to the bottom on the right hand side to get to the section called Advanced.

In there the option for File Caching sets how many milliseconds of video to buffer in RAM when the video source is a file.

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