Choppy Streaming Playback

McDaniel · 30 Jan 2011 at 00:22

Folks,

Are there any tweaks or settings to ensure smoother playback of x264 files over a network?

Mine glitches every 5-10mins or if the scene is "busy" - it's not the codecs because when running from the local machine direct its fine, just when streaming from another computer - its across a Gigabit LAN via Virgin MEdia Super Hub but is becoming very fruystrating.

I dont think it's to do with the machine its streaming from - as that is my main rig and a i7 with 6GB Ram with nothing else running while streaming - and the media pc is capable of running the files fine when stored locally - leaving just the Network as what I can think of to causing the issue.

Ideas?

KIA · 30 Jan 2011 at 12:39

Which player are you using?

McDaniel · 30 Jan 2011 at 14:27

KMPlayer or the inbuilt on in XBMC

Though also tried MPCHD and VLC and same thing when streaming sometimes

Schizophonic · 30 Jan 2011 at 14:36

Is it something with the content? Try to copy the data onto the media pc and run it directly off that. You can then identify if there is something wrong with the PC or the network?

McDaniel · 30 Jan 2011 at 23:13

Schizophonic said:
Is it something with the content? Try to copy the data onto the media pc and run it directly off that. You can then identify if there is something wrong with the PC or the network?

Did you read my opening post?

Mantaray · 31 Jan 2011 at 02:37

ermmm well u wont have nasty cheapo lan cards will u .. and u will have CAT5e cables .....
plays fine on both comps ,, so .. try this .... link both comps to each other no router just pc to pc .... just to test if the cables are ok ... if it works fine having tested both cables .. then guess its the router ,,, try turning wirless off .... an old router i had broke and slow network down when i had wireless on

McDaniel · 31 Jan 2011 at 15:26

Mantaray said:
ermmm well u wont have nasty cheapo lan cards will u .. and u will have CAT5e cables .....
plays fine on both comps ,, so .. try this .... link both comps to each other no router just pc to pc .... just to test if the cables are ok ... if it works fine having tested both cables .. then guess its the router ,,, try turning wirless off .... an old router i had broke and slow network down when i had wireless on

Both Network ports are built in, so no idea if they are cheap or not, believe both are Realtek Gigabit - off hand cant recall exactly.

I'll try and direct link and see if that helps.

Cheers,