Placeshifter on Windows 7

[trini0]

I'm trying to get back into using Placeshifter. I haven't used Placeshifter since Windows XP a few years ago.
I'm now attempting to use Placeshifter on a Laptop with Windows 7. The video is a little too choppy, and I experience quite a bit of lip syncing issues.
The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv5 , with an AMD dual core @ 2.4GHz, 3GB ram, ATI Radeon HD 3200 video card.
When I'm playing recorded shows from an HD-PVR through Placeshifter, the cpu on the laptop is about 60-75% utilized.
I have my STB to output at 720p.
I tried installing a Windows 7 codec pack on the laptop, and it doesn't seem to help matters at all.
If I play the recorded file using WMC, it plays very smoothly (but the cpu is high, which is ok).
I would prefer to use Placeshifter over client, as I would like to use it outside of my network.
I'm looking for tips from others on what you're doing to Placeshift HD-PVR content using Windows 7.
Thanks

[trini0]

Err. No bites. Next stop, official support..

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by trini0

I'm trying to get back into using Placeshifter. I haven't used Placeshifter since Windows XP a few years ago.
I'm now attempting to use Placeshifter on a Laptop with Windows 7. The video is a little too choppy, and I experience quite a bit of lip syncing issues.
The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv5 , with an AMD dual core @ 2.4GHz, 3GB ram, ATI Radeon HD 3200 video card.
When I'm playing recorded shows from an HD-PVR through Placeshifter, the cpu on the laptop is about 60-75% utilized.
I have my STB to output at 720p.
I tried installing a Windows 7 codec pack on the laptop, and it doesn't seem to help matters at all.
If I play the recorded file using WMC, it plays very smoothly (but the cpu is high, which is ok).
I would prefer to use Placeshifter over client, as I would like to use it outside of my network.
I'm looking for tips from others on what you're doing to Placeshift HD-PVR content using Windows 7.
Thanks

I use it on a netbook with a miserly z520 processor but with a video chip that supports hardware acceleration and it works OK.

Have you enabled 3D acceleration and disabled Video Post Processing?

Windows 7 has good mpeg4 decoders.

I think the problem is on your server. It probably cannot handle transoding the HDPVR output.

[trini0]

I tried playing with the 3D/Video processing.

The server barely gets over 10% usage..

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by trini0

I tried playing with the 3D/Video processing.

The server barely gets over 10% usage..

The 3D etc settings are for the PC you run Placeshifter on.
These don't apply to the server.

[trini0]

That is correct. I was changing the settings in Placeshifter.
Regardless of Placeshifter's settings, the server's CPU usage never went over 10%.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by trini0

That is correct. I was changing the settings in Placeshifter.
Regardless of Placeshifter's settings, the server's CPU usage never went over 10%.

I was told sometime ago that Placeshifter can't hand the h.264 file format that the HD-PVR records. When testing myself, that seems to be the case, as I have both a HD-PVR and PVR-150 running on the same system. All video recorded by the PVR-150 plays AOK on Placeshifter. All h.264 recordings don't.
If someone knows otherwise, chime in. Is it possible that the new SageTV 7 and Placeshifter combo oversomes this?

[trini0]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

Is it possible that the new SageTV 7 and Placeshifter combo oversomes this?

So far no. I'm using the latest Sage 7 beta Placeshifter/Server.
I believe you may be correct. Unfortunately I don't have any other sources to play with to verify if it has issues with h.264