Network streaming help (mezzmo)

hotdog

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Hi,

I am looking for some help with streaming HD content to my TV:

I currently have a wolfdale 8500 cpu with 8gig ram and a raid0 HDD as my main PC sitting in the study/spare room. This is connected via cat6 to a chepo tp-link gigabit switch - from that i have a cat 6 cable running into the living room and connected to a philips 40'' TV.

I have installed Mezzmo to play MKV files on the fly but am having issues with jittery playback or stopping and starting...

I have read that the software transcodes on the fly but uses just the CPU to do this - am i right in thinking that the CPU is holding me back here?
I thought that it was still a fairly good CPU albeit aging now

Would changing to a quad core lga775 chip make any difference? Do i need to upgrade the whole lot or am i missing something?

Any help greatly appreciated
 
the switch is new and is definately a gigabit switch.

As an example a new title i am trying to play is around 12gig in size and 1080p encoded using MKV format.

I quite liked mezzmo so far due to the fact it encodes on the fly, i just have to select the file on the TV and then mezzmo takes care of the rest...
 
yeah thats what i am seeing - the cpu is literally at 100% the whole time and then it is still jittering and jumping.
so is the fact that the wolfdale chip is not fast enough for 1080p
 
Thanks for the replies, so basically it would seem that these new and newish cpus have trouble encoding on the fly in realtime.
I will upgrade to a lga775 quadcore for the moment as i dont have the money to upgrade in full, i will see if that makes a difference (hope so!)

thanks everyone
 
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