Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
2005/11/21, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
It seems that the only way you can stream things is if you use mythweb
or if you set up video lan to stream things on the host machine
and then
receive it on your windows machine, is that right? So, using
dsmyth and
then just clicking on a file on windows explorer from a shared
directory
on a mythtv machine is totally different. I'm asking because
right now
when I view video on my windows machine it stutters at times and
plays
with low framerate. The sound continues on at normal speed and the
video completely goes out of sync in a very short time. It seems that
my video files (about 8000Kbits/sec for rtjpeg, 3000Kbps for
mpeg4) are
taking too much bandwidth as windows is treating them as if they were
local files and it can't get the data off the myth machine fast
enough,
since the myth machine is on 802.11g wireless. Even then 8000kbps
shouldn't be enough to cause any problems though so I don't fully
understand it. Lastly, VLS cannot play rtjpeg yet it seems, even with
the dsmyth filters installed, while windows media player can. Does
anyone have a good player suggestion they use for this stuff?
Raphael
asuming its the network speed that is your problem, if you want to
experiment a little there is one or two thing you coud try.
in the configuration program for the dsmyth filters, there is a
checkbox called something like "always open files from backend" (can't
remeber exactly what i named it), make sure that box is checked.
now, when you open a nuv file (nupplevideo type, not mpeg) from a
samba share, the file will be streamed from the backend instead
(transparent to the mediaplayer).
this should use less bandwidth than playing it directly from samba share.
if you still have problems, you can try to increase the size of the
local ringbuffer in the dsmyth config program, maybe somewere around
500Mb to 1gb or something like that (make sure you have enough
diskspace for it).
when you start playback hit pause and wait a while for the ringbuffer
to fill up, then resume playback and check if there is any difference.
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yeah, both good suggestions.
As I just recently upgraded my windows machine and reinstalled windows
and then dsmyth, I cannot try these yet because now any player will
crash when trying to play nuv files! I suspected the open from backend
would help, and maybe transcoding to mpeg4 with smaller file sizes. The
crashing problem is a windows thing, so once I solve that I will retest
it. thanks
Raphael
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