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MC 23.25 newPC build Video breaking needs help and some questions?
Ekpen:
--- Quote from: blgentry on August 29, 2017, 05:06:21 pm ---There's something wrong with your setups. If your windows server regularly has "input lags" something is wrong. You keep saying over and over that your Windows server won't play completely smoothly, so something is wrong. You shouldn't need to adjust all of these "tweak" settings. If you did need this, people would be complaining constantly about Windows MC Video not being smooth and there would be endless threads about how to tweak it so it was smooth.
Your statement about networking makes no sense. If you are achieving 1300 Mbit/sec, that's faster than 1 Gbit/sec wired ethernet. Wired should be SLOWER.
Perhaps we have a communications problem due to the language barrier. Or perhaps I've misunderstood the details.
I have to go back to the point of you talking about your Sony TVs. Are you trying to watch via DLNA (network) ? If so, your video card is not in the mix at all.
Or are you directly connected from your Linux MC box, via HDMI, to one TV?
Brian.
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You are the one misunderstanding the details either not following the flow of my complaints, or your system is not set up like mine.
I brought up the 1300 mbs so that no one would think my issue is due to slow wireless speed. Even the wifi that was replaced was able to cruise at 866 mbs, as of yesterday, a new Edimax was setup that cruises at 1300 mbs. I could tell the difference in speed internally. I also posted this Edimax info for others to read and try if any forum member is interested.
Let me explain to you. It was Bob that pointed to the nouveau driver on the Nvidia card, and I stated several times, I am using 340.102. Right from the get go, The video card has never been an issue. In fact the 340.102 driver was the first driver that got detected correctly. There was never a time where the Nvidia video card was in the midst of all these issues.
The image that this card spits out looks like 3D. Can we put these video card topic to rest now?
95% of the time, everything we do on the server is via dlna. Almost every room in the house has tvs (4k) mostly Sony. All rooms were wired with cat 6 by me several years ago, then later added Wifi.
I am using Netgear R8000 Night hawk router 11 A C, The Server or servers are both wired with Ethernet. Then via Wifi, on the server, once wifi is enabled the server or servers are put on DLNA mode. The tvs in the house see the servers, in fact both the Windows and the Linux servers are detected and seen at the same time as long as the Wifi is enabled .
This is looking like a slightly advanced set up for MC. My libraries right now are portable 4 RAID boxes, detached from Windows server and connected to Linux Ubuntu 17.04. Ubuntu sees all the Folders with no issue and all movies are imported.
Here is a brief write up on these boxes.
I knew I was going to have a Linux server and I have to set up the boxes to be used for Windows OS and also be compatible with Linux.
What I did was to put the external RAID boxes under Windows format and Windows assigned drives XXXX to these boxes.
Then I connected these boxes to the Linux OS, let Linux sees these boxes. I let Linux format and write to these boxes various disk info, this way, I can attach and detach any or all to either the Windows OS or Linux.
With this type of setup, I can watch movies either from the Windows server or from the Linux server via DLNA. We hardly watch movies via direct connection, except when we watch Football via the 92 inch DLP Mitsubishi WD 92840.
This is the only TV that has direct connection, and it is not connected to a server yet, eventually it will very soon. The Linux server is going to be next to the Mitsubishi or its eventual replacement of 4K model.
My Windows server plays nicely. In light of several issues from the Internet or from PCS in general, I am happy with the current Windows server. In a movie, we get input lag 25 ses -30 sec . Remember these are rips from Blu ray and there could be errors or whatever. I am not expecting perfection on these rips, but so far so good. I will not count these as show stopper. Also Wifi signal may drop. In general we are happy. I wish the Ubuntu setup would perform like the windows setup, I will not be writing up these explanations.
If you have $36.00 to spare, get the Edimax EW-7833UAC Wi-fi AC1750 , use the rtl8814au driver for Ubuntu , test your wifi speed, then decide if what I am reporting to all forum members is due to your perceived language barrier.
I am from Nigeria, and I have British education before migrating to the U.S. English is one of my native Languages because English is the official language in Nigeria. I have no problem in writing in English or speaking in the Queen's english.
Thanks so far for your help.
George
JimH:
--- Quote from: Ekpen on August 29, 2017, 06:37:41 pm ---Let me explain to you. It was Bob that pointed to the nouveau driver on the Nvidia card, and I stated several times, I am using 340.102. Right from the get go, The video card has never been an issue.
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Bold statement.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: Ekpen on August 29, 2017, 06:37:41 pm ---You are the one misunderstanding the details either not following the flow of my complaints, or your system is not set up like mine.
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I'm not attacking you sir. I'm simply saying that something is wrong and trying to help you get to the bottom of it.
--- Quote ---With this type of setup, I can watch movies either from the Windows server or from the Linux server via DLNA. We hardly watch movies via direct connection, except when we watch Football via the 92 inch DLP Mitsubishi WD 92840.
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So you are saying that you watch movies via DLNA correct? If these reports you are giving are via a DLNA connection, then the troubleshooting methodology is entirely different than a direct connection. This is a big difference. DLNA versus direct HDMI connection use entirely different technology and decoding.
--- Quote ---...then decide if what I am reporting to all forum members is due to your perceived language barrier.
I am from Nigeria, and I have British education before migrating to the U.S. English is one of my native Languages because English is the official language in Nigeria. I have no problem in writing in English or speaking in the Queen's english.
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I think I have insulted you by suggesting a language barrier. I apologize for my insult. I did not mean to be insulting. I was actually trying to say that maybe *I* misunderstood you. I mistakenly guessed that you were not a native english speaker.
I hope we can fix your video performance issue.
Brian.
Ekpen:
--- Quote from: bob on August 29, 2017, 02:42:06 pm ---George you must understand it's a massive task to port something as complex as MC from one platform to another and I'm sure you know that linux is not on a par with windows when it comes to things like video tweaking. On Windows the best performance from Media Center still comes from using directx even with all of the advances we've made in multiplatform video.
Now that said, the Intel NUC Dual core 1.8 ghz Id's with built in intel video using linux can playback 1080 mkvs flawlessly so you obviously have more than enough CPU.
We are working on things constantly and Hendrik reads these threads as well so you can be certain that you are being heard.
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Bob,
I am not new to PC programming:
I used to test Database for Borland/Ashton Tate, then did testing for a living for Xerox and Kodak here in Rochester, NY. I am also a retired I.T admin for a local health care center.
I know the headache involved in writing software. When the Linux platform was announced, I was happy, despite me not ready to use it, I paid and continuing paying to help support the effort.
I know the pain involved in this environment, because I used to be a Dbase programmer for several years. Testing Testing Testing is all I do or I did, and it is in my blood.
We have a Problem: It is not related hardto wired network, it is not wifi, it is not cpu related. something is not ok somewhere
Future customers may want to buy just for the networking capabilities and ability to play smooth video and audio, I hope we find a solution to this.
I will continue testing and hoping we find a fix for it.
Thanks again for your time and patience
George
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