What are considered to the be the minimum requirements for running an MC server, streaming it to Tivo?
After I moved my media library to a different machine, TiVo seems to have real problems scrolling through playlists and browsing folders. It also seems to fail when skipping forward and backward while playing tracks. It just exits out with the usual server disconnect/error message.
And when I check the logs in MC server, it says a number of things:
08/13/03 19:37:42 - tcp_write failed error=10054
08/13/03 19:37:44 - TiVo HTTP: received a connection
08/13/03 19:37:44 - TiVo HTTP: ready for another connection
08/13/03 19:37:44 - connection closed with no data
08/13/03 19:37:44 - TiVo HTTP: Invalid http request
The first setup I had, was using a laptop with wireless connection and it worked beatifully, so I doubt it's a network connectivity/throughput issue. Then I thought maybe it was a CPU issue, as the laptop is a P4 1.7 GHz machine and the new server is a desktop with a meager P3-600 (both with 512 MB RAM). But when I run the server on the desktop, and monitor the CPU load, it never gets above 50% utilitzation, and usually yo-yo's between 20% and 40%.
I also know it's not a disk I/O issue either since the desktop has a much faster hard drive than my laptop.
Could it really be the CPU issue, even though the load doesn't seem to reflect it?
I have a hard time believing that a PIII 600, while not fast in comparison to today's computers, isn't up to the task.
Any ideas?
thanks,
--tanzbodeli