diff --git a/booru_viewer/gui/media/_mpv_options.py b/booru_viewer/gui/media/_mpv_options.py
index 65a1a23..4834f73 100644
--- a/booru_viewer/gui/media/_mpv_options.py
+++ b/booru_viewer/gui/media/_mpv_options.py
@@ -77,10 +77,16 @@ def build_mpv_kwargs(is_windows: bool) -> dict[str, object]:
         "vd_lavc_fast": "yes",
         "vd_lavc_skiploopfilter": "nonkey",
         "cache": "yes",
-        "cache_pause": "no",
-        "demuxer_max_bytes": "50MiB",
+        "cache_pause": "yes",
+        "cache_pause_wait": "2",
+        "cache_pause_initial": "yes",
+        "cache_secs": "30",
+        "demuxer_max_bytes": "150MiB",
+        "demuxer_max_back_bytes": "75MiB",
         "demuxer_readahead_secs": "20",
-        "network_timeout": "10",
+        "stream_buffer_size": "4MiB",
+        "network_timeout": "30",
+        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0",
         "ytdl": "no",
         "load_scripts": "no",
     }