FrontRow over Airport?

[Beepcake]

Does anyone use FrontRow to play movies over a wireless network? I've got a MacMini under my telly at the moment for doing this, but it seems to do a pretty poor job when it's streaming over wireless. As an example I have a relatively low bit rate xvid that the downstairs XBox can play just fine using it's 11mbit wireless, but the Mac stutters and pauses on via 54G I've tried tweaking with QuickTime preferences but it's still rubbish.

Am I missing something or is FrontRow/QuickTime just a bit poo unless it's local content?

 

[unknowndomain]

It could be a combination of video quality as quicktime files are normally high quality and in addition the mini might not be getting the full 54mb if the signal strength drops the then so does the speed, 36mb.. 11mb... etc...

 

[Beepcake]

Exactly the same XVid plays fine on the 11MBit XBox sat next to it, the mini has a full signal. It just appears that QT/FrontRow it terrible at figuring out how much it needs to cache to prevent pauses.. although even then there should be enough bandwidth to handle this particular video without caching. I'm not talking the odd pause due to network speed drops, i'm talking 2-3 seconds of video, split second delay.. repeat.

I really do hope they sort stuff like this out before they ship that Apple TV thing.

 

[unknowndomain]

I do know what you mean, when you watch the streaming Stevenotes QT never streams enough to prevent it from running out of video before its streamed the next lot. lol

 

[Will_3rd]

I do know what you mean, when you watch the streaming Stevenotes QT never streams enough to prevent it from running out of video before its streamed the next lot. lol

have you tried making an entry for Quicktime in the Firewall in System Preferences?

After I found that the Keynote speeches are a lot more watch able because Quicktime streams via UDP rather having to resort to transferring the video stream via HTTP.