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[Cmely]

Hello,

I'm using MC at home as a server and play my music on MC at work as a client.
When I try to play high bitrates files (mostly flac files) I get constant "buffering" with interruption of streaming.

On the server side I've configured my DLNA server as :
- Specified output format
- MP3 Low bandwith

On the client side I've tried several configuration (either convert or dont convert audio) but it does'nt seems to do that much a difference....

What I don't understand is that if I play the exact same files on my android phone with Gizmo I have no problem of streaming, everything is smooth.

How am i supposed to configure both the server and the client to be able to stream without interruption my files ?

Thanks in advance.

[JimH]

That might be because of limited bandwidth at work.  You could try from a different location to see what happens.

[Awesome Donkey]

How fast is your networks (both home and at work)? And how big are the files? Because at first glance to me this this sounds like a networking issue where the client specifically isn't fast enough to handle on-the-fly playback of larger files and the client is being bottlenecked. What I'd look at is the client's networking specifically since you mention it works fine on your phone in Gizmo. I would imagine the potential bottleneck is at the client-side.

[Cmely]

Thank you for your replies 

I have the same bandwidth at home and at work.

And my phone (when using Gizmo) is on the same WIFI network that my work PC. If it was a bandwith issue I should have gap problems with Gizmo too, shouldn't I ?

Is there a way I could re-encode my music files on the fly (either on the server side or on the client side) to be sure to not exceed a max bitrates ?

[Richard Martin]

Have you tried using Panel at work, rather than MC as a client?
I use it in a browser on phone and it seems to cope well with pretty ropey phone signals.

[Cmely]

Thank you Richard for the suggestion. I've made some test with Panel and on the same work computer I'm using MC client on and with the same files, it plays flawlessly.

I've seen, in Panel setup, that it's possible to configure the audio conversion, which explain why it works so well. And even when using "high audio quality (320 kbps)", I have no problems.

So my question is : How should I configure MC Client to limit audio quality to 320 kbps ?