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When I pull a file from the NAS to the desktop (for example), I get maybe 90-100 MB/s, which is even more than Buffalo says it can give. So far so good.
But as soon as I try to play 720p or 1080p content (.mkv) to the same machine, using VLC, it wont work, it just keeps freezing and pixelating.

What might be wrong?

I thought I solved it by putting a pure Gigabit server between the router and the rest of the network, which boosted the above mentioned transfer speed from like 7-10 MB/s to said ~100 MB/s. Still won't work though. If I pull the file to my computer and play it from there it works perfectly. It also seems to play well on DLNA-devices (although I actually have four of them and I've only tried on one, but I played a 1080p movie on one of them last night (a WD TV Live from a couple of years back, which by the way only supports 100 Mbit/s), and that worked without a hitch all the way through.

NAS is a Buffalo Linkstation Pro Quad 12TB.

Could have to do with VLC player.... i dont use it but i will try some testing today. I recommend Media Player Classic. I never had issues playing mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, mov. etc from my Terstations.

You can download it by it self or with the codec pack. I recommend the codec pack. K-lite is the most stable pack of codecs from what i have run into. Codec allow you to play certain files and provide more stable video playing as well.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/KLite_Codec_Pack_Standard/1094057842/2/

http://mpc-hc.org/

Just tied VLC on my main pc and 2 VM's i have and no issue with playing the videos from the TeraStation. Maybe its your VLC install. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the VLC Player.