Right. Right. I have 35 hours to rewire the house from demarkation to the primary viewing site so there are no bottlenecks on a gigabit lan off cable 'net, install the latest Raspian on a known good Pi3 board, configure VLC for maximum logging, and figure out the buffering issue plaguing Adobe's antique Macromedia Director codec making it require 'hammering' "Play" 14 times in 10 seconds (BUT GHOD NO MORE THAN THAT YOU MANIAC) to start network stream playback.
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am I *that* desperate?