First, let me say that I started using MVPMC last night with my new MediaMVP box, and am very impressed. In very little time, I was able to watch all of the MPEG, MythTV, AVI, and Ogg recordings stored on my media server. Keep up the good work!
Actually, the only problem I had at all was that non-MPEG video playback was a little slow. I found out today that I can tweak the quality settings of VLC to help fix this, but I would really like to keep the quality as high as possible. So I guess my question is, where is the transcoding bottleneck on my system? Here's my system's specs: * Processor: 1.8 Ghz Sempron 3100+ * RAM: 512 MB (yes, believe it or not, you can run something larger than a cell phone on half a gig of ram) * Other Services Running: Mysql, MythTV, SSH, NFS, Samba I found that when I closed some of the more resource-hungry GUI apps on my media server such as Firefox, that improved playback speed. This leads me to believe that it's simply a RAM issue on my machine, but on the VLC page on the MVPMC wiki (<http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/vlc>), I'm lead to believe that transcoding is mostly a CPU-intensive process. What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any help! Tom Purl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
