HD streaming

[chadman]

I would like to know how well Sage will stream live/recorded TV via a 100 Mbps. This would only be for one stream, but I was not sure how well .ts files streamed via a network. I have to make this system good with the wife!

Thanks,
Chad

[Lady Avatar]

Works great for me! You should have no network problems whatsoever streaming one HD channel on a 100Mbps LAN.

[chrisc16]

I regularly stream one HD channel (to my PC client) and one SD channel (to my mediaMVP) concurrently with no stutters over my 100 Mbps network.

-Chris

[chadman]

Well I did not have much luck getting it to work. The computer I put the cards in was a p4 1.7 with 512 ram. When I would watch stuff on my main computer with Sage client it was choppy. I am not sure why, because the network trafic was about 20% and the cpu was low on both machines. When I put both cards in my good computer, p4 2.4 1 gig ram, they work perfect. any ideas?

Thanks,
Chad

[salsbst]

fragmentation + small block size on storage disk in the 1.7ghz machine?

[Ralphjb]

I do this now. No problems.

[bhyman1]

Works fine for me over 100mb. But my boxes are faster. 3.0 Ghz.

[Lady Avatar]

Originally Posted by chadman

Well I did not have much luck getting it to work. The computer I put the cards in was a p4 1.7 with 512 ram. When I would watch stuff on my main computer with Sage client it was choppy. I am not sure why, because the network trafic was about 20% and the cpu was low on both machines. When I put both cards in my good computer, p4 2.4 1 gig ram, they work perfect. any ideas?

Thanks,
Chad

If the recordings themselves are fine and you are getting choppy playback with low CPU usage generally it is going to be caused by one of the two following things:

-The source can't push out the data fast enough.

This means you could be having disk fragmentation (but that's unlikely if you are using 64K blocks) or insufficient bandwidth (unlikely in this scenerio).

-There is an inconsistency with the time stamps with respect to audio rendering.

This means that the video is choppy because the audio and video time stamps are not matching up correctly. This is usally caused by misbehaving audio decoders or sometimes audio renderers.