On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, ewan wrote:

>
> Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'll let you know how I get on.
>
> So far I tried a few rsize tweaks in mount.cifs. This made some difference.
> Depending on value, the playback degrades sooner or later in the first high
> bitrate sequence.

The easiest way to do these tests is to use the throughput test in mvpmc's 
menus, which I described in my previous post. Rather than subjectively 
waiting for video skipping.

> Assuming UDP is part of the solution, I think NFS is my only option. I know
> VLC supports UDP, but what I read about mvpmc/vlc integration suggests that
> video would be streamed over HTTP, right?


But likely a lower bitrate, so less of a problem.


> It's interesting to me that streaming video over homeplug+samba to my laptop
> seems fine for that same high bit rate / charging dinosaur scene, whereas to
> mvpmc is not.

The MediaMVP is not very powerful, it has fairly small buffers, the NIC on 
it isn't very good, etc. These together combine to give much worse results 
than on a desktop PC. A throughput in the region of 12Mbits/s on a normal 
wired ethernet connection is about the max of mvpmc on the MediaMVP 
(certainly over NFS only).

Cheers,

Simon

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